“In an webcam eye-tracking study for Mashable by EyeTrackShop, the 30 participants who viewed top Facebook brand pages almost always looked at pages’ walls first — usually for at least four times longer than any other element on the page.”–Mashable It’s important to remember that most people interact with the information you share from your …
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In the real time era of social media it can be difficult to find resources that capture today’s rapidly changing landscape while sharing widely applicable principles. Here are the three must-read books: 1. Rework by Jason Fried If you are entrepreneurial and find yourself in an organization that’s either large or slow-moving this book will …
“Procrastination is all about choosing want over should.” “Now you must trick future you into doing what is right.” Here’s to a day of choosing what we should do! Tweet
1. Stop Waiting for Permission 2. Imagination must be protected and nurtured. 3. Fear affects almost every decision I make. 4. Expertise combines information and experience. 5. Starting things is part of who I am. 6. God’s blesses out of abundance, yet I often dream out of scarcity. 7. Mentors are a must. 8. Faith, …
“Learn to accept that one finished product is worth more then 100 unfinished ones.”–from 10 Ways I Sabotaged My Success Ministry leaders that tolerate imperfection and string together a series of small wins are guaranteed to see more success than those that hold out or spend additional resources to get to perfection. Most of the …
“The people who are most satisfied with their jobs are older employees – those age 50 and up. The most dissatisfied? Those between the ages of 30 and 39.”–The Discontented Thirties As a 34 year old I resonated with this entire article. I have to define dissatisfaction as discontent with the present reality, not necessarily …
As Twitter continues to grow into a powerful online influence platform it’s important to have a strategy in place for your ministry or non-profit. This strategy includes breaks down the management of an account into four different parts: Information This is the who, what, where, when and why of your organization. This is where most …
The people at IDEO hosted a pumpkin carving contest and one employee decided to build an iPhone app that controls the pumpkins eyes in just one hour. “I was able to conceptualize, build, and program this wirelessly-controlled-pneumatic-eye-popping pumpkin in just over an hour, barely missing the deadline but experiencing how powerful these low fidelity prototyping …
“My Facebook feed is full of what friends are listening to, what friends are reading, etc. And frankly, I don’t give a damn.”–Mike Loukides, The End of Social Loukides’ article addresses a serious challenge with so many applications pushing information into Facebook; meaningful information. Spotify is an online music service that provides the option of …
“If you (CEO’s) are not on Twitter then you are crazy”–Dana White Techcrunch recently interviewed Dana White, President of UFC. The entire video is worth watching, especially if you are a leader of a distributed team or seek to reach a geographically distributed audience. “There’s a laundry list of problems that I fix immediately (from …
