Hat tip (H/T) to Gavin Heaton for sharing this Common Craft video on Web Search Strategies
Web Search Strategies in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
And Boolify is a nice little tool to help visualize the search process — great for younger students.
Follow Gavin Heaton’s Friend Feed
Follow Lee Lefever’s FriendFeed
Two sites instrumental in my learning about the blogosphere were the gals at The Blog Squad and the team at Flyte New Media. Here’s a recent video interview with Denise Wakeman (and Patsi Krakoff and Rich Brooks:
Take-away: Blogs are the hub (foundation) of your social media presence. I always recommend to begin (middle, and end) there while having a presence elsewhere
If you can’t see the video above, watch it here.
Follow Denise’s FriendFeed
Follow Rich’s FriendFeed
and of course…
Follow my FriendFeed
I’ve posted several TED talk videos here and will continue to think of TED as the better than television.
One of of the most inspiring this year is one of the 2008 TED Prize wishes – Dave Eggers. As an extension of Eggers initial wish (see video below), there is an open challenge asking
individuals to design and implement new projects for local public
school students. The three winning entries will receive a pass to the
sold out TED2009 Conference to be held in Long Beach, California on
February 4-7, 2009.
Additionally, Eggers asks local citizens to support
826 National, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students,
ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing at six locations across
USA. Eggers co-founded the original 826 chapter, 826 Valencia, a
nonprofit tutoring center and writing school for children, in 2002.
Entries are open to the public and may be submitted by visiting onceuponaschool.org
and will be judged by a panel of educators, entrepreneurs, and
creatives from the TED Community. Projects will be evaluated on the
following criteria:
The Deadline for submissions is October 31, 2008.
Tell your story, change the world…and maybe go to TED this year (and take me with you?)
For more information, please visit: www.onceuponaschool.org
For more information on the TED Prize, please visit www.tedprize.org
For more information on Dave Eggers’ wish, please visit http://www.tedprize.org/?page_id=7
For more information about 826 National, please visit http://www.826national.org/
When I coached baseball, I instilled a flexible-finger philosophy (and not just because it was fun to say).
Loose muscles are controlled muscles. Tightening up will make everything move like molasses. So when stress comes your way – go limp for a minute. You’ll be surprised how your brain responds.
Some may say going limp is a sign of weakness. I will encourage you to remember this: Meek isn’t Weak. It’s controlled strength.
This post inspired by the holistic harmony of HALT, inspired by Laura4Literacy.
Photo on Flickr by Chiceaux
And it’s okay to start writing a post from the middle. Just write. It’s better than looking at a blank screen or wrestling over a catchy title.
Remember our Blog Posting Mantra:
My copywriter friends will tell you to write the headline first — but they are copywriters (and great headline writers). They talk to their kids in great headlines. Most of us can get trapped in blogger’s block if we stare at a blank title too long. Then we get trapped on the first sentence. And we get frustrated about blogging.
Write. When you’re done writing, edit. Don’t edit first. You have nothing to edit if you have nothing written.
It’s okay to start writing a blog post from the middle. It’s what I did here (and I skipped the edit so I could show the example).
Ready….Go!
Related:
– Battle Hymn of the Blogger
– Lost in Your Blogger’s Block? Write a Mini Saga
Studio publicity portrait of the American actor Paul Newman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I haven’t shed tears on a celebrity death since Dean Martin (and Kirby Puckett if you count athletes). Hearing about Paul Newman passing was sad.
Here are some quotes from his movies that translate into sound business advice:
And my favorite:
Thanks Paul. I’ll keep this in mind “…if I were you, I’d quit yappin’ and start workin’!” – Cars
I remember the first time I saw the Google home page. I was working at an Internet startup in Chicago in 1998. The Google home page was the cleanest page I’d seen. No clutter. And fast! It has been my browser’s start page ever since.
They weren’t first in the search game. Yahoo, Lycos, and AltaVista were all out there already. Yet here was Google, a nothing-of-a-home-page, becoming the first page I see every time I open a browser — every day for the last 10 years or so.
They weren’t afraid to be a free resource. So many tools to choose from that are free (and often easy). They helped pave the way for this age of citizen publishing. For co-creation. For global collaboration.
They weren’t afraid to collaborate. They didn’t build everything on their own. Often, they wait (and often collaborate). Someone else builds it (sometimes with Google’s help) and then come into the Google family of tools.
Thanks Google. You teach us well. You are my favorite find engine.
I’ve said it before, I’ll probably say it again (and again)…
H.A.S.P.O
(Hang Around Smilin’ People Often)
and
A.S.P.O.B.O
(Avoid Sour Pusses Or Become One)
Your Choice.
Photos on Flickr by
– Laughter by puck90
– Grouchy by inky
Quick inspirations on Friday morning:
Tim Walker’s The Magic Hour post and Google’s Project 10 to the 100th contest. I believe that anyone — ANYONE — can change the world if they treat each hour as The Magic Hour. What will you do with your Magic Hour this weekend?
Follow more of Tim Walker’s brain and heart on FriendFeed
He wanted more people to subscribe to his blog’s RSS feed. Not via email (though he couldn’t control that), but in a RSS aggregator. By putting a box above individual posts with a call to subscribe, he hoped subscriptions would rise. He hoped he would be helping his busy readers.
Note:
1. A mini saga is a story told in exactly 50 words. Not 49 or 51 but exactly 50.
2. For a more complete list of Mini Sagas, please visit Raj Setty’s Squidoo lens "Mini Sagas"
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