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The real reason your inbox is out of control.

Social Media September 26, 2011 • Comments

Your inbox is a mess right now. Hundreds, maybe even thousands, of emails are overflowing your gmail account. Outlook is a nightmare. The little envelope that announces new email keeps flashing over and over again.

You’ve missed whole chains of conversations. You have to go back to the first email and dig your way through the last seven from seven different people talking just to make sure you can delete the entire back and forth email ping pong match between coworkers.

So you Google “empty my inbox” and get a lot of different tips on getting to “inbox zero.” Some help. Some don’t. But most won’t ever touch on the real reason your inbox is out of control. Want to know why it is?

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How to wreck your ego in the best possible way.

Creativity/ Leadership/ Social Media September 16, 2011 • Comments

A few years ago, I had a phone conversation with a screenwriter from one of the largest movie studios in the world.

He wanted to talk about turning my first book Stuff Christians Like into a movie.

At first, I was excited but then I started getting really drunk on my own sense of awesomeness. I was getting arrogant and lost in the idea of the movie, until I talked to my daughter L.E., who was 5 at the time. Here’s how our conversation went:

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Do authors need blogs?

Blogging/ Creativity/ Social Media/ Writing September 12, 2011 • Comments

A friend asked me that question the other day, and I thought it might be good to answer it via video because it’s one that comes up a lot. Check out the clip, and let me know in the comments if you think authors need blogs .

The secret about blog posts.

Blogging/ Creativity/ Social Media August 26, 2011 • Comments

The posts you think everyone will go crazy about, will get the least amount of traffic, comments and likes.

The posts you throw together quickly that you can’t imagine anyone will connect with will be smash successes.

I don’t know why this happens, only that it does.

And when it happens to you, fear not, you’re not the only one.

It happens to every blogger on the planet.

 

Question:
Has this ever happened to you?

 

Free book from the Seth Godin Domino Project!

Resources/ Social Media August 24, 2011 • Comments

That headline is full of some of my favorite words:

Free
Book
Seth Godin

Until Saturday, August 27th you can get the new book from the Seth Godin Domino project for FREE on your Kindle or Kindle app. It’s called Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas. Here’s the description from Amazon:

Want to learn how to maximize social media? When to do it, what words to use, who to tweet at? Look no further than Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design and Engineering of Contagious Ideas. Social media master Dan Zarrella has amassed years of experience helping people negotiate the often mystical place of social media marketing. Now, he has condensed those well-tried ideas into this concise and conversational book. Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness demystifies and deconstructs how social media works, who it benefits and why we all depend upon it to help our good ideas spread.

I haven’t read it yet, so this isn’t me telling you it’s brilliant, but I do know that brilliant is really the only thing Seth Godin puts his name to. And it’s FREE.

Click here to get a copy. I got one yesterday and can’t wait to read it. (I don’t have a Kindle by downloaded the free Kindle app on my iPhone.)

 

     

 

 

3 perfectly easy ways to wreck your marriage with social media.

Random/ Social Media August 1, 2011 • Comments

I love social media. It’s been incredibly kind to me. I want to write songs about it. I want to bring it to the eighth grade winter formal and slow dance to Milli Vanilli’s “Blame it on the Rain.”

It’s a tremendous set of tools whose ability to provide hope and change is only matched in strength by its ability to wreck lives when misused.

Surveying the carnage of friends’ marriages and struggles in my own, it was not difficult to find three perfectly easy ways you can wreck your marriage with social media. There are a million ways perhaps, not just three, but a post with a million points would take a really long time to write and probably end up being pretty boring with points 800,001-900,000 just being completely mailed in and weak. So let’s stick with 3.

Here they are:

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