After BlogLab #3 - Content and Social Media

This one comes from Carol Covin...

If you see something good for the group, send it over.

“You know how I love stats. Two more ways to track Twitter and Facebook. Best, Carol”

 

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/8-ways-to-discover-content-ideas-from-your-readers/

What was the best thing you learned from the post?

SalesLab’s Rainmaker series returns to the Capital Technology Management Hub, Tuesday, September 13^th with 300 seconds of Mark Your Territory. The featured CTMH speaker will be Professor Steve Gladis, author of The Agile Leader. Come join us!

After BlogLab #2 Why People's Use of Blogs Dominates Use of Twitter and Facebook

Blogs are persistent, provide a searchable base, and  longer-lived (almost permanent?) record.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2011/08/19/why-peoples-use-of-blogs-dominates-use-of-twitter-and-facebook/ 

SalesLab’s Rainmaker series returns to the Capital Technology Management Hub, Tuesday, September 13^th with 300 seconds of Mark Your Territory. The featured CTMH speaker will be Professor Steve Gladis, author of The Agile Leader. Come join us!

 

After BlogLab Email #1 Commenting

Julie Perlmutter and I designed a new training for improving corporate blogging operations, modeled after the Sales Lab Status Meetings. This was a one time, interactive presentation for bloggers and managers investigating how to improve their blogging programs.

Most of the participants got the BlogLab handout a week before the program. We told everyone it was the handout, with no assignment. I like to know what is coming at a meeting, and we hoped the participants would bring information. Boy did they ever!

Since the event, I have been receiving a flood of good information, which I have been sending to the participants, one each day. We decided the stream was too good to keep to ourselves, so I’m posting them on Through The Browser, about a week late, catching up.

Post #1 Commenting

The comment function can be used as an important asset for blogging.

Comments increase the meaning, understanding, believability, and importance of a post.

Comments can turn a single post into an enduring destination.

Comments can show rookies what the veterans have learned, create a cadre across time.

See how this post was improved by the comments over time.

Please leave your BlogLab comment here

Thank you,

SalesLab’s Rainmaker series returns to the Capital Technology Management Hub, Tuesday, September 13^th with 300 seconds of Mark Your Territory. The featured CTMH speaker will be Professor Steve Gladis, author of The Agile Leader. Come join us!

War of Art

A post is a sprint. Keeping an active blog for years is a marathon.

A sales presentation is a sprint. Winning a sale and delivering the intended result is a marathon.

Infatuation is a sprint. A relationship is a marathon.

A sprint is a technique, part of a marathon.

There are many books about keeping the nose to the grindstone. A lot of rock’n’roll, too.

Jackson Browne’s The Pretender was always my favorite, until he did For A Dancer at Bill Graham’s memorial.

The problem is most of these commentaries tend to mushroom into a belief system, and then a behavior system, as adherents add paint jobs, and performance decals, and fuzzy dice to the frame.

Many of us have a fascination with the trappings of doing better work. Marc Andreessen called it “productivity prøn.” Finding a better way is worth celebrating.

Steven Pressfield wrote one of my favorite books this summer. The Profession is a very useful fiction. I decided to read his other books.

War of Art is not fiction. It is a stripped-down examination about the act of being productive.

It’s a three hour read that changed my understanding of what I do.

It has some amazing distinctions, like the difference between a fundamentalist and an artist, which have resorted a lot of what I believe.

A very useful book.

Blah, Blah Blog is this afternoon, so you’ve probably missed it. You can still take advantage of BlogLab, coming August 16.  at the Web Managers Roundtable, We’ll be investigating how to develop a high impact repeatable blogging operation that makes a difference.

Culture

If culture is the organizational behavior that is not written in the rules, what happens to your culture when you add a lot of rules?

Or,

Software is the written record of an organization’s culture.

What do you think?

Check out Blah, Blah Blog at the Web Managers Roundtable, on August 9. We’ll be investigating how to develop a high impact repeatable blogging operation that makes a difference.