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Productivity

5 Steps to Finding News Feeds and Blogs Worth Following

by Deana Goldasich on July 21, 2010

After writing 5 Steps to Organizing the Blogs You Follow, I received many questions on how to go about finding relevant, high-quality blogs. Thank you for your questions and feedback! Influential Thought Leaders tend to embrace others’ ideas and soak up information like sponges. They can’t get enough of peoples’ knowledge and live to build [...]

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5 Steps to Organizing the Blogs You Follow

by Deana Goldasich on July 8, 2010

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One of the best ways to stay on top of what’s shaking in your industry and “sharpen the saw” each week is to read content-rich blogs! Just as reading books helps make us better writers, reading blogs helps make us better thinkers and bigger networkers! Yet, I still hear over and over again, “Yea…I’ve been [...]

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Do You Procrastinate or Incubate?

by Deana Goldasich on February 28, 2010

Remember that killer blog post idea you had a while back? Still sitting on it? Are you in love with the concept but beating yourself up about not finishing (or starting) the piece? Perhaps you shouldn’t be so hard on yourself. Last week, one of my contacts tweeted an article by Robert Biswas-Diener on CNN.com [...]

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You’ve Joined Twitter. Now What?

by Deana Goldasich on August 23, 2009

I was recently at a conference where some entrepreneurs and business owners admitted that their primary reasons for not joining Twitter were based on two fears: 1) Jumping into a pool of mindless chatter 2) Finding time to maintain their account and followers Certainly, the payoff of reaching and building relationships with a captive audience [...]

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Xobni: Must-have Outlook Tool just got better!

by Deana G. on April 21, 2009

Ever wish you could instantly look up a colleagues phone number, without the hassle of  Outlook’s “find” feature? Need to locate that attachment your coworker sent last week? Wish you could copy and paste a contact’s info instantly to share with a friend? Xobni is a power tool for Outlook users that creates an index [...]

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