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"Do you have any questions for me?" is the inevitable question you'll hear at the end of any interview. You should always ask the interviewer Via TechinBiz
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This post introduces you a simple and easy way to convert your PDF to Word documents. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
Stephania Savva, Ph.D's curator insight,
December 21, 2015 3:00 AM
Seek no further for a great tool to convert your PDF files to Word docs.
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by Shane Snow
"Every few minutes, a new buzzword rips through the business world, skids, gets a few quick books written on it, and ends up in a pile of tired terms next to "synergy." Today, one of the biggest corporate buzzwords is "storytelling." Marketers are obsessed with storytelling, and conference panels on the subject lately have fewer empty seats than a Bieber concert.
"Funny thing is, storytelling has been the buzzword off and on since advertising became a thing. It's always coming out of the buzzword pile because, at the end of the day, it's a timeless skill. Stories have been an essential driver of change throughout human history. For good and for ill.
"And now more than ever, businesses, workers, and leaders have opportunities to stand out, spread messages, and make change through storytelling.
"Good stories surprise us. They have compelling characters. They make us think, make us feel. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that numbers and text on a slide with a bar graph don't."
Jim Lerman's curator insight,
August 2, 2013 9:35 AM
#1 skill not just in business, but just about every form of communication.
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Here is the textbook that I created/curated for teaching my New Media Technology class during the Spring semester of 2012 at Hannam University's Linton Global College. I took great effort to give credit where it is due. I aimed to show my students how they could access enough free info on the web that was of equal or greater value than the wonderful information found in expensive textbooks. Feel free to share and please support the true authors of this book in any way you can (money, likes, blog comments, links, etc.) I am simply the currator of this content. If you would like a free tablet-friendly PDF file, just email me at kenmorrison30 @ yahoo.com (no spaces)
Via Ken Morrison, Jim Lerman
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The New Year is a great time to either start a brand new blog or revamp your exiting website. One of the ways to improve your blog in 2012 is by using plugins that make it more social media optimized and SEO friendly.
Having the right plugins can give you an edge over other blogs and can also assist you in gaining the extra functionality you need for your WordPress-powered site, especially if social media is an important part of your marketing strategy. Let’s have a look at the top plugins that I recommend you utilize in 2012. There’s a few new plugins in the mix together with several plugins that I recommended in my Best 2011 WordPress Plugins for Social Media and SEO that you’ll want to reference if you haven’t done so.
Social Media WordPress Plugins for 2012
Read more: http://windmillnetworking.com/2012/01/10/best-wordpress-plugins-social-media-seo-2012/ Via Martin Gysler
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Google+ unveiled itself to the public amidst a chorus of praise and adulation from techies all over the globe. Unfortunately, it also earned a good amount of scorn from individuals who were not ready to grasp the unique philosophy Google+ was promoting. That philosophy is one of openness.
Unlike Facebook, Google+ is designed to connect strangers, and inspire collaboration and contribution. It has proven to be an amazing platform for promoting ideas, brands and people.
Since its early rollout, Google+ has forced competitors to begin evolving, inspiring platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to develop new ways of thinking about social media and the functionality they offer. Via Martin Gysler
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Facebook recently changed the way users interact with content on fan pages: any user, including non-fans, can now post on fan page walls and like/comment/share fan page content. In other words, a Facebook user does not have to first like your fan page before they can interact with your content. This is a good thing!
Since this change, the emphasis has shifted slightly from gaining more likes (fans) to increasing the number of shares on each piece of content. When you craft your fan page updates in a manner that naturally inspires fans and their friends and visitors to your page to share with their networks, you set in motion ripples of viral visibility. Basically, free additional exposure... Via Martin Gysler
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After creating content -- whether it's a blog post, an ebook, a webinar, or a video -- it's important to promote that content through social media channels.
And when you do promote that content in social media, you cross your fingers that it generates a ton of shares, tweets, and interaction. For the sake of Twitter, if you follow a few simple best practices, more people are likely to retweet and spread the distribution of your content, giving it a much broader reach and a better opportunity to get found by a new audience of prospective customers beyond your direct followers. Marketers should know how to retweet the right way, but it's also critical for them to learn how to get others to retweet their content, too.
11 Tips for Getting People to Retweet Your Content... Via Martin Gysler
Tom George's comment,
December 20, 2011 3:12 PM
Hey Martin,
Hey the new post was great and I was happy to share it. Thanks. I have some new updates on the site you might like.
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Retweets, you have heard about them, you know what they are but you aren’t gettin’ them.
You may be new to Twitter and simply don’t know what the heck you are doing, how to get a retweet or why the retweets even matter. This post won’t teach you what Twitter is but provides good tips for tweetable content which you need regardless if you know what you’re doing or not (joking).
Or you may be a Twitter and social media veteran who just wants to boost your ego, increase your Klout score or simply show off for Grandpa this weekend how popular you are on the social waves?... Via Martin Gysler
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When it comes to social media, there is not that much hidden about how it all works. The issue is that sometimes the information is hard to find in one place. So in this post, we are going to unearth some commonly unanswered questions in standard Twitter how to posts when it comes to getting the most out of your Twitter experience.
What is the New Twitter Activity Stream? Via Martin Gysler
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Listening actively and expressing thoughts clearly are hard-earned, high-level skills. Via TechinBiz
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Careful editing can make such a difference to your writing, as there is so much more to think about than just spelling, grammar and sentence construction. Via janlgordon
janlgordon's curator insight,
April 18, 2017 8:45 PM
I selected this article from Curatti written by Alice Elliott because she explains the importance of carefully editing your blog posts.
Improve your writing with quality content.
How to Effectively Edit Your Articles
It's tempting to hit the publish button right away after writing a blog post. I agree that in order to make the best of it you need to carefully look your copy over first.
Elliott explains the process of how to edit your articles and improve your writing at the same time.
Here's what caught my attention:
Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering Curation, Social Business and Beyond
Image: Courtesy of Alice Elliott. . Read full article here: http://ow.ly/qtpb30aY16P
Stay informed on trends, insights, what's happening in the digital world become a Curatti Insider today 
Charlie Dare's curator insight,
April 21, 2017 9:48 AM
From curator~ " Elliott explains the process of how to edit your articles and improve your writing at the same time. Here's what caught my attention: It's important to first do planning and research before the writing begins. Use an outline of the structure with a beginning, middle, and end. After writing a post give yourself some time to process it. Save the editing process after you have completed your article. Read your completed work out loud to yourself. Notice the flow of the piece, and whether there were any mistakes you may have missed.
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Hello, Ello! Get to know the Un-Facebook, a new minimal and ad-free social network. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
Dawid Bielski's curator insight,
December 26, 2014 8:20 PM
Może i to nie zaden gadżet ale zawsze jakaś nowość, która może sie przydać w przyszłości:)
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Pathbrite ePortfolios are the best way to collect, track and showcase a lifetime of learning and achievements, and to get recommended pathways for continuous success.
Gust MEES
Very easy to set up and you can chose your own categories to make it very personal... You can even use it as an ePortfolio to show your skills to future employers...
Read more:
Via Gust MEES
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At the end of this article I’ve listed my top ten most influential power users. But before you skip down to see who they are, let me show you why they are so influential in the first place. Via Martin Gysler
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Google+ had a hot start, but has since cooled down. For a lot of people, that means ignoring Google+. I want to warn you that is a bad idea.
Although the lights are on and it seems like nobody is home, trust me: there are people there. And they are the very people who can have a huge impact on your blog and business.
Why Google+ isn’t going anywhere
Google+ is designed to draw you away from both Twitter and Facebook. And in time, it could do this.
Yes, Facebook has over 800 million users. People like to state that number and then say “Facebook isn’t going anywhere.” Fair enough. But people do migrate. It happened to AOL. And it could happen to Facebook. In fact, former Facebook president Sean Parker says influencers are already moving from FB to Twitter and Google+. Via Martin Gysler
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One of the things many people struggle with in social media are identity issues, and I am no different. Up until yesterday, my main Facebook entities included my personal profile and my fan page for Kikolani. While I love both of these, I found some problems with sharing links to posts I’ve done elsewhere. Specifically…
- Links I’ve posted to my personal profile lately haven’t gotten that much attention compared to plain status updates or photos.
Via Martin Gysler
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As part of my on-going work developing social media for business units, I’m often asked about what types of tools I used for tracking all that ‘social media stuff.’
Let me talk about how I go about creating a social media dashboard
The basic answer is that I don’t have one tool (I have dozens, if not hundreds.)
The real answer is that I am not tracking social media.
With that said: when I think about creating a social media dashboard or using a platform to track results… I am looking at several unique business identifiers that define what tool I need for the job at hand... Via Martin Gysler
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I hope you enjoyed part one of what I learned the first year.
The original post was packed with so much information that I had to break it down into two parts or otherwise risk being labeled as verbose as Nitty.
The following are the remainder of the tips I learned the first year of blogging.
Take action. Do a little bit everyday.
It is easy to get caught up in reading, learning and planning on the internet. Plan away but if you don’t take action then you will get nowhere. If you don’t know where to start, then break your blog down into baby steps.
Take a week to map out your niche, then the next to map out what you want to include in your site? The following to come up with a logo and tagline and so on. You may need less than a week for each task. Via Martin Gysler
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A really great blog post can bring a flood of visitors to your website when people who read your post share it with the world.
The best way to create a potentially viral blog post is to experiment with lots of different types of blog posts and to observe what has worked for other blogs.
Below I’m going to share 11 blog post ideas you can use to get more traffic. These ideas each came by examining popular posts from some of my favorite blogs. These posts became some of the most popular posts on some incredibly popular blogs. There’s no guarantee they’ll work the same for you, but try several of them and you might just make a breakthrough...
Caution: there is a very strong word or two in here. Reader discretion is advised. -JL Via Martin Gysler
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