Hard-core family man. Loyalty. Strength. Dedication to one another.
A love of words, writing, reading, listening, singing, praising, rejoicing.
Comfort the frightened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
Self-employed web publisher. Programmer. Developer.
Consultant. Aid. Help. Advisor.
Happily employed with Search Engine People.
Mornings are pretty cool. I like to see the sun hesitantly flow into the day. I like the feeling of being “there” sooner than anybody else. And of course of getting so much done before the rest of the world starts their day.
Not having an online presence is starting to be as odd as not having a telephone number at all. A “what’s up with you then?”
Besides the fact that it is just … odd … it’s also increasingly impractical. Like not having a car to extend the range within which you can work, not having an online presence is limiting the number of times you’re going to be accepted for a job.
When nary the geek could get online and “do” HTML to make a web page, online presence needn’t apply to everyone.
When Geocities made What You See Is What You Get (sort of…) web page designers or when Blogger launched – you still didn’t need an online presence because back then being online was just that: being online.
Since the rise of social media and now social networking it has become: being online.
Back in the day” we used nicknames. Remember? Online was dangerous and you needed to remain somewhat anonymous.
So when Jane would join a fishing board she would be “flylady18” or when John would sign into his parenting forum he’d be “DaDude” or something.
What we experience now is that by being online as ourselves, we have no privacy. The lady going to the beach while “sick” is spotted via Facebook and fired. The disgruntled employee airing via Twitter has made a company enemy for life.
So the next wave will be regular people maintaining multiple social networking accounts; one under their own real name and at least one other under an assumed name.
These nickname profiles will enable people to be themselves online without fear. To vent. To talk about books, songs, movies, artists, that are otherwise just “not done”.
They’ll allow people to be on vacation, post to their close friends and relatives and not have the boss expect them to therefore be in reach of the telephone and thus work.
See also:
I love reading. Good books, great storytelling.
Movies. Movies too. From heart wrenching Sophie’s Choice to "must see again" Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Oh and music! Let’s not forget about music. Sure, you might want to after you see me do a silly high-hat groove-that-bass move in the kitchen – but music sure does add that *snap*, doesn’t it? Right on…
And have you seen some of these articles? Some issues of the New York Times read like a monthly magazine – only it comes out daily! Hellooo!
All this stuff, all this content comes from somewhere; it’s made by people who need to earn a solid, reliable long-term living. Just like you.
I’m a bit hesitant to say this but I blocked myself from Twitter and other (social) media snacking for 3 days – and I liked it.
While ago I was playing around with inserting Adsense ads not somewhere floating before or after the content but in it.
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Geocities closes today. By the end of this day a lot will have been said about that closure.
Here’s what I have to say – from a social networking perspective.
Sometimes, like during the Weekly Review, I like to have a hardcopy of the note list (the top pane in the Evernote desktop client).
There’s no native option to print the note list but don’t let that stop you.
I use a “scrolling window” profile in the screen capture program SnagIt to capture the note titles I want to print.
In snagit I crop the list to only have the title and tags columns visible; you might have your own preference.
The note font is quite small but before printing you can play with the page setup: stretching the image makes it more readable at times.
During the Weekly Review I print out two of these lists: one with personal to do’s/someday’s, and one with work related to do’s/someday’s.
Finding back items in Evernote is usually as simple as typing something, anything, into the search box and seeing the results appear as you type.
For slightly deeper data digging some of us might be tagging our notes and use the [tag:] query to get to very specific notes.
The problem begins when you need that note with that Word document attached to it. Or when you want to pull all your notes with .ppt attachments.
I’m a big fan of the “new note” and “paste into Evernote” global hot keys in Evernote.
This week I added to that the global hotkey CTRL + ALT + T to create a new To Do item from any application.
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The following 15 minute setup enables you to use Evernote as a frictionless GTD list application. Easy entry, no multiple notebooks required. Works with you, not against you.
The setup features:
The description is for the Windows desktop client, Evernote 3.1, but works anywhere Evernote does. The setup works equally well in Evernote 3.5 Beta. It, however, has no counts shown next to the saved searches: Evernote 3.1 gives a clear at-a-glance view of where you have how many open items.
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