Do You Have Enough Fun in Your Diet?
The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
Get Focused
1. Stop hiding who you are
2. Start being insanely selfish>
Be Creative
3. Stop following the rules
4. Start scaring yourself
Use Your Wisdom
5. Stop taking it all so damn seriously
6. Start getting rid of the crap
Take Action
7. Stop being busy
8. Start something
An oldie but a goodie found via The Heart of Innovation
Top Ten Links Week 4
cc image used courtesy of Leo Reynolds on flickr
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 1/22/2010 thru 1/28/2010
- “Your Brain Can’t Handle Your Facebook Friends” – great article from Mashable using Dunbar’s Number to explain why you can’t keep up with more than 150 Facebook Friends. I’m guess that applies to Twitter as well.
- Social Technology & an Innovative Intranet can Increase Employee Productivity give stats & examples, reminds me I need to finish my follow up post to Control is an Illusion You Need to Let Go
- “from social media to social action: when awareness isn’t enough.” – remember while social media helps create awareness of issues, awareness does not equal action. No retweeting or sharing on Facebook does not count as action, despite what all the women who posted their bra color might think.
- you buy wine, kids get books, its win win for everybody, even if its bad wine you can give it as gifts
– nuf said - iPad is iBad for freedom – from Free Software Foundation – a must read if you care about DRM & open source & open access. While you’re at it read these: 8 Things That Suck About the iPad and The Problem with the Apple iPad like how I snuck 2 extra links in there?
- Programme Transliteracy Conference 9 Feb 2010 - I am so sad I wasn’t able to find funding to attend this, I’ll be following closely online.
- The Seth Godin Uber Echo Disaster! – I know I blogged about the echo chamber earlier this week, but I hope you’re still thinking about it.
- The Relevance Economy: Why mattering matters. – an interesting read on the relevance of things, it is all relative.
- google voice for iphone – RT @kenleyneufeld: Just tested and it works perfectly. Here’s a better link direct from god. – google voice is finally on the iphone
- @curiouschild have you seen this? - monkeys are involved and my infatuation with Monkeys is well documented.
Your Inbox Is Not a To-do List
I’ve been talking and thinking about time management a lot lately (the fabulous Brenda Hough and I are doing a prefconference workshop about it at Internet Librarian) so when I saw this from Zen Habits I knew I had to share it
Why Your Email Inbox Is NOT a Good To-do List: a very brief summary
- You can’t change the subject lines
- There might be multiple actions in each email
- You can’t re-order the emails (usually)
- You can’t prioritize your to-dos
- An email inbox contains distractions
Go read the whole thing for explanations and suggestions on tools to use for a to-do lists.
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- What is Transliteracy?I attempt to answer some questions about transliteracy including what is it, in my Librarian by Day blog post – Defining Transliteracy I have been asked this question many times by librarians so I am way overdue for this post. Most recently I was asked “….are librarians the people best equipped to define and interpret transliteracy (as opposed [...] […]Bobbi Newman
- Digital Literacy Skills Essential to Closing Broadband Gap #knightcommThe Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy sites the Broadband Adoption and Use in America (pdf) report released by the Federal Communications Commission in Digital Literacy Skills Essential to Closing Broadband Gap when emphasising the importance and need for digital literacy The survey findings reinforce the growing body o […]Bobbi Newman
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