For Those Who Are an Overnight Success and For Those Who Aren’t a Video Series From Chris Brogan

November 13, 2009 · Posted in Innovation, Reputation, Time Management, Video · View Comments 

These videos are from Chris Brogan’s Over Night Success Series. There are 9 videos total covering topics such as Grinding vs Clocking – Time and the Overnight Success, Pity Party, Small Talk is Big, Belief Systems, The Competition, What it Takes, No Excuses & A Call to Arms. These videos are great even if you aren’t an over night success, even if you aren’t a success. :-)

These 3 are my favorite (although it was hard to pick)

Take time off – I’ve said it before you need your down time but I’m always happy to point out when others say the same thing.  :-)

Don’t believe the hype – I included this one because Chris says – by over night success I mean 10 years of hard work.

Here’s another bag of money – on excuses. We all make excuses that become between us and our goals. Decide what your priorities are. Stop making excuses.

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Monitor your brand

June 15, 2009 · Posted in Free Tools, Reputation, Social Tools · View Comments 

Carie Lewis has a great guide to monitoring your brand using iGoogle, it’s easy, free and most of us already have a Google account, plus it pulls all the information into one place.

She includes 5 different categories:

  • Brand – mentions of your name, including acronyms, misspellings, etc
  • Current – issues that people are talking about that involve you right now
  • Detractors – people you know don’t like you but talk about you
  • Competition – people in the same space as you
  • Staff – prominent people in your org, like your CEO

And includes a great list of places you should monitoring:

  • Google Alerts – I hope you know what they are and are already using them!
  • Filtrbox – a paid monitoring service to make sure we catch everything
  • Tweetmeme – tells you the most popular tweets about a subject
  • Twitter Search – shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don’t use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately)
  • Technorati – shows blogs that mention certain keywords
  • Blogpulse – another blog monitoring tool
  • Digg – shows most popular articles on the web
  • Boardreader – shows forum posts by keyword

Some additional readings

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