Be Personal When You Post Your Social Media Content

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When you are scheduling content remember to relax and enjoy yourself. If you don’t have a sense of playfulness, it will be obvious you are just scheduling for content for the sake of it. There are plenty of ways to schedule content and lots of ways to set up content streams to farm content from.…

Build Quality Networks

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“You are what you share.” ― C.W. Leadbeater, We Think: The Power Of Mass Creativity What is value? Value is not intrinsic, it is assigned. How do we decide what something is worth? Is it worth our time? What are we getting out of it? If we focus on valuable interactions, we can decide not…

You Can Get Everything!

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"You can have everything in life you want, if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar There are many schools of thought around what you can and can't have in life. I personally like Zig's philosophy. We are only as good as the people around us. If you have…

The Universe

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“The universe provides, it opens windows, it gives us opportunities, I just put it out there and it responds.” I hear statements similar to this on a regular basis. While I agree with the sentiment attached to the words, I would like to change the language used. I would like to use the word ‘community’…

Interactive Storytelling with Twitter #LLStory

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Next week at Laneway Learning I will be leading a class using Twitter to explore the concept of interactive storytelling. The class is Tuesday the 10th of June 2014 at 8 pm. It will be possible to join the live interactions by following #LLStory. I am very excited to see how the story unfolds and…

Transformation is Power!

A few years ago I documented my tale of my personal transformation on The Bed Blog. I quit my job leaving me a homeless couch surfer who traveled the world and came back to Melbourne with $20 in my pocket. Every night that I was homeless I took a photo of the bed I slept…

Twitter Fundamental No 5. You Only Find What You Are Looking For, Part 2

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It was Socrates who said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." He was a smart guy. If he thinks it was a good idea, I would tend to agree. But how do you do it? How does one examine anything, where do you start? I think it is easier to start at the end.…

Twitter Fundamental No. 4, The Pleasure of Discovery

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Never underestimate the pleasure of discovery. Think about the first time you met someone who is very important to you. Most of us remember the moment we laid eyes on our first love. Part of the pleasure of meeting someone is the sense of discovery. I found you, finally after all of this time! This…

Twitter Fundamental No. 2, Be Authentic Online

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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”  -       Aristotle The more things change the more things stay the same. I say that because Aristotle lived in a very different world to ours, but the principles of what it is to have a good life are the same. Life…

Twitter Fundamental No. 1, Slow and Steady

The official launch of Spendlove and Lamb’s website was Valentines Day. That wasn’t an accident. I chose to promote Spendlove and Lamb on Valentines for a reason. We seek love and, once it is found, focus on it’s cultivation and growth. It is important, it is part of my business name. That is no mistake,…