How to Know Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes

My friend Eric Kim at Twylah shared this most excellent TEDTalk with me yesterday. Watch it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vVsXO9brK7M Here are the 5 questions that Adam Leipzig offers... What do you think? Helpful? Overly simplistic? Tell me... Here's a bonus list of my 'on purpose' videos... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTZMTV28QO8&list=PL-MNbC9qmAMAo8uV7nCehM68BARcqUn7X Related articles Searching for a Purpose (rcarterphoto.wordpress.com) Ted Talk Exercise with … Continue reading How to Know Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes

3 things you must do to get the most ‘bank’ for your Twitter ‘buck’…

Sometimes, I think I post more about how much I love Twylah than the folks at Twylah do. Whether that's true or not, I'm a huge fan and the main reason why is Twylah is the only social networking tool I know of that actually adds Search Engine Optimization [SEO] to your domain simply by … Continue reading 3 things you must do to get the most ‘bank’ for your Twitter ‘buck’…

3.5 tools for effective content marketing in the #SocialEra

Ever heard of the Pareto Principle? Mostly likely you have but may not know it by that name. "The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes." In … Continue reading 3.5 tools for effective content marketing in the #SocialEra

Why Twylah is my ultimate lifestream repository…

There are three main reasons why I think of Twylah as my ULTIMATE lifestream repository. First, let me share a definition of 'lifestreaming' for those of you unfamiliar with the concept: The term lifestream was coined by Eric Freeman and David Gelernter at Yale University in the mid-1990s to describe "...a time-ordered stream of documents … Continue reading Why Twylah is my ultimate lifestream repository…

Paper.li and Twylah: two great Twitter tools I use to promote my tweets

In previous posts I've talked quite a bit about how Twitter has become much more important in my 'thought leadership' marketing workflow. I would be remiss if I didn't take a moment to tell you about two tools; one not so new and one that that just popped up on my radar recently. They are Paper.li and Twylah. I'm sure I saw Paper.li pop up over a year ago -- Guy Kawaskaki was the first person I saw using it well. Twylah is a different story -- I stumbled across Nilofer Merchant's Twylah page only about a month ago. Both are great tools, but in the final analysis I think if you're looking to use your tweets as part of your Search Engine Optimization [SEO] strategy, you'll decide like I did that Twylah is the tool for you. Here's a little riff I did for you outlining the reasons why...