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Ted Talks About… Looking People in the Eye Digitally [video]
My New Book Available Now… HOW TO LOOK PEOPLE IN THE EYE DIGITALLY
In How to Look People in the Eye Digitally, Ted re-introduces us to the one-on-one communication skills we’ve forgotten in our rush to new technologies. He shows us how we’ve let social and mobile technologies hold us back, and teaches us new ways to use the people skills we already have to stay connected in an authentic, human way.
~Previously posted at TedRubin.com
How Real-Time Analytics Can Transform a Brand
The last few years have transformed the way organizations utilize data. Today, the volume, variety and velocity of data is taking the business world by storm. Organizations that are able to understand and act on the data – based on analytics, but with the relationship at the forefront – will emerge as winners.
Return on Relationship, #RonR, is Measured…
ROR, #RonR, is measured through organic engagement, community management, sentiment monitoring and so much more. It all comes down to one word: Value. How do your social media efforts create value for you, as a brand, and for your audience? What prompts that viewer to come back to your social channel(s) and to any other place you are looking to drive them to?
Most Important Lessons We Can Learn from Children
We talk and write a lot about what we are teaching our children and what they are learning from us – but if we only focus on one side of this teaching/learning relationship, we are missing some of the greatest examples of our lives. Following are my 12 most important lessons we can learn from children:
For Me Twitter and New Friends Have Gone Hand-in-Hand From the Beginning
Three things are most important for anyone who wants to be successful using Twitter for relationship building:
“Life isn’t about Finding Yourself. Life is about CREATING Yourself.” #RonR
The title of this post is a George Bernard Shaw quote I employ with my daughters in the hopes I will impress upon them, in a small way with a few words, what I will say here with many more words than their attention spans will allow. How many times have you heard that some person or other is on a quest to “find themselves?” Many times we hear it in relation to a young person starting out in life to find their purpose, or when an older person jokes about what they want to be when they “grow up.”
Is Networking in Social Media a Worthy Investment?
An interviewer posed this question to me recently: Is networking in social media a worthy investment?
Creating Content, It’s Easy
Take your most popular tweets and FB posts, or the ones you feel most passionately about, and use them to develop blog posts. You don’t have to write three pages; you don’t even have to write four paragraphs. Seth Godin is one of the most successful bloggers in the marketing world, and he writes in two- to three-sentence paragraphs. He’s a master at expressing ideas that are thought-provoking and easy to read. People are time pressed these days and content can be overwhelming, so make it valuable and easy to read.
The Most Important Lesson I Learned About Failure
The most important lesson I learned about failure is that without it, you do not truly understand success. When success comes too easily or too early in the process, we come to believe it is the natural state of things, and when failure comes at a later date in some form or another we are most often utterly unprepared.