The Things I Did Today Instead of Doing What I Needed to Do

Yes, today was one of those days.

I had something that needed to get done. As in the “it must be done for tomorrow” sort of done.

You see, tomorrow I’ll be presenting  “Navigating the LinkedIn Landscape” at the Social Media Marketing Workshop at Blankspaces and I needed to finalize my handout.

Now mind you, I’ve talked about LinkedIn to many different groups.  In fact, it was the focus of this past weeks’ Beyond Social Media Basics call this week.  It’s not like I needed to think long and hard about creating something.

Sadly, I think that was my downfall.

Instead of sitting down and pounding it out in an hour or so, I puttered away the ENTIRE day doing the following (in no particular order):

  • Facebook updates
  • Watched this week’s Psych episode
  • Made lunch for my husband
  • Went shopping for missing lunch ingredients
  • Washed my car
  • Gassed up my car
  • Chatted up the cat
  • Played with the dog
  • Cleaned the bathroom (scrubbing the toilet included)
  • Watched some videos on YouTube
  • Listened to some music
  • More Facebook updates
  • Sent emails
  • Read emails
  • Read a magazine a bit
  • Read some articles online
  • Did an exercise in productivity (of all things) for my Uplevel Your Business class that starts next week (ironic much?)
  • Lamented a typo in one of my SuccessForSolopreneurs FB updates
  • Talked a friend through updating her FB privacy settings for their Places app
  • Wrote a step-by-step outline for a current FB campaign that a friend’s team wasn’t doing correctly
  • Drank a lot of water
  • Ate too many cookies (that I won earlier this week from Maria’s Italian Kitchen)

And I’m sure there’s whole lot more that I forget (but I refuse to spend the time trying to remember).

Did I get my handout done?

Kinda.

My copy is written.  After dinner, I’ll come home and create the actual handout version and print it off.

Basically…it’s mostly done.  But now, it’s time to head out for dinner.

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Facebook Places Goes Live: Change Your Privacy Settings

Facebook location-based application, Places went live today.  For the most part, I could care less as I’m already on Foursquare and Gowalla (when I want to update to FB, I just click that permission in my application).

But…once again, Facebook has their privacy settings set to opt-out instead of opting-in.  So you’ll need to change that if you don’t want FB to post where you are when you check in.

Here’s what you’ll need to do to change your settings…

1. Account ➨ Privacy Settings

2. Customize Settings ➨ Places I Check In To

3. Customize

4. Pick your privacy settings (I’m going with “Only Me” since I can post manually through Foursquare)

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Christine Kane: No Such Thing As Girls Like That

I just love this song “No Such Thing As Girls Like That” and yes I’m here to admit to admit that secretly we do “all love to gyrate”.  So cute and so true.  Enjoy!

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A Great Motivational Video

This video has the title of being the “Best Motivational Video” (well, okay, they said “motivate” instead of “motivational” but still) I just might have to agree.  We sometimes forget that many of the greats have failed a time or two before becoming the successes that we know them as today.

Just remember…

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ~Colin Powell

Thank you to Susan Baker, Escape Hatcher for reminding me about this video.

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Check it out…I’m in the Crave-LA book!

I totally forgot to get this up on the website. I was so focused on my upcoming Beyond Social Media Basics Intensive (we start Wednesday – woohoo!) that I just never got around to it.

I love the questions that they chose to accompany my spread.  If you click on the image itself, it will take you to a full-size image that you can read.

If you’d like to purchase your own copy of this very cool guide to some fab and amazing women ($10), just drop me a note and we can make arrangements.

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Google’s Matt Cutts Offers Up Link Building Advice

Anyone who runs a website wants to have high traffic.  We want visitors, we want comments.  And for quite some time now, Google has kept quiet about the algorithm they use to establish their search engine relevance and rankings.

Recently, they sent out their Quality Engineer and overall community liaison, Matt Cutts to share some strategies [video below].  I can’t say there’s really much here that’s new.  I’ve been mentioning most of these strategies to my clients for a couple of years now (you read more about it my Five Keys to Succeed at Blogging eBook which you can get for free on the left hand side over there).

The basic strategies that Matt shares in the video below include:

  1. Create a Controversy
  2. Answer Questions (I love this technique and have been using it a bit more)
  3. Conduct Research & Discuss the Results
  4. Get Involved with Social Media (a total no brainer in my book)
  5. Create Lists (Top 10, 5 Reasons, etc)
  6. Get a Blog and Establish Yourself as an Authority
  7. Write How To’s and Tutorials (I love this technique and have been using quite a bit lately)
  8. Run a Service or Create a Product
  9. Make Videos That are Enjoyable (another way to use tutorials)

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