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This Is My 7 Link Challenge #7links

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Posted on 19th July 2010 by Jade Handy in What I'm Into

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Darren Rowse was certainly a genius blogger before this post hit the blogosphere on July 16th, 2010.  Having inspired many others to do it, I thought I’d follow suit. 

“The idea is to publish a post that is a list of 7 links to posts that you and others have written that respond to the following 7 categories.”

But, before I did, I said to my self, “you show me yours, then I’ll show you mine.”  And, he did.  So, here are mine.

My first post: How Goes It?  No picture.  No bold type (bold concept, though.)  Built, originally, in GoDaddy Quick Blogcast.  I’m surprised it had paragraphs, even.  But, hey, you have to start somewhere, right?

A post I enjoyed writing the most:  You’re So Vain was fun to write because I was just hitting my stride with flow.  I was linking in, linking out, bold type.  I enjoyed writing ambiguity into it.  It was written with a coaching client in mind. 

I Shouldn’t Have To Is a post that had a great discussion.  Siddartha Herdegen fueled this post with his comments.  It is a great exchange of 2 people saying the same things differently, being on the same page, but different sides, finding common ground while making some sound.  (some of that was just for rhyme’s sake!)

A post (actually a comment) on someone else’s blog that I wish I had written is Mark Suster’s When You’re a Hammer Everything Looks Like a Nail on bothsidesofthetable.com  One thing about this metaphor, it’s not going out of style anytime soon.  I think it’s great how you talk about both sides of the table.  Your level of disclosure astounds me as you know you’ll be in front of people who have read this post…Mark’s Reply:   Thanks, Jade…

My most helpful post was Make it Catchy to Make it Sticky vol.1.  If a person can start to realize and notice how prevalent these persuasive elements are, and then implement them in verbal and written communications, you’re words will stick like no other.  Check any 10 quotes and the majority will contain one of the patterns in the post.

This is a tough one.  I, actually, take great pride in my titles.  I don’t intellectualize them, they just pop into my head when I’m first thinking about the post’s content.  With that said, Smart Start À La Carte has to be up there at the top of favorite titles for me.  Alliteration, rhyme, French, and the ambiguity of smart start being first thing in the morning, Mondays, or rookie persuasion has me all worked up over the title.

RSS?  This Way is post that I wish more people had read, for both selfish and unselfish reasons, really.  Selfish, because it makes it easier for more people to subscribe to my posts.  And, unselfish, because it makes it easier for more people to subscribe to my posts. 

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Photo Credits:  each is just a click or two away, or see some of them in my Flickr favorites

RSS? This Way…

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Posted on 16th July 2010 by Jade Handy in Uncategorized |What I'm Into

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 So, RSS.  Maybe you think this is only for those internet types or “social media types?”  It’s not.

It’s for business owners, professionals and all busy people that don’t have time to continually search the internet the way you’ve been doing it.

RSS *is like* a spam-free email inbox full of all your favorite email newsletters.

RSS *is like* a postal mailbox.  You can either drive to MidAmerican Energy your local newspaper or City Utilities office favorite magazine publisher to pick up your bill issue.  Or, you can have your recurring mail come to one mail box,… your mail box.

Do you Google?  Or use Google to seach the internet?

Do you sometimes find yourself searching for the same thing over and over, again?

Would you rather not?

If not, then “search once and subscribe.”  Then you won’t have to keep searching for the same thing over and over and over again.  Sound good?  Good, let’s go!

Here’s how.
1. find a web site with an RSS symbol.  Click on it.
2. find the Google button off to the right.  Click on it.
3. sign up for Google Reader.

Once you have a Google Reader account, and every time you find an RSS button that has a Google button, you’ll be able to “burn the feed” into your Google Reader aggregator.

If the RSS button doesn’t lead to a Google button, then
1. copy/paste the URL from the internet address bar at the top to the “add a subscription” button in your Google Reader (top left corner.)
2. And then, just like Prego, it’s in there!

Now here’s the “why do I do this?”  You can now do this…

1. after you do a Google search via http://blogsearch.google.com/ (the RSS subscribe button is above the fold on the left margin of the results page) or a Google search via http:/news.google.com/ (the RSS button is at the very botton of the results page.) 

2. when you want to subscribe to someone else’s tweets on Twitter without having to have a Twitter account yourself.  Go to Twitter.com.  Do a search on the Twitter username (not their full name, e.g. jadehandy vs. Jade Handy.)  Click on the blue username link inside their tweet (tweet is short for Twitter message.)  On the right margin underneath all the thumbnail pictures is “RSS feed of USERNAME tweets.”  Click, then copy/paste the URL into your Google Reader’s “add a subscription.”

3. for a YouTube search, weather reports for your zip code, mutual funds, sports scores of your favorite team, newspaper/magazine articles, facebook entries, Google Calendar updates of you or someone else.  Oh yeah, and to get a job! (see the presentation below)

4. Wash, rinse and repeat for any other website that gets updated.

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Other resources for RSS:

What the Heck? RSS, Google Reader & a Starters Kit
What the Heck is RSS
TIPS n TRIPS (TNT): Learn RSS Feeds Top to Bottom
RSS = Relevant Signal Stream
Wikipedia
A Starter Kit for Your RSS Reading
What Is RSS? RSS Explained

Using Rss To Let Jobs Come To You
View more presentations from inovolve.

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Photo Credit:  curiouslee on Flickr

Comment Schmomment 2010-06-19

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Posted on 19th June 2010 by Jade Handy in Comment Schmomment |What I'm Into

Welcome to my Shop-Talk-Off-The-Clock Series Weekend Bender Edition of Comment Schmomment.  It’s my take on blog posts that caught my attention this past week.  Enjoy this periodic un-comprehensive list of people I’m discovering and paying attention to.

When deciding whether or not to do this type of a post, I figured, what the heck, someone might be interested in perusing what I’m into.  Surely, I can’t be the only one out there who is interested in what others have to say.   ;)

Also, my coach told me I couldn’t save for the sake of saving my comments posted on others’ posts any longer, so I had to re-purpose my obsessive compulsiveness!

Have a look-see…

Bob Burg’s  The Pre-Apology Approach on Burg.com 

Nice work.  Some call this pre-framing.  Others would call it a cognitive qualifier.  Yet others will call it pacing.  I like your label, “Pre-Apology Approach.”  It’s much more specific and a great mnemonic device for itself.  And, it sure beats calling it the “I’m-sorry-you’ve-even-got-to-bother-with-all-of-this-stuff-it-must-be-a-real-pain-in-the-neck” strategy!  What a parasynthesis-in-the-behind that would be!  Not to mention it is a great strategy in and of itself. It’s hard to disagree with someone after you have, in essence, agreed with their current thoughts.

 

Mark Suster’s When You’re a Hammer Everything Looks Like a Nail on bothsidesofthetable.com

Another great blog post.  I have referenced your work before, and I’m sure I will yet again.  One thing about this metaphor, it’s not going out of style anytime soon.  I think it’s great how you talk about both sides of the table.  Your level of disclosure astounds me as you know you’ll be in front of people who have read this post.  7 Habits was my first self-improvement book, so I’m partial to posts referencing it, as well!

Mark’s Reply:   Thanks, Jade.  7 Habits is the most influential business book I’ve read.  You’ll see 3-4 posts in the near future coming from it.  Already planned.

 

Lisa Braithwaite’s Technology made accessible – Simon Wardley explains cloud computing via Speak Schmeak on her coachlisab.blogspot.com

@wadders77 de-clouds cloud “compuking” & hits a home run with his delivery!  UnFreaking believable use of nesting information when he circles back around to previous points using visual, auditory, and I’m sure the feeling in the audience was awe!  Thanks for sharing this!

 

Andrew Dlugan’s Speech Critique of Jacqueline Novogratz on Six Minutes of speaking

Great use of contrast.  I especially like how you tied them together using rhetorical repeater patterns to mark them out.  Most speakers and everyday communicators, for that matter, just aren’t using these patterns to amplifiy their message.  Nice work!

 

Ian Griffin’s For Freelance Speech Writers: Five Tips That Will Speed Up Your Speech Writing Process Speechwriting on exec-comms.com

Dragon Naturally Speaking is the bomb.  I have it on my Sony Vaio and my iPad.  I use it to speak to my blog.  I speak differently than I write, so this is a great tool.  If only it could do the editing for me!

 

Denise Graveline’s So, do you start sentences with so, if so… on eloquentwoman.blogspot.com

If it’s good enough for the Greek, it’s good enough for us speaker geeks.  This sing-song sound “like a Valley Girl attempt to advance the narrative: “So then I said he should leave.  So he did…” can be labeled several different ways.  Either way, it’s as valuable and relevant today as it was back in the ancient Greek times when they were writing about it being used.  I tend to look at its use from a useful or practical perspective.  Sometimes it’s useful, and sometimes it’s practical, but rarely both.

 

Kevin Ferguson’s No distractions: Using fonts with powerpoint on Speechwritingpro.com

I like your advice on fonts, but I Love your advice on utilizing what would be a distraction and commenting on it in order to create a “we” moment with the audience.  Taking this a step further and cracking a joke about it is even better.  Makes you human and makes you a better communicator, stage or no stage.

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Photo Credit: Nathalie Orengo on Flickr

2nd Drive

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Posted on 9th June 2010 by Jade Handy in Book Review |What I'm Into

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The first time through Drive by Daniel Pink, I loved it.  The 2nd time?  I’m loving it.

When you read this book for the 2nd time, you’ll notice more than you did the first because you’ll have a different perspective since reading the first.  You’ll have met people and talked about things that you relate back to the first read through.  Makes it exciting! again!  (shush. poets license.  shhhht.)

Anyways, what grabbed me the second time through was the paragraph where he talks about heuristics.  That’s creatively looking at things a different way.  Versus an algorithm.  Now, it may seem obvious that we need to look at things a different way in order to solve problems, after all, Albert Einstein taught us “we can’t solve problems at the same level that created them,” or something to that effect.  But, heuristics grabbed me.

This reminded me of positive deviance.  No, it’s not an oxymoron.  Positive deviance is where a group of people within a group of people will go against the grain and do something that disrupts the accepted way of doing things and creates something that actually works.  You’ve heard the saying, “first it’s laughed at, then it’s ridiculed, then it’s violently opposed, then it’s accepted as self-evident,” or something to that effect.  Well, this is like that. 

Next, you have design thinking by Roger Martin of Canada.  I haven’t read , yet (I’m still reading Drive,) but I plan to.  I researched it just for this post.  Someone who will remain nameless @bigwags mentioned it the other morning at #CIB and it got me thinking.  Later, when I was reading Drive for the 2nd time, this all came together. 

The opposable mind from what I understand is holding two opposing thoughts simultaeously.  Sounds far fetched until you have a family.  Actually, sounds a lot like “enantiosis,” a rhetorical figure from way back in the day.  Anyway, the author of the Opposable Mind has done some research on this phenomena.

Here’s something fascinating.  While researching Design Thinking for this post, the Slideshare I read includes Daniel Pink’s take on design thinking!  I guess great minds do think alike.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, “it’s amazing what you can learn when you’re constantly casting a net.”

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Heuristics are bug-ridden by definition if they didn’t have bugs, then they’d be algorithms.  -unknown

You can’t keep blaming yourself.  Just blame yourself once, and move on.  -Dan Castellaneta

I could neither continue listening nor turn away. -http://rhetoric.byu.edu/figures/E/enantiosis.htm

Photo Credit:  flickr and kevindooley

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