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blog post on Mashable on how to create your online identity 5 tips 1. Google your name--see who you are competing against in terms of name recognition 2. Own your name--get LinkedIn profile and pictures to show up first by creating a name specific URL at LinkedIn 3. Block and tackle on social networks such as Facebook to only share certain info with the public or limit Facebook content to friends only. 4. Advance the ball forward--create some great content in the first page of results; some apps help with that--Brandyourself 5. Make your own plays--showcase your expertise in a blog post, answer a question on Quora or comment on an article.

Interesting blog post by Jennifer Dunn on Scoop.it, June 25, 2013. It suggests using LinkedIn, conferences, and current contacts as starting points for building your business network. Not so unusual but the point about how you don't have to go a conference to benefit from the circle of like-minded peers it attracts but go to the website or Facebook page or Twitter to circulate and get acquainted with the people who might be valuable for you to know is a good one. Makes me think, also, about how wikis or any record building device given to participants one year at a conference or workshop might be left open for one to go back and view current participants. (ex. BEtreat wiki is still open to me; WLstudio?)

has good ideas for pumping up visits and conversions to WordPress sites. For example, site maps? Which we don't have?

nice blog post by Mark Athitakis, 8.3.15, quoting a new book by Anna Caraveli on leading through change.

Great blog post for writing blogs and getting and staying unstuck

good tips on S.O.C.I.A.L which stands for Sincere, Open, Collaborative, Interested, Authentic, and Likeable. Blog post written by Vala Afshar, July 9, 2013, for Information Week Social Business

World Education's blog and index for adult education teachers on using technology in the classroom. These are practical lessons for use in adult ed, literacy, and college transition classes. They are fun and easy to follow, but don't really build teacher networked skills - they are use when you can or want to. Good for us to refer to, but what we want to offer goes deeper and aims to guide teachers to be networked learners themselves. This site does not do that.

Gregory Ciotti on writing well--great tips

good blog post on finding your tribe, Lissa Rankin, 9/6/2012

blog post by Kurt Mackey at MongoHQ, a distributed company, on working remotely and how hard it is to come up with an effective system for engaging workers. It is a work in progress. Need firewalls between personal life and work life--sound has to be managed for one thing. Mentions the blending of in-office staff and remote staff and a 'standard' for everyone to use the same collaboration tools, be available via the same channels, and produce documentation of interactions that are important to share. Has a whole section on the practical (and the tools they use to communicate) prefer async communications! Have a central work tool (Compose to record what is being produced each day); day to day communication in Hipchat, use pre-reads to meetings on a Wiki that get updated on Hackpad during the meeting, open mailing lists, Sqwiggle for face time, and Google Hangouts, too. Final recommendation is to "keep iterating" to build a remote friendly culture.

nice checklist by Pat Flynn, June 21, 2010 on what to do after you publish your blog post

This blog post by Jeff Thomas Cobb, March 6, 2013, Learning for Leaders,offers four tips for content marketing: determine your minimum effective dose, make it about you as much as your market, use it as a testing and innovation engine, and go after noncustomers.

Excellent post by Olivia Mitchell, 2.3.09, offering tips and links to other excellent presentations on presentations.

blog post by Allison Stadd on Media Bistro, December 9, 2013. Shows how Twitter users have moved from original purpose (what are you doing now?) to more worthwhile pursuits on Twitter. "When I explained that I use Twitter for purely professional and informational purposes - keeping up with news in real time, tracking trends, reading interesting articles, and cultivating relationships - she was surprised, and shared that she'd like to try that out. I was equally surprised at her impression of Twitter in the first place."

This account of how Dropbox has changed expectations and standards for meetings has good tips on keeping them few in number and very focused. Found it through an aSsociations_now blog post.

Five tips by Stacey Roberts at ProBlogger on things to do/not do with your blog in 2015; we (I?) could do more with each of these. 1. Thinking an email list isn't such a big deal 2. Forgetting to share your posts on social media 3. Wasting time 4. Failing to have an editorial calendar 5. Ignoring networks

post by Francesca Banducci on blog tribes: no date on it

good article on importance of twitter to academic researchers

Traditional formats in Word or PDF are still preferred even by advertising and marketing executives

post by Sascha Jones on Huffingtonpost.com, 9/28/2015.  good tips