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Become Healthier By Keeping a Food Journal

Become Healthier By Keeping a Food Journal

February 6, 2013
Leading a healthy lifestyle seems intimadating to people whether it's that they're not sure what is "right" to eat, how to properly workout or what supplements may support their efforts. While working out regularly can help to reduce your stress, improve your health and help you to lose weight, this is usually one of the hardest things for people to keep up with. No matter how well-intentioned you are, when stress or travel or a busy schedule…
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What's In My Gear Bag: 2013 Edition

What’s In My Gear Bag: 2013 Edition

January 28, 2013
While there are many benefits to travel, one of the difficulties is staying productive while you're on the go. Sure, we have technology that enables us to accomplish our work from wherever we are. What takes time to develop, though, is our ideal workshifting set-up. I have logged more miles in airplanes than I care to count and spend many nights per year in hotel rooms. Over this time I have had to figure out the tools that I need to be produc…
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Announcing The Socialized Business Podcast

Announcing The Socialized Business Podcast

January 23, 2013
After a few months of brainstorming, planning and prepping, Jason Keath, Michael Brito and I are thrilled to announce the launch of The Socialized Business podcast. The first episode of the show is already live. During this first episode we discuss why we decided to launch a social business podcast, what social business means to us and discuss the future role of social media managers. In case you're not able to listen to the podcast rig…
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Use Less Folders to Increase Your Email Productivity

Use Less Folders to Increase Your Email Productivity

January 21, 2013
Over the years I have experimented with a number of different email folder strategies in an effort to increase my email productivity. I have created folder structures by team, project and person. I have created sub-folders that sorted email down to a single email in each folder. Every email that came in I would take 10-15 seconds to decide which folder it should go in. Usually it would come down to an internal debate about which was the best-…
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7 Tips for Consuming More Water

7 Tips for Consuming More Water

January 18, 2013
Keeping up your water intake is vital to your overall health and it goes far beyond wanting to lose weight or grow bigger muscles, though it helps with those goals too.  There are an endless number of reasons why drinking more water is good for you. A simple Google search for "benefits of drinking water" returns over 18 million results, with many of the articles on the first page containing multiple reasons. So, how much water should you be dr…
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My CES Gear Bag and Advice

So, I’m here in Las Vegas gearing up for the start of CES 2010 tomorrow.  Since this is my 2nd year attending CES, I wanted to share with you some advice as well as what I’ll be carrying in my gear bag to help keep me connected without creating unnecessary weight. If you can’t view [...]

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Gone Mobile

You can now access a mobile version of [justinrlevy.com] when you use a touch mobile device such as an iPhone or Droid.  Previously this blog had utilized the Carrington theme to create a mobile version of the site.  But, I just switched over to WPtouch to create a fuller experience.  Carrington had many of the [...]

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Social Media Jungle at CES

Are you getting ready to make the yearly trek to Las Vegas to check out all things electronics at CES?  If you are, you should consider attending the Social Media Jungle being hosted by Jeff Pulver.  I’ve had the opportunity to speak at a few of the Social Media Jungle events that Jeff has put [...]

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Learn How to Optimize Your Videos

Learn How to Optimize Your Videos

Don’t you wish you knew what the magic trick was to going viral?  Wish you could get your video viewed by more than your mother, best friend, and dog?  While there is definitely more advanced advice available, it does all start with the basics.  Matthew Liu, the YouTube Product Manager over at Google, explains some [...]

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A Cartoon Recap of Social Media in 2009

All across the interwebs over the past several weeks bloggers have been posting their recaps of what happened in social media during 2009.  But, one of these recaps, in my opinion, stood out from the rest of the pack.  That recap was the one that Rob Cottingham recently published.  Why?  Not only did it capture [...]

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