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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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10 Ways to Hit the Reset Button on Your Productivity

10 Ways to Hit the Reset Button on Your Productivity

Now that we’ve wound down the previous year and are getting back up to full speed, this presents the perfect opportunity to hit the reset button on your systems and processes, helping you to increase your productivity. This is a process that I go through every year and it helps me to feel refreshed and [...]

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Three Words for 2013

Three Words for 2013

Welcome to 2013 and Happy New Year! As the holiday season fades into a memory, we spend time reflecting on the year that has past and on what the next year will bring. The start of a new year represents another opportunity to achieve the goals we have set out for ourselves. Inevitably there will [...]

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How To Improve Visibility, Communication & Accountability of Social Media Within Your Company

How To Improve Visibility, Communication & Accountability of Social Media Within Your Company

Do you want to improve visibility, communication and accountability of social media within your company? It’s as simple as sending a project dashboard on a regular basis to a broader team. Really. That’s the magic pill. It seems so simple yet not enough of us do it. Instead, we complain that there are silos or [...]

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Being Your Own Competition

Being Your Own Competition

Who is your competition? Not who is your company’s competition but who is your personal competition. You may have colleagues, close friends or a significant other that you have a friendly competition with – a way of pushing each other. But if you want to be at your personal and professional best than you should [...]

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Scaling Social Media by Changing Your Mindset

Scaling Social Media by Changing Your Mindset

With the emergence of companies moving towards becoming a social business, scaling social media within the business becomes even more important. If done correctly, social media becomes embedded into most functions within the business ranging from customer support to sales to email marketing to communications to product marketing and so on. Scaling social media, especially [...]

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