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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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Three Words for 2012

Three Words for 2012

It’s that time of the year again where we look at the new year full of vigor and motivation, ready to take on everything that the upcoming year has to offer. However, it’s so easy to get bogged down and sidetracked from accomplishing our goals that by the time we look up again, the year [...]

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Developing Routines and Finding Time

Developing Routines and Finding Time

Making anything a routine is hard. This becomes harder as the demands on our time increase. And with increased demands on our time come increased stress to accomplish it all and it becomes easy for things to fall off of our plates, even when we have the best intentions. It can feel like you’re in [...]

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It’s Not About the Platform

It’s Not About the Platform

A favorite hobby of many in this industry seems to be telling people that they’re doing “it” wrong, whatever “it” is in the given conversation. Now that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr are out ahead as the major social networks, it becomes harder to debate social platforms, though it definitely still occurs, especially with location-based [...]

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Using Impressions as a Success Metric

Using Impressions as a Success Metric

Before getting into my thoughts on whether or not media impressions are a useless success metric, this post was inspired by Rob Clark’s post over on Dave Fleet’s blog on whether or not “share of voice” is a useless PR metric. One thing that has struck me lately is the reliance on “media impressions” as [...]

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11 Steps to Developing a Digital Crisis Communications Plan

11 Steps to Developing a Digital Crisis Communications Plan

What separates an elite military group such as the Navy Seals from others? They train non-stop. They train for every situation imaginable. They train for what happens when the plans fail. When they execute a mission they’re relying not just on their skills, they’re relying on their training. In business we need to think more [...]

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