Ok, I have a Brizzly Invite Code URL. Good for the first 10 people to click it and sign up for a beta Brizzly account. You get a 10 code invite URL once you sign up.
Once their gone, their gone and kill the link and announce invites are closed!
http://brizzly.com/signup?invite=8b9022b63c72ab70788af6ea335478f4
The 10 Invites and all 10 email invites are GONE.
Hope everyone enjoyed the invites. By now, Brizzly invites are pretty easy to come by.
Do you set goals for yourself on an annual basis? If not, you should. Setting goals helps you stay on track so you learn, grow and accomplish. Goals are great for business as well as your personal life. I know this seems all so cliche, but goals are an important part of life.
My goal setting methods and types are not quite as abstract as Social Media blogger Chris Brogan, but I try to implement a bit of his theory where possible.
Set Your Goals for 2009
I decided to join and install Retaggr on my Wordpress blog. Retaggr basically consolidates all your on line presence in one place and allows for a cool widget on your web site or Wordpress blog. Think of the widget as a business card!
Retaggr boasts 180 supported social web sites and you can also add URL’s to just about any other site you choose. You can insert your place of work, country, email, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, LinkedIn and 1oo’s of others.
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Twitter Tools for WordPress is a cool little plug in that allows you to plug your tweets into your blog and/or your blog posts into a tweet. Sound cool? Well, it is!
Took just a few minutes to configure and now when I create a new post on my career blog it automatically posts a tweet on my twitter account with a link back to the post. Cool stuff if you’re a tweeter sort.
Twitter Tools also gives the option to install a widget on your WP page. From there you can post a tweet to twitter if you (the WP admin) are logged in. Also, you can configure it to show the most recent tweets to post to your Twitter account. More cool stuff….again…if you’re a tweeter sort.
AlexKing.org has some other really cool WP plugins to look at, so stop on by and shop around. Fair warning…his WP site loads pretty sloooooow. But it will load.
Yahoo and ComScore completed a research project to determine how many web sites people use on a regular basis. They found that on average people visited 85 sites per month. Out of those sites, people are “deeply engaged” with only 1.5 of them. What sites do you find yourself “deeply engaged” with?
I got to thinking about the sites in my FireFox tool bar. Also, I recently started to focus more on social networking i.e. LinkedIn, Twitter, Delicious, and my new career blog site. Here are the sites I find myself using pretty frequently.
- Google- Used Daily. What else can I say? It is the best search site out there. I use it Gmail for my centralized email account, search for my fav restaurant, and use it on my PPC-6800 phone.
- Netvibes- Used Daily. This favorite web page is my main RSS reader. I have my daily weather, news, Gmail, Twitter etc. Other tabs for technology, travel, and business. Great RSS reader with some good widgets.
- LinkedIn- Used Weekly. Great social networking site that that is centered around business and career related contacts. Excellent research tool too.
- Delicious- Although new to me, I’m already envisioning the value of this bookmarking site. Once it is built, Delicious will become an invaluable resource site for information.
- Twitter- Pretty new to me. I don’t yet see it as a potential social networking site. For me, I have very few friends that would bother using it each day. But I’m posting and watching some interesting people as I go along. Not sure if it will even make it to .01
Honestly now. Which sites are you deeply engaged with? Is it 1.5 or 10?
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Here’s a site I use daily. It’s a customizable start page you set up with RSS links for any topic imaginable including your own favorite links, email, weather, etc. Because it’s web based, you can view it from anywhere or any pc you’re using. Even a mobile phone!
Here’s an excerpt from the Netvibes home page:
“Netvibes is a free web service that brings together your favorite media sources and online services. Everything that matters to you, blogs, news, weather, videos, photos, social networks, email and much more is automatically updated every time you visit your page.
The wizard is a tool to help you easily create your very own start page, Netvibes.
I love Netvibes. I have several page tabs set up with all my favorite content via RSS feeds. It has the usual flair of News, Weather, and Stock Quotes. But I also have feeds for my other accounts like: Twitter, Gmail, Monster dot com, LinkedIn, LifeHacker. Then I have tabs for business, technology, travel etc.
You can keep this dashboard open all day and view info as it rolls in. Keeping you in touch with your most needed information.
See it here: Netvibes
