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WOWOW: The Social Media Edition [Links of the Week]

by Alexander Becker on December 14, 2007 | Link

This week comes in loose categories, check out Sandy, branding, and protein tips, the best anabolic agent, fear, laziness and laser-like focus, and finally the blogging vs. social networking debate.

Business
- The Elements Of A Personal Brand
  
  Be Yourself: In the world of the Internet, with "me too" applications abound, branding is often superfluous, if everyone just figures you're just like someone else.
- Be Yourself and Make it Personal.
- I Want Sandy and so do you --
  
  Sandy, please crawl this page and remind us to actually read the included links... @recommendations
Exercises
- How To Make Exercise More Fun Than Sex, really!
- How To Easily Get 1g/Lbs Protein Daily To Build Muscle
- The Ten Commandments
  
  Two out of ten --
  
  3. The best anabolic is water.
  
  4. Did you eat breakfast? If not, don't ask me anything about nutrition.
Motivation
- Check out Inquiringmind Magazine and their beautiful picture on the start page.
- The 5 Myths Of Positive Mental Attitude
- The Long Day by Geoff Thompson, who concludes his guest post on dealing with fear with --
  
  Just because I am the man that wrote the words it doesn't mean that I am a man that doesn't need to reads the words again.
- 11 Tips For Nuking Laziness Without Becoming A Workaholic
  
  Productive rest, as in --
  
  Keep Work and Play Separate. Although I'm not perfect in application, I strive to follow the "work hard, play hard" mantra. This means that when you allocate time for working on big projects, you focus entirely on that for a set period of time. The time you have remaining is yours to use however you like. This removes the guilt during rest periods and urge to procrastinate during work periods.
- 6 Simple Steps To Achieve Laser-Like Focus
- WOW: Quotes on Excellence and Chutzpah
Social Media
- Blogging Is Dead? According To Whom?
- Also: Blogging vs Social Networking
  
  I was offered a job through my blog....
  
  I have 9000 'friends' at facebook and myspace....
  
  I used to know most of my readers by name and knew that they all knew mine - even though there were only 200 a day....
  
  I know a lot more people see my profile on facebook - but most of them just are hunting for friend bait....
  
  I used to spend hours writing things that meant something on my blog....
  
  I now spend hours updating people on the lattes I drink and people I meet on Twitter....
  
  I had a brand of my own on and on my own property on my blog....
  
  I now have a brand on someone else's property....
- And: Are You Someone's User-Generated Content?
- While: Marketing is NOT Social Media-Social Media is NOT Marketing.
- Finally: Give Me Some Love
  
  While there's no substitute for a warm smile, firm handshake and face-to-face conversation, social networking sites such as Facebook can be useful tools for building relationships. They are great for finding and reconnecting with friends -- and they give you easy access to all their friends.
  
  ... just make sure to keep it real, real world that is -- as opposed to collecting xx-thousands of "friends", friend-bait, where the add-to part is all there is to it.
Keep it real, be yourself, and make it personal.
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