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Lee Lefever has created another excellent piece on getting the basic idea of social media.

For all the fancy widgets and techniques for blogging, podcasting, linking, bookmarking and more – it comes back to basic principles to get your ideas out to others. The New Internet is about people connecting, sharing their experiences and tapping into the many ‘water cooler’ conversations around us.

This is one of a series from The Common Craft Show that is also featured on The Society For Word of Mouth. (Yes, you can join!) A previous feature of Lee Lefever’s work on this blog is here. You can learn about news blog readers and RSS.

The blogging journey is an interesting one of discovery for me…

• Overcoming self doubt - learning a new way of self expression
• Allowing self confidence to reveal the inner writer (slowly at least!)
• Learning how to craft a message to share with others (is anyone out there?)
• Finding focus… what else can I say about knowledge marketing?
• Discovering the world of social networking and how I can interact and share ideas
• The joy of being a number one search result in a Google blog search - more motivation for the power of focus
• And the list keeps growing…

There are a few blogging heroes that have inspired me on this journey.

• Seth Godin my original blog hero who showed just what it is like to have a point of view and to live it out loud
• Ken Burgin, my brother who leads the way with motivation and inspiration to play full out online with blogging, social networking and internet marketing
• Tim Ferris. His book still taunts me on my desk as I still live with too many digits beyond 4 as the number of hours per week that I work. His Uncommon Timesavers for Bloggers inspired me to write this post (see point #5).
• Jeremiah Owyang whose blog on Web Strategy and his research on social networking is leading edge, and very motivating to explore more
• MarketingProfs Daily Fix is always a great collection of branding and markeitng news and views
• And then there is various geek bloggers on iPhones, and Mac Rumors and Tech Crunching and more - all an interesting view of the horizon

There’s already a bunch more interesting posts to read. The journey goes on….

What could you say to your friends, your family, your co-workers or your clients – if you were running out of time?

This inspiring video reveals an apparently new presentation genre - for university professors to give lectures as if it were their last! And here, one professor participant named Randy Pausch turns out to be truly only weeks or months from dying of pancreatic cancer. His final lecture is called How to Achieve Your Childhood Dreams. Inspiring stuff!

I first saw this on Brad Isaac’s blog.