It’s sometimes a challenge to imagine what the future will look like. But some people are already inventing the way we view it, play with it and share it.
We’ll all become knowledge marketers in one way or another. Sharing, collaborating, conversing, teaching and engaging in creative pursuits.
This video gives a taste of the future for our connected communications and knowledge sharing:
I’ve always been interested in what makes life easier.
Personal and career pursuits have had this life narrative evolve over the years. My first career move was industrial design, then taking up naturopathy, yoga, natural health and new age retailing. Branding and marketing connected all of these and became a new business Brandwithin. A more recent evolution of my story brings education, knowledge marketing and the puzzle of the Internet as a turbo-charged medium for connection and transformation. It’s a fun ride!
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.
Information overload is not getting any easier. The New York Times reported this week of the tech industry’s self made monster — that delivers us a never ending deluge of emails, cellphone calls and instant messages. These incessant distractions cost America over 650 billion dollars a year in lost productivity.
Is there a solution in sight?
Brandwithin has been working on the Focus and Follow Through project — an online productivity coaching system designed to support you to keep your focus on your highest priorities. This intro coaching video here is a simple knowledge product made using Keynote (the Mac version of PowerPoint) with voice over. And the easy part is the one-click command: send to YouTube…
Stay tuned for future updates and the release of the product. Sanity may yet be a partner to productivity.
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
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