And they said it couldn’t be done… Here is your “weekly” Friday Link Post, there are some really interesting reads in here this week - check out my Google Reader Shared Items for for previews and more cool links from yours truly. Also, don’t worry, I am still working on that shameless bribery that I promised - that’ll probably be this weekend.
Onwards to the linkage!
- Strategy Was Based On Winning Delegates, Not Battlegrounds Washington Post
Now that the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination is over, the Post has a fascinating article about the strategy that the Obama campaign used to beat the Clinton campaign machine.
The insurgent strategy the group devised instead was to virtually cede the most important battlegrounds of the Democratic nomination fight to Clinton, using precision targeting to minimize her delegate hauls, while going all out to crush her in states where Democratic candidates rarely ventured.
- Twitter, social media, and unmashing the mashable Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist
Penelope has a good post talking about the intersection between all of the different aspects of your collective online profile and how in a lot of cases, the different faces of that profile (i.e. your twitter, your blog, your LinkedIn profile, and your facebook profile) don’t all have to be in sync - use the different media in ways that feel natural to you. She offers an alternative take on the embarassing-pictures-on-myspace issue that I wrote about last week.
So give yourself permission to use social media to explore all the aspects of your personality, rather than just the one you picked for your “official personal brand”. It makes sense that you should give yourself some leeway to be inconsistent in who you are—and thereby consistent with who are completely are—in social media. Explore your full identity as you explore the media.
- June is National Iced Tea Month Slashfood
Are you an iced tea drinker? I make it from time to time - a lot of times I won’t even sweeten it - or maybe just a little bit for day to day drinking. Every now and then though, a real glass of sweet tea just hits the spot. I’m not going to lie though, the original poster has got it all wrong - look at this quote:And no matter how much sugar and/or lemon I add, it just doesn’t have the same taste as the packaged Lipton or Nestea.
- How to Use Parkinson’s Law to Your Advantage Lifehack
Ever heard the saying that a task will expand to fill the time you have left? That’s Parkinson’s Law, and Lifehack is talking about how if you can exercise some discipline by forcing yourself to have to have a task completed in less than the available time you can avoid the procrastination mess.Instead of doing the leisurely 20-30 minute morning email check, give yourself five minutes. If you’re up for a challenge, go one better and give yourself two minutes.
Have a great weekend folks!
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