Twitter Again – Twitter Beggars
By Sean | August 18, 2009
After a week of twittering I’ve come up with the following conclusions:
1. Always use a photo of yourself or if you’re insecure about that — at least a photo of a real person. This is social media right?
2. Use a first and last name. Your username does not have to be your name but you should have a first and last name if you want real followers.
3. Build manually at first until you understand how twitter works. Be selective about the tools you use to automate aspects of your twittering so that you can maintain a personal experience with people.
4. Don’t, don’t, don’t, put links to sales pages in your tweets more frequently than you do real content. So far the closest I’ve come to posting a commercial link was a free sign up to a new social media site. I do plan on monetizing Twitter eventually but not before I earn the privilege of peoples interest and at least a modicum of trust (proof) — that I’m not just another Twitter-Beggar.
More to come…
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Who do I listen to?
By Sean | August 5, 2009
Here is what I find fascinating about twitter. I learn about myself. Like the following observations:
1. I notice as my Twitter experience has evolved that I tend to be more interested in what women have to say about the subjects that interest me than men.
2. I am more selective when I follow men than women. Why? Concerning business — I have listened primarily to men about business more than women because it was male dominated. I know a lot more about how men think and I have learned a great deal from men. However my exposure to a wide variety of women has been limited because so many of them were relatively inaccessible. Because they are typically tucked away in homes raising children or busy handling the main domestic load of work my access to them has been more limited. The social networking arena is jam packed with women I’d never have heard a word from before. Awesome.
3. I am inclined to think that maybe women are less inclined to think in business stereotypes. I want to explore that idea.
4. Women have typically followed men through history but SOCIAL MEDIA is the first socially driven communications medium. If you haven’t noticed — women tend to be more naturally socially developed than men.
5. I have noticed that women seem to get social media, more naturally gravitate to it, and are using it Read the rest of this entry »
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Twitter?
By Sean | August 1, 2009
I can’t believe this twitter phenomena. I mean I’m so new at this I don’t even know how to post my twitter link on this site yet. However I gotta say as soon as I began to follow a few people they just began to follow me back.
I had no idea that twitter was so stinkin’ simple. I mean yes there’s a few things to find out and unless you pay someone for a course people don’t seem to be saying much about how to use it. But really the secret seems to be just to figure out how to follow people.
I mean that sounds pretty silly on the surface Read the rest of this entry »
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Attention Defecit, Anger, Stress, Insomnia, Anxiety, and so on…
By Sean | May 25, 2009
Hi Everyone,
I just had to mention a product that I think many of you may be interested in or know someone that may benefit from this product.
The back story on it is that in 1996 I was looking for stress remedies. Now you probably know that my Anxiety Eliminator product is a great way to help someone with ADD. However if you want to really accelerate your capacity to overcome anxiety then you definitely want to check out http://iwr.com/becalmd/ for his product Neo-Becalmed. I can’t vouch for any of his other products but the one product I know for sure is a winner is called Neo-Becalm’d. Strange name I know but it works. Read the rest of this entry »
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Anxiety Eliminator
By Sean | May 20, 2009
Hi everyone,
Though it has been some time since I posted to this thread I just had to stop by and tell you about a great product that I’ve been using now for a couple of years. More than two years have gone by and I still use this product which says a lot really. Read the rest of this entry »
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Move to Fiji
By Sean | August 7, 2008
Hi guys,
I was recently asked to write a book on how to move to Fiji. Having lived here for six years now, and having moved once before to another country, I can say that I have learned a lot about moving and living overseas. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Power Of Visualization
By Sean | July 17, 2008
I’ve always tried to use visualization to help me focus on what I wanted. However it was just too difficult for me to visualize the ideal home, the ideal, income, the ideal everything. Too mammoth of a task — but I definitely needed to get the visual power of attraction working in my life to make this move.
So what I did was I reduced my millions of thoughts to the basics.
- I wanted to live in a natural (non-urban) tropical setting.
- I wanted to be warm, I wanted sunny weather,
- I wanted a warm ocean to dive in,
- I wanted to be able to surf, sail, fish, and most of all to look at the ocean from my home and walk or run on the beach.
- I wanted to have quick and easy access to diving and
- I wanted to breathe clean air and drink clean water and eat fresh tropical fruit every day.
In the end all the other details that made it so difficult for me to visualize what I wanted did not matter much. Read the rest of this entry »
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Namosi Road
By Sean | June 17, 2008
This video should probably be two videos because they are different subjects and they are just kind of glued together. The first part is the result of a run-in a beautiful bird had with the glass doors on the ocean side of our home. Things quickly went from bad to worse as our two cats converged on the bird sitting stunned on the porch. I managed to run out and stop the cat who now had the bird in its mouth and was quite pleased with catching such a lovely prey. (Birds are undoubtedly a cats favorite catch)
However I love tropical birds a great deal more than I do the smug look of satisfaction my cats have when they catch a bird. Therefore this is not the first time I’ve rescued a bird from the jaws of our feline friends. I always give the cats lots of praise when one of them catches a rodent or a lizard. However they’ve learned that if I’m around that they must let me rescue the bird. The birds here are always colorful and very intriguing. There are no birds here that are plain looking like sparrows. In fact the nuisance bird in Fiji is the Myna bird. This is the kind of bird you pay a couple hundred or lots more from a pet store in America.
I don’t know the breed, species, or name of the bird in this video and I’m not enough of a bird freak to find out. All I know is that I’ve had a good many birds sit on my hand too stunned to fly or do much but sit there petrified of the creature holding it but too weak or numb to do anything about it without risking something worse.
Then the movie morphs into (well it doesn’t morph — it just fades out of one scene and you are suddenly half way up Namosi Road looking at a small river — or mountain stream — depeding on your frame of reference. We took a drive a couple days ago up to the top of a mountain pass, took a few pictures, and drove back down. The video will tell the story. Nothing noteworthy happened — just a beautiful drive through the rain forest to some breath taking scenery, shoot pictures of a couple trucks going by and back down again. Really just a look around the neighborhood. I started with an hour of footage and cut it all down to less than 10 minutes. Even then it’s a pretty lazy story — much like most of what happens in Fiji.
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Landslide Excavation
By Sean | May 24, 2008
Tropical Excitement comes in all forms. The latest for us was a small landslide after sustained moisture. Typical of April/May there is usually a protracted low pressure trough that comes through and reminds everyone that there is no limit to the amount of water than can fall from the sky.
In one week three years ago we had nine feet (108 inches/274 cm) in five days. We had a lot of flooding (not at our house — we live on a hilltop) in low lying areas here in Fiji.
So if excavation is interesting to you the video is only about 3 minutes long. I mean how much excavation can you take in one sitting?
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What the heck is MindMapping?
By Sean | April 11, 2008
Mind Mapping has been around for a long time. In fact about as long as people have been able to write in the sand with their fingers. However we’ve spent massive amounts of time conforming our planning to linear pages since the invention of paper and the greatest tool in the world for planning — the finger in the sand — method has been mostly lost till computer graphics have become increasingly flexible and inexpensive.
Since I’m not especially thrilling with words — just watch the video and see this great tool… better yet just find out where to download and how to install it and try it for yourself.
[The video may be set to full screen for those who find the image too small. You enter full screen mode by clicking on the little square box in the lower right part of the video]
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