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Monday, September 30, 2019
Sunday, September 29, 2019
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@MarioFrangoulis >> just listening to your song with @SarahBrightman how beautiful and lovely
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A text is 100 times more likely responded to.
Unless you’re my sister. She shuts out any communications, your best bet in person because she doesn’t respond to FaceTime for weeks, if ever. I texted her urgently Friday, and just moments ago responded saying she just saw it.
I thought it was unacceptable. Especially because she’s become my 84 y/o mother’s Caregiver.
I wrote Cathy in response to her text : Tweetie bird is flying in Tuesday for at least four months on assignment for her legal firm – one I know is THE BEST from legal being my sales territory at Xerox, back in the day.
I had my dream job flicker in front of me last Monday, the week before, three interviews and a few prescreens. I have another in person interview tomorrow or Tuesday. An indication of apathy.
Apathy is the opposite of empathy. Empathy attracts 1000s more clicks.
People want to feel.
They want to feel what is important.
My guess the algorithms pump out information: the types of jobs I should apply to based on my skills, then monitoring of clicks and from whom, where, when and the types of jobs they’re for.
Ziprecruiter is the most formidable.
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In the world of digital disruption, this is a term you should familiarize yourself with:
CLICKBAIT is what it all means: influence, clickable, shareable STUFF!
“get ahead of the trends by watching the numbers flow; what emerges is a splendor of the algorithms speaking to you personally: telling you where to go, what you may like to read, based on what you say on any social media, wherever, by words or image. — Those fun drunk or stoned parties in front of the fireplace were hip for Millennials back in high school — Now, they’re a reminder that what you post can be your legacy. Foolish youth or not.
However disciplined you are in real life: your alter ego can pop out like Satan and tempt you to get wrapped up in or go places that would be considered sinful or bad by the majority of people.
Be even more DISCIPLINED online.
It is your future, which may be derailed by your past.
The past should be handwritten, forgiven, folded up and tucked away.
On social media: by post, by comment, by article, by image, by who likes it or who clicks on it :: REAL INFLUENCE is “clickbait”
CLICKBAIT is where whatever you post, people trust it, want to read it, want to look at it, or see something more AND THEN click on it.
YOUR immediate value is determined by the numbers.
Algorithms take the assembled data in all its forms and translates it into usable data that can predict outcomes.
Whoever can entirely encapsulate that entire life-cycle into information that can influence the target audience or demographic in order to get the desired outcome. A revenue bite.
Getting the best results with the least amount of effort
translates into even more profit.
Sprinkle in Artificial Intelligence, which I also call Automated Internet: those pesky bots that have just started to erupt under the cloud of controversy.
That AI could be making millions upon ga-zillions of dollars if influencers (those with click bait power) who support the numbers as to having the best tribe, communicated by what is clicked, who is clicking it, and what do they do? Get sidetracked to read a new article? Scroll through to see what comments say, who is saying it and then being sidetracked by when their Linked In profile appears.
You cannot be on my Linked In list if you try to sell me something.
That is called “SPAM”.
Clickbait pros know that you avoid anything that sounds or looks promotional or self-promotional.
Symptoms of clickbait potential is empathy.
If you just scroll and pass on by, you are missing opportunity.
If you are afraid of clicking on something or going somewhere, you won’t be able to satisfy your curiousity.
The curious become the most powerful.
They are never associated with “Fake News” because they are immaculate with fact-checking while simultaneously accountable for any mistakes, while holding others up to the same standards.
If someone crosses the line to porn or erotica, they will be shimmied off my friends list.
UN-CLUBBED is the disaster of our day!
Where one’s reputation falls so rapidly there is no time for damage control.
DE-spite is the action of the day!
Those who spew radical or rants from their point of view.
Spiteful in causing hurt to anyone or anything who disagrees.
Who communicate that only their opinion is what counts.
Intimidation by communicating power from either fabricating an idea before it has taken place, predicting outcomes that they can influence.
The are the spoils of CLICK-BAIT.
People click on controversy, crime, communications in all its forms – from social media to books, to videos, to music.
The algorithms are churning.
The sites amassing the volumes of data expounded from algorithms.
Imagine the struggle to prioritize the most likely for success.
Success meaning the fulfilling of dreams.
Send me a Tweet or tag moi in an Instagram post so I can share it and sprinkle some fun in the socialverse. Use anyone of the images shared when you do. A testament to my aesthetic task and eye. A way to try merging with creative appeal and great reaction, clickbait on your own, or just trying it. Check the numbers and do a screen-captured snippet. This will track your numbers before you start out. Then review them weekly, monthly and you’ll start clicking on the world of information at your disposal.
Imagine these words embedded onto a startling image?
How much further they would go.
An example of transforming into CLICKBAIT.
Sharing or clicking really are the same.
The number hops into the data bin.
The algorithms, churn out usable information from the data sorted into silos.
In order to make money. Some of the platforms try to sell the data.
Remember FACEBOOK shame for profiting off of their users data?
It broke a lot of trust.
I joined others in disconnecting from Facebook personal profiles and remain with my transparent social media one.
HONESTY is your most valuable asset online.
Tricked you into thinking that I’d use the first quote in the image?
You see the point?
The subliminal message I want to convey: that behind every honest person are many piranhas.
What others may think: if they don’t watch out, there are piranhas swimming around online: honesty being the only protection they have.
Then again, you can change the perception simply by changing the background.
What Algorithms do is decide who the first one would appeal to, encourage to click and share? Then, they seek out who those folks are.
Alternatively, if they notice one of their members getting an extraordinary number of clicks, decide maybe the second one would appeal to them, so you create, tag and post (click+enter).
Or, maybe a member has a great number of talented crew.
They may perform acrobatics showing them which story, image to show.
A guiding light of sorts.
CLICK BAIT: know it.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
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“SUCCESS AT WORK FOR MOST PEOPLE MEANS A JOB THAT IS ECONOMICALLY and psychologically satisfying, that makes a contribution to society, and that supports a healthy personal or family life.”
~ John P.Kotter
Author of “The New Rules”
Published by First Free Press Paperbacks Edition 1997
Share quotes from whatever or wherever strikes your fancy.
You can do the most obvious: go to http://www.BrainyQuotes.com and look one up by author or topic.
It’s an easy way to get your vibe out there.
Always always use with an image. It will attract twice the clicks when in colour.
People retain 80% more when an image is in colour.
That was the first number I learnt from my mentor and coach, Gail, publisher from Vancouver.
There’s a strong case to always print your books, no matter what. They can be recycled, passed on, or discovered at a thrift store or garage sale.
I wouldn’t have found the book (originally owned stamp by a C.E.T. from Gold River, British Columbia – I don’t even know where that is.
Maybe I’ll email the address on the stamp in the 1/1000 chance he’d still be there. Highly unlikely.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
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Trust is a critical element in any relationship.
When you can’t think of anywhere else you’d rather be,
in the moment.
….. except on a beach in Mexico, soaking in the sun.
Feeling the Vitamin D blend in from your pores.
With your significant other, laying, snoring or smiling
from your side.
That’s a magical accomplishment.
To the instant gratification world we’ve plunged into.
A toxic symptom being we only communicate by text.
No voice calls, the odd FaceTime call (free service that comes with your Apple iPhone).
How can we feel any emotion when the only sense is from hearing,
you can’t see tears, but you can hear the infliction.
I reconnected with a former colleague.
She brightened my few days.
Put a genuine smile on my face.
With courage, she shared her experience with and working with her mother, who has severe mental health attention because of schizophrenia. I shed light on my own experience with my younger brother, who passed away from the opiode infested streets of Surrey, British Columbia this past March 2019.
I sometimes float back to the blogs I’ve written in the past, round it up and place it here.
It’s an exercise of sorts. I was surprised by how accurate were my predictions.
I copied and pasted it here. WordPress is doing an incredible job of helping me define, expand and create a better and better website, not merely a blog.
Creativity by imagining innovation or performing or painting or drawing or word
can be rewarding.
Thanks @Wordpress – I really like the suggestions you’ve made and we’ve adopted together.
The following blog is still on Blogspot from Google.
The images were dropped during cut/paste from Google to WordPress.
That’s when you see zealous competition : where one brand codes in a way that prevents certain features of the competitor. As a means to demonstrate superiority.
Choke em where they stand out
as in my case the images I curate or create
dropped, dumped and left behind.
Who is the culprit? Google or WordPress?
I am curious enough to figure it out across my reading.
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December 19, 2017
In a meandering mood, without any particular destination in mind, online, of course. Definitely, with some great mood selections from my really cool playlists [ I say myself attesting to the many hours I categorized my iTunes music library in a mood setting and that means both from where I physically am to where I am continually striving for better moods.
When one is struggling with depression, it means that they are likely grasping for safety nets of positive inspiration or motivation. Giving back. Giving what one knows or has sharing honest advice based on one’s own unique perspective in whatever that may represent: as a person (wife, mother, friend, daughter, sister, aunt, outlaw or in-law I may be.
I’ve discovered a new identity emerging from the wisp and whoosh of inspiration that glimmers across one’s screen. Maybe I’ve been hovering in a lot of different areas, appearing scattered, however, there is still consistency from my original vision/mission statement: “To help others go from average to REMARKABLE”. I see that slogan here and there. Maybe I can do that creatively, who knows.
But wandering around, I saw posts and what felt like a flurry of activity from FACEBOOK ~ wow, who’s radar did I get on now? Or is the merge between KRED and EMPIRE really trying to outdo the other battle of supremacy on leading edge Artificial Intelligence by throwing more and more things across your computer screen, daring you to click on what they’ve carefully selected you to view.
I hope it doesn’t mean that we’re closer to a Brave New World (was that the one I read in Grade 12 English about mind control, big brother?) ~ will have to fact check. My growing list of fact checking is getting annoying. I’d rather write than check facts, something that I would spend hours doing when I first began blogging as optioneerJM seven years ago.
I’m amazed at the craftiness of Facebook tempting me with MEMORIES and growing that part of AI which is another way of saying Automated Internet …. what you do, where you click, how often you click is being captured for your entertainment or knowledge value, which ever your behavior predicts that you have a tendency to go to or click on.
Regardless, I firmly plan my crown upon my head as the official new dear abby of online. Why? It’s fun and it seems to help people and more questions keep coming for me to answer with more people viewing my answers daily. Although sales was my first forage on to the social media spectrum, social media certainly follow in a natural graduation. Now I am being invited to try products and be beta first responders/testers. It’s all very cool. However, nothing I do online makes any money. The pathetic truth that it is.
My gauntlet is tossed. I challenge 2018 to bring me compensation so that I can continue to create: both painted images or written thought. Well enough to quit a full time job since it requires around the clock, if not attention, connected. If I get a little more honest by evaluating my own numbers (I gush at the thought to play around with them) ………… if Dear Abby it is, then voila a Queen of Advice can be born.
I will be re-posting on my other blogs. The goal is to create images that portray the mood or character of my blog, then create a page that it all blends and compliments each other. That is a big TO DO/GET’R’DONE for 2018 I don’t know what does? Suggestions welcome.
Nevertheless or irregardless as his highness would say (as crowned from the Hunkster Hubster to His Highness or HH starting in the countdown to 2018.) The following advice has gotten traction on Quora.
Whatayaknow
Is what you know. You know what you know. You answer with your best face forward with integrity and honesty to strengthen your resolve: questions posed by anyone and everyone, then voted by anyone, and the tricksters or smartsters at Quora are putting more answers forward to you answer. So much so, you can start to distinguish the ones from genuine users with profiles and others suggested by Quora. Quora is telling me what answers and how I answer some questions is well received, therefore, they are now padding my ANSWERS banner with a sprinkling or mixture of both.
Here is an example on the traction and reaction from 23 hours ago:
I am a very lazy guy, but I want to win at least one Nobel Prize. What should I do?
Karissa Franklin Kinsella and Kashfia Nizum upvoted this
Jeannette Marshall, a mother, a wife, an employee, a manager, an executive, an entrepreneurAnswered 23h ago
Originally Answered: I want a Nobel Prize. What should I do? · Remove Banner
Honestly?
Well I want to be a Queen, princess at the very least. With it the responsibility of always being fashionably dressed, impeccable coif, an assistant, a butler, a maid, a financier, at the very least. People curtsy or bowing upon meeting. I would wear gloves to avoid germs, dirt, disease.I am financially reliable since I can provide my own tiara, having a selection of a few.I am humble, I try to help others without any monetary reward. Although, treasuring honesty, admit that I salvitate at the thought of compensation from people reading my gripes, quips, tips, trips posts.I am truly sorry!I got sidetracked, totally disregarding the question. I apologize. Oopsie.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
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I love photography
Imagine my surprise when I came across this photo — in the wee hours battling insomnia — I decided to clean up my stored photos on my smartphone device.
If you notice, with every new device version launched, there is a blurb about the increased potency of the camera capabilities.
They are trying to make you think you need the newer phone in order to take better photos.
I took this image with an iP6s — old by today’s standards.
Millennials ARE obsessed with smartphones.
They were born during the rapid evolution of computers when every home had at least one computer, thanks to Microsoft and Apple being fierce competitors.
Today’s devices are portable, fit into a hand (would have sounded bogus in the 80s) carrying everything from their text messages, contact lists, photo album to music library to video channels.
If a Millennial were to lose their device, you’d think they’d panic like a Yuppy might.
No, all their stuff is backed up in the cloud, that puff of data floating out there, retrievable instantaneously.
Millennials are comfortably OBSESSED with the best of everything. Leaping light years ahead of their YUPPY parents, teachers, coaches.
Millennials are OBSESSED with YouTube more than they care about traditional media’s news, movie channels or MTV.
When Yuppies were of the same age they are now, it was the 1980s and one of the BIGGEST obsession in that decade was MTV.
What YouTube does for digital music today, MTV did for bringing music forward by a TV remote in the 1980s — those 20-somethings either at College or starting their career in 2019 as we were in the 1980s.
The Yuppy of the 1980s were OBSESSED with status symbols — from the tip of the toes (brand quality of shoes) to the minuet strand of hair (mullet or high bangs symbolic of fashion era). To the car drove or home lived in.
Like the photo symbolizes:
*The newest does not always mean the best.
*What may be considered old can still produce beauty.
*Sustainability does not necessarily mean NEW stuff.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
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Curating something for empty nesters, retirees or seniors that is completely complimentary … helps others get out and socially exchange with others.
Wouldn’t this be fantastical!!
I’d even offer companion services for an elderly widow, concierge on activities and excursions + assistant: handle your mail, respond as dictated with your final proof. Escort you to social occasions with an emphasis on cultural theatre or Jubilee Theatre or Stage West or Jubilations (expense paid-transportation and taxes extra).
I’ve taken my older sister to Mexico on three occasions, serving as her butler for dinners ~ exactly where she likes to sit.
Social convener for meeting other guests and resorts staff expelling exceptional service second to none.
She went with her hubby this past year, admitting that going with me was “more fun”.
Although I can’t promise you’ll have a blast, that’s up to you!
I am police checked and even had “reliable” + “secret” clearances.
Additional confidential information and references can be provided.
I’m trying to find work. Helping others would be rewarding.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
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Sunday, September 1, 2019
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All about moi? http://www.optioneerjm.com or @optioneerJM anywhere
Own it.
Whatever you do, you have to own it.
No excuses.
No tales of woes.
Enter: no more empathy
Robotic Millennial soldiers.
Yes sir, ya’mam
You have no time outside of work time.
Don’t chat and get to know your neighbour, the office next door or the cubicle big enough to fit dual monitors and a telephone, keyboard and headset.
If you bring anything to adorn your desk or workstation, be aware, anything can be stolen that isn’t under lock and key. Like an office.
Oh, that’s right, the powers that once were heard that open air offices were a hive of creativity, creative nourishment, comradely among colleagues, harmonious atmosphere-resulting in more efficient, happy workers.
Don’t minimize your education and take the “inbetween gig.”
Meaning:
The job you take to pay the bills while your dream job is pushed to the back behind responsibilities.
The INBETWEEN gig
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