Black & White Self-portrait wit glasses by Wix Photographer Juliette Jourdain
"This above ALL: to thine own self be true."
~ William Shakespeare
(Hamlet)
LOL, I have to chuckle. I admit that I try a number of different online outlets or portals to connect and network. As I continue to explore, I extrapolate a lot of mistakes being made by a similar group of people.
It would appear as though the majority of marketers think that their prospective clients are dumb or tuned out. They think they are making the rules, when , in fact, they are breaking the rules. I thought of a few to get started to those who reach out to prospect for others to hire you as a social media expert. Rule No. 1 Know your audience and what they are looking for Rule No. 2 Lead by example Rule No. 3 Ensure your follower to follow ratio is weighted by who is following you, not the other way around. Rule No. 4 Try to get a few online influencers in your corner. Rule No. 5 Be your own unique voice, don't try to say what you THINK others want to hear. Rule No. 6 Be creative, be thought provoking, be visual Rule No. 7 Don't try to build your acclaim by 3 degrees of separation Rule No. 8 Do NOT plagiarize others' ideas and claim them as your own. Rule No. 9 Give credit where credit is due Rule No. 10 Say thank you, show gratitude, share appreciation These rules can be expanded. I likely will. The main idea is to get started with the idea and then let things flow and the ideas evolve. Rule No. 11 Test your ideas, check for traction, respond to interaction or reaction Start at Rule No. 1 again. Like a snowball, go through the process again, see what you can attract and build upon as you go through the steps each time. Rule No. 12 Comment to an idea originator if something they said, you tried, and share what worked, what didn't work. Rule No. 13 You will only build a crowd once you fade into the crowd or are enveloped within one.
Tulip: my favorite flower
As today putters to an end, I bid adieu to 55 and resolve to coasting towards 60 now that I've crossed from the mid-point to the other side. Thanks to one of my greatest Social Media friends, Mott, shared Conan O'Brien's birthday post on Facebook and I happened to see this morning. How cool is that eh? I like the idea of having "something in common with Conan O'Brien" .... and a whole list of greatest in the following company whom we keep on celebrating an April 18th birthday .... Bon Fete mes ami :o)
The zodiac sign of a person born on April 18 is Aries♈.
The following famous people celebrate their birthday on April 18th. The list is arranged in chronological order and includes celebrities like actors, actresses, models, singers, rappers and producers. Click the after the name to explore the birth date info and know the meaning of their life path number.
The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 1 - 20.
1480
Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519). Life path number 8
1503
Henry II of Navarre, (d. 1555). Life path number 22
1590
Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617). Life path number 1
1605
Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1674). Life path number 7
1648
Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (d. 1717). Life path number 5
1666
Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747). Life path number 5
1740
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (d. 1810). Life path number 7
1759
Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823). Life path number 8
1771
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820). Life path number 2
1772
David Ricardo, English economist and politician (d. 1823). Life path number 3
1794
William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863). Life path number 7
1797
Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877). Life path number 1
1813
James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865). Life path number 8
1819
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874). Life path number 5
1819
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895). Life path number 5
1838
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (d. 1912). Life path number 6
1857
Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938). Life path number 7
1857
Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935). Life path number 7
1858
Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962). Life path number 8
1863
Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942). Life path number 22
1863
Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920). Life path number 22
1864
Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916). Life path number 5
1874
Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941). Life path number 6
1874
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (d. 1938). Life path number 6
1877
Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950). Life path number 9
1879
Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962). Life path number 2
1880
Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968). Life path number 3
1882
Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964). Life path number 5
1882
Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977). Life path number 5
1884
Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937). Life path number 7
1888
Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979). Life path number 2
1889
Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970). Life path number 3
1893
Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944). Life path number 7
1896
Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948). Life path number 1
1897
Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001). Life path number 2
1897
Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish skier (d. 1975). Life path number 2
1898
Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981). Life path number 3
1901
Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967). Life path number 6
1901
László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975). Life path number 6
1902
Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (d. 1972). Life path number 7
With deep regret+utter transparency I am self-tasked to exposing executives who have an army in front of them, answering their emails, linked in messages, and anything else they find favorable. Face of the corporation As an executive, you are the face to which others, mostly all, associate your name as a brand within the corporation. Yet so many executives are dilusional to think that it won't catch up with them. I say a LOT sooner than later! The tides are turning in the world of employment and recruitment. Those measly applicants that you invited to apply, beat them up persevering through the MAZE (not amaze) of the CAREER section of most websites. After you playing pinball? Who has convinced the person on the other end that you dodged pinball bounces without falling into the deep dark black hole. You are paying for nothing these days because you can't demonstrate value to joining your organization. A confident prospective professional within range of your company has gracefully navigated your site well enough to get past the red stars * you keep forgetting or actually are deciding whether that is the sort of information you want to impart until there are some serious indication that a job offer is in the immediate mix. What are u doing to sell ur company? Should be the thing you ask all of your executives and board members at your next meeting. In fact, it should be prioritized and then teams formed to leave for a week to come back with intelligence and insights to support their argument that everyone and every person is selling their companies 24x7/365 of the year. Do not allow executives to hide behind their own personal brand, to be esteemed, somewhat feared, but powerful none the same. Common denominator being internal fame and little public refrain. I know how the system works because I've emailed an executive for the past three years. I would say that actually is two executives that are at the highest chain of command within unsaid organization. Response is reflective to the arrogant, egotistical side step. I must importantly convey that yes every email is personally read, even if not by the person to which it was directed. So many executives find this an excellent coping mechanism. Bernie Sanders kind Here in our midst, in Calgary, in Canada is a Bernie Sanders of our own. What's that you ask? Well, swap politician with businessman, to get the real drift of the message written here. Only one of the executives whom I write a brief (and sometimes long) message to has ever responded, written back, and had a message-conversation of only a few. This gentleman answers every single email personally, with humor, anecdotal. I will share a few, without revealing the names or company to which they are aligned with. I will also share whether there is a response and how it was handled.
Congrats on FINALLY being offered a position worthy of you, Mr_. You kinda got a bum rap at ur previous GIG. Now, you may be victorious! Thank you for keeping me on your connected list. I hope u notice how I will reshare on LINKED IN any news with ur name on it ::... which i normally reserve for the CEO of Salesforce.com fame. He and I connected almost immediately when we hitched a ride to LINKED IN back in 2010. I enjoy the opportunity to read the going on of some various wellknown business leaders in Canada and abroad. I am just launching a website called: www.graFX.online < still under construction until my vision is aligned in an execution-able fashion. This unnamed company will get the first right of refusal on advertising allotment, after that we will see. I won't allow competing brands on my page at the same time. The brands have to meet my criteria::... innovative, open to change, leading edge in technology, especially MOBILITY with a dynamic, positive, healthy culture [ marketing literature aside ] and women have half a better chance in moving up the corporate ladder than other places.
A cultural fit Examine the culture before you go work anywhere. Where I currently work had almost all of the checks in my boxes to agree to go work, some would consider under-employed, I like to think of as a new beginning. That has gone on far too long for any sane person. Yet here is the magic. I demonstrate tenacity and sticking to my commitments. I won't dwell on the past where my loyalty was skathed and bruised confidence hang out. A hang out for disbelievers? Or a place for optimistic comradely and support to stay connected. Cheering each other on when you see someone heading to the finish line: fame, wealth comes second to the thrill of finding something that people will love. A legacy we must not forget fading Steve Jobs back into the backdrop of historical proportions. Where his greatest arch-rival still maintains.
Objet d'art (plural objets d'art) means literally "art object", or work of art, in French, but in practice the term has long been reserved in English to describe works of art that are not paintings, large or medium-sized sculptures, prints or drawings. It therefore covers a wide range of works, usually small and three-dimensional, of high quality and finish in areas of the decorative arts, such as metalwork items, with or without enamel, small carvings, statuettes and plaquettes in any material, including engraved gems, hardstone carvings, ivory carvings including Japanese netsuke and similar items, non-utilitarian porcelain and glass, and a vast range of objects that would also be classed as antiques (or indeed antiquities), such as small clocks, watches, gold boxes, and sometimes textiles, especially tapestries. Books with fine bookbindings might be included.
An objet de vertu by excellence, Fabergé's "Memory of Azov Egg" (1891), contains a ship model wrought of gold.
A Swiss singing bird box with a bucolic lake scene on the lid, c. 1825, another example of an objet de vertu.
The term is somewhat flexible, and is often used as a broad term for "everything else" after major categories have been dealt with.
Objets d'art Creating aesthetically beautiful objects, words, art, songs, melody, photography with innovation and zest. Those are the best leaders because they want perfection. They've been knocked around a few times, but they bounce back stronger. How many can you think of who has had that? You know I mean Steve Jobs, I've mentioned Barrack Obama before. Who is really leading the spirit of the social media? Facebook or Twitter may think they've gotten "IT" while instaGRAM or snapCHAT or PINterest display it can channel and expand the audience. Besides the where-with-all who is really leading the charge? Google and newly formed Alpabet? Again, I challenge you to think beyond that. Those are companies all aforementioned. I'm talking about personal BRAND that has not been sold to the highest bidder ...... yet. I message to executives in the spring of 2017: pay attention to your culture, examine it objectively, challenge who is selling your brand. Setting advertising agencies and pre-set social media placement aside. Who IS selling your brand? Get rid of the CEOs and boards who collect a paycheque and run the accounting side of your business or investments. They are the short run wagons to hitch a ride on. The enduring, innovative, revolutionary companies in history had a leader and company overlapping by brand. Hire the writers and the imagineers who can see the future clearly, not clogged with BS and YES-men (and ever-growing, but still far behind, number of women)? Fire the ad agencies who are merely graphic design studios. Nothing like the "Mad Men" era so well depicted in one of my favorite docu-drama series of all time for me. Ogilvy on advertising is a worthy read. It should be a mainstay in any creative agency or entrepreneur. His extraordinary vision is like a bible to how to behave online and get sophisticated, academic, creative followers is a mighty key. Story telling was clearly the backbone to Ogilvy's approach. How isn't that phenomenal when you think of the brands that are winning because of how they act online? Whether by video or posted words. Tells the story. The exchange with others is a one-sided currency ... except where in one instance a time I was online [ Wednesday ] with full force and paying attention, I witnessed a customer with a REALLY big following on Twitter tweet his dissatisfaction with his customer experience for their technology. Ability to respond Is your company equipped to respond? You have to be honest here. Start from the very top and then cascade down the line. Whoever professes ignorance are likely your board of directors, of the Baby Boomer age [ born from 1959 to 1945 times ] where spark is of the very limited kind. Who has last had an idea that sat where your company is run? Whoever professes participation can fan-dangle and confuse you with so much techno garbage and marketing slogan-ish barbs. They are no more online than your top dog CEO. Some have presence to be sure. Mostly on things not deemed indicative of your brand [ for example, pornography, mean words, falsehoods, sarcasm ] Operated by robots who send out your endorsed words ::... usually a campaign, that really is advertising. This is where the gifted online rise above. They can smell a scam or a spam, cloaked in sophisticated disguise. Whereas the responses are automatic. As though they've been keyed in by a computer after a roundtable of committee members compose or decide which will be exposed online. [NOTE: if you ever want a NONdecision, get a group together and call them a committee or an association]. Ego can collide with the noise online. People with much greater value, wisdom and words emerge and rise to the top. Not the brands with their tricks and paid dollars to drive revenue or traffic to websites to justify their existence. Merely hanging on with a bandaid will be those who will be faced if they don't wake up and pay attention to the ability to CONVERSE online with your customers, your supporters, your buyers, your vendors, your fans while being made aware of your detractors, competition or negative vibe generators. Make sure everyone is telling a story even if it isn't your story. In fact, that would be better. Share stories of employees who reached out to connect online with an idea to help others that generated a response and churned the wheels of progress and communication farther. Hang up the old standards and start creating a culture that adapts to the ever-changing world. Ensure your technology is robust enough to withstand cyber attacks. Hire wikileaks as your defender of all that is true and exemplary. Less would be exposed, embarrassed and sink off into the moonlight as the werewolves of change howl. I'd love to sell wikileaks.com services Can you just imagine? A brand name that anyone who is everyone can ignore any longer. One of the easiest criteria to determine who to sell for. If you have made it past the excruciatingly painful online "SUBMIT" on the CAREER portal, you have proven that you are worthy to work there wouldn't you think? Fear not, that application sits behind technology. It picks out key words in the resume that it has hyperboiled into identifiable words that in all its theory can expose. Missing key ingredients like instinct judgement and overall presentation. How can you hire someone so poised and seemingly perfect who has constantly garlic breath and something green stuck in his or her teeth? A computer taught to think still lacks instinct and human judgement that can unfortunately be pre-determined by bias or self-centered view, yet can also see smiles, sense warmth, sincerity clearly shine. Yet today's forward thinking companies are falling behind in the times. Becoming more robot and run by a gaggle of gearheads or geeks [ of the destructive kind like hackers, exhibitionists to namely only two ]. The silliness that it needs to be cautioned against may seem almost alarmist by some. Where complacency rests on the shoulders of nuts, bolts, power, fingers, minds is sadly what is happening. They've climb the heap of others, even stepping on a few to get there. These are the people who are behind your company's words? The popular or populist ones. Maybe they are more expensive in the thousands an idea and more when delivered on time, if on time. To ignore the ability to resound your message and create a positive vibe is an opportunity so many companies are missing. Remember, I said it starts at the top? Proof is not hidden, nor under a disguise. That to which Trump earns my respect for his wisdom of speaking online. For himself, by himself. Rather than the pocket of a few others, the rest allowing a technology or stranger to convey what is on your mind? How is that possible? I can tell you how. They're ignorant of the influence they have online, denying the potential to have every single employee, customer communicate and interact online. Where are the skilled manifestos of intellectual power your boast you have? Hidden and trampled on by your sickness going misdiagnosed. Inspected or neglected? Either cause harm. Your employees' valuable time is important and you should concede or acknowledge that. Their ideas more rich and fruitful than anyone trying to tell you what you want to hear. They are impassioned by the believers and loyalists lost in your midst. A true voice for your company. If you can, seek and find the RT on Twitter from 48 hours ago where I exclaimed over an exchange between a customer and his support service solving a problem, together, in real time, online. No waiting line or number queue. Immediate, solution nailed and resolution intact. Not to mention the proof of your culture not as clearly defined as shown, demonstrated and acted on. Not by hey-sayers nor digital players who are usually of the very young mind. No experience or wisdom to fall upon, just speed in clickness and keen savviness they climbed over the backs of the many who built things, helped build the company. Besides the gold pin for 5 years or platinum for 10, retirement parties have become instinct. Those were the best networking environments of my career. If you were well enough liked or respected, you would be invited to a retirement party, a fond adieu by many as they blend into the twilight of years, traveling, not working, painting, writing.
If you read enough news
you can almost start to believe it.
When you choose the news you want
it is much easier to follow it.
~ Jeannette Marshall
Jeannette Marshall sent the following message at 12:48 PM
Congrats on the new job! What will u be doing now M? Is this something one can do online? I currently work in Loyalty & Retention at a call center at one of Canada's largest _____corporation. If I can leave by Tuesday at the same $25/hr with home office I'd be deliriously happy! It would allow me to continue my passion online.
