Social Media: Dreaming Won't Cut It – What's Your Plan, Where's Your Map?

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Screen Shot 2013 01 21 at 8.17.18 AM Social Media: Dreaming Wont Cut It Whats Your Plan, Wheres Your Map?

This morning I woke a bit before dawn and heard a happy band of neighborhood coyotes cackling and howling down near the lake. I was reminded of the cats and small dogs who's "LOST" posters show up with some regularity. And what occurred to me was a variation of a Reshad Feild phrase, "There is no time to slay the coyote, the coyote is your friend."

Without a plan and a map you can be overtaken by the coyotes either as pray or newly inducted follower. So what are the tools and maps that will get you along *your* chosen path? If you don't have a map for the year ahead, chances are that's where you will end up with the coyotes as food or servant.

Plan Plan Plan

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Collaborate Well

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Critical path, is the minimum string of events that have to happen in order for a desired result to be achieved.

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Final Thought

I prefer MLK day as a point of re-evaluation. Business goals, charitable goals, personal goals, aspirational goals. Here's my post from last year to reflect on how things have changed by this year's post.

"There is no time to slay the coyote, the coyote is your friend."

How Social Media Can Change Your Business – Social Media Strategist Notebook (MLK 2012)

@jmacofearth (also seen on Google+: jmacofearth)
permalink: http://uber.la/2013/01/mlk-2013/

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