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Random Sayings, Tweets, Ideas That Mess Up My Hair and Keep Me Up at Night (sort of a 'best of')

Now: I'm Here. (a Twitter Manifesto for 2010) jmac tweet 1-1-10.

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My Twitter Rule is Real Time, Real People, Real Voices. Otherwise it's just RSS or email. – jmac tweet 12-27-09

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I'm pretty sure it's not who you follow, it's who you retweet. – jmac tweet 8-25-10

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Following Jebus and God on Twitter. Still looking for clues on Earth. – jmac tweet 8-31-10

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People don't retweet crappy tweets. Like this one, for example. [Please retweet!] – jmac tweet 4-28-10

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“Twitter you fail in so many ways, user-experience is one more whale of a fail!” — the twitterjoker

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I am at HERE now. But I'm going to be at AWAY shortly. I won't be Tweeting at that time. Nor will I be "checking in" thank goodness. – jmac tweets 3-30-10

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"We are like a bunch of addicts. We need to be hooked up to wall outlets for our devices with crappy batteries #sxsw Do you have a powa plan?" – jmac tweet 3-14-10

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"My blog is still BONK! too much traffic they say at my cloud hosting company. It's MY PROBLEM? #cloudfail#cloudcomputing #cloud #a2hosting" – jmac tweet 3-14-10

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Sometimes you have to move on, and get a job. – jmac on MeterThis.net regarding the City of Austin web redesign project.

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TWITTER doesn't need a reDesign it needs a reTHINK. Filtering [ -bieber -4sq -gowalla] & tweep mgmt with more than 20 tweeps per page. – jmac tweet 4-13-10

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How do you decide to just WALK AWAY from Twitter and do something else? Close Tweetdeck…. stand up… shut down computer…. greet family! – jmac tweet 1-10-010

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>> If you are looking for quotes, here's a linkedIN discussion thread that has a ton of good ones. <<

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I'm going to tell you something I haven't told any other thousand people before… – jmac tweet 1-12-010

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Quit predicting, quit summerizing, quit tweeting about social media, JUST DO IT, er… um… I mean… What I mean is, carry on. – jmac tweet 1-12-010

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Wait a second, Twitter is like a Party Line, except you don't have to pay $1.59 per minute. wOOt! I just figured out what Twitter is. – jmac tweet 12-26-09

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A linkedIN poll: What's the difference between a project manager and a project driver?

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What I do know is that I am a social media participant, an excitable learner, early adopter, a vocal advocate, writer and thinker." jmac redefining my FB statement, november 09

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If Santa used 4square: "I'm at Jimmys… I'm at Sarah's… I'm at… Punjab's…" HINT: If you're not Santa I don't care where you "am at"! JMac Tweeted Christmas Eve 2009.

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From the back seat: "Mom, did you know, on a scale of 1 to 10, everyone is 5% happier close to Christmas?" "Why, do you think?" "Well, for kids, it's definitely the presents…for grown up's, its…" "That their kids are happy," chimes in his sister. december 09

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"If I RT myself I RT myself. I am large. I contain multitudes." Walt Twhitman, Song of Myself (adapted) december 09

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"The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations. It's a process, not an event." – Seth Godin  http://om.ly/cvBq

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"A night spent panning at the social media gold stream does not necessarily mean you will come away with enough nuggets to pay for breakfast. And to feed a village of folks it's gonna take a few more miners working the stream." jmac measuring social media success, august 09

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"If you can't think of something interesting to tweet… Don't."  jmac tweets, august 09

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"NOT having a personal brand is like standing in a stadium full of people and hoping work will find you." jmac tweets, july 09.

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"Don't think it's not possible just because you think it's not possible. Or because people tell you it's not possible." -jmac tweets, february 09.  Corollary: They may even discourage you repeatedly. If you believe, keep on the path!

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"And in 140 characters there is a limit much like haiku that can contain the world and the joy and the sorrow and the hope." — AliveTribe: In 140 Characters Is There Room for Poetry and Narrative?

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"A Thought Leader without ACTION is a Thought Thinker." — jmac tweets, may 09.

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"Not a Single Great Website (or design) in History has Been Conceived of By more than 3 people" – Seth Godin ( Fire the Design Committee ! )

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Self-reflecting tweet- "I carry on complete dialogues with myself in 140 chars. I amuse myself mildly. Point/counter-point/snipe!" jmac tweets, june 09

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"The scorched earth smells like a musty old mare in the light rain sprinkling down and cooling the remaining heat of the day…" jmac tweets, august 09

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#TWITTERRULE 06-09-09 1. No Avatar. UNFOLLOW. 2. Weird name. UNFOLLOW. Hint: if you don't have time to brand yourself I don't either! (seriously, if your doing Twitter get a grip on yourself. I cannot decipher your inside joke of a name or image. And I'm not going to spend too much time trying to figure it out.)

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“When it looks like you’re multitasking–you’re looking at one TV screen and another TV screen and you’re talking on the telephone – your attention has to shift from one to the other. You’re brain literally can’t multitask. You can’t pay attention to two things simultaneously. You’re switching back and forth between the two. So you’re paying less concerted attention to either one."  http://bit.ly/not-add

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"There is no time to slay the dragon, the dragon is your friend." — Rashad Field

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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." – Toffler

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“More than anything else talented people want to be in environments that both appreciate and cultivate their talents.” Scott Berkun  http://bit.ly/team-leadership

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Harvard BIZ says this about the role of the Strategic Leader: get the big ideas right, communicate them effectively, oversee their execution, capture lessons learned. (4-21-09)

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"Social media is just PR with new tools. One of the tools are social networks. Within a social network, you socially network. :)" Alex Hillman on Social Media @alexknowshtml from twitterrific @juliegomoll

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"Always have one killer slide," said my mentor almost daily. – jmac on powerpoint heroics  http://bit.ly/8-laws-powerpoint

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Start with your own behavior. How many times have you gone to a meeting that lacked an agenda or a clear set of objects — and didn't do anything about it? How often have you received unnecessary email or reports — but didn't let the senders know that they were clogging up your inbox? How often have you sat through a presentation with too many slides, unclear points, and too much data — but didn't provide any feedback to the presenter? And how often have you been the perpetrator of these complexity-causing behaviors without anyone pushing back on you?

We all allow these things to happen. Often, we're guilty of doing them. But since most people dislike confrontation, we let things slide. It's an unspoken conspiracy: "I won't challenge you if you won't challenge me." The net result is that we unwittingly create a culture of complexity. — Harvard Business Blogs on http://bit.ly/artists-way

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Communicate unceasingly – Your passion, vision and strategy*
*The line is from From A Clear Eye on Branding blog by Tom Asaker, in his top ten list for CEO’s to keep stress under control.

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Love means nothing in tennis.

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The Power of Ruby on Rails (RoR)
The RoR community spans hundreds of sites and thousands of user groups because the tools are easier to use and more agile. – jmacofearth http://bit.ly/3-clouds

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transmedia experiences: where wayfinding, retrieval, learning and decision making are indistinguishable.  (the garden of forking paths — article)

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"You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you've got music." – Sid Vicious (thanks AC!)

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glocalization – there are all sorts of cultures that form from identities and communities of practice

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Plussing: Taking your work a little farther. Going closer to an edge, whichever edge. Is there anything you can't plus? Anything you can't make simpler, more luxurious, cheaper, more extreme? Anything you can't make more remarkable?

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External forces are not what makes a company succeed or fail. It is your passion, commitment and love for your idea that will make or break a company. And just as in life, a successful company is not about the destination, it is about the journey. // blueflavor blog

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A completely unified and "'OPEN MESH"' is more theory than practice. — Marc Canter, How to Build the Open Mesh

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Notes and taunts from Knighthood on Facebook.

"Dear subjects, as the Squirrel Brigade leader, I want to thank you for your furry tails and eager participation in our cause. I know we only pay in nuts, but your reward in the next life shall be great."

@jmacofearth
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