Posts Tagged ‘community’

In Praise of Small Success

Everyone these days is chasing after the billion-dollar idea. We look at the giants in the technology industry – Google, Yahoo, eBay, even Microsoft – and see companies that only a few years ago (or a couple decades ago in Microsoft’s case) were tiny startups struggling to get by. When they hit, they hit big, and made their owners more money than anyone on Earth had ever dreamed of having. Good… Continue reading

March 2 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: artist, business, community, corporation, success, true-fan, wealth | 17 comments»

Where Would You Be Today Without Social Media Tools?

Social media is becoming completely integrated in our lives. It has altered the way we communicate as human beings and changed the way we do business. It has flattened corporate hierarchies and tightened our relationships. Of course, traditional ways of networking and messaging still hold true, such as text messaging, email, phone calls and in-person "meetups" (tweetups in the social media world). The greatest part about this… Continue reading

March 2 2009 | By Dan | Tagged: community, facebook, linkedin, networking, promotion, social-media, social-networking, twitter, web-app | 14 comments»

Readers Recommend: 15 More Productivity Blogs You Probably Never Heard Of

Last week, I recommended over 60 productivity blogs, from the big name sites to some of the little-known discoveries I’d made in my travels through the productivity Web. At the end, I asked readers to recommend the sites that they’d come across that they felt deserved wider recognition, and this is what you came up with.

Aim for Awesome: Vern Lovic shares his simple recipe for life (“smiles +

July 21 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: community, link, Productivity, website | 24 comments»

10 Ways to Pimp Your Blog

A couple months ago, I wrote a newbie's guide to blogging to help you get started with blogging. If you've been blogging for a little while now, you might be looking at how you can take the next step. To that end, this post offers 10 ways to "pimp" your blog, both in the sense of "tricking out" your blog to make it more attractive and more useful… Continue reading

April 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, blogging, Communication, community, marketing, promotion | 35 comments»

The lifehack.org User’s Guide

With the rise of RSS, website content is increasingly found far afield from the websites where it originates. And there's nothing wrong with that -- RSS away! But for those of you who read lifehack.org's post in your feed reader, as well as those of you new to lifehack.org or longtime readers who might not have had a chance to look around the site much, I thought I'd take… Continue reading

August 13 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: community, forum, howto, lifehack.org, Podcast, Productivity, site, wiki | 2 comments»

Online communities and you

Have you noticed over the last few years how many more communities you belong to online, and how isolated they are from each other? Last century, I could count on one hand how many active communities I belonged to: there was the town I lived in, but I hardly knew anyone. There was a couple of newsgroups I followed, until the crumbled under the weight of trolls, flame wars… Continue reading

April 10 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: Communication, community, forum, online, socialnetwork | 4 comments»

Reader requests: What do you want to know?

The title pretty much says it all. We want to hear from you! What questions do you have for your fellow readers and your lovable lifehack.org editors. Do you have any burning questions you would like to have answered? Dying to learn about a new technology? Let us have it. We'd be glad to address your topic ideas come Monday. I've… Continue reading

March 30 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Communication, community, requests | Comments Off

Meet People NOT Business Cards

It's NOT about the business cards. It's about making a connection to the people you want to get to know, and making an impact in what you say and think. Cards are Paper There's nothing especially important about a business card. They contain information (often too much) that should help one get back to somewhere, but they are a bookmark. They are a way back to the conversation. But they… Continue reading

March 21 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: businesscards, Communication, community, conversation | 14 comments»

New Lifehack Community and Looking for new Leaders

New Lifehack Community Recently we have received some comments which you want to see improvements on our lifehack community. Some of you also wanted to have a place for further discussion on your productivity issues, lifestyle concerns, or simply share your tips and tricks. We heard you and now we present you with a new forums for discussion! With near two years of experience at lifehack.org, I found out there are… Continue reading

March 14 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: community, forum, news, site | no comments»

The Top Ten Ways to Kill a Community

Recently Lifehack.org published a great post about how to live a stressful life. I am a true fan of the counterintuitive and reverse logic so it got me thinking about the concept on a greater scale. If we can destroy our own individual lives with such efficiency imagine what we could all do to a community if we worked together on it. To that effect, here is my list of… Continue reading

January 25 2007 | By Reginald | Tagged: community, discrimination, economic | 14 comments»

Social Software As Connection Gateways

Why do people bother with MySpace? I'll tell you why: people can make connections and communicate and open dialogue. By "adding friends" and building your space, and adding multimedia, and using the tools on there, you can establish connections. The benefit of using this social sharing sites (Flickr, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIN, Upcoming.org, etc, etc, etc) is that you get a different, digital connection to people. Some are people you've not… Continue reading

January 1 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: community, flickr, myspace, socialsoftware, twitter, youtube | 2 comments»

My Employer, My New World Teacher

Last week Thursday, I challenged you to consider how you can best take advantage of our “New World” of learning opportunities. The possibilities waiting for you are extraordinary. I asked you to reflect back on when you feel you have learned best, so you can rally together those lessons-learned about when you have been a great student. Think of that self-knowledge as a collection of the great learning behaviors you… Continue reading

October 19 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: Communication, community, intention, knowledge, learning, lessons, mentorship, questions, relationship, skills, talent, worklife, workplace | 1 comment»

Answer a Forum Question: Planning

(Leon's going to poke me for this). I haven't gone to the forums much yet. I've focused on putting up front-page material, and hadn't really taken the time to see what the Community was about. Wow! There's lots going on there. So, imagine my surprise when someone has come to YOU asking for help. Beijaflor writes: Gentlepeople I live in a society in Asia that isnt really into 'support' systems or… Continue reading

May 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: community, forums, Lifehack, Productivity | 3 comments»