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Master networker Heidi Roizen on what has changed — and what hasn’t — about professional networking in the era of social media. 
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Building your personal brand and expanding career success takes only nine minutes a day. Learn how to create a nine-minute career success habit.
Beth Kanter's insight:
Some tips on how to be efficient while working on personal branding on linkedin.
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Jason W. Womack wrote this article for all of us, who struggle with information overload. I selected it because.......
To be a good content curator, the first step is knowing how to harness your attention, to be able to filter, focus, and find the best and be able to leave the rest
**It's important to keep refining your daily habits and the author has some great suggestions on how to do that.
Excerpt:
Jason Womack warns "in the age of information overload, when it comes to what we have time to focus on, we are often forced to sacrifice quality for quantity.
Here's what caught my attention:
**Stop multi-tasking When you multi-task, you can't give your undivided attention the the things you're working on.
**Set a timer for 15-minute intervals Womack says that our days are actually made up of about 100 15-minute intervals. In fact 15 minutes is just about the right "chunk" of time for us to be able to stay focused, minimize interruptions and work effectively
**Know when you're not focused and implement ways to refocus When you're working with your timer, write down eah instance when you lose focus-even if it's just to look at a clock to see what time it is.
**Carry a camera with you Carrying a camera with you is actually a great way to become more in tune with your environment.
**I do this one and it really helps bring me into the present moment
**Listen more There are three different learning styles: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Everyone in your network falls into one of these categories.
**(very important tip, when you're not talking and focusing your attention here, it's an amazing experience on so many levels)
Curated by Jan Gordon, covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/xoqha6] Via janlgordon
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Beth Kanter's insight:
Michelle Martin who writes and teaches career development strategies has shared an excellent curated list of resources for building your network effectively.
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Twitter lists are a powerful way to structure your attention on Twitter so that you focus on the people who matter most.
Beth Kanter's insight:
Twitter lists are a powerful way to structure your attention on Twitter so that you focus on the people who matter most. By providing a way to sort different types of contacts into different HootSuite streams, lists help you focus on different people or conversations at different times or in specific contexts. They are just as helpful at a company-wide level, since it allows colleagues to build and share lists of people to follow without requiring them to follow everyone who might be relevant to anyone in the company. But they have a crucial limitation: unless you keep your account and/or your list private, other people can see who you are tracking and how you’re tracking them. That’s why it’s useful to create a second “listmaker” Twitter account for the specific purpose of managing and sharing Twitter lists with your colleagues. Use this account to create lists like:
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* Social media can speed connections, but don't confuse with social intimacy
Social media creates a false sense of intimacy, particularly when people choose to expose a lot about themselves. Social media has allowed us to have broader relationships, but at the end of the day, human relationships haven't changed — we haven't increased a human being's capacity to have close associations with a lot more people.
Embrace the power of weak ties.I do think that technology has increased our ability to maintain weak ties with people, and that has value. There's a lot of research and writing about weak links being potentially more powerful than strong ones. And I'm a big believer in that. Because of technology and social media, in less than a minute I can find someone I haven't been in touch with for 10 or 15 years, look at LinkedIn and see what they're up to, and be able to reestablish that link in a more efficient and meaningful way. And by the same token, sometimes you can rule them out just as efficiently, take a look and say, "Oh, they're clearly not interested in this thing anymore."