A jumble of what I found useful and interesting of late…

If you only read one post about social marketing this week make it this one,

“The Significance Manifesto”, by @umairh

Educate, elevate, and enlighten. I’m bored that most boardrooms see me as a "consumer," not a person. Business as usual shouts relentlessly at me to buy, buy, buy–to run faster and faster on a treadmill of hyper-consumption. But most–if not all–of it fails to make me healthier, wealthier, happier–or even slightly more interesting

Learn to master Twitter’s Advanced Search in 3 minutes –

Productivity

As someone that lives and dies by email I strongly endorse these 10 tips from @the99percent

Email Etiquette for the Super-Busy – Learn it, love it, live it; I’ll love you for it.

If you’re into productivity you should check out a couple recent posts of my own,

• Streamlining your Productivity – I outline my system and the apps I use
• 2 Tech Tips to Simplify Your Online Life – How to Conquer Email & Passwords

Hashtags

I’m not the only hashtag evangelist – @RobinSloan has published 2 great posts about hashtags on the Twitter Media blog.

• The Art of the Hashtag
• The Science of the Hashtag

And in case you missed it I shared tips on effective hashtag usage using the Sugar Bowl as a case study.

Football, Hashtags, & Conversation Conversion

Link Dump

• PingTags – QR codes integrated with LinkedIn
• A tool to find your Twitter ID – IDfromuser.com

2 WordPress performance plugins I’m digging W3 Total Cache and Smush It

And finally, my friend @chad_gardner took a picture of his dog and it earned a spot on the local news’ snow coverage –