[Communications Report] for March 22nd 2010 – AndreaVascellari.com

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#LiveGoodLife

#livegoodlife

Life is not easy at times.

Especially the last 2 years have been really intense for me. I managed fantastic projects and achieved great goals with my team. On the other hand one of the longest relationships I had came to an end and I lost a person that meant so much to me. I’ve been through wonderful and terrible periods. During the tough ones I was struggling to find something that was keeping me going.
So I decided to tag some tweets and facebook updates with #livegoodlife. These updates were about moments that I was living and that made feel good.

Since twitter is losing tweets (many old tweets don’t seem to be searchable) I decided to keep track of them so I could browse through this list of happy thoughts during hard times and feel good again.

It worked and this is what I keep doing.
I collect nice snippets of life and dive into them when I need something to remind me what makes me happy.

It might sound weird to some but for me it turned out to be a perfect way to get that inner strength during difficult periods at work or in my private life.

In addition to that it’s amazing to see how supportive has been all my community and network of contacts in the process. Often the #livegoodlife updates that I shared are the ones that got most traction. These social web vibes are another thing that can help you a lot.

#livegoodlife

Did my life change using #livegoodlife? Well it’s definitely easier to go on through tough times 🙂
Did it help me to get into a new relationship? Unfortunately not. Although I’m doing my best it doesn’t seem easy to find the right person nowadays. But #livegoodlife helps me to keep thinking positive and who knows maybe one day this will change too.

I hope #livegoodlife will help you too as it did with me.

Andrea

A New Way To Backup Your Tweets and Make Them Searchable with Google Calendar

In the long run many tweets don’t seem to be searchable. This is why I decided to have a backup of all my updates.

How to do it?

Few months ago I read the tips shared by Steve Rubel on this topic. The idea was to use Twistory to subscribe and consequentially import your tweets to Google Calendar. At that point all your tweets would have been saved and of course searchable. Really handy.

Unfortunately now Twistory works in a bit different way so Steve’s trick doesn’t work anymore but Marsh Gardiner came up with another interesting way to achieve the same goal. Enjoy!

You might be interested in checking also these other posts:

Andrea

3 Tips For Better Online Business by Erno Hannink

Episode: VMC #222 – 3 Tips For Better Online Business by Erno Hannink

I’m happy to announce that Erno Hannink is the winner of my birthday caption contest!

He won a guest appearance on VMC – my media channel, so today we set in front of our webcams and recorded a nice chat together. Since many of you often ask me to bring you thoughts from other communicators I took the chance to ask Erno to share some ‘online tips’ that entrepreneurs can use to do better business. Find out more in the video…

So here we go, ladies & gentlemen… Erno Hannink!

Andrea

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Show Notes & Credits: Erno Hannink , @ErnoHannink

Do it Yourself – What do you want me to say?

April 16-17 I’ll be speaking at SHiFT in Lisbon (Portugal). The theme for the event is ‘Do it Yourself’.

What will I talk about? Well I want to give to the audience what they want and pay for so I thought to crowdsource the topic of my presentation. I’ve already done this in the past and it worked really well.

  • What are the challenges you are facing and what do you need help with?
  • Are you a small entrepreneur or working in a large organization, what do you want or have to do yourself and you struggling with?
  • What do you want me to share with you? Tips? Personal experience? Best practices? Other?
  • Any other idea?

Please share what you think and what you need. Here’s why:

  • If you are not coming to the event: I’ll try to record my presentation and release it after the event here on my blog and media channel. So your questions will find answers.
  • If you are coming to the event: …you get anything you want! My presentation + I’ll be happy to sit down with you after my session and help you with more specific question of challenges you are facing.

My suggestion is: If you can, come to Lisbon and join us. Yes, there’s value in attending events like SHiFT. You’ll find out about new inspiring ideas from other speakers too and you’ll have a chance to grow your network of contacts with new potential partners and clients (you don’t need me to remind you this right? 😉 ).

Let your ideas, questions and requests flow here in the comments or via twitter @vascellari (remember to link back to this post in your tweets so it will be easier to track/manage the conversation. Thanks.)

Andrea

Disclosure: iTive (my company) is official partner of the event.

Better Video For Your Business – 3 Tips by Steve Garfield

Episode: VMC #221 – Better Video For Your Business – # Tips by Steve Garfield

When I think about video Steve Garfield is one of the first names that comes to my mind. He is a pioneer, I’ve been following him for years and I finally met him in New York during social media week NY. Steve gave me also a copy of his new book Get Seen (thanks Steve!). He didn’t ask for it but I’ll review it. If you are thinking about it the answer is ‘No, this is not a sponsored post’, he really knows what he’s talking about and as usual I’m happy to share it with you.

We had a nice chat about the book and we recorded this episode in which he also shared 3 tips on how organizations can use video to better promote their business.

Click, play, enjoy!

Andrea

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Thoughts from Joseph Jaffe

Episode: VMC #220 – Thoughts from Joseph Jaffe

Joseph is one of the few special and authentic persons I know in this industry.

I recorded this video last week in New York at launching of his new book. If you don’t know Joseph make sure you click this link.

Andrea

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