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Question 300x300 Have You Ever Thought About Starting Your Own Business?So have you ever thought to yourself, “I could start a business doing {insert dream job here} and TOTALLY love it!”

If you have, did you do it? If you did, how did it work out? If you didn’t, why not?

I’m looking for feedback, questions, comments, success stories, whatever… around individuals who have taken the plunge and started a business and people who have thought about it and are not quite ready to pull the trigger yet. Read the rest of this entry

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J.T. Rigsby is a Technology and Social Media Strategist and the principle author at Life In the Internet.


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On Leadership

theleader On Leadership

Leadership is a funny thing. We all “know” what it is… but have a hard time explaining it. We expect it from our boss… but it’s probably not in their job description and almost certainly not in their job title. So what IS leadership, who shows us how to do it, and why is it such a hard concept to wrap our heads around?

I suppose the precepts of leadership were first impressed upon me during my stint in the army, and as any good veteran can tell you, the first place to look is to the regulation…

The Army defines leadership as influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation, while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization.

Army Regulation 600-100

For the non-military types out there, lets look at the complete compendum of human knowledge for a definition…

the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task”

Wikipedia.org

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J.T. Rigsby is a Technology and Social Media Strategist and the principle author at Life In the Internet.


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How To Get Noticed

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When you are one of thousands even millions swimming in the social media pool… how do you get noticed? What makes your posts, your Tweets, or your Facebook updates more special than the next guy? Why should anyone pay any attention at all to you?

This all started with a post over at Leoville ( see Buzz Kill ), a tweet by Brogan and the flood of comments that followed, including an exchange with @trchandler on Twitter. He asked me the question about getting noticed and it just begged a longer form response than 140 characters would allow… so here goes.

If you don’t read the comments, this post by Leo Laporte is awesome. I think he’s spot on.

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