@HOLSTEE manifesto pumps me up.

Inside the mind of genius. Remarkable.

Had a friend ask me this question today:

Do you know of any good blogs my Marketing Assistant can follow to learn more about social media marketing?

Here are the things I follow on Google Reader and Mixtab to keep my learn on (in no particular order)…

• Alltop, Social Media: http://social-media.alltop.com
• Pushing Social: http://pushingsocial.com/
• Brian Solis: http://www.briansolis.com/
• Chris Brogran: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/
• Dan Zarrella: http://danzarrella.com/
• Gary Vaynerchuk: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/
• Mashable: http://mashable.com
• Noah Kagan – OK Dork: http://okdork.com (don’t think this is active anymore, but still offers great advice)
• ProBlogger: http://problogger.net
• ReadWriteWeb: http://readwriteweb.com
• Social Media Examiner: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/
• Social Media Explorer: http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/
• TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/
• Alex Bogusky: http://alexbogusky.posterous.com/
• Andrew Chen: http://andrewchenblog.com/
• Max Lenderman: http://maxlenderman.wordpress.com
• Occams Razor: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/
• Six Pixels of Seperation: http://www.twistimage.com/blog/
• Online Behavior: http://online-behavior.com
• The Future Buzz: http://thefuturebuzz.com/
• Kommein: http://kommein.com/
• ReelSEO: http://www.reelseo.com/
• Brand Savant: http://brandsavant.com/
• The Brand Builder: http://thebrandbuilder.wordpress.com/
• Convince and Convert: http://www.convinceandconvert.com/
• Kikolani: http://kikolani.com/
• Mack Collier: http://www.mackcollier.com/
• Danny Brown: http://dannybrown.me/

For the past few months I was seeing if I could use a plugin that took the feed from my Tumblr blog and then would post to this blog. The experiment was designed to see if there were any substantial differences in traffic.

After those few months, nothing notable has happened and my blog looks messy. So I’ve officially taken the RSS feed import from Tumblr.

More goodness…. Childish Gambino mashup with ODB over Backstreet Boys (you heard that right)

More goodness…. Childish Gambino mashup with ODB over Backstreet Boys (you heard that right)

This mashup by D.Veloped is so good. 

Step 8 so important in anything you do…

8) Theory of Mind. Meredith’s real gift was her amazing ability to put herself into another person’s shoes; an ability psychology calls a theory of mind. Her persuasive power resulted from an uncanny gift for predicting the reaction of others coupled to a willingness to treat them the way she would like to be treated.