Personal Growth and The Fear of Failure
Milton Glaser – on the fear of failure. from Berghs' Exhibition '11 on Vimeo.
One interesting perspective on what leads to the greatest success in design, personal branding and business, how that differs from what is best for personal development and how that links into the fear of failure.
Rock Life: Design Inspired by StartUp Atmosphere at SXSW
I drove to South By South West Interactive Conference in an RV with my ZeroBird startup team. On the way back I realized I spend so much of my time designing for others, I wanted to design something just for myself without constraints other than the ones I chose. I made a new background for my twitter @cloudchloe and a header for my Facebook profile inspired by the slogans and aspects of the startup and design world. Creating your own product from scratch then convincing people to use it is one of the hardest and most freeing things I can think of doing in life. Interestingly, most of the people who do it, couldn’t live any other way. So for the movers, shakers, and hackers who see things differently and change the world, this one’s for you.
Extreme Interior Design
This innovative design made me think outside of the box. If he can do all this space in an interior, think of what can happen on the web. It’a all about working within existing limitations and creating something unexpectedly awesome that maximizes use of the constraints.
Feeding Your Website’s Blog Post Onto Facebook Wall
If you are spending the effort writing a blog post, you want to maximize exposure and reach the broadest audience possible with the least amount of the effort. Your audience on the flip side wants to spend as little time as possible discovering and following the blogs that interest them.
Facebook is one of the tools that can be used to satisfy both needs. You can accomplish this task in a matter of minutes. If you are unfamiliar with this process you might conduct a search that will yield many help sites that tell you how to do this by feeding your blog into notes on the Facebook wall. That is one way of doing things but in our opinion not the best. You not only want your post on the wall, you also want your audience to comment and repost it and help it go viral.
Following is our visual step by step instruction.
To begin the process you need 3 things: a website with a blog, a RSS Feed address that is already programmed into your blog and a facebook page.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Go to https//www.facebook.com/RSSApp
The page name is RSS for Pages. Click on the blue button by that title labeled “Go to APP”
2. You want to install the RSS Feed so click on the blue button below that title labeled ”Click here to Install”
3. Click on blue button labeled “Add RSS for Pages”
4. Enter your company name and phone number and check the box that you have read and agree to the terms of service. Click on the save button.
5. Enter your rss feed address. You have several options on this screen.
If you want the feed to appear in your news feed and automatically go through your fans’ newsfeeds, you should check the box to automatically post on the wall and show story summaries in wall updates. You should also indicate how many stories you want to display. We suggest you indicate 20 stories if you blog frequently and fewer if you do not so that your content does not appear to be old and outdated.
If you want the feed to only go through to the link to a news tab, then you should not check the top box. You will have the option to go into the news tab when you are signed into your page as an admin, then publish each individual story to your page’s wall. This allows you to add a personalized message when posting your story. Facebook datateam shows the click through rate is higher on links that are posted with a personal message before the post. That is the advantage to using this method to distribute the blog posts to your wall. The downside to this distribution method is that your blog posts do not automatically go to your feed and if you do not go in and publish them individually, chances are no one will ever see them.
Great you are all set! That was super easy!
Do It Yourself Search Engine Optimization: Using B2 SEO WordPress Plugin to Optimize Your Site
We realize there are a lot of WordPress SEO plugins out there. You usually have had to have some understanding of SEO to figure out how to configure the plugins. We wanted anyone to be able to search engine optimize their WordPress site so we made this instruction manual to go with our B2 SEO plugin to help you understand what all the options are in the plugin, what they mean and why you might want to use them.
If you aren’t familiar with how to write Meta Tags, Keywords, Titles and descriptions, you can also refer to our blog article on them to help you fill out the fields in the plugin once you understand what they are for.
