Top 3 Tools for Thought Leaders

“how to be thesmartest kid on your block” or

something like that!

The Top 3 Tools

Chrome or Firefox

Shareaholic

Posterous and/or WordPress

The key to ‘listening’

• Make updates from your ‘trusted sources’ come to you…

• The best way to do that is usually via RSS

• Trusted sources can be people or websites, but leveraging people means better results…

How to listen…

Gist

Google Reader

Feedly

Socialmention

Google News

Google Reader tips

• Follow smart people you ‘trust’• Add subscriptions, browse for stuff, explore

recommendations in Google Reader• Add feeds ‘on the fly’ while browsing• Leverage aggregators like alltop.com• Create feeds from Google Alerts and Twitter

searches to get more specific• Share good stuff…• …and learn the keyboard shortcuts!

How to get a voice…

Posterous Posterous + WordPress

Posterous + WordPress +

Blogger?

+ social media

channels

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