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8 Habits of Effective Blogger Prof. Yesha Sivan
Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College
Metaverse Labs. Ltd.
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In Memory of Steve Covey…
• Author: “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
• 8th Habit: "Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs...
• My Perspective:– “Blogger” in the sense of a
“manager of a Digital identity.”– And we all have different,
identities that change over time.
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The Basic Model:
3 Page Source: http://bhls.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-by-stephen-r-covey/.
The Original model
7 related habits
Habits are routines of behavior that are repeated
regularly and tend to
occur subconsciously
(Source: Wikipedia: Habits)
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Me and Others
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Others:
Audience
Partners
Etc…
Me
My Goals
My Style
Etc…
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1. Be Proactive
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Be Proactive
This is a psychological tendency to act, to do,
to…
=DRIVE
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2. Begin with the End in Mind
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Setting the goal:
What should my digital
identity say?
What is the goal?
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2. Goals: What should my digital identity say?1. Professional goal? Academic? Business?2. Personal goal? Relations?3. What is the audience I want to talk to?4. Just “say things to the world?”5. Connect with Family?6. Personal Brand?7. Example: Dryesha.com
1. A focal point to know Yesha (80% professionally, and 20% personality)
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2. Goal of Digital Identity Example 1:
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2. Goal of Digital Identity Example 2: (2006)
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3. First Things First
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1. Once a week once a month.
2. Clean and fix – comments.
3. 1 hr. a week!!! (At least)
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4. Win Win
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Examples to partners:
1.Saloona.
2.JVWR – Journal
3.Academic Work
4.Other writers
5.ISOC
In general:
•How to connect with others??
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5. Seek to Understand…
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Ask people what they are looking for?
Ask readers what helps them?
(for example: slides of previous talks, dates, sources, collection of links, etc.)
Use Google ANALYTICS,
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6. Synergize
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Synergize
•Connect with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.
•Internal connect. (links to other things you have written).
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7. Example 1: Outbrain
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Invest the time to advance your blog… test new tools… but remember to take them out if they do not match…
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Conclusion: 8. The 8th Habit:
Get Unique VOICE• “Find your voice and inspire others to find
theirs…”• Once you have a Unique VOICE
(=“Something to say”) you can be effective about it…
• No point in being just being effective … and you have to be effective towards something…
• Thanks
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