This post was originally published at TweetValley.com
In the future, location will not matter…
Say goodbye to cubicle nation…
Think about this: The Future of Work is YOU!!!
Wherever You are…
Tags: crowdsource, cubicle nation, Future of Work, Innovation, Maldives, oDesk, on demand, Virtual Teams
My prescription for your life is: FUN
– have more of it!
Video by box of crayons.biz
1 – Stop hiding who you really are!
2 – Get Focused – Start being intensely selfish.
3 – Stop Following the Rules
4 – Stop Scaring Yourself
5 – Stop Taking It All So Darn Seriously!
6 – Start Getting Rid of the Crap
7 – Stop Being Busy
8 – Start Something (Don’t Wait for Permission!)
Thanks to Chris Brogan for posting this video at his blog
Let’s go out with this quote from Jim Morrison,
“This is the strangest life I’ve ever known!”
– Remember: No One Gets Out Alive.
Tags: box of crayons, Break the Rules, Focus, Irresistible Principles of Fun, Lighten Up, Start Something, Strange Life
Roger (Kent) Beatty is a blogger, writer, adventurer, traveler, father, war vet, retired Air Force Officer, sometime photographer and student of life who seeks to see the big picture and keep a large radar scope. He is fascinated with twitter and social media. He also blogs at TweetValley and tweets as KentBeatty, L5, KBonTECH, and GRAINtech. Email him at kentbeatty @ gmail.com.
This is day #365 in 2009 and the last day of the aughts.
Tomorrow begins the second decade of the 21st Century and of the Third Millennium. 2010 will have 365 days, or 8,760 hours, or 525,600 seconds.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
- Alexander Pope
We can’t manage or save time, it passes us right by. But we can do more with the time we have. Remember, you get what you accept, you go where you look, you are what you think - so, first things first, think of Jesus first, be thankful for every minute of every day and try to see the bright side of everything, even problems and crises have a silver lining and lessons to learn from and grow with.
You go where you look
and you get what you accept.
Living your life is like flying a flight or a mission. You plan your flight and fly your plan (of course you have to adjust to variables encountered, but stay with the plan)
Take time once in a while to overwhelm your senses.
Don’t sweat the small stuff, and it’s 99% small stuff. Unless someone is in danger of dying, don’t stress out. Keep everything in perspective. Enjoy life!
Sorry to sound so preachy, but I know that we all can do, endure and achieve much more than we realize. The answer to the unasked question and the result of the action not taken is no. Think, Ask and Do!
Thank God for now.
Wishing everyone a healthy, pleasing and prosperous new year! 
(All photos above by Kent Beatty)
EVERYDAY – A New Beginning: Sunlight bursts froth from behind a cloud.
REACH – Looking up at the 630 feet tall Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
FLIGHT PLAN – Flying in a North American T-6 Texan over the Missouri river near St. Joseph, Missouri, Creve Coeur airfield in the background.
JOY – Slip The Surly Bonds: Me in front seat with Al Stix flying his Stearman bi-plane over the Missouri river at 120 mph. Al is co-owner of the Creve Coeur airfield and St. Louis Entrepreneur and businessman (as well as aviator.)
PERSPECTIVE – The view from the top of the 630 foot Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
Photo by Kenny Price
Tags: aughts, Fly Your Plan, Hope Springs Eternal, Joy, Kent Beatty, New Beginning, Perspective, Reach, Roger Beatty, Third Millennium
Looking for info on Social Media?
For the easy primer, see the 1st slide deck below, “Social Media in Plain English.”
For a more advanced explanation, view slide deck #2, “What is Social Media and Why Should I Care.” by David Griner
A simple story that illustrates the forces shaping social media,
by Lee Lefever of Common Craft
Social Media according to Wikipedia
What the H**K is Social Media?
[PDF] What is Social Media? An eBook from iCrossing
Tags: Common Craft, David Griner, iCrossing, Lee Lefever, Social Media
This infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today. The really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period:
What’s next? For one thing: Personal Branding. According to Chad Levitt, parts of the next wave of innovation will revolve around social networks, personal brands, massive amounts of data, collaboration and making senese of it all to create value. Also, expect more internal company social networking.
Infographic courtesy of Chad Levitt at his New Sales Economy Blog
For more on Personal Branding check out Dan Schwabel’s blog. Dan is the author of the book: , Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 2009)
Tags: FaceBook, LinkedIn, MySpace, NetLog, Orkut, Social Graph, social networks, Social Sites, Twitter
Team Hoyt – Dick & Rick Hoyt
Rick has cerebral palsy caused by loss of oxygen to his brain at birth because his umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck. Advised by Doctors to “put Rick away” because he would only be a “vegetable”, Dick and his wife Judy took Rick home and included him in all activities with their other two sons. Dick said that although Rick wasn’t able to speak or control his body you could see his awareness in his eyes and facial expressions.
At age 12, Rick gained the ability to communicate through a computer program called “the hope machine” developed by Tufts University. Rick could now painstakingly type words. His first words: “Go Bruins”. Since then Rick has completed both high school and college.
When Rick was in high school he heard of a five-mile charity road race for a paralyzed teenager. Rick told his Dad “I have to do somethin for him. I want to let him know that life goes on.” For Dick, who wasn’t a runner, this was a call to action. They ran that race together and came in next to last.
After that first race, Rick told his father, “Dad, when I’m running, it feels like I’m not handicapped.”
Since then “Team Hoyt” (Dick is 66 and Rick is 44) has completed 60 marathons and 950 races. They are now doing Triathlons and Iron Man competitions. Dick pulls, pushes and carries Rick (110 pounds) to complete these competitions! Dick and Rick biked and ran across the United States in 1992, completing 3,735 miles in 45 days!
Hi-Res Photo of Dick & Rick Hoyt doing a Marathon
Never Give Up!!!
Thanks to Doug Kirchmann over at kirchie.com – he blogged about Team Hoyt: Motivation – Because You Can Do Anything!
Follow Doug Kirchmann on twitter!
Tags: Cerebral Palsy, Dick Hoyt, Doug Kirchmann, Iron Man, Marathon, Rick Hoyt, Team Hoyt, Triathlon, Tufts University
On Friday, September 4, 2009, I spent a couple of hours shooting photos of my son’s high school varsity football game. Just after half time I got a strange display in the viewfinder of my Nikon D-70. My new 4 GB Compact Flash card had been acting flaking lately, so I replaced it with the older 1 GB Compact Flash card that I’ve used for 4 years and continued shooting the game. When I put the 4 GB Compact Flash card in the card reader all I got on the screen was gibberish – couldn’t read any files.
I found some commercial programs that do a great job recovering files, but they were from $40.00 on up. I’m a tightwad on some things and enjoy the challenge of finding great software for free. After spending some time searching for a free program to use to recover those files I found a program called “Disk Digger” by Dmitry Brant.
Disk Digger is a data recovery utility that scans your media for traces of lost files (images, documents, etc.), and can undelete files from FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS partitions.
I’m not sure why, at this point, why the 4 GB compact flash card got messed up, but I am very thankful to Dmitry and Disk Digger!
How do I … recover lost data with DiskDigger?
Tags: Disk Digger, recover, undelete, utility
A stunning (dark) ad with dark singularity and creative lighting effects.
Advertising Agency: FoxP2, Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Directors: Andrew Whitehouse, Justin Gomes
Art Director: Ryan Barkhuizen
Copywriter: Mike Pearson
Photographer: Bryan Traylor
Tags: Advertising, Cape Town, dark ad, FoxP2, Masterlock: UFO
“… a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat, Pray, Love”, talks at TED about artists’ inspiration, the creative process and a different way to think about creative genius.
You may also like to get the video at the TED blog and view the 408 comments.
Within or without? Does our inspiration come from our unconscious or the right brain or does it come from God, a muse or our daimon?
Does our ego get in our way?
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
See Also:
TED: Ideas worth spreading, Riveting talks by remarkable people & free to the world!
Eat, Pray, Love published by Viking, February 2006
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
#1 on the NYT Paperback Nonfiction List for over a year!
Tags: Artists Inspiration, Creative Genius, Creative Process, Daimon, Elizabeth Gilbert, Muse, TED
TweetDeck has been my Twitter Control Center for several months and now with Version 0.26 it’s even more powerful:
Newest features:
- Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts - (for you split personality types)
- Sync and Backup - to keep your TweetDeck safe
- Spam button – use this to avoid twitter spam
- iPhone – take all your TweetDeck favorites, groups, columns etc. with you!
Other features:
- Columns -You can display one column or many columns. I typically keep 10 columns open.
Tags: "#sandiegofire, #fb, Christopher S. Penn, Control Center, Hashtag, Hashtag.org, iPhone, John Janatswch, KentBeatty, Loic Le Meur, Mac, Multiple Twitter Accounts, Nate Ritter, Navin Kabra, Phil Johncock, Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck
The fastest accelerating & growing segment on Facebook is the
35-54 Year Olds.
The iStrategists & Peter Corbett over at iStrategy Labs have released their latest granular examination of Facebook’s demographics. (Download 2009 Facebook Demographics and Statistics as an Excel spreadsheet)
The iStrategists’s Top Insights:
1) The 35-54 year old demo is growing fastest, with a 276.4% growth rate in over the approximate 6 months since we last produced this report
2) The 55+ demo is not far behind with a 194.3% growth rate
Tags: Demographic Contentration, FaceBook, Facebook Demographics, iStrategy Labs, Peter Corbett, Top Insights
Suryia the orangutan and Roscoe the blue tick hound became best friends upon meeting each other!
Both Suryia and (now) Roscoe live at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in Myrtle Beach, SC. This story just recently aired on "Oprah" and will be featured this fall on National Geographic Channel’s show "Odd Couples".
“As soon as he saw Roscoe, Suryia ran over to him and they started playing,” Bhagavan Antle, founder of TIGERS Antle told UK’s Daily Mail. “‘It was unusual because dogs are usually scared of primates but they took to each other straight away.”
“‘Roscoe looked really thin and a little lost so we fed him and took care of him … We made a few calls to see if he belonged to anyone and when no-one came forward, Roscoe ended up staying.”
Suryia, while helping to raise baby primates at the sanctuary, always takes some time to spend with Roscoe, swimming, rolling around in the grass, or going for walks.
“Suryia will take Roscoe for walks around the enclosure and even feeds him some of his monkey biscuits,” Antle said.
A Facebook Breakup from the 50’s.
This is a Facebook Relationship Story from a world that never was. Enjoy!
Tags: FaceBook, Facebook Manners, Relationship Etiquette, Relationship Rules, Retro Twitter
Seesmic Desktop Launched Today.
This is Twhirl on Steroids!
From Mashable:
The new Seesmic Desktop is a dream application for the frequent status updater, group lover, and social media meme tracker alike, and now includes support for multiple columns that can be rearranged via drag-and-drop, custom and manageable groups, a left navigation bar for managing multiple accounts and searches, and even the ability to snap images via webcam for posting to Twitpic (TwitPic reviews). All of this activity is now conveniently residing within one window.
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Tags: Loic Le Meur, Seesmic Desktop, Twhirl on Steroids, Twitter, Twitter Client
