Practical Networked Leadership Skills

11) How to Ask Good Questions

12) How to Curate

13) How to Focus

Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/what-to-learn-to-be-successful-p2/#ixzz32HMquMsU

accidental narcissism.

Some good tips on how to decide what to share on your "personal account" 

Nonetheless, here are my top tips on how to avoid social marketing narcissism:

1. Remember that not everything is appropriate to share online. For instance, if you do have a large business following, they probably won't care about when you have a cup of tea.

2. Pick an appropriate tone and stick with it. Rather than channeling "two voices" for business and personal, try to maintain a consistent and friendly tone in social channels - this helps you appear genuine.

3. Although you shouldn't overthink social marketing, do take time to re-read any updates you share: carefully consider the content, spelling, punctuation, and timing before posting anything.

4. Vary the content you share between on-brand messages and your personal experiences. Don't spam your social platforms with any particularly type of content

This isn’t down time, it’s different time. Instead of unproductive busyness, it’s productive un-busyness. It’s the root source of ideas and connections between ideas. It’s the time when we see our way forward through complex problems and toward solutions that have been otherwise elusive.

Some tips on how to be efficient while working on personal branding on linkedin.

Good summary of network theories in plain english

Terms and jargon for SNA defined

Young people aren’t waiting for retirement. They’re asking what their purpose is now, and they’re determined to find the opportunities, organizations, and companies that share their purpose. A recent study by Net Impact showed that the millennial generation expects to make a difference in the world through their work, and more than half of millennials would take a 15% pay cut to do work for an organization that matches their values.

connected skills ...

But here’s why it’s good to get comfortable with always having a little lack of confidence. First, if you admit no self-doubt, you lose your impulse to learn. Second, you become a smug, know-it-all and no one likes you. Third, what’s even worse, is that you become a soldier in the army of ignorance. Your body language tells everyone else that their questions are a sign of weakness, which shuts down what should have been a space for learning.

The one skill I’ve truly mastered is asking stupid questions. And I don’t mean questions that I pretend are stupid but then, like Socrates, they show the folly of all those around me. No, they’re just dumb questions. Things I really should know by now. And quite often it turns out that I’m not the only one in the room with those questions. I’ve learned far more by being in over my head than by knowing what I’m talking about. And, as I’ll get to, we happen to be in the greatest time for being in over our heads in all of human history.

So that’s two million vista photos. 1.3 million apple pie recipes. 7.6 million cute cat photos. We’re constantly warned about information overload, yet we never hear one word single word about the dangers of Vista Overload, Apple Pie Overload, or Cute Kitten overload. How have the media missed these overloads! It’s a scandal!

I think there’s actually a pretty clear reason why we pay no attention to these overloads. We only feel overloaded by that which we feel responsible for mastering. There’s no expectation that we’ll master vista photos, apple pie recipes, or photos of cute cats, so we feel no overload. But with information it’s different because we used to have so much less of it that back then mastery seemed possible. For example, in the old days if you watched the daily half hour broadcast news or spent twenty minutes with a newspaper, you had done your civic duty: you had kept up with The News. Now we can see before our eyes what an illusion that sense of mastery was. There’s too much happening on our diverse and too-interesting planet to master it, and we can see it all happening within our browsers.

The concept of Information Overload comes from that prior age, before we accepted what the Internet makes so clear: There is too, too much to know. As we accept that, the idea of mastery will lose its grip, We’ll stop feeling overloaded even though we’re confronted with exactly the same amount of information.

Because branding is based in authenticity, you need to understand who you are and what makes you compelling to your target audience – the people who are making decisions about you. As you think about what makes you YOU, ponder these questions:

1. What’s your superpower? What do you do better than anyone else?
2. What are your top values – your operating principles?
3. What do people frequently compliment you on or praise you for?
4. What is it that your manager, colleagues, friends, and clients come to you for?
5. What adjectives do people consistently use to describe you – perhaps when they’re introducing you to others?
6. How do you do what you do? What makes the way you achieve results interesting or unique?
7. What energizes or ignites you? What are your true passions?