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The Right Tools & Mindset For Success

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Fellow iPad travel warrior Jon Dale

Jon Dale is a smart man. You can find him at JonDale.com. He’s a social media consultant and so he travels a lot imparting wisdom to companies and individuals all over America. He inspired me to take an iPad only trip to Colorado last week and while I was there he posted a video of his own on how he packs for his trips using his Saddleback bag.

Below you’ll find his video and my response. You can follow Jon on Twitter and get the sweet bag or iPad case at Saddleback Leather.

Jon’s travel video:

My Response: (featuring my handsome son Samuel)
(Video and Audio are not matched up…blame it on my MacBook…)

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The organizers are winning

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– Twitter
– Facebook
– LinkedIn
– Ning Groups
– Work email
– Personal email
– Blog
– eNewsletters (I really like those)

How many of these do you have?
How do you keep them organized?

The most exciting and expanding part of the internet is “ORGANIZING”.  Software that will help you keep track of the 12 different streams of information that you’re trying so desparately to keep updated and organized.  It’s impossible to do with out some tools.  Here are a few stories about organizers that will peek your interest, improve your organization and give you hope that one day all this technology could become more simple instead of more complex.   Technology is supposed to improve our lives isn’t it?

One Inbox2
“Attempts to bring together all your message streams (email accounts, Twitter, Facebook) into a single master inbox.” (TechCruch.com)

Google Wave
A completely new way of communicating

HighRise
Contact management system to keep you and your business organized.  Never forget a conversation or email again.

HootSuite
Track all sorts of streams of information and even collect your own info from the noise that is social media.

Good luck…and try to get organized.  There’s hope if you do.