Box Scores, Feb. 1-7 – “Showing, Listening, Speaking & Super Bowls”
Now that the Super Bowl excitement is over, we should probably provide some Box Scores for you on this fine, post-Super Bowl XLIV Monday. That’s right, football excitement aside, the blogosphere provided plenty of wisdom and insight for your mental consumption. Don’t pass it up. Get smarter while you recover from your food hangover and read these posts.
Jonathan Fields has rock solid post on the importance of using visuals to illustrate a point. Words are lovely (in fact, I, Mike, make a living off of them), but sometimes imagery is what it takes for someone’s brain to truly understand an important fact or two. This post on the Apple iPad’s inability to display Flash technology should help you understand what Jonathan means.
Sometimes I wish we could just feed the Brains On Fire RSS feed into Box Scores, but that would be unethical and all that junk. Instead, we try to diversify the Box Scores as much as possible, but Spike Jones just seems to catch our eye on a consistent basis. Here’s a two sentence summary on why the rest of this post is absolutely worth reading: “Don’t monitor the conversation, learn from it beyond what your competition is learning from it. Listen in a way that will help you reframe how what you do and why you’re doing it.”
-“6 Great Approaches to Public Speaking”
This is just a solid collection of public speaking tips/posts from ReadWriteWeb. Interested in improving your public speaking skills? If you’re not, maybe you should be. Check out this post, hit up their links, and let your next presentation (and every presentation after that) be your best. Once you start to notice fewer “ums” and “uhs” and a little less nervous sweating, you’ll be glad you did.
-“What Have You Been Putting Off and What’s Holding You Back?”
Two great questions in one great post from Darren Rowse at Problogger. Ask yourself these two questions, and then see if your answers resemble Darren’s initial response: “Why didn’t I do it? Was it laziness…. or busyness….? If I’m honest about it I’m sure it’d be a bit of both of those things – however I suspect it was also partly fear that held me back.” Now, if you want to get over your fear, do what you’ve been putting off, and feel good about it, check out Darren’s post. You definitely won’t regret it.
-“Content Needs to Get Most of Your Attention”
Valeria Maltoni comes in with a sick combination of thorough but easily digestible content on her Conversation Agent blog discussing…well…the importance of great content and a great content strategy. From the importance of design to key elements like reciprocity, Valeria’s post is worth reading to see how you can improve your blogs content (and consequently improve your blog). Enjoy.
There you have it. Some great posts from the past week, brought here together in a convenient set of Box Scores just for you. Hope you get as much out of them as we did. If you have any to add that we might have missed, leave us a comment below or drop us a line on our Facebook page.
Also, if you want to see all of this year’s Super Bowl ads, Advertising Age online has a good collection for you. Let us know what you think!
Photo (“Southern Tier Youth Football Conference”) c/o Jim Danvers. Thanks Jim!