<\/span>\u2193<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n2 \u2013 Two Top Tweets of the week<\/p>\n
3 \u2013 Three Social Media Growth Hacks<\/p>\n
4\u00a0\u2013 Four Productivity Tips
\n___<\/p>\n
<\/span>First: 2015 Word of the Year<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/span>![\"\ud83d\ude02](\"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/emoji-tears-of-joy-300x300.png\")
<\/a>So long language! An emoji is named \u2018Word of the Year\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\nOxford Dictionaries has named its pick for Word of the Year \u2014 and it\u2019s less a pick than a pic. That\u2019s right: out of all the newly popular \u201cwords\u201d to capture the \u201cethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015,\u201d the winning choice <\/strong>is \ud83d\ude02<\/strong>, a.k.a. the \u201cFace with Tears of Joy\u201d emoji.<\/strong><\/p>\nSign of the changing times, or a desperate attempt for Oxford Dictionaries to stay relevant? You decide. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/span>Two Top Tweets<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n1 – 42.2K Shares:\u00a0Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Bold Plan for the Future of Facebook<\/a><\/h3>\n![\"INSIDE](\"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/facebook-zuckerberg-150x150.png\")
<\/a>Mark is fixing stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m killing time in the Frank Gehry\u2013designed Building 20, whose signature feature is its soaring 434,000 square feet of open space, the latest addition to Facebook\u2019s campus in\u00a0Menlo Park, California<\/a>. A PR handler is explaining why CEO Mark Zuckerberg is running slightly behind schedule for our chat. I express surprise. Mark still fixes stuff?<\/p>\n“To say he\u2019s actively involved,” she confides, “is an understatement. He notices things that are broken before anybody.” Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n2 – 5.2K Shares:\u00a0Behind The +1: Meet The New Google+(Plus)<\/a><\/h3>\nGoogle+ has always been a project<\/a> for Google, regardless of what you\u2019ve read in the media. With projects, come changes\u2026and there have been quite a few for Google+ this year.<\/p>\nRead more<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Google](\"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/google--300x91.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span>Three Social Media Growth Hacks<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n1 – 9.6K Shares:\u00a0Conducting a Social Media Audit<\/a><\/h3>\nWhether marketers like it or not, consumers are now generating over 25% of content<\/a> that appears in web searches for specific brand names, and consumers often trust those social media messages<\/a> more than advertising or news articles about the brand.<\/p>\nResearch<\/a> has shown that this \u201celectronic word-of-mouth<\/strong>\u201d is seen as reliable by consumers and significantly affects a firm\u2019s perceived value.\u00a0I developed a social media audit template for the book Social Media Strategy: Marketing and Advertising in the Consumer Revolution<\/em> from the principle of the Five Ws that is taught to journalists: who, where, what, when, and why.<\/p>\nRead more<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Example](\"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/social-media-template-1024x660.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n2 – 2.1K Shares: How to Make Every Piece of Content SEO-Friendly<\/a><\/h3>\nSEO used to be the realm of experts who worked their dark arts and somehow boosted rankings. Today, there aren\u2019t as many secrets to SEO. And those \u201cdark arts\u201d? They\u2019ll get your site penalized or delisted.<\/p>\n
Even though the basics of SEO are common knowledge, some misunderstandings still exist as to how it\u2019s all applied, including these questions:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- What does \u201cSEO friendly\u201d mean?<\/li>\n
- What about keywords?<\/li>\n
- How many keywords should I use?<\/li>\n
- How many times should I use the keyword in the content?<\/li>\n
- How do I achieve semantic relevance?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n3 – 2K Shares:\u00a050 Content Marketing Tips to Maximize Traffic, Leads, and Sales<\/a><\/h3>\nMost businesses are now using content marketing in some shape or form. However, many business owners still don’t fully understand how to use content to help them achieve specific goals; namely, increased traffic, leads, and sales.<\/p>\n
Here are 50 tips to help you get ROI from your content marketing campaign.<\/p>\n
Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span>Four Productivity Tips<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n1 – 5.8K Shares:\u00a06 Remarkable Productivity Tips Musicians Can Teach You<\/a><\/h3>\nProductivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nB.B. King<\/a> was known as “King of the Blues.” He said he attained his throne following two simple rules: “I never play out of my range, and I let my manager handle the business side of things so I can keep playing the music without distractions.”<\/p>\nAnother way to say this is: Concentrate on what you’re best <\/strong>at and let someone else (paid, volunteer, app, or partner) take care of everything else.<\/strong><\/p>\nRead <\/span>more<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"B.B.](\"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BB-King.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n2\u00a0– 2.8K Shares:\u00a0The 31 Best Tools for Improving Your Writing Skills<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\nWords are hard.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhether you’re a published author or just getting started with blogging, it’s not always easy to string words together in a way that makes sense, sounds good and makes the reader\u00a0feel\u00a0<\/em>something.<\/p>\nLuckily, there are a slew of great tools you can use to help improve your writing.<\/p>\n
Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n3\u00a0– 15.6K Shares: How To Actually Be More Productive, By The Guy Who Designed Facebook’s Productivity Tool<\/a><\/h3>\n![\"How](\"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justin-Rosenstein-Facebook-150x150.png\")
<\/a>I’m a software developer, designer, and entrepreneur. I’m the co-founder of Asana<\/a>, team productivity software that many great companies (e.g. Uber, Pinterest, Dropbox) use to run their companies. Back when I was an engineering manager at Facebook, I designed the internal team productivity tool that the company still relies on.<\/p>\nSuffice it to say, I’ve been obsessed with productivity for a long time.<\/p>\n
Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n4\u00a0– 12.7K Shares: 5 Tips to Read 100 Books a Year<\/a><\/h3>\nTo be a successful entrepreneur, you must increase the quantity and quality of the books you read.<\/p>\n
The Cliff Notes:<\/p>\n
\n- Learn How to Speed Read<\/li>\n
- Don’t Read Cover-to-Cover<\/li>\n
- Set Time\u00a0Limits<\/li>\n
- Read the Easy Books First<\/li>\n
- Only Read the Best Books<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
\n___<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/a>So long language! An emoji is named \u2018Word of the Year\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\nOxford Dictionaries has named its pick for Word of the Year \u2014 and it\u2019s less a pick than a pic. That\u2019s right: out of all the newly popular \u201cwords\u201d to capture the \u201cethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015,\u201d the winning choice <\/strong>is \ud83d\ude02<\/strong>, a.k.a. the \u201cFace with Tears of Joy\u201d emoji.<\/strong><\/p>\nSign of the changing times, or a desperate attempt for Oxford Dictionaries to stay relevant? You decide. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/span>Two Top Tweets<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n1 – 42.2K Shares:\u00a0Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Bold Plan for the Future of Facebook<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/a>Mark is fixing stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m killing time in the Frank Gehry\u2013designed Building 20, whose signature feature is its soaring 434,000 square feet of open space, the latest addition to Facebook\u2019s campus in\u00a0Menlo Park, California<\/a>. A PR handler is explaining why CEO Mark Zuckerberg is running slightly behind schedule for our chat. I express surprise. Mark still fixes stuff?<\/p>\n“To say he\u2019s actively involved,” she confides, “is an understatement. He notices things that are broken before anybody.” Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n2 – 5.2K Shares:\u00a0Behind The +1: Meet The New Google+(Plus)<\/a><\/h3>\nGoogle+ has always been a project<\/a> for Google, regardless of what you\u2019ve read in the media. With projects, come changes\u2026and there have been quite a few for Google+ this year.<\/p>\nRead more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span>Three Social Media Growth Hacks<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n1 – 9.6K Shares:\u00a0Conducting a Social Media Audit<\/a><\/h3>\nWhether marketers like it or not, consumers are now generating over 25% of content<\/a> that appears in web searches for specific brand names, and consumers often trust those social media messages<\/a> more than advertising or news articles about the brand.<\/p>\nResearch<\/a> has shown that this \u201celectronic word-of-mouth<\/strong>\u201d is seen as reliable by consumers and significantly affects a firm\u2019s perceived value.\u00a0I developed a social media audit template for the book Social Media Strategy: Marketing and Advertising in the Consumer Revolution<\/em> from the principle of the Five Ws that is taught to journalists: who, where, what, when, and why.<\/p>\nRead more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n2 – 2.1K Shares: How to Make Every Piece of Content SEO-Friendly<\/a><\/h3>\nSEO used to be the realm of experts who worked their dark arts and somehow boosted rankings. Today, there aren\u2019t as many secrets to SEO. And those \u201cdark arts\u201d? They\u2019ll get your site penalized or delisted.<\/p>\n
Even though the basics of SEO are common knowledge, some misunderstandings still exist as to how it\u2019s all applied, including these questions:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- What does \u201cSEO friendly\u201d mean?<\/li>\n
- What about keywords?<\/li>\n
- How many keywords should I use?<\/li>\n
- How many times should I use the keyword in the content?<\/li>\n
- How do I achieve semantic relevance?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n3 – 2K Shares:\u00a050 Content Marketing Tips to Maximize Traffic, Leads, and Sales<\/a><\/h3>\nMost businesses are now using content marketing in some shape or form. However, many business owners still don’t fully understand how to use content to help them achieve specific goals; namely, increased traffic, leads, and sales.<\/p>\n
Here are 50 tips to help you get ROI from your content marketing campaign.<\/p>\n
Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span>Four Productivity Tips<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n1 – 5.8K Shares:\u00a06 Remarkable Productivity Tips Musicians Can Teach You<\/a><\/h3>\nProductivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nB.B. King<\/a> was known as “King of the Blues.” He said he attained his throne following two simple rules: “I never play out of my range, and I let my manager handle the business side of things so I can keep playing the music without distractions.”<\/p>\nAnother way to say this is: Concentrate on what you’re best <\/strong>at and let someone else (paid, volunteer, app, or partner) take care of everything else.<\/strong><\/p>\nRead <\/span>more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n2\u00a0– 2.8K Shares:\u00a0The 31 Best Tools for Improving Your Writing Skills<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\nWords are hard.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhether you’re a published author or just getting started with blogging, it’s not always easy to string words together in a way that makes sense, sounds good and makes the reader\u00a0feel\u00a0<\/em>something.<\/p>\nLuckily, there are a slew of great tools you can use to help improve your writing.<\/p>\n
Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n3\u00a0– 15.6K Shares: How To Actually Be More Productive, By The Guy Who Designed Facebook’s Productivity Tool<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/a>I’m a software developer, designer, and entrepreneur. I’m the co-founder of Asana<\/a>, team productivity software that many great companies (e.g. Uber, Pinterest, Dropbox) use to run their companies. Back when I was an engineering manager at Facebook, I designed the internal team productivity tool that the company still relies on.<\/p>\nSuffice it to say, I’ve been obsessed with productivity for a long time.<\/p>\n
Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n4\u00a0– 12.7K Shares: 5 Tips to Read 100 Books a Year<\/a><\/h3>\nTo be a successful entrepreneur, you must increase the quantity and quality of the books you read.<\/p>\n
The Cliff Notes:<\/p>\n
\n- Learn How to Speed Read<\/li>\n
- Don’t Read Cover-to-Cover<\/li>\n
- Set Time\u00a0Limits<\/li>\n
- Read the Easy Books First<\/li>\n
- Only Read the Best Books<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
![\"\ud83d\ude02](\"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/emoji-tears-of-joy.png\")
<\/a>So long language! Sign of the changing times, or a desperate attempt for Oxford Dictionaries to stay relevant? You decide. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n I\u2019m killing time in the Frank Gehry\u2013designed Building 20, whose signature feature is its soaring 434,000 square feet of open space, the latest addition to Facebook\u2019s campus in\u00a0Menlo Park, California<\/a>. A PR handler is explaining why CEO Mark Zuckerberg is running slightly behind schedule for our chat. I express surprise. Mark still fixes stuff?<\/p>\n “To say he\u2019s actively involved,” she confides, “is an understatement. He notices things that are broken before anybody.” Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n Google+ has always been a project<\/a> for Google, regardless of what you\u2019ve read in the media. With projects, come changes\u2026and there have been quite a few for Google+ this year.<\/p>\n Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n Whether marketers like it or not, consumers are now generating over 25% of content<\/a> that appears in web searches for specific brand names, and consumers often trust those social media messages<\/a> more than advertising or news articles about the brand.<\/p>\n Research<\/a> has shown that this \u201celectronic word-of-mouth<\/strong>\u201d is seen as reliable by consumers and significantly affects a firm\u2019s perceived value.\u00a0I developed a social media audit template for the book Social Media Strategy: Marketing and Advertising in the Consumer Revolution<\/em> from the principle of the Five Ws that is taught to journalists: who, where, what, when, and why.<\/p>\n Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n SEO used to be the realm of experts who worked their dark arts and somehow boosted rankings. Today, there aren\u2019t as many secrets to SEO. And those \u201cdark arts\u201d? They\u2019ll get your site penalized or delisted.<\/p>\n Even though the basics of SEO are common knowledge, some misunderstandings still exist as to how it\u2019s all applied, including these questions:<\/span><\/p>\n Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n Most businesses are now using content marketing in some shape or form. However, many business owners still don’t fully understand how to use content to help them achieve specific goals; namely, increased traffic, leads, and sales.<\/p>\n Here are 50 tips to help you get ROI from your content marketing campaign.<\/p>\n Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n B.B. King<\/a> was known as “King of the Blues.” He said he attained his throne following two simple rules: “I never play out of my range, and I let my manager handle the business side of things so I can keep playing the music without distractions.”<\/p>\n Another way to say this is: Concentrate on what you’re best <\/strong>at and let someone else (paid, volunteer, app, or partner) take care of everything else.<\/strong><\/p>\n Read <\/span>more<\/a>.<\/p>\n Words are hard.<\/strong><\/p>\n Whether you’re a published author or just getting started with blogging, it’s not always easy to string words together in a way that makes sense, sounds good and makes the reader\u00a0feel\u00a0<\/em>something.<\/p>\n Luckily, there are a slew of great tools you can use to help improve your writing.<\/p>\n Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n Suffice it to say, I’ve been obsessed with productivity for a long time.<\/p>\n Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n To be a successful entrepreneur, you must increase the quantity and quality of the books you read.<\/p>\n The Cliff Notes:<\/p>\n<\/span>Two Top Tweets<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
1 – 42.2K Shares:\u00a0Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Bold Plan for the Future of Facebook<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/a>Mark is fixing stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n2 – 5.2K Shares:\u00a0Behind The +1: Meet The New Google+(Plus)<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span>Three Social Media Growth Hacks<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
1 – 9.6K Shares:\u00a0Conducting a Social Media Audit<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n2 – 2.1K Shares: How to Make Every Piece of Content SEO-Friendly<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n
3 – 2K Shares:\u00a050 Content Marketing Tips to Maximize Traffic, Leads, and Sales<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/span>Four Productivity Tips<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
1 – 5.8K Shares:\u00a06 Remarkable Productivity Tips Musicians Can Teach You<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n2\u00a0– 2.8K Shares:\u00a0The 31 Best Tools for Improving Your Writing Skills<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
3\u00a0– 15.6K Shares: How To Actually Be More Productive, By The Guy Who Designed Facebook’s Productivity Tool<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/a>I’m a software developer, designer, and entrepreneur. I’m the co-founder of Asana<\/a>, team productivity software that many great companies (e.g. Uber, Pinterest, Dropbox) use to run their companies. Back when I was an engineering manager at Facebook, I designed the internal team productivity tool that the company still relies on.<\/p>\n4\u00a0– 12.7K Shares: 5 Tips to Read 100 Books a Year<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n
![\"5](\"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Quality-Old-Book.jpg\")
<\/a>___<\/p>\n