The Martin Messier Gazette

Seth Godin has started a round of Linchpin interviews. First up? Gary Vaynerchuk.
Check out what he’s got to say about linchpins.

Linchpin: GaryVee from Seth Godin on Vimeo.

Share and Enjoy:

Everyone and anyone interested in increasing productivity has, at one point or another, crossed the following instruction:
The secret to productivity is focus. Do only one thing at a time.
And then, the inevitable question surfaces:
“How do I do that?”
I venture to say that Merlin Mann has answered the question.
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.
[...] So, first, care. Then, as you’ll happily and unavoidably discover, all that “focus” business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.
There you go. [...]

I just came across this nifty little tool that can beef up the interactivity in your presentation. I, for sure, won’t go into another one without it.
PowerPoint Twitter Tools allows you to embed twitter messages into your PowerPoint slides. Those messages are posted to your Twitter account  the instant you get to that point in the presentation. Your audience can then immediately retweet them, or redeploy the key points of your presentation to other platforms.
Moreover, it contains gadgets that enable [...]

Here’s Jason Fried’s awesome first-person interview from Big Think.

Share and Enjoy:

I just found this service today.
If you’ve ever needed to fill out PDF government forms, or any other for that matter of fact, this cool little tool lets you do just that.
Fill it out online and then print it out to sign. Or sign it online. One way or another, it’s a must for your bookmarks.
Check out FillAnyPDF.

Share and Enjoy: