7 President’s Day Ideas For Social Media Junkies

February 19th, 2011 | Shonali Burke | 3 Comments

It’s the President’s Day weekend

here in the States, and you might be…

planning to hit the stores to find great President’s Day deals, or

heading out of town for a long weekend, or

doing a lot of laundry, or

… fill in the blanks.

If you’re a social media junkie like me, how about a few other ideas?

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Living The Heretically Productive Life

July 14th, 2010 | Shonali Burke | 15 Comments

A couple of months ago, I was asked by the estimable Thursday Bram to contribute to a blog post on Constructively Productive that would focus on “heretical’ productivity.

Image: woodring’s Flickrstream, Creative Commons

A fine idea, I thought. After all, is life worth living if you’re not a little heretical now and again?

Here’s what I said:

Put away the smart phone except for when you really, really need it. I don’t care how cool your iPhone or BlackBerry is, one of the worst things you can do is to make it your de facto computer. You’ll lose all your sense of rhythm if you’re constantly emailing back and forth from it.

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