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Some insight on working with others
I read a lot of blogs and this came across this morning and I thought I would share. It has some great advice for working with others in groups or teams or as partners. The post is titled Practical Approaches for More Effective Teamwork and it has some great tips. Many apply to everyday life. I reposted it below.
The post is from Seth Godin, a writer and pundit that I have followed for years. (Anyone who can publish bestsellers like “PURPLE COW Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable” or “All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World” must know something.)
Here are his tips.
Give credit, take responsibility
Get aligned on timeframes
Insist on a spec, write one, improve it
Agree on a budget
Keep a calendar
Don’t hold a grudge
Speak up clearly and generously
Show your work
Share your fears
Make promises and keep them
Do the reading
Talk about people only when they’re in the room
Eagerly find someone more skilled than you to do a given piece of work
Don’t hoard information
Wash your own coffee mugs, and someone else’s too
Celebrate in public, criticize in private
Don’t hide in meetings (especially the ones you call)
When you’re not sure, ask
Say back what you heard to be clear you understand
Don’t be late
Say please and thank you
Find and offer dignity
Ask what if
Ask why
Don’t tolerate bullies
When solo work is better, insist. Otherwise, pitch in or ask for help…
Support the people you believe in with honest enthusiasm
Pick your team with care, invest once you do
Relentlessly seek better
360 Shooting Tips
Found these 360 Video shooting tips in one of the feeds that I read. This is from the San Francisco Chronicle Travel section.
Some very useful stuff here. Enjoy!
Social Video at YouTube
One of the assignments in our Interactive Media Application course at MTSU is to create a short-form video for social media channels. It took a while but YouTube has finally gotten into the act.
I subscribe to a fair amount of email newsletters and this article came across my desk, How to Make YouTube Shorts for Business. Since our class is all about working for clients it seemed perfect to share with our students.
This blog was mostly created to share interesting information about technology, trends and tecniques with our students. But if others appreciate the information, so be it. Come visit the site and like and share some of the content that may interest you.
How TikTok works
Here’s a summary from The Verge about a Wall Street Journal article on how TikTok’s algorithm works. There’s a video to watch and a visualization of the algorithm.
The WSJ created hundreds of bots to probe TikTok to see what would come up as interests. Interesting to see the behind-the-scenes of TikTok. (The original WSJ article is behind a paywall.)
Making LinkedIn Videos
This article came across my desk. It applies to the Social Media Branding Video project directly but to social media video, live video, and online video series projects as well. Here’s the link.
Some takeaway tips:
LinkedIn Video Types that Work.
- Live Video
- How-To Video and Tutorials
- Behind the Scenes (BTS) and Culture videos
- Thought Leadership Videos
- Interviews