Stepping Stones

I like this new tool called Scribd. It gives you the means to quickly upload any docs and file types quickly to the web and then embed the doc in your web or blog. Very cool.

The 8 Blogging Habits of Highly Effective People

I see a number of connections between the benefits of blogging catalogued by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel in Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, and the 8 habits of effectiveness and greatness outlined by Stephen Covey in his two most famous books, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons for Personal Change, and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness. I already blogged about how blogging is a natural channel through which to practice the 8th habit, find your voice and inspire others to find theirs: every blogger has a voice, and reading other blogs often helps inspire me to take more risks in my own blogging. Having recently finished Naked Conversations — and having continued to blog for two years since my initial observation — I see even greater relevance between blogging and [other] habits of effectiveness and greatness.

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