Over the last 10 days, I’ve set up a profile on Facebook and grown it to include 347 ‘Friends. And also done it on LinkedIn, where I now have 47 ‘Connections’. I have posted close to two hundred times on Twitter and grown my ‘Following’ from 470 to 548.
So was I existing entirely […]

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I’m exploring a new browser called FLOCK
And I’m posting this note from within my Flock browser - which automatically integrates with this blog!
It even taps into my Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Yahoo Mail accounts, conveniently presenting information from across each of these services in one integrated browser window.
This sure sounds exciting, and I’ll post a […]

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Over dinner, I had a flash of insight.
I understood what my ‘problem’ was.
I lose interest in things - BEFORE they become mainstream.
And so, I don’t profit from trends I notice and explore far ahead of a crowd.
I first started blogging in 2001. By 2003, I was convinced this trend was catching fire. […]

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Yes, I do.

The overall sentiment on ‘drmani’ at Twitter is great
How’s yours?  Take a look and see.

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I’ve been thinking about Twittographics (Twitter demographics) for a few days. In fact, ever since I read a few blog posts about the metrics that define the style of Twitter user you are, including this one by Louis Gray.
Twitter being such a versatile tool (or rather such a simple tool that it can be […]

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As a kind of experiment and survey, I asked the 598 people who are ‘following’ me on Twitter WHY they did.
The answers were instructive and interesting.

Here’s what I find intriguing, though.
I repeated this question 3 or 4 times in the course of a few hours. 14 of 598 people responded - a 2.3% ‘conversion’ […]

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In 2006, FAST COMPANY magazine did a short report about my work online helping children with congenital heart defects. The article was titled:
“Dr.Mani - Spamming for Good”
Interesting headline, isn’t it?

Since then, I’ve also been ‘Social Networking for Good’.
And have come across some amazing human beings involved in wonderful work, in […]

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I hardly ever tell you to try out things I have
not personally experienced, tested and found
useful.
That’s because there’s an ‘opportunity cost’ to
all stuff - even free things.
In the time you take to ‘test’ something, you may
be better off doing something ELSE - that really
works!
Though I haven’t often presented it that way,
THIS is the REAL value […]

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On Friday, I listened to an awesome interview.
Ron Bates is a Headhunter, Executive Search Consultant & Recruiter based
in San Francisco, USA. He’s also widely known as LinkedIn’s most-connected
user - with around FORTY THOUSAND direct Connections. Ron was saying he
was spending 1 to 2 hours A WEEK managing them!
Gosh! I was spending more than that […]

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Amid the cluster of gurus proclaiming that you should “follow the money”, I’m in the minority who suggest first finding your PASSION.
There’s a reason for this. It works. And it makes ‘work’ more fun.
But the real power of being passionate comes from the magic that it weaves upon anyone who comes into contact […]

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