From Conversation Agent…
- Step into the conversation realizing that not everything needs to be more dramatic online
- Be alright with the idea that relationships may be temporary
- Don’t let judgment guide the next step all the time
- Share experiences, in moderation
- Use multimedia for learners and readers with different styles/preferences
- Use your content and smarts to elevate the other
- Be helpful
- Care
- Realize that the most important person is the other
- Make the content rock
- Help readers rock
- Listen and ask questions
- Stay humble
- Keep learning
- Participate sincerely, and not to brown nose
- Connect
- Take responsibility
- Resist copying
- Liberate your inner fan
- Transform your attitude
- Challenge your assumptions
- Think community vs. Self
- Collaborate freely
- Develop opportunity
- Stay passionate
- Insist on authenticity
- Stay open to changing your mind
- Provide a platform for others to find people with like interests
- Build interactions in your conversations
- Stay curious
- Stay offline when you’re tired or argumentative
- Dream, think, do
- Facilitate conversations
- Build prototypes
- Invent possibilities
- Use engagement to accelerate learning
- Brag about your fans products and services
- Evangelize your employees
- Observe more, judge less
- See the social triggers that make stuff happen
- Be more transparent
- Choose teaching over winning
- Open communication lines
- Prefer open understanding
- Keep your promises
- Build an extra mile on someone else’s runway
- Laugh more, especially about yourself
- Be courageous
- Stay with it through the thick and thin
- Tell stories
- Respect private
- Find a cause for the fire in your belly
- Be original, be yourself
- Celebrate common traits
- Want less, do more
- Become the person you’d like to be
- Stay soft on people when you’re hard on issues
- Appreciate the small gestures, they are a big deal
- Communicate more, when in doubt
- Amaze yourself
- Recognize talent
- Take more walks
- Connect because you want to, not because you feel you have to
- Discover and highlight worthy projects
- Understand the power of silence
- Stay hungry
- Thank often and liberally
- Be patient
- Encourage exploration
- Make your writing a work of art
- Find mentors
- Practice what you preach
- Be flexible
- Adopt and credit good ideas
- Break down elitist walls
- Step out of formulas
- Reinvent joy
- Earn your stripes
- Face your responsibilities
- Recognize and celebrate differences
- Learn to think with your own experience
- Invest in building something
- Appreciate success is several years in the making
- Know your values
- Work with others, it’s not a competition
- Make someone’s day
- Put people first
- Read more, react less
- Know your limits
- Find inspiration
- Experiment
- Adjust
- Be ready to be surprised
- Get to know your peers
- Inspire and find inspiration
- Know you make a difference
- Forget the numbers, you count
- Let others opt in
- Set a good example, thank often
- Raise your industry, community, readers