David S. Finch

Your Weekend Reader: Morning Edition

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9 Simple Ways to Go Green in the Office: If you are anything like me, then you probably feel responsible for our planet in some ways. Having those feelings doesn't mean we have to walk with picket signs or call our local member of congress. However, it does mean that we can perhaps see the value in changing our behavior a little.

Obama’s Success: It’s the Online Networking, Stupid: The divide between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama doesn’t end with years and ideology. It also exhibits itself through the Internet. According to an MIT Technology Review article written by David Talbot, Barack Obama has managed to create the best online political machine the nation has ever seen. John McCain, on the other hand, doesn’t use email.

How to Read: We know that people don’t read well online. They ruthlessly scan for interesting chunks of information rather than digesting the whole, and they want to be entertained in the process. Plus, if you’re doing nothing but scanning hundreds of RSS feeds and reading purely to be entertained, you’re at a disadvantage. Someone in your niche or industry is likely reading books and reading deeper to become the higher authority.

Workflow - Social Media Marketers: What does a day in the life of a social media marketer look like? I’m not a marketer, so if I get some of your terms wrong, forgive me. I thought maybe we could do a walkthrough of a fictitious social media marketer.

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The Missing Links: Your Weekend Reader

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21 Must-Read Tips To Write Better Web Content: I am sure a lot of bloggers and web content creators realize the importance of good content and like me, they too try to write better articles everyday. To help them further, I decided that I'll scour some of the most well known blogs and sites which include content on blogging and writing in general and list 21 excellent articles which could greatly improve your writing skills.

3 Mistakes to Avoid with your Business Promotion: As a new business owner, you have to deal with the many varying pieces in your business puzzle that sometime you can want to gain more clients or want to share your newest products you can jump in too quickly which you can have good intentions however may be disappointed that it may not turn out the way you expect.

Dream to Reality: How I Quit My Day Job: Ever since I learned about the concept of financial independence five years ago, the seed of a dream had been planted. My dream: Having the freedom to deliberately choose how I spend every day - to have complete freedom of time.

How to Do More With Less Time: You need better time management. You’re looking for time saving tips. Whether you’re in a huge organization, a team of 30, or a solo practitioner, it’s fairly guaranteed that you’ve got more work to do than you have time to complete it. Further, the effort it takes to keep up with people in social media and do it like a human being takes some time. In this post, I’ll talk about how to do more with less time.

The Bonsai Method of Social Media Management: The cost of paying too much attention to your work, or one element of your work (if that’s what social media is for you), is that you don’t have enough left over for the other important facets of your life–hobbies, real world relationships, your spiritual life. The cost of maintaining a thousand or so microrelationships can be not enough time and energy left over for your core real-world relationships.

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10 Favorite News Channels on YouTube

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The easiest remedy for any news junkie is to watch the news in short clips. Most of us don't have time to watch multiple newscasts, but thanks to sites like YouTube you can watch quality news stories at any time. By subscribing to the channel you can watch it any time of the day or night.

Top 10 News Channels on YouTube

1. The Onion
The Onion News Network is an arm of The Onion, America's FInest News Source. The network's style of hard-hitting, on-the-ground coverage of live news events has become a standard in the news industry. The network can be viewed in 92.2 million U.S. households and more than 500,000 American prison cells, making it the most-watched cable network in the world. It can currently be seen in 312 countries, with broadcasts in 52 different languages.

The Onion

2. Al Jazeera English
The world's first English language news channel to have its headquarters in the Middle East; covering the world, bridging cultures and setting the news agenda.

Al Jazeera English

3. Real News Network
The Real News Network is a global online video news network that listens to and is dependent solely on its audience. No ads. No government subsidies, no corporate sponsorship.

Real News Network

4. BBC World News

International video news from the BBC.

BBC World News

5. Liberal Viewers Media
Because I believe in FREE SPEECH (not censorship, thought suppression or, even, "political correctness"), I believe the best antidote for FALSE speech is TRUE speech.

Liberal Viewers Media

6. Reuters
The latest video from Reuters News Service.

Reuters News

7. CNN International - UK
From politics to the playing field and entertainment to entrepreneurs, CNN brings you the news that impacts your world, featuring the most famous faces and offering you insight into the most inspiring gurus from every genre and from every corner of the world.

CNN International

8. NTV Kenya
NTV Kenya is Nation Media Group's TV broadcast station, covering a large part of Kenya and the leading one in Kenya.

NTV Kenya

9. Fox News Flash
We watch hundreds of videos everyday for the best and most exciting, dynamic, absurd, and electrifyingly awesome footage from around the world to bring to you The Blast viewer.

Fox News Flash

10. Bloomberg Television

When Wall Street needs to know, it turns to Bloomberg for the breaking news, analytics and insights that move markets. Our team of experienced anchors brings the power that drives Wall Street into your home. Watch today and discover what a financial news network should be.

Bloomberg Televison

What news channels are you watching via YouTube or online? Leave a comment and link in the comments section.

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Your Weekend Reader: Morning Edition

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8 Business-Travel Tips: In my work, I spend a lot of time on the road. In the past four weeks, I have made separate trips to Abu Dhabi, Zurich, and London – along with many stops in the U.S. On American Airlines alone I have logged over 9.5 million frequent flyer miles.
Lots of people have asked me, “How do you do it?”

25+ Tools For Accounting and Budgeting: There are a growing number of online services dedicated to helping users manage their finances. There are many benefits to using these accounting applications, they can simplify the process as well as help you find ways to save money. Here are 25+ tools for accounting and budgeting both personal and business finances.

Etiquette in the Age of Social Media: Insightful etiquette tips for email, blogging, Facebook and Twitter.

How to Shut Off Your Job for a Weekend (or vacation): Getting ready for a weekend and getting ready for a vacation have a lot in common for me. I like to look around, clean up and clear out so I can get away.

The Best Advice I Ever Got: 40 Great Money Tips: CNNMoney has posted a gallery of money tips from 40 “great minds”, ranging from Derek Jeter to Tim Ferriss to Burton Malkiel. Each participant provided an anecdote about the best piece of financial advice they ever received.

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Your Weekend Reader: Sunday Edition

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Here’s 60 Public Speaking Tip-Bits To Keep You Ahead Of The Speaking Game: Aren’t you curious about how to take the guesswork of public speaking? Aren’t you dying to find out that ONE lesson top speakers learn that made all the difference? Aren’t you intrigued by how some amateur speakers could wow the crowd by applying that one tip-bit? Presenting to you a list of 60 public speaking tip-bits that kept the top speakers ahead of the speaking game.

3 Reasons Why You Need Multiple Streams of Income: One of the hottest concepts right now is the premise of creating multiple streams of income. While everyone wouldn’t mind making a little extra cash, there are even more benefits that can be reaped from having more than one source of income. Let’s go over just a few of them.

Marketing Essentials Part 5: Behold the Business Card: Your business card has a very important job. A business card is a low-cost multisensory marketing tools that convey your brand, your message and the personality of your company in one powerful shot.

Startup Hacks: An Early Stage Checklist: Here’s a list of things to keep in mind in the early stages of your startup, sponsored by the school of hard knocks.

9 Smart Money Tips To Help You Quit Your Job: Daydream about quitting your job and doing something you love? Rather than simply dreaming, why not establish your goals and work toward a day when you have enough money or alternative income to quit? Here are some helpful tips that everyone can use.

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How Are You Using Twitter?

One application, 140 characters, yet so many ways to use it. How are you using Twitter?

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Your Weekend Reader: Late Edition

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10 Great places to drop your business card: Do you have a business card offering your services? If so do you ever use them or are they still sitting in a nice plastic box looking pristine waiting for you to hand them out to someone. Well here’s a great way to market your business absolutely free and start putting the power of business cards to use.

7 Tips to Develop the Habit of Daily Exercise: Physical activity is not as hard as you think. In fact, is not as painful as you think either (you should be virtually pain free after about a week. For a short investment of time each week, you will reap a ton of rewards.

40 Positive Effects of a TV Free Week: “What could you accomplish if you stopped watching TV? What would you do with all the extra time?” My wife asked me these questions two weeks ago. After a short discussion, we decided to find out for ourselves. We completely eliminated television from our lives last week. It turned out to be an incredibly rewarding experience. We now have a plan to drastically reduce our future viewing habits.

How To Be A Kickass Volunteer: A volunteer, by definition, positively serves and improves our community. A little birdie told me that some volunteers prefer to laze around and play Candy Land instead of getting any real work done. I assume that these people believe that since they are volunteering, they are automatically helping and consequently forget to put genuine sweat into their work.

The Secret of Writing Funny: There are but a few vocations in which a skilled practitioner can create instantaneous health benefits including relaxation, lowering blood pressure, curing male pattern baldness and increasing immune system response. Remarkably, as a writer, you’re already in this line of work. Almost all of these health benefits can all be obtained by making your reader giggle, laugh, guffaw or otherwise shoot beverages out an unexpected orifice.

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