The promise of the social web is about making it easy to share the small stuff — to make it effortless and rebuild that feeling of connectedness that comes from knowing the details….It will be great when the instant I think of something to tell my friends, or something I need from my friends, they’re available to me in some way.   Remember when Google embedded IM into Gmail, and you could suddenly see — without changing applications — that the friend you were about to email was online and easily reachable right at that second? …Now, many sites and services are adding even more sophisticated plumbing (like profiles and friends and presence and comments) that brings the immediacy of social interaction to more and more places on the web….We — meaning Google and many others in the web community — are in the midst of a burst of energy around all things social that is teaching us more every day about what people want to do with their friends and where. …What are the big plumbing problems — like contact portability, or standards for user authentication and authorization — that need to be solved for the whole web because no one site can do it on its own?Google is chipping in on all of these fronts, listening closely to our users to make our existing products more social in useful ways, and by working with the web community on software projects like OpenSocial and OAuth to address some of the big infrastructure challenges that are best solved in the open, with the perspective of many developers and website owners represented.   Fast forward ten years, and you’ll feel even more at home on the web than you do today - because it will be a pretty good reflection of you. Via The social web : About the small stuff

Twitter attended then left. Not sure if they ever came back or not.Laconica is an open source micro blogging application that apparently Leo Laporte is using with his TWiT Army. Identi.ca was also built upon Laconica.Do you twitter? If so, what do you think of it?

What do you think? What perception would that create?

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AttorneysDelivered.com, owned by fast growing search engine marketing company Qualified Impressions, LLC, is launching a new product July 1st for Attorneys and Law Firms.

This seems to be the next big wave for attorneys and marketing.

For anyone who understands how to market their website on search engines, they understand that links from other websites play a major factor. The purpose of marketing on the search engines is to show up on the results when people type in “keywords”. Then they click to your site (or listing) and contact you.

This Attorneys Delivered platform does the following:

• improves brand image
• improve your position on the search engines for business related keywords
• increases the # of visitors that visit your listing
• increases the # of potential customers that find you

Without digging into the technical aspects, it is designed to drive people to your listing page AND to your website.

You can read what LAW.COM has to say about them here:

http://legaltechnology.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/04/attorneys-deliv.html

And . . you can read more about the PROOF behind their system here:

http://www.attorneysdelivered.com/member-benefits.html

Reading the benefits page, you’ll see they give a real live example of how their system works — and you’ll also see the quote from Kazan Law firm backing up exactly what AttorneysDelivered says they do.

We have the opportunity to create our future exactly as we want it. Literally, everything an entrepreneur does moves him/her closer to or further away from their future lifestyle and a dream fulfilled. It all begins with self-awareness and belief in ones self.

Lifestyle Design and the Role of Self Awareness

Owning and operating a business that fits your lifestyle has a lot to do with how well you are able to define what you want, have, and can learn.

1. Want: get clear about the results you want to create in your business and life.
2. Have: identify the resources you have at your disposal including time, money, and skills. What skills do you have that will help you achieve your goals?
3. Learn: where are the gaps in your entrepreneurial skills? What do you need to learn?

Being clear about what you want, have, and can learn will help you to distinguish between that which is interesting and that which is indispensable to achieving your goals.

Uncovering Your Entrepreneurial Skills

Over at Gateway Blogging I have developed a free worksheet and virtual coaching voice thread all about uncovering entrepreneurial skills. I invite you to visit the Uncovering Your Entrepreneurial Skills post to download the worksheet and enjoy a private virtual coaching session with Greg.

Now if you have been thinking about getting started blogging or that your blog could be doing better at generating new business - register for our upcoming Alpha Release of the Gateway Blogging Interactive Learning Environment (ILE).

As the online learning environment gets closer to completion, we’ll need testers and a seed community who will be given special pricing consideration for helping to mold and shape Gateway Blogging. Early adopters will also be able to take what they learn in Gateway Blogging to the marketplace and benefit from it before anyone else.

1. Building a Micro Learning for Small Business video blog.
2. Collaborating on a book on Small Business Transitions with two other business coaches from the PBCA. (I am a founding member).
3. Collaborating on an Interactive Learning Environment (ILE) at Gateway Blogging with Michael Martine, aka Remarkablogger.
4. Re-engineering my Marketing Safari Seminar which has been delivered to 2,600+ entrepreneurs at 160 events, into a webinar to launch this fall. (an Internet Marketing Safari webinar for online businesses as well)
5. Starting a web development business with my son, which will be called Maximum Web Development - Maximizing Your Websites Potential. Expected to launch this fall.
6. Last, but not least, I also do business coaching.

That what keeps me pressing forward to discover my highest and best.