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Tim Ferriss: 7 Great Principles for Dealing with Haters Dealing with negativity online can be tough, which was why we were all ears when Tim Ferriss, author of The Four Hour Work Week, took the stage at The Next Web '10 event in Amsterdam to discuss how to learn to love haters. While Mashable recently offered you advice on how to deal with negative feedback specifically in the social media realm, Ferriss takes the concept a step further with advice on how to contend with — and benefit from — criticism across all platforms. We caught up with Ferriss backstage at the event to find out more about his seven principles for dealing with haters. Read on for some interesting ideas and let us know which work for you — as well as your own strategies — in the comments below. 1. "It's critical in social media, as in life, to have a clear objective and not to lose sight of that," Ferriss says. 2. 10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. 3. 4. "This principle goes hand-in-hand with number two," Ferriss says. 5. 6. 7.

Woman Who Fell in Fountain in YouTube Video May Sue Remember how we all laughed last Friday at the cautionary tale that was "Girl falls into fountain while texting at the Berkshire Mall"? Well, the folks at the mall where the incident occurred probably aren't laughing now, as Cathy Cruz Marrero (the fountain woman) is considering suing them. The video in question — in case you haven't seen it — is pretty self-explanatory. It features a mall security video with audio of mall employees laughing at Marrero as she texts while walking, subsequently falling into a fountain. Now, Marrero is making the news circuit rounds with a lawyer in tow, stating that she might be suing the mall. "My issue is I don't think security was professional because they didn't send anyone to check on me until 20 minutes later and I had already left," Marrero told Reading Eagle. "We are troubled by the fact that anyone at the Berkshire Mall responsible for releasing this video would find humor in an employee injured on the premises," her lawyer, James M.

5 Tips for Making Your Business Presentations More Social Every day, thousands of people are forced to sit through dull, flat PowerPoint presentations. Whether you’re presenting slides during a sales call, speaking at a conference, presenting your company to investors, or sending a presentation via e-mail to a potential client, boring your audience is hardly the goal. You want your presentation to engage people in a conversation that leads to a closed deal, a new partnership, or a round of funding. Thankfully, there are several web-based applications available today that allow you to incorporate rich media into your presentations like social features, real-time feeds, and interactive elements. 1. Even before your presentation day arrives, reach out to your audience using social media channels to get them excited about your talk. As the presenter, be sure to participate in these communities by soliciting feedback on your proposed topic and networking with key contacts ahead of your presentation. 2. 3. 4. 5.

SlideDeck | Free Slideshow Software Download, Slider jQuery SlideShow WordPress Plugin Woman Sells First Spot in iPad 2 Line For $900 College student Amanda Foote has turned the die-hard techie tradition of waiting hours, sometimes days, to be the first to purchase a new Apple product into a lucrative odd job. After nearly 41 hours of waiting in line for the iPad 2 release at Apple's flagship store in New York, she sold her number one spot for $900. Foote sat through an entire day of rain, had a stranger help himself to a box of doughnuts she was eating, and slept a total of 3 hours and 10 minutes in the time between when she got in line at 5 p.m. The buyer, app developer Hazem Sayed, says he is planning on leaving for a business trip Friday evening and wants to have an iPad 2 (which starts at $499) with him. He's not alone in paying for the cachet of being among the first to purchase apple products. In June, before the iPhone 4 launch, spots in line to buy the new phone were reportedly going for as much as $1,200. "We like the competition, the atmosphere, meeting people," Cruz says.

Making presentations that stick Almost three years agoI praised the ideas expressed in the bestselling book Made to Stick.I even featured the ideas briefly in the first book, Presentation Zen. Earlier this month Fast Company Magazine featured a 3-minute video by Made to Stick co-author Dan Heath on their website called Presentations that Stick. Watch the video below orcheckout the transcripts and resources on the Fast Company site.As you may recall from the bookMade to Stick,if you want to communicate your ideas in a way that makes an impact, then craft messages that embrace storytelling, are simple, concrete, credible, emotional, and have an element of unexpectedness. NOTE: Presentation at Apple Store in Ginza (Tokyo) this Tuesday (4-13) If you are in Tokyo this Tuesday — or know anyone who will be — please consider stopping by my free presentation which starts at 7:00pm, April 13 (Tuesday) in the Apple Store (Ginza) theatre. I am working with Apple right now to see if I can present in the London store in mid-June.

2 Ways to do Geo-targeting on Facebook Fan pages | Rocky FU Facebook Page Settings Depending on the desired markets, online marketers can target geographically at Facebook Page settings on a country level. In addition, depending on the type of customers you want to engage on Facebook, you may want to specify the targeted age group though you don’t have much choice at the moment: Anyone (13+)People over 17People over 18People over 19People over 21Alcohol-Related At China Internet Watch fan page, we just target anyone worldwide. If you run a local business in one or several countries, you can use the “country restriction” setting. Ask yourself where your customers are and what you want to do with your Facebook page. What you can also do when you target worldwide with occasional local promotions is, use the targeting feature when you post wall messages:

Extreme Presentation Method Make a magazine via sets with MagCloud The good people over at MagCloud have launched “Upload from Flickr” which enables our members to easily make magazines from their Flickr sets. Once you authenticate against your account, you can access a set and MagCloud does the rest, skipping the tortuous design program part.* Woot! I’ve made a couple of magazines and it really is that easy. Check out their blog for the “Upload from Flickr” announcement. Photo from brianfling. * Designers, I love you — no hate mail, please. Getting linear When you're excited about something, you want to share that excitement with other people. But sometimes that comes across as "this is so great, you've got to try it!" which isn't very compelling. Just because you're excited about it, doesn't mean that they will be. I've had a hard time communicating why I think mind maps (and other visual tools) are so great. Here's what I learned as I worked through this process. I tend to generalize, and see mind maps as a multipurpose tool that can be very helpful for almost anyone in many situations. When I got down to crafting a single elevator pitch, I found that I thought of new and more specific ideas, that were more applicable, than the ones I'd initially brainstormed for each field. I haven't word-smithed these yet, or tested my results on friends or potential customers. This came at a good time for me, and I plan to do the same exercise for some other products and services.