Category: Cool Tools

Gravatar (101)

Getting Started with Gravatar.com (101)

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In this video we show you how to get started with Gravatar.com. Gravatar allows you to have your image appear beside the blog comments you leave on other people’s posts.

To get a basic understanding of Gravatar.com you can review the Wikipedia.org overview of it

You can download our Gravatar.com 101 checklist HERE.

Getting Started with Gravatar.com (101) – Video Tutorial


Action Steps

1) Set up your Gravatar.com Account

1.1 Go to www.Gravatar.com
1.2 Click on “Sign up” => http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup
1.3 Enter your Email
1.4 Click the “Link” in the confirmation Email that you received

2) Upload Your Image

2.1 Go to www.Gravatar.com
2.2 Click on “Log in” => http://en.gravatar.com/site/login

2.2.1 Enter your Email or Username
2.2.2 Enter your Password

2.3 Click on “Add an Image” => http://en.gravatar.com/gravatars/new

Choose where you’d like to get the image from:

  • My computer’s hard drive
  • An image on the Internet
  • A webcam attached to your computer
  • A previously uploaded image

3) Add an Email address

3.1 Go to www.Gravatar.com
3.2 Click on “Add an Email Address” => http://en.gravatar.com/emails/new
3.3 Confirm the Email sent from Gravatar

4) Check your Avatar

4.1 Go to => http://en.gravatar.com/site/check
4.2 Enter an Email address you wish to check

5) Additional Learning Assets
5.1 Download this Checklist => http://TheCoolestCouple.com/Gravatar101
5.2 Check out our tutorial – Gravatar (202) on The Public Profile => http://TheCoolestCouple.com/Gravatar202

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PLContactBrain

Organizing Relationships and Information for Review and Planning

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Planning where you want to go personally, spiritually and professionally is a must. If you don’t have a plan of what you want to accomplish and what you’re going to do to get there, it can feel overwhelming or a lot like being lost.

To plan for the future, you need to know where you’re at right now.

First let’s look at relationships. You have a lot of relationships with other people; the question is what type of relationship is it? Is it a personal one, strictly professional, or both? How did you get to know this person? How can you help them? Do you have common relationships with other people?

So, to know how to keep and develop your relationships, it’s important to have an understanding of what they look like now, how they relate to you and their connections with other people, events and information.

Now let’s look at all the information and knowledge you’ve amassed over the years. It is said that knowledge is power. But as Goethe said, “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” Knowledge is of no value if it is not used.

How can you make use of, or act on, any information or knowledge you’ve acquired if you can’t remember it or find it? To plan on where you want your business to go, you need to understand what you have in terms of information and knowledge you can use. Most of us don’t need more information, we just need to know what we have and make use of it.

Now that we’ve demonstrated the importance of organizing and managing your relationships, information and knowledge, there are a couple of places you can go to to find out how we organize and manage it all.

To see a cool video on organizing and managing social media relationships,
go here!

And… for a cool video on organizing and managing your information and knowledge,
go here!

Trust us… knowing where you’re at in your relationships, what information and knowledge you have… and being able to find it and make use of it, is a huge step in successful planning. That in turn is a huge step in your future happiness and success.

yellow brick road

It’s Remarkable How Much “Stuff” is Out There

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Take a trip down the Internet yellow-brick road… the what?

Well, you start in one of the social networking sites, then follow a link that someone has put there. Once you get there, you’ll find that there are more links to follow… more sites to discover, products to buy, free things to get, and on and on.

Now, not all of the things you come across are going to be meaningless, uninteresting or things you want to pass by. A lot of the information, products and services are going to draw your attention as something you’d really like to purchase or get involved with.

The unfortunate thing is that getting lost, and going in several different directions at the same time is often the result of heading down this road.

How do you make sure you don’t end up lost or out of focus on where you want your business to be? Look at each piece of information or opportunity as how it relates to you and your business. Is it something that you can implement that will help you to grow your business? Or, is it something that you can use personally to grow you?

Not only do you have to determine if it is something that relates to you or your business, you also have to decide if it is something that you can and WILL implement. Even if something appears really cool, you also have to look at the probability of you actually using it.

Think objectively and choose wisely. Look through the hype to how it relates to you and what you are looking to achieve.

One way to physically “see” the relationships between information, courses, offers and the people you meet (physically or online) is to capture it all in a Dynamic Information Map. This is an uber Cool Tool that not only enables you to store and retrieve information and connections, but to actually see the relationships between it all.

To check out this totally Cool Tool and how you can use it to “see” how things relate to you and your business: Go Here!

The Brain ™

The One Software Tool We Use Every Day – TheBrain™

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Personal Brain

There is one software tool that we use every day and it is called PersonalBrain™, but we just call it “The Brain“.

PersonalBrain™, organizes the way you think. You can organize all your ideas and information the way you think. See new relationships. Discover connections. Go from the big picture to specific details in seconds.

Watch the video below to give you a high level overview of what The Brain can do for you.

PersonalBrain: Accelerate Your Mind

See and do more with PersonalBrain’s award-winning user interface and advanced linking software. Organize ideas, projects, files, and Web pages associatively to capture your unique thinking and perspective.

Use PersonalBrain for business projects or as an “everything in your life manager” so you can get the big picture and find the right detail within seconds.

Benefits

  • See key relationships and ideas at a glance
  • Map out your thinking and complex business processes
  • Visualize folder structures, business relationships, contacts and ideas
  • Navigate across all key topics and information within your Brain’s thought network and connections

Key features include:

  • Must see animated visual interface
  • Expanded Information Views
  • Easy Drag and Drop of files, folders and Web pages
  • Advanced search and editing features

We use PersonalBrain to keep track of almost every aspect of the information that crosses our desk everyday. It helps us to organize our information into “The Digital Home for Our Mind”.

Versions:

  • Personal Brain – Free
  • Personal Brain – Core $149.95
  • Personal Brain – Pro $249.95

Download Personal Brain – Free Edition:

Just to be clear here we use the Windows version of the TheBrain, but we have supplied the Mac & Linus version links for you here.

(Look for the Free Download Button)

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PersonalBrain Installer

PBMac Max OS X
 PersonaBrain Installer

PBLinux Linux/Unix
PersonalBrain Installer

Purchase TheBrain Now

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We hope you like TheBrain as much as we do, it’s the one tool that we have open all the time. And if you took our Brain away, we know for sure that we would be lost without it. Download the Free version above to get started using TheBrain today, it will be well worth your time and engery.

Stay tuned, we will be providing more in-depth reviews of TheBrain and WebBrain.

And let us know how The Brain works for you.

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