{"id":724,"date":"2009-01-06T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=724"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:52:29","slug":"weekly-deep-thoughts-that-are-not-my-own-the-global-microbrand-being-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/01\/06\/weekly-deep-thoughts-that-are-not-my-own-the-global-microbrand-being-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Thoughts (That Are Not My Own): The Global MicroBrand &#038; Being Productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mccaffry\/2402193619\/\"><\/a><br \/>\nWeekly I read <strong>articles that I absolutely love and connect with<\/strong>. There are so many talented bloggers out there. I think I follow over 100 blogs now. That&#8217;s a lot of thoughts! If I didn&#8217;t have an RSS news reader, I would be lost.<\/p>\n<p>For a while, I have been saving articles I like. And by saving I mean keeping the article open in a browser tab for weeks until I invariably close the tab and lose the article. I kept meaning to share them with you. But I never was. No more. <strong>From now on I will do a weekly Tuesday post on great articles I read the previous week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are this week&#8217;s open tabs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Gapingvoid.com&#8217;s thoughts on <strong>&#8220;The Global Microbrand&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nCartoonist and blogger Hugh MacLeod argues that <strong>every creative person who leverages the internet<\/strong> to promote themselves <strong>is trying to create a small, tiny brand, that &#8220;sells&#8221; all over the world<\/strong>. He shares his thoughts on how he grew his successful microbrand, <a title=\"Gaping Void\" href=\"http:\/\/gapingvoid.com\">gapingvoid<\/a>, cartoons drawn on the back of business cards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of his work. <a title=\"Elastic Mind Business Card\" href=\"http:\/\/elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ElasticMindBusinessCard.jpg\">My business cards<\/a> are illustrated by Hugh. You can purchase his cards here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a title=\"Management for the self-employed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/blog\/2009\/managing-things-for-the-self-employed\/\">scottberkun.com&#8217;s simple system for <strong>&#8220;Being Productive&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIndependent business owner and blogger Scott Berkun likes to keep it simple. He understands that iPhone&#8217;s, computer applications and other gadgets don&#8217;t actually make you more productive. He shares with his readers that <strong>\u201cit turns out that the best organization tools are a single sheet of paper and a calm brain.\u201d <\/strong>His article was inspired by <a title=\"A Handful of Tips for the Self-Employed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/a-handful-of-tips-for-the-self-employed\/\">an article written by That Canadian Girl<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I encourage you to check out <a title=\"A Handful of Tips for the Self-Employed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/05\/a-handful-of-tips-for-the-self-employed\/\">the original article written by That Canadian Girl<\/a>. I am going to use her tips to faciliate two of my goals for 2009, meditating and developing more daily structure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mccaffry\/2402193619\/\"><\/a><br \/>\nWeekly I read <strong>articles that I absolutely love and connect with<\/strong>. There are so many talented bloggers out there. I think I follow over 100 blogs now. That&#8217;s a lot of thoughts! If I didn&#8217;t have an RSS news reader, I would be lost.<\/p>\n<p>For a while, I have been saving articles I like. And by saving I mean keeping the article open in a browser tab for weeks until I invariably close the tab and lose the article. I kept meaning to share them with you. But I never was. No more. <strong>From now on I will do a weekly Tuesday post on great articles I read the previous week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are this week&#8217;s open tabs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Gapingvoid.com&#8217;s thoughts on <strong>&#8220;The Global Microbrand&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a title=\"Management for the self-employed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/blog\/2009\/managing-things-for-the-self-employed\/\">scottberkun.com&#8217;s simple system for <strong>&#8220;Being Productive&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11079,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}