Chris Wilson

  • Creating a personal status board in Trello

    I was taken by David Spark’s idea of a personal status board to keep track of projects across different themes. As a communications manager, I use Trello to help our team keep track of our projects and assets as well as ease communications. So I decided to use Trello for my own status board (although…

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  • How I effectively read online content

    Back a hundred years ago there were four options for reading interesting content. Buy a (good) newspaper, buy a magazine or journal, buy a book or borrow a book from a library. The internet changed that. Now we have instant access to the entirety of human knowledge instantly. But how do we find the most…

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  • Social Media Success for Every Brand Book Summary

    Recently I read the book Social Media Success for Every Brand, a social media marketing-specific guide from Claire Diaz-Ortiz. This book is basically the social media part of Building a Storybrand. In fact, Claire wrote it in conjunction with Donald Miller and the whole Storybrand team. My motivation was simple: my company is struggling with…

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  • How to Start Sketchnoting today

    I struggled to start sketchnoting. Although I caught the idea immediately putting pen to paper felt overwhelming. I don’t want you to suffer the same issue, so here is a simple guide on how to start sketchnoting today. This could be a useful classroom activity to introduce sketchnotes to students. First, some sketchnote basics Just…

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