15 Ways To Upgrade Your Game While Online
In 2019, for the first time ever people worldwide will spend more time online than watching TV. Currently, that mark is already, on average, higher than 24 hours per week, which means almost 3 hours and 30 minutes every day.
Hours and hours online chatting, searching, scrolling, tumbling around issues that matter and others not so much. The key difference between what it was 10 years ago and what it is today is that accessing the internet give us the power to choose what we want to see, learn and entertain ourselves with.
In the past, you could choose from watching TV (within the existing channels with no back and forward), listen to the radio or read the books/newspaper you had at home or on a library nearby.
Hereby, I’m sharing some of the resources I use to keep me updated while spending all of those hours online. These are just some the I consider groundbreaking but feel free to share some others that you might consider relevant I trying to do some crowdsourcing here as well.
So here we go:
PODCASTS
Wonderful podcast from the two most influential people in Digital Marketing these days Neil Patel and Eric Siu.
Marketing School brings you 10 minutes of actionable marketing advice every single day. Get the right tips to take your business to the next level and get to work right away.
#2 HBR Ideacast
A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management. From Sarah Green Carmichael is an executive editor at Harvard Business Review. She hosts the HBR IdeaCast podcast and is a regular speaker and moderator at conferences like SXSW, the Drucker Forum, and Thinkers50.
#3 TED Radio Hour from NPR
Guy Raz explores the emotions, insights, and discoveries that make us human. The TED Radio Hour is a narrative journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.
NEWSLETTERS
#1 Seth Godin
Seth Godin is an Author, Entrepreneur and most of all, a Teacher.
Seth sends out daily newsletters to inspire your day that focuses on everything from effective marketing and leadership, to the spread of ideas and changing everything.
In case you don’t know him, he is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. Has launched one of the most popular blogs in the world and written 18 best-selling books, including Purple Cow or The Dip.
A professional community of local experts, an always-on digital platform — offering research, analysis and data on the latest thinking in marketing and e-commerce. Econsultancy Pulse is a round up the latest action in the world of marketing and e-commerce.
They are at the forefront of the industry, focusing all their digital knowledge and experience on helping marketers and organisations overcome their challenges, from strategic consulting to practical guidance.
That’s right here. Knock at this door. Medium taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers, and storytellers to bring you the smartest take on topics that matter. So whatever your interest, you can always find fresh thinking and unique perspectives.
A whole new way to contact with users and get the information out there. Their objective is to carefully blend and balance the best of many kinds of organizations, from both the public and private sectors, international organizations and academic institutions. By engaging the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global agendas enables people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.
#2 Futurism
Future is right next door, so who’s better to tell you what’s out there than Futurism.com? This is an independently owned media company that has the mission to bring you today the news, products, and narratives of tomorrow. A simple way of engaging with the users mainly through Instagram Stories that give you a quick overview of many different topics/subjects.
The well-known Bloomberg News co-founded by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler back in 1990, to deliver financial news reporting to Bloomberg terminal subscribers has arrived at the 21st century. In a World where fake news is on the rise and concern everyone, Bloomberg uses one of the most used channels to preserve the quality, relevance and integrity of the news.
Mainly due to my daily work, this is one of the best sources to keep me updated on what’s new. Social Media Today brings together news, trends and best practices around enterprise social and digital marketing.
It’s the quick shot of (digital marketing) knowledge you need for your day, making sure you’re not missing on anything relevant being their mission “to provide busy professionals like you with a birds-eye-view of the social media industry in 60 seconds”.
#2 Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur’s magazine seeks to inspire, inform and celebrate entrepreneurs. But their article scope goes way broader than only giving tips to the entrepreneurs but to daily business challenges faced on the corporate world to help build and grow any business. More than ever, each and every company should have an entrepreneurial view or startup spirit to prosper.
#3 Adweek
Focused marketing I’ve been following Adweek for years to keep me updated with all the top-notch campaigns that are being done across the globe. They are the leading source for news, insight and community for marketers, media and agencies.
#1 Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki THE marketing specialist. That sentence should be enough to make anyone follow him but in case that doesn’t make the cut, here it goes:
- One of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984.
- Author of The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and nine other books.
- Chief evangelist of Apple, Canva and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Given TED Talks on the “art of innovation” among many others.
A source from Google for insights, trends and research in digital media and marketing. A free pass to a source full of creative inspiration, industry intelligence and best practices for marketing leaders.
#3 Tim Brown
IDEO is just one of the most unknown (from the general public) and amazing companies in the world. Many of the objects we use daily have been crafted in their offices. If you don’t know them, finish this article, clap it and go google it and thank me later.
“We are a global design company committed to creating positive impact.” — IDEO motto
Tim Brown is CEO and president of IDEO. He frequently speaks about the value of design thinking and innovation to business people and designers around the world. He also has a special interest in the convergence of technology and the arts, as well as the ways in which design can be used to promote the well-being of people living in emerging economies.
With all of this, he’s not the most consistent one on publishing but allows to balance the amount of content produced by the previous 14 sources. Meanwhile, you can have a look at his talks for TED on Serious Play and Change by Design.
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