How to Win at the Internet

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1. How to Win the Internet
2. Secret Sauce • Appear Awesome • Interesting Stuff • Find it • Make it • Share it • Stalk People • Join the Party
3. Appear Awesome
4. Appear Awesome
5. Personal Domains Are For The Cool Kids Appear Awesome
6. Interesting Stuff
7. Interesting Stuff: Find it • Newsletters • http://rubyweekly.com/ • http://css-weekly.com/ • http://javascriptweekly.com/ • http://html5weekly.com/ • http://postgresweekly.com/ • http://www.nosqlweekly.com/ • http://dbweekly.com/ • https://github.com/jondot/awesome-weekly
8. Interesting Stuff: Find it • Blogs • Sites you keep ending up on • Tech blogs of companies you admire • Podcasts • Podcasts on your favorite technology • Thought provoking podcasts (RadioLab, 99%, etc.)
9. Interesting Stuff: Make it • Why Don’t You Blog About it? • Write some things, be a “thought leader” • Present Much? • Put your slides on the interwebs for all to see • Like Schooling N00bs? • Answer their questions on Quora or Stack Overflow
10. Interesting Stuff: Share it Blogs Newsletters M-Th 1 - 3 pm Tu-Th 1 - 4 pm Tu-Th 7-9am/5-6pm Pocket Buffer
12. • Bloggers • Podcasters • People you know • People you want to know • Newsletter curators • Open source maintainers • “Who to follow” suggestions Stalk People
13. Join the Party • Give back • Post good content • Answer people’s questions • Share the love • Retweet interesting tweets • Jump in • Join interesting conversations • Reply to interesting tweets • Thank people for retweeting