A blog by Dr.Mani, heart surgeon, Internet infopreneur, author and social entrepreneur!
From the monthly archives:
A content site on “Internet Marketing Customer Support” and “Great Help Desk Software” came into existence over 5 hours on a Sunday afternoon.
It happened because of FOCUS – with no distractions.
The project was documented on Twitter… as Tweet-a-PROJECT
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It has been a year since I was introduced to TRIIIBES.com, the exclusive social network that’s a brainchild of marketing genius, thought leader and bestselling author Seth Godin.
Apart from everything else it has done, TRIIIBES messed with my head – in a good way. And it got me to do some things that I hadn’t done before. For which I owe the Super-Squid Master a huge big thank you.
Since Seth is a person focused on ACTION, not merely ideas, I’m going to list only the things that actually got done, not the many more that have been sparked off by ideas, discussions and connections from within the Triiibe.
These are eight things that happened since I joined Triiibes.com – and that may never have happened without it!
1. I published my first print book. It’s called “Think, Write & Retire”. It launches on August 25th – and I’m trying to get it a lot of publicity because it ties in with #2.
2. I created the Heart Kids Tribe. This is a passionate and purpose-driven network of people who care enough for under-privileged children born with heart defects that they are willing to commit to making a difference in their lives.
3. I built a network for the Think, Write and Retire tribe. While it was in part intended to be a marketing vehicle for the book, it is a lot more. It’s a place where infopreneurs connect, engage and share – and it is working!
4. I morphed my email/ezine list into a tribe. Turned it from an anonymous list of email addresses into a social network that is ‘private access’ – and a comfortable, supportive place where people help other people.
5. I applied for a TED fellowship. Others in the Triiibes.com community were actively involved in TED, and that brought it on to my radar. Then, I discovered there was a TED India event – so have applied for a fellowship!
6. I blueprinted a donor community plan for my CHD work. It involves writing another book, creating another social network, and building another tribe – one that is focused on making heart surgery available to the 45,000+ kids who are waiting.
7. I wrote and published a PASSION manifesto on ChangeThis.com – because Seth advised all his tribe to distill their thinking into a manifesto, and share it with the world!
8. I made a LOT of new friends inside TRIIIBES.com. That’s probably the BIGGEST benefit of being in this vibrant, passionate, exciting network. And time will prove that it’s the most effective practical application of the concept in Seth Godin’s groundbreaking book, TRIBES.
For all of this, thank you Seth.
And thank you, TRIIIBES.com
See more Triiibes.com tributes here
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