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A day in the life: Lorna Cowan, Visit Belfast

Practically Perfect PA

I recently visited Belfast on holiday and I can confirm that tourism is booming which can only mean that Lorna is one busy PA! . If time permits I like to have a quick breakfast and read a chapter of whatever book I’m reading or I’ll catch up on social media (I’m addicted to Twitter! Follow me @LornaCowanNI ).

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It's Time to Kickstart the Year.Now!

Productivityist

I mentioned some of the contributors in The Productivityist.com Holiday Gift Guide last week, but I neglected to mention what each of these contributors are offering. The entire library of workbooks is valued at $20, and I’m stoked to be unveiling them as part of Kickstart the Year.

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Being A Digital Nomad

Brilliantly Better

Doesn’t have an office and most of the time doesn’t have business cards either (the new dial tone being twitter , of course). This person can work in a coffee shop, in a library, in airports or train stations. However, I did some of my best programming pieces while working in a library so I might try this again pretty soon.

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5 Ways I Read More Than 50 Books Last Year

Productivityist

I visit the library and borrow anything that looks unique. I’m in some great book clubs with people like Jamie Rubin, Ryan Holiday, and James Altucher. I moved Twitter off my homescreen. I also learned that after a long-weekend vacation, I could miss what happened on Twitter and not miss much. What changed?

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Do Clients Need to Like You to Buy? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

I overheard that on Twitter the other day, and it’s a statement I disagree with. He spends lots of time on Twitter and Facebook. We’ve seen deaths reported via Twitter that didn’t actually happen and lies seem to be more viral than truth. Everything on Twitter, Blogs, or elsewhere appears to be opinion.

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Book Review: The Gary Vaynerchuk Trilogy

Productivityist

Ryan Holiday wrote something similar in his book, The Obstacle is the Way , quoting Marcus Aurelius, “The impediment to action advances action. The only reason Vaynerchuk was able to create Wine Library TV was because he was serving wine. News may have changed from telegram to radio to TV to Twitter but the actual news hasn’t.

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

Brilliantly Better

All I had to do was to integrate a C library and call some functions. Still undecided if I was going to follow to iAdd project or settle for the simpler one, with the external C library. This is a library of video, usually from the event with the same name: World Wide Developer Connection. For some reason, it looked easier.

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