I subscribe to feeds from several internet marketers including Jeff Johnson.  Just received Johnson’s video titled: Jeff Johnson’s Traffic Voodoo 2.0: Unstoppable Traffic.  Of pertinent interest in this video is recent data released by Comscore, a respected company that researches the internet which states that “as of Dec. 2009, 28.1% of all searches in the Google network happened on Youtube.” Is your video on Youtube?

At a recent workshop I attended, the keynote speaker referred to George Bernard Shaw’s quote about joy, and I’m still thinking about it.

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

I subscribe to Oprah’s daily feed and the topic of charisma caught my curiosity yesterday. What makes a person charismatic? In an article by Jessica Winter, the main qualities mentioned are: 1) a genuine like and curiosity about other people; 2) authenticity, and 3) ability to show your paradoxical nature.  From Winter’s article:

“…charisma hinges largely on expressiveness, control, and sensitivity, its magnetic power intensifies when you mix in mystery and contradiction, says Joseph Roach, PhD, a professor of theater and English at Yale. In his book It, Roach writes that a supremely charismatic person has two sides: He or she is warm and tough, strong and vulnerable, down-to-earth and one of a kind.”

I went to a blogger’s meeting last night and there was mention of www.weebly.com as a way to create an elegant website and blog for free.  It is worth checking out.  Time Magazine named it one of the 50 best websites of 2007.  See http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1633488_1633608_1633636,00.html