My name is Kshitij Nagar. I am a freelance photographer, videographer, and producer based out of New Delhi, India.
I also run Writing Through Light, a news and resource publication meant for photographers and photography in India.
Over time, I realized that there were no spaces catering to photography and photographers in India and there were very few sources for getting correct, critical, complete and unbiased information. I felt this needed to be solved, hence WTL (Writing Through Light).
My love of images and telling stories through them led me to becoming a photographer. My love for writing and helping others shoot and share led me to establish WTL.
I use Flipboard as my most important news source! It’s a Pandora’s box of information! I can go from reading about the latest camera releases to Civil War era photographic processes to last night’s Champions League match to space travel, all in a casual flip.
Also, Flipboard helps me to greatly expand my audience for WTL’s content, readership of my articles has grown rapidly because of it. My readers can now keep up and read on the go. It delivers a 24×7 international presence for my publication.
I enjoy reading on Flipboard because it’s a wonderful, tailor-made experience, having a big, fat magazine to cater to all my diverse tastes with fresh content throughout the day.
The first few sites I read in the morning start with a simple 10-minute Flipboard routine to begin my day. As soon as I wake up, I check WTL’s magazine for metrics, comments and reflips, followed up by Facebook and Twitter (to see what is going on with friends and people/pages I subscribe to). My main reading is reserved for later.
I don’t follow any particular people, just a very diverse range of topics. Some are obvious and work-related: photography, cameras, lenses and bunch of other photography topics, blogs and camera tech websites. My personal interests include an obsession with DIY and recycling and fondness for tea and dogs. But ever so often I stumble onto a mix of the two, like this DIY camera bag from an old pair of jeans.
The best (two) articles I read all week were How Scientists Use Hidden “Camera Traps” to Get Incredible Cameos of Animals in the Wild and this old article I found on Leica camera designs that never made it to the public.
My favorite topic on Flipboard is photography (no prizes for guessing).
A great magazine I’ve found on Flipboard is #MagsWeLove. I like being surprised and stumbling onto interesting stuff and I always find something helpful in this section. Kudos to Flipboard curation team!
My biggest influences come from being born in a house of “crazy love”—a father with a crazy love for cameras and a mother with a crazy love for writing and music. Hopefully I can take both those loves forward (minus the craziness!).
My “media diet” includes a hearty helping of photography news for breakfast, some local and world news from sources such as Hindustan Times, NDTV, The New York Times, NBC, The Guardian, and the BBC for lunch. It’s usually sports news from Bleacher Report and other tidbits for dinner. I go back to photography for dessert. I munch on bits of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram whenever I feel peckish throughout the day. And it’s all served to me on a Flipboard-shaped platter!
A unique productivity tip of mine is having a clear and well thought-out plan. It helps give me a clear picture of what I’m doing. It helps me see the larger picture, and put a structure to my ideas. I can then see the parts that are sorted and the bits that I need to work on. Also, not all the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place when you want them to, hence having a Plan B is also necessary. Second, writing stuff down always helps. Also lately I’ve learnt the importance of a goodnight’s sleep (even if it’s only a couple of hours).
~ShonaS is curating Proof of Experience
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My name is Kara Bieber—no, no relation [to Justin] and, yes, it does coincidentally mean black pepper in Turkish!
My love of freedom, color and spontaneity has led me, as a collage artist, to cut up magazines by hand; reimagining their content to create a playful exploration of the realm suspended between realism and fantasy. For me, Yes Please! is a digital collage. It amuses me that on the one hand my work as a collage artist involves deconstructing the role of an editor, whilst on the other I take my obligation as an editor very seriously indeed!
I use Flipboard to consciously communicate all that I love in art, design, innovation and creation, food, fashion and travel with whomever wishes to join me in the discovery of what’s debuting and trending! Initially it started as a personal archive to house all my favorite findings I wanted to say Yes Please! to! I was astonished one day to find I had four viewers, now two years and over 21,000 later, I have great pleasure in connecting with my audience and giving another platform to all whom I admire.
I enjoy reading on Flipboard because, as a one-stop shop, it’s a dream source of global information, on every topic, from every publication.
The best article I read all week was “Melting Pop” in Colossal, a new animation from the French director and animator Alexandre Dubosc. In Colossal’s words, “This really defies any meaningful description, so just give it a watch and smile.” I couldn’t agree more!
My favorite topic on Flipboard is Design. I secretly wish I was an architect/interior designer!
A great magazine I’ve found on Flipboard is The Moment Magazine. I love how unfailingly avant-garde their features are.
My biggest influence is my intuition. Despite having curated over 10,000 articles, I am, in fact, very selective about what I put in Yes Please! I aspire to showcase a rich variety of articles, each one on another topic and from a different publication to the next.
My “media diet”…I wouldn’t exactly call it a diet! I love to gorge myself endlessly on all Flipboard has to offer, to devour an incalculable amount of TED Talks and to have my appetite whet by all the beauty of Instagram, whilst simultaneously documenting my daily inspiration and, of course, my actual diet.
A unique productivity tip of mine is to listen to my audience. So much of what I share is driven by my readers’ likes, shares and comments reacting to my posts. For example, I’ve learnt that anything pastel-colored, tattooed or graffitied is sure to be a hit. As a result, I recently created a new magazine Tattooo or Tatteww?!’! Another tip is to keep up with updating; even if it requires stealing time whilst brushing my teeth or waiting for the kettle to boil! I think this is the only way to stay ahead of the trends.
~ShonaS is reading Curation of Cool
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# of articles flipped: 312
Top Magazines: Maclean’s on Politics,Election 2015: Essential Reading, Election 2015: The issues, Maclean’s long reads and The Interview
Interviewee: Associate Online Editor Lindsey Wiebe & Political Editor Paul Wells
Do you feel that there’s a decline in longform investigative journalism? And do you feel an obligation to be an advocate for that type of journalism?
I think this is a great moment in history for longform work, investigative journalism included. So many outlets are producing thorough and wide-ranging longform reporting, often with the kind of interactive presentations that weren’t possible even a decade ago. More than an obligation, I think Maclean’s values this kind of deep, immersive storytelling. We’re publishing more longer investigations than ever, buttressed by shorter stories with a faster turnaround. You can see some examples of our longform efforts in our longreads collection on Flipboard—investigations into Canada’s crisis in government data and a scandal involving a photographer at a well-known Canadian ballet school, as well as features on a 38-year-old’s battle with early-onset Alzheimer’s, the man behind Toronto’s mystery tunnel, and the liver transplant journey of twin sisters and their family—to name just a few.
It is election season in Canada. Have you see a difference in campaign tactics used this cycle versus previous cycles?
The cost and speed of ad production have both collapsed. Every party is far more nimble in positioning a wide range of ads across TV, radio and various social platforms than ever before. There’s less and less distinction between broadcast messages and direct voter contact. Simultaneously, there are fewer reporters on campaign buses, and many campaign events are now webcast live. The upshot: campaigns are speaking more directly to voters than ever before.
How do you expect the Canadian election to impact U.S.-Canadian relations or politics?
Most relations between our countries are direct and don’t depend on politicians. At the executive level, relations between Canada’s prime minister and the U.S. president are frosty and have been, essentially, since Chrétien-Clinton broke up in 2001. That’s a long break from close personal relations at the top. It could well continue if the party stripe of president and prime minister continues to be incompatible after 2016.
What value do you hope readers gain from reading your Flipboard Magazines?
Through Flipboard we’re able to surface our storytelling in interesting ways: for example, bringing together regular features like our weekly in-depth Q&As and cover stories into groupings we hope are rich, thoughtful and maybe a little surprising. This year our political coverage has come to the fore in the lead-up to Canada’s federal election on October 19. We’ve been gathering our election work into a range of Flipboard collections meant to serve as resources for readers and prospective voters: Issues primers, essential reads, charts and infographics and stories specific to the Maclean’s National Leaders Debate we hosted in August.
Check out all of Maclean’s Flipboard Magazines for in-depth journalism and a look at Canadian politics.
~GabyS is reading 2016 Election Central
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My name is Miyoko Schinner and my love of food and animals led me to discovering ways to create delicious vegetarian and vegan dishes.
I use Flipboard for contests, like #CookingWithMiyoko—this magazine was created to support all the fans that are sharing recipes with my new mozzarella cheese. For fan encouragement and to feature posts from some of my fans, I created the magazine Vegan & Loving Miyoko’s Kitchen.
I enjoy reading on Flipboard because I can follow my love for all vegan activities and catch up with relevant industry news.
The first few sites I read in the morning are, after checking email, Facebook for a few minutes, then usually the news via a digital edition of the SF Chronicle or L.A. Times. Then it’s time to take the dogs out and go to work!
The best article I read all week was all recipes and suggestions from my followers.
My favorite topics on Flipboard are veganism and animal rights.
A great magazine I’ve found on Flipboard isn’t a magazine—it’s the topics on animal rights. We have a percentage of sales give back program for animal protection groups, and it’s something I’m deeply passionate about.
One of my favorite books is Mastering the Art of French Cuisine—I read it cover to cover and tried to replicate it since the age of 12.
My “media diet” includes One Green Planet, Vegan.com, L.A. Times and SF Chronicle and numerous bloggers on a topic-by-topic basis as they come across various feeds.
~jdlv is curating TRADE-SIES
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My name is Eric E. Anderson and I live in Brooklyn, NY. I am a web designer, a template developer at Squarespace and a practicing photographer in my offscreen time. Originally from Kansas City, I am the son of an engineer and artist. I’m equally my father’s and mother’s son, inheriting both the technical and creative side from each parent.
My quiet, Midwestern upbringing ingrained upon me a love for open spaces that was magnified by the time we spent in the southwestern United States later in life. Due to its technical nature and creative drive, photography captivated me, and I practiced landscape photography for many years into adulthood. Now a family man myself, living an urban life in New York City has inspired a whole new love for the tiny spaces that separate everyday people from the loud noise, enormous scale and sometimes overwhelming big city.
I use Flipboard as my own personal magazine builder. For me, Flipboard is the perfect way to collect and store interesting stories to read later. Feed readers and Read Later services became nothing more than a dumping ground for me—a place to put something until I forgot about it completely. When Flipboard introduced magazines to all, I was hooked. Now, every Saturday morning I read everything I’ve collected all week in one place, just for me.
I enjoy reading on Flipboard because it removes all the noise from things and lets me see what’s important. I can scan and read dozens of articles in minutes that would have taken me hours to find—let alone consume—outside of Flipboard.
The first few things I read in the morning are the latest happenings on Twitter and then diving right into Flipboard to read and share stories on subjects that interest me.
I don’t follow anyone on Flipboard, only topics and sources. There are enough social networks and I didn’t want Flipboard to become another one.
The best article I read all week was “A Surreal Summer High Above Italian Beaches” on Visual News. I found the symmetry, colors and textures of Bernhard Lange’s beach images very inspiring, almost surreal. The funny part is, I really don’t enjoy going to the beach. I know, that’s a story for another time.
My favorite topic on Flipboard is photography, without a doubt. That’s why I started Mirrorless —there is so much information constantly flying around about photography, it was hard to try and sift through it all and come away with something useful. With Mirrorless, I can curate my own photography news with exactly what interests me from the sources which I prefer to hear.
A great magazine I’ve found on Flipboard is my own, Mirrorless.
My biggest influence is my father, Ken. You don’t know him, but if you did you’d totally understand. Ken is a rock.
My “media diet” includes Twitter, Flipboard and Netflix. I like to keep things simple. I’ve found that the more media outlets I look at, the more repetition I see. So, I don’t bother searching through endless sites and apps looking for cool stuff, I let it come to me. If it’s important, I’ll see it.
A unique productivity tip of mine is stepping away. I know that sounds odd, but it works really well for me. Productivity is very similar (in my mind) to creativity. I’ve found that forcing either one becomes counterproductive. So, when I find myself struggling, I’ll stand up and walk away from what I’m working on. Taking a quick walk around SoHo clears my mind and once I return to work, the productivity flows.
~ShonaS is curating Proof of Experience
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# of Flipboard Magazines: 19
# of Articles Flipped: 1,778
Most Read Magazine: “Contenders Revealed: Hillary Clinton”
Most Liked Articles: “What Jeb Bush meant when he said the U.S. ‘should not have a multicultural society,'” “Trump plan calls for nationwide concealed carry and an end to gun bans,” “A sarcastic Bernie Sanders live-tweets the GOP debate.”
Interviewee: Politics Senior Editor Steven Ginsberg
What value do you hope readers gain from reading The Washington Post’s Flipboard magazines on the presidential candidates?
Our goal in covering the presidential candidates is to reveal everything we can about them so Americans are as well informed as possible when they enter their voting booths. The Flipboard magazines are one of the most attractive and accessible ways to do this, while also putting our coverage in front of a new audience.
What have been the biggest challenges or opportunities associated with covering so many presidential candidates?
The biggest challenge is just trying to keep up with them. Some days, I feel more like a travel agent than a political editor. We’ve already covered campaign trips all over Europe and to Israel, Guatemala and Haiti.
All of which makes for some really awesome opportunities. Presidential campaigns are a unique lens into what’s going on and with so many candidates we’re getting a one-of-a-kind look at our country and the world. Donald Trump brings out a very different emotion — and America — than Ben Carson. Or Mike Huckabee. Or Bernie Sanders. Or Jeb Bush. All of them are fascinating and all are avenues to explore what America looks like in 2015 and 2016. As a journalist, these are the moments you live for.
Have you see a difference in campaign tactics used this cycle versus previous cycles?
Social media continues to transform how campaigns interact with the media and voters. If 2008 was the Facebook election and 2012 the Twitter revolution, my view is that 2016 will be defined by digital video. The phrase I’ve been using is visual and visceral — through Instagram, Periscope, Snapchat and others, we will be able to see and feel this election in a way unlike any other. Many of the campaigns realize this too and are experimenting with these new platforms.
Check out The Washington Post profile on Flipboard to learn more about the leading presidential candidates.
Contenders, Revealed: Hillary Clinton by The Washington Post
Contenders, Revealed: Donald Trump by The Washington Post
Contenders, Revealed: Bernie Sanders by The Washington Post
Contenders, Revealed: Carly Fiorina by The Washington Post
~GabyS and CarolynG are reading The Issues
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My name is Rebecca Wise Girson and I am the Creator-in-Chief at Artist With a Day Job and the founder of Wise Workforce Strategies. In addition to painting and occasional songwriting, I help call center businesses better manage and optimize their workforce resource.
My love of painting began, ironically, because of my day job. A particularly stressful time at work led me to talk to a friend about how to gain more balance when she asked: “What did you do for fun as a kid?” When I told her that I used to draw, she suggested that I try my hand at painting.
Following that advice changed my life. Discovering painting not only gave me a creative outlet, it gave me a new identity and transformed how I viewed myself in relation to what I did for a living.
Now when I catch myself getting too wrapped up in work, I take a creative break and remind myself that I’m more than what I do for money.
My biggest influence, when it came to deciding to put my artwork online, was Chris Guillebeau from the Art of Nonconformity. I read his Unconventional Guide to Art and Money several years ago and I highly recommend it, even for those who, like me, aren’t necessarily interested in making a living solely from the sale of their artwork.
I use Flipboard as a way to indulge my creative ADD tendencies, stay on top of what’s going on in the world and to conduct work-related research.
For example, I used Flipboard this week to research an article I’m writing on the topic of employee engagement. That led me to find a great magazine called Team Building curated by Rebekah Meuir. After reading the titles of Rebekah’’s other 18 magazines, I gathered the impression we were in the same industry, so now I follow her on Flipboard.
My favorite topic on Flipboard is highly dependent upon what’s going on in my life on any given day.
One look at my collection of 11 Flipboard Magazines will tell you that I’m a person with a wide variety of interests. Although I’m naturally drawn to topics related to art, music and the creative process (see Artist With a Day Job), I’m also interested in anything I think will help me be more effective in my business (see Soloprenuer Success), get more organized (see This Mess is a Place), and get things done (see Productive Procrastinator).
I enjoy reading on Flipboard because it provides a visual way of finding information that you just can’t get anymore when researching something on Google (remember when there used to be pictures?).
When trying to describe Flipboard to my friends I tell them it’s like Pinterest, but with more substance. Anything you want to know more about, chances are you can find it on Flipboard.
The best article I read all week was the “Big Magic” review article written by Maria Popova on Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book about finding creative courage. Maria’s site, Brain Pickings, is one of my favorites on Flipboard and her articles always deliver a great, immersive reading experience.
My “media diet” includes—aside from Flipboard—LinkedIn for group discussions related to the call center industry, Pinterest for artwork and recipes, YouTube for documentaries and how-to videos, and Cowbird for amazing true stories written by real people. I also enjoy listening to audiobooks and podcasts, especially when trying to push through the pain of something I’d rather not do (like clean house or workout).
A unique productivity tip of mine, (actually, it’s more like a policy) is “output before input.” I’m an early riser and when I say “early,” I’m talking 4:30-5am almost every day.
As much as I love to read with a cup of coffee first thing when I wake up, I’ve found that consuming new information at the beginning of the day causes me to get off track with what I need to accomplish. On weekday mornings, I make it a policy to start the day by working on writing projects because they require 100% of my focus.
But come the weekend, you’ll find me enjoying the morning with my coffee using Flipboard like a Sunday paper and reading to my heart’s content.
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My name is Melissa Sterry. I’m a design scientist and I spend my days exploring how new science, technology and thinking could help build a better world for us all.
I started using Flipboard as a means to quickly and efficiently find interesting science and technology stories from about the world. But I soon realized what a handy curation tool it is, and not least because of its highly visual format.
I love how Flipboard automatically arranges content such that every item is displayed to its very best potential. It’s clear there’s some mighty clever coding at hand—that, or possibly some potent form of magic?!
In a word I’d describe Flipboard as “essential,” because it makes the task of sifting through mountainous content effortless. Not only that, but brilliant though the platform is, the Flipboard team perpetually pushes to make it better still.
The first magazine I created was Bionic City. In the first instance it was a means of bookmarking articles of relevance to my research. Upon mentioning the magazine to some peers, they expressed they’d be interested to read it too, so I flipped the setting from private to public. I was surprised, but delighted to find so many other Flipboarders were interested in its content too, and have kept it up-to-date with new stories ever since.
The value of Flipboard as a portfolio lies in the ease with which it enables you to share inspired innovations, insights and ideas with your peers and colleagues. Likewise, its potential as a platform to communicate the big issues of our day is much apparent, which is most pertinent given ‘knowledge is power’!
My media diet includes plenty of science, technology, architecture and design, with a generous side portion of current affairs, arts and culture, and a sprinkling of martial arts and Eastern philosophy.
My favorite topic on Flipboard is…too hard to choose. The abundance of great magazines on Flipboard are too numerous to name-check. I find Mags We Love really handy for finding interesting and current new content. If I ran a publishing house I would definitely look to Flipboard to find new editorial and curation talent. There are some real stars on Flipboard, and many “next big things.”
~ShonaS is reading “+1 For a Beautiful Internet”
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With 50 employees, Stone Temple Consulting is a boutique agency focused on SEO, content marketing and social media marketing—and thanks to Senior Director of Online Marketing Mark Traphagen, the firm’s own promotion of itself shows—not just tells—clients how best to engage out in the world.
Besides speaking at conferences and creating an SEO strategy, content marketing is a key element in Traphagen’s marketing strategy for Stone Temple; he is responsible for the production of videos and stories on the company blog as well as for guests posts on blogs like MarketingLand.
But another key aspect of his content marketing strategy is curation. “That’s why I use Flipboard regularly,” Traphagen explains. He curates seven Flipboard Magazines and has a clear sense of their value: “It’s important in your social media streams to not just talk about your own stuff, but to become a source for the best info in your industry…I see Flipboard a home base,” he says. “It’s not a tweet that’s gone shortly after posting it, but something people can follow. And I love the format that’s created without any effort. It takes only one click to share something and make it look really good.”
Traphagen has made a name for himself on Google+, where he was an early adopter and now has nearly 133,000 followers. He uses the social platform to grow his followers on Flipboard, too. Traphagen explains why Google+ is an excellent place to promote Flipboard Magazines. “I don’t think people think of promoting their Flipboard Magazines on other social media, but it’s the same as with a blog. You can’t just have a blog; you have to think about how to get it out there,” says Mark.
Promoting Flipboard Magazines
Every so often, Traphagen runs week-long “Magazine of the Day” campaigns on his Google+ account. For instance, on a Wednesday, he posted the SEO magazine and on Thursday, the content marketing magazine. One of the benefits of Google+ is that you can add more extended descriptions when you post Flipboard magazines, so for each post he picks the best new stories that he added to the Flipboard magazine in the previous week and includes a short synopsis of them on Google+ to give his followers a reason to take a look again.
Traphagen subscribes to a plan of diversification and brand lift by osmosis. Instead of creating one magazine about all areas of expertise, each discipline inside his digital marketing toolbox has its own Flipboard Magazine: there’s one about SEO, another one about content marketing, and yet another one about social media marketing. And it’s all part of his philosophy that by connecting as an individual, he ultimately is reflecting well on Stone Temple.
The strategy is paying off. “Every time I’ve done this, I get new followers for my Flipboard Magazines. So many people we want to do business with are on Facebook that it makes sense to post there and LinkedIn as well,” Traphagen reveals. “And when I get interviewed on podcasts or for a blog, people ask where they can get resources from me or what I read. Now, I can say, ‘Follow my Flipboard Magazines.’ People are interested in that—and I get the joy of introducing Flipboard to new users.”
~ChristelV is reading “SEO Search Engine Optimization Daily”
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My name is Gabrielle Kwarteng and I am the Social Media Manager for PBH Network, a collection of three sites—All That Is Interesting, Runt, and PBH2—focused on creating the most shareworthy content on the internet, from striking photography galleries to humorous GIFs and the beautiful to bizarre.
My love of photography, history, anything musical and random facts led me to my current position at PBH Network.
I use Flipboard to curate five magazines for PBH Network: All That Is Interesting, Art & Design, Through ATI Lens, A Scientific Illustration and PBH Network Soundtrack. The first four magazines feature posts from our All That Is Interesting site, providing readers with the most fascinatingly cerebral and share-worthy content the Internet has to offer—from the arts to science to photography and everything in-between! Our soundtrack magazine includes some of my favorite songs to jam to, flipped directly from my personal SoundCloud account.
I also use Flipboard as one of my primary news sources, as well as to draw inspiration for my own creative outlets. I find the email alerts especially useful because I’m fed daily with 10 of the most interesting articles, ranging from breaking news in politics to striking photography. The information I find on Flipboard certainly can’t be bound to one topic!
I enjoy reading on Flipboard because I can find information on practically anything! I’ll find myself checking out newly released images of Pluto and then flip to find myself presented with an article about Syrian refugees in Europe. The platform is well-curated and I love that I can find everything in one place!
The first few sites I read in the morning are All That Is Interesting to check out newly published posts and Facebook to get a sense of news and content I may have missed the night before from friends and pages I follow. Throughout the day, I’m perusing The New York Times, BBC World News and Time for news and inspiration.
The best article I read all week was an interview The Guardian conducted with one of my favorite new artists, Raury. The article was written a few weeks ago, but I think it’s still relevant since it’s about an artist who just wants to make feel-good music. His music leaves me extremely hopeful and positive—he definitely has a great future ahead of him!
My favorite topic on Flipboard is photography because of my love and appreciation for the craft and its endless selection of subtopics from portraits to street photography.
One of my biggest influences is Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. After finishing Americanah—one of the 10 Best Books of 2013, according to The New York Times—this summer, I instantly fell in love with her work, finding myself obsessed with her writings and lectures. She isn’t afraid to shed a positive light on feminism, a notion that has fallen on the negative side of the spectrum for decades now, and is constantly urging the world to change its thinking and ways to restore harmony and balance among sexes. I find myself incessantly searching for more lectures and writings because I can’t get enough of her talent and charisma!
My “media diet” consists of the social documentary section of Netflix and scouring the net for “new music” to include in my iTunes library.
A unique productivity tip of mine is morning meditation, writing in my journal, and listening to one of my many jazz/neo-soul playlists on my iPod.
~ShonaS is curating “Proof of Experience”
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