15 Ways To Take The Ice Bucket Challenge

The Ice Bucket Challenge is a wonderful viral campaign for ALS to help find a cure for motor neuron disease.

It involves having a bucket of ice and water dumped over you and challenging 3 other people to do the same within 24 hours.  If they don't they have to make a donation.

It is sitting on the top of Twitter Trends at the moment and anyone from celebrities to politicians to everyday people have taken it.

Here are 15 ways to take the Ice Bucket Challenge

The Funny Way - Will Arnett 

The Mission Impossible Way - Tom Cruise

The Cute Way - Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner

The Film Director Way - James Cameron 

The Kermit The Frog Way 

The Presidential Way - George W. Bush 

The Facebook Way - Mark Zuckerberg 

The Microsoft Way - Bill Gates

The Eveyone Gets An IceBucketChallenge Way - Oprah Winfrey

The Star Wars Way - J.J. Abrams 

The Writers Way - Stephen King 

The Amazon Way - Jeff Bezos 

The Classy Way - Sir Patrick Stewart 

The Ambush Way - Seth Rollins

The I Just Broke The Internet Way - Benedict Cumberbatch

To find out more about ALS and how you can donate visit their website
www.alsa.org

50 Apps That Will Blow Your Mind

Greetings Dear Readers

This week I was asked to appear on LotusFM and chat on the Alan Khan show all about Apps.  I was asked to bring a list of 10 Apps.  I found plenty more.  This is the result and you can find some wonderful apps in this list.  Just a warning, some of them can be very addictive and some have resulted in families having huge arguments because people are too busy playing with their apps.  Enjoy!

Apps list (There are 50 Apps here plus a few extra just for good measure!)

Games 

• 2048 - addictive game
• Candy Crush 
• Angry Birds
• Plants vs Zombies 
• The Room
• Words With Friends – made famous by Alec Baldwin, Airplane Steward asked him to stop playing

Photography 

• Instagram 
• Pixlr-o-matic  
• Pocket Light Meter – a light meter for photographers

To Do Lists

• Wunderlist 
• Any.do 
• Evernote 
• Clear+

Travel 

• Waze A GPS 
• Mango App
• Uber your own mobile taxi 
• TripAdvisor
• Find my Way – transport schedules - for BlackBerry devices
• Gautrain App

Audio 

• Garage Band to make music 
• Hokusai a recording tool for journalists

Social Networking 

• Ubersocial for Twitter and Facebook 
• Flipboard - magazine style view of your social feeds
• Vine – small videos
• Jelly – crowd sourcing answers to questions,

Chat 

• WhatsApp
• BBM
• WeChat
• Skype
• Mxit

Banking 

• FNB lets u use geo-payments to pay people 
• Standard Bank App
• Pebble from Absa
• Nedbank App

Bloggers 

• Tumblr 
• Wordpress 
• Blogger 

Shopping 

• PriceCheck 
• Checkers App – has discount vouchers 
• Pick n Pay App 
• Mr Price App – you can find your size of an item and shows you which store it is at
• Ster Kinekor App book tickets and use it to show your ticket so go ticketless. Uses passbook. 
• Snapscan - a simple payment option 

Video 

• Ted - interesting talks you can watch
• YouTube
• iMovie – you can edit your movies

Books 

• Kindle  - your own private library 

Security 

• Find my iPhone - enable it and then install this app on another ios device to find it, lock it or erase it or play sounds

Fitness 

• Endomondo - great for workouts, plotting your cycling or training. With thanks to @gordsreid 

Weather  

• YahooWeather

Presentations 

• Haiku Deck 
• Paper which is a sketch app

Cloud Storage 

• Dropbox 
• Box 
• Google Drive

Mail 

• Gmail 
• Mailbox

Weird Apps

• 20 Day Stranger

Futuristic Apps 

• Wikitude - augmented reality app uses phone camera so you can see interesting data around u.        

GoogleGlass Apps

Good site to learn how to build apps www.code.org

Do you have a favourite app?  Let me know which is your favourite app and why?

+Fred Felton 

Communications Strategist & Keynote Speaker

Falconscove

e - falconscove@gmail.com 

5 Inspiring Videos For You

Welcome Dear Readers

Here are 5 Inspiring Videos For You To Enjoy.

Carly Rose Sinclair - X Factor USA 2013 

Sam Berns - Tedx MidAtlantic

Brent Lindeque - A South African #neknomination - It's not what you think

Tom Thumb - Tedx Sydney

Elon Musk 

Hope you enjoy their inspiration.

Yours in social

Fred Felton
Social Media Strategist & Keynote Speaker & Trainer
Author of #101TipsForTwitter
Falconscove
e - falconscove@gmail.com
t - @fredfelton    

The New Twitter

Greetings Dear Readers.

Some of you might have noticed that Twitter has updated Twitter for The Web.
It now features lighter colours and a complete redesign of the top part of Twitter.

You can now see your Twitter Profile Pic and Your Header Pic.
It also features a new look Twitter Bird House at the top.

The New Look

The New Blue Dot

You might also notice a new blue dot on the top.

What is it for?
Is it a sequel to the blue streak from the past?

Nope it's just showing you that you have new tweets to read.

Interesting new look.

What do you think of the new design?


Yours in social

Fred Felton
Professional Speaker & Social Media Strategist
Author of 101 Tips For Twitter - www.101tipsfortwitter.blogspot.com
Falconscove
e - falconscove@gmail.com
t - @fredfelton

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What Are Your Social Media Goals For 2014?

Greetings Dear Readers.

Now there is something to think about right?

Well what are they?  Are you looking for world domination?  Are you looking for a new career path?
Looking to hit 10 000 views on your blog?

You do have goals right?

Well here are 5 Tips to get you on that path:

Brainstorm

Sit down with a good cup of coffee and  work out your year ahead.  What do you want to achieve on social media?  Are you even on social media?  Look at the most popular networks out there.  Which one is suitable for your brand.

Select a network

Once you have decided on a network open an account and get started.
Here are some that might interest you:

• Facebook
• Twittter
• Instagram
• Google + 
• Linkedin 

How often are you going to be there?

Work out how often you want to be on the network.  Everyone knows that social media can be a huge time waste so choose your time wisely.  How often are you going to post?  Daily?  Weekly?  Monthly? You get what you put in, remember that.

What are you there for?

Decide what your purpose is on that network.  Is it to make friends, to get business, to build a following, to postion yourself as a thought leader? These are the things that you must decide about.

Stick to your plan 

Once you have chosen your plan, follow it with a passion.  If you find you are going nowhere with your plan change it and use another plan until you find a plan that works for you.  Remember to join a network that you feel comfortable with.  

Wish you all the best for 2014 on Social Media

Fred Felton

Creative Director & Keynote Speaker

Falconscove

Media Enquiries & Interviews:  email falconscove@gmail.com