2011 Year List of Links

Here's a list of year end links from my Twitter, Google Reader and Google + feeds that I have been compiling over the past several weeks.

Apps/Games
Macworld's 2011 App Gems Awards http://t.co/rGl3t0tb
Macworld's 2011 App Gems Top games http://t.co/EXb2cgYa
Macworld's 2011 App Gems Top reading apps http://t.co/GJswRUOK
Macworld's 2011 App Gems Top productivity apps http://t.co/Ixz1XGIH
Macworld's 2011 App Gems Hall of fame apps http://t.co/Ruqu6qSf
Macworld's 2011 App Gems Top communication apps http://t.co/U8H3CdTR
Macworld's 2011 App Gems Top photography apps http://t.co/IOk0o253
Macworld's 2011 App Gems Top music apps http://t.co/bqYthx7y
Macworld's 2011 App Gems Top news apps http://t.co/YGHPwEg6
What The Tech 97: Best of 2011 http://t.co/X5acaplb
The 15 Best New Android Apps Of 2011 http://read.bi/uunXsB
Australia's top iPhone apps for 2011  http://bit.ly/rqFKD4
Top 10 iPhone medical apps for 2011 - http://bit.ly/rZPh95
What Are The Most Innovative Mac Apps Of 2011? http://t.co/zJwHSDy7
The Top 20 iPhone and iPad Games Of 2011 - http://bit.ly/txHqO0
The 9 Most Disappointing Games of 2011 - http://bit.ly/sGoc2g
Top 10 Best Social Apps of 2011 http://t.co/VUMSZnFM
The 10 Best Android Games of 2011 http://t.co/VjFt8vKx
Best multiplayer game for 2011 http://t.co/OdLZcBwv

Business/Finance
Barron's: Here Are The Top 10 Stocks For 2012 http://t.co/mEnBiqUJ
12 Big Stories That Will Dominate 2012 http://t.co/zQrp3EkB
10 Coolest Startups of 2011 - http://bit.ly/vVFcCF
Top 10 Financial News Topics Of 2011 - http://onforb.es/uSVe9a
The 10 Craziest Kickstarter Projects of 2011 - http://t.co/FEjKeJl6
Ten Manufacturing Predictions for 2012 by #IDC http://t.co/7HEfK2gV
Biggest Solar Venture Capital Deals of 2011: . http://t.co/Hx7wIwDY
12 Of The Best Products Of 2011 http://t.co/08OJJCCY
mashable: 6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011 - http://t.co/JYYtiVcT
GuyKawasaki: Worst CEOs of the year http://t.co/MBYYFSeE
FortuneMagazine: 11 craziest market days of 2011: http://t.co/HveJspU7

Entertainment
The best films of 2011: Philip French's choice http://t.co/EDzjpKiE
Buzzfeed's Top Trending Stories of 2011 http://t.co/mXS8wLco
Newsweek/Daily Beast Writers’ Favorite Books 2011 Fun! My picks pp 6-7 http://t.co/gww9uRWm
Best and Worst Celebrity Technology Moments of 2011. http://t.co/UuHUPtrS
The Guide's best games of 2011 http://t.co/Skd15jlq
Trending Now: 10 Best Kid Videos Of 2011 http://t.co/ceZJ7KLw
Fact & fiction in 2011's sci-fi movies http://t.co/87qCMLTn
Craziest YouTube explainers of 2011 http://t.co/h4UWV8DU
Top 10 Most Pirated TV-Shows of 2011 http://t.co/6LiTFL5e
Best 20 films of the year by @ebertchicago, I've seen less than half! Gotta catch up.http://t.co/t7UKdfWD
Wired's Top 100 Songs of 2011 - http://spoti.fi/vDneTD
2011’s Top Ten Pirated TV Shows http://t.co/I0B14Ynd
Top 15 RecordSetter records from 2011 (videos) http://t.co/HTiBGE9P
Rob Sheffield's 10 Best Albums of 2011: http://t.co/rmLe6tEQ
Here Are YouTube's Most-Watched Commercials Of 2011 http://t.co/mHvRRXY4
Top 5 Most Watched Film Trailers of 2011 http://t.co/pzvF1A9I
United State of Pop 2011 [video] http://t.co/g5ozJ5ME
 mashup of 2011's 25 hottest songs.  - http://t.co/eHdEeyUd

Health
5 Mobile Health trends for 2012: http://t.co/tLMinVMg
WSJHealth: Healing Reads: The Year's Five Best Books http://t.co/Ai6NHgWG
The Most Popular Health Topics of 2011 http://t.co/JfGfGPdn
Presenting the top 10 fitness stories of 2011. http://t.co/5bwAx44H
Top 10 health IT trends of 2011: http://t.co/FkArdQXH
Top 10 trends in healthcare data privacy and security | #GovHIT http://t.co/K1ueJqlD
Big Stories of 2011 in #HealthIT http://t.co/nWZkQJF4
The top fitness stories of 2011. http://t.co/5bwAx44H
The 20 most interesting and/or ridiculous moments in running this year, via RW Daily:http://t.co/i3Ep3XWq


Leadership
Best of thoughtLEADERS 2011: The Awesomest Posts Ever http://t.co/upZbUsfP
Top Leadership Blog Posts - http://bit.ly/s3zzha
The Top 50 Personal Development Blogs of 2011 - http://bit.ly/rGF4Gt


Miscellaneous
Top 40 Protest Signs of the Year http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-40-best-protest-signs-of-2011
Most Popular DIY Projects of 2011 - http://lifehac.kr/rGYDs9
Top 10 of Everything from Time - http://ti.me/tEipHn
GuyKawasaki: Top 25 weirdest stories of 2011 http://t.co/TYsyqqc8
The top 10 brand disasters of 2011—lessons learned: http://t.co/1bt7d1UA
The top 10 best and worst communicators of 2011 http://t.co/tivWFkNG
The 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2011 - http://t.co/N7EJ6Ap1
The most disliked cars of 2011 - http://bit.ly/tW2oDf
Most Popular Repurposing Tricks of 2011 - http://lifehac.kr/vFWTrX
National Geographic's 'Photos of 2011' - http://t.co/lYFOnWnB
Unexplained mysteries of 2011 and into 2012 http://t.co/JpJcoXfU
The most influential non-celebrity users of Twitter by @rhodri http://ind.pn/uHVlNm
The Top 15 RecordSetter World Records of 2011 - http://recordsetter.com/bestof2011
The top 10 #adventure stories of 2011: http://t.co/L7h8QYY7
The top 11 scientific twists from 2011 http://t.co/TaeKgxXf
Our Top Ten Photo Books of 2011 http://t.co/uGEu1OkP
The top 10 science stories of 2011: http://t.co/ya1WmN3H
The 8 craziest lawsuits of 2011 http://t.co/1whWSyNS
The Top 10 Adventure Stories of 2011 http://t.co/Hq5bRbAe
The 4 biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2011 http://t.co/piOJzufa
Drudge_Report: 2011 'shattered records' with 12 weather and climate disasters... http://t.co/doJKrJNw
outsidemagazine: The Top 10 Travel Stories of 2011 http://t.co/gAMBt8cy
The best Photography blog posts of 2011":http://t.co/OvGXDTLW
The 7 most newsworthy dogs of 2011 http://t.co/fWJ8BD0K
AJEnglish: In our top 10, the Arab Awakening is comprised of multiple uprisings. http://t.co/sP9F9ItD
GuyKawasaki: 10 standout nerds of 2011 http://t.co/AaSx3jlQ
The Top 5 Of Everything In 2011: A Retrospective On Year In Sports - http://t.co/gB8etaUT

Social Media
2011 will be remembered as a year of incremental upgrades in various social media marketing platforms - http://t.co/S1prkU4Q
30 Brilliant Social Media Marketing Tips from 2011 http://t.co/vlcbT5Q1
The 20 most useful social media tools of 2011: Part three http://t.co/iFkxzBy7
Top 29 Social Media Career Moves of 2011- http://bit.ly/vqpBzt
19 Huge Social Media Moments of 2011 - http://on.mash.to/sonYOd
The worst social media blunders of 2011 and what you can learn from them #theworsthttp://t.co/lZhsm4jC
Twitter had a huge 2011. @veenabisram takes you through 15 major milestones -http://t.co/mjEUDblC
The 13 most powerful tweets of 2011 http://t.co/o8jFtPhN


Technology
Check out the top news stories that shaped the year - http://t.co/ZoYLbOWb
The 90 Best Twitter Accounts Of 2011http://t.co/ZqbK8AYI
5 Biggest Surprises of 2011 http://rww.to/vGcjTI
Top 5 Internet Devices of 2011 - http://rww.to/vdvBo0
15 Top Quotes of 2011 - http://bit.ly/rP4LS4
Tech Stories of 2011 - http://bit.ly/u3JFFW
8 Big Trends That Shaped the Mobile Phone Industry in 2011 http://t.co/ZoTUWx8a
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011: The Higher Education Bubble - http://bit.ly/sf6oSQ
25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011 - http://bit.ly/urcn5y
Walt Mossberg's best gadget picks (video) http://t.co/ohf2L0cI
MSCIONet: IT Outsourcing Year in Review, Rating Our 2011 Predictions http://t.co/IHzctubo
Google - Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review - http://bit.ly/u8mVmu
GigaOM - 2011 video recap: The year mobile took over the world - http://bit.ly/rN7VnB
CIO's Top Ten Stories of 2011- http://bit.ly/vvLzjV
Most Popular Hive Fives of 2011: 2011 was a great year to get your feedba... http://t.co/H8x6DWbb
10 biggest gadgets of 2011 http://t.co/fIO8sCcb
10 Coolest Notebooks of 2011 - http://bit.ly/sIQGKk
The 20 Most Expensive Domain Names Of 2011 by @shontelaylay http://t.co/WdeBWbKy
10 Funniest GIF Trends of 2011 - http://t.co/82jsfUBJ
Top 10 Feed & RSS Technologies of 2011 http://t.co/bL9wfEjU
 PC Mag's Top 100 Websites of 2011 - http://t.co/np5aY0Pj
The Biggest Web Outages of 2011 http://t.co/UG8rCvYv
10 Biggest ERP Software Failures of 2011 | PCWorld Business Center - http://bit.ly/rPuVX8
Top security incidents of 2011 http://t.co/DYmjDVOi
2011 Car Tech Awards: And the winner is... http://t.co/43b96Wt7
Google's top 10 fastest rising searches in 2011 http://t.co/BFIYCmCg
15 cool energy projects of 2011 http://t.co/P2ceqNT4
What did we learn from the tech biz in 2011? http://cnet.co/szCk85
The Top 25 iPhone and Android App Publishers in 2011 - http://bit.ly/uQGksM
The 9 Oddest Job Interview Questions Asked at Tech Companies in 2011 - http://t.co/LPS5wAou
PCMAG's 10 most popular tablets of 2011 (#1 is NOT the iPad) http://t.co/nAnzaiox
The Most ‘Liked’ Search & Social Posts Of 2011 by @elisabethos http://t.co/QXzGCxdh
Google's top 10 fastest rising searches in 2011 http://t.co/UPGiqCBd
Biggest Tech Disappointments of the Year http://t.co/BD5Xhfy6
The Best of the Lifehacker Show: In 2011, Lifehacker took to video ... http://t.co/9ofgjFkr
TheNextWeb: Tech: Best of 2011 http://t.co/ze2qh2G2
StumbleUpon’s Most Popular Searches and Links of 2011 - http://t.co/ivRgyKTV
10 Telecom Predictions for 2012: http://t.co/1akU8aHZ
MSFTenterprise: 2011's Top IT Stories http://t.co/jYnxpLDK
TheNextWeb: 2011: The 5 Top Memes http://t.co/xoerKH0H
FastCompany: 14 Of The Year's Best Ideas In Interface Design http://t.co/PfkEs5Ng
MSFTenterprise: Top CIO strategy videos of 2011 http://t.co/Hg6Vdld8
ForbesTech: The Best Book of 2011: Why Science Emerged in the West http://t.co/2Npv5pye
ForbesTech: 2011's Five 'Dumbest' Tech Companies: http://t.co/iWednW2X

Favorite Links for 12/23/2011

Sorry for the delay in publishing this week's links but I was caught in the hustle and bustle of the holidays yesterday.

• 95 Questions to Help You Find Meaning and Happiness http://t.co/8FWEJ7JH
• @garyvee: my never seen @cnn interview http://t.co/dKEfsg98
• Smartphone Addiction - How To Get Rid Of It? http://t.co/C1S9edVm
• WSJHealth: Healing Reads: The Year's Five Best Books http://t.co/Ai6NHgWG
• NFL To Stream Super Bowl XLVI To iPhone And iPad http://t.co/ovIQQ2iA
• @garyvee: Sharing is caring -> http://t.co/z5FbTEOx
• @garyvee: Social sites have made the world small -  http://t.co/F3CprKrm
• @garyvee: Stop doing shit you hate for a living -> http://t.co/JHUSGPMd
• @garyvee: can we make a deal in 2012? Lets cheer Making money MORE THAN raising it? http://t.co/p0swfrrH

Next Friday's links will be the best of list that have showed up in my Twitter and Google+.

Favorite Links for 12/16/2011

There were quite a few good links to pass along for this week.

• 13 way to use iMovie in the classroom http://t.co/AlyKGQcp
• Five Easy Ways To Tell If An Organization Is Really Values-Driven - http://t.co/g5pKZbCC
• Five Styles of Gen X Leaders: Which One Are You? - http://t.co/qyeneu9f
• Some times IT, in their effort to control everything, stifles use of tech. - http://t.co/SFQxztaG
• @garyvee: if u watch this you will not to sleep -> http://t.co/wPaJDFrk
• 9 Steps to a Daily Blogging Schedule http://t.co/ekQQo1xp
• Some the Best Wealth Building Books ever written http://t.co/lSDEPYD6
• Stop-motion animation comes to your iPad 2 with Smoovie: http://t.co/wcXNniTE7 Successful Leadership Practices of Today's Top Hospital CIOs: Therefore, CIOs need to work... http://t.co/1ezi6Dbo
• 5 ways to reduce security breaches in #healthcare http://t.co/ZF74JVcZ
• 23 Questions with Legendary Hacker @KevinMitnick on @Hak5: http://t.co/oTV2vCnk

Favorite Links 12/9/2012

Here's this week's favorite links that are from a wide variety of subjects.

• Leadership Reading List: 20 books you might not have read - but should: http://t.co/F6S827LN
• ECIOForum: My Top Six `Top Ten' 2012 prediction lists http://t.co/YOfUIXWY
• CIOsConnect: Citrix: Desktop virtualization makes good security sense http://t.co/DyyDNsla
• Google introduces Google Currents news app [video] http://t.co/4sEsMp5V
• TheLeaderLab: How Can Games Drive Employee Engagement? http://t.co/bsAGWodE

Quote of the week.

• The most successful people see an opportunity in every problem. via@LeadToday

My Favorite Links for 12/2/2011 - An Ode @EricDBrown

For a while now, I have been following Eric Brown via RSS and Twitter (@EricDBrown) for a while now.  One of the things I have always enjoyed from Eric is his weekly publication of links.  Based upon enjoying these links, I have decided to publish my weekly links not only to share but for me to track what I found interesting over time.  Most of these will links will be technical in subject but every once in a while there will be an odd-ball or running related link.

So here's the first week's links.

• A strong BYOD policy should be SOP http://goo.gl/fb/sf3Tp
• The President of CIO magazine shares his Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2012 http://bit.ly/rwtUud 
• iPads in the enterprise: CEO ego is driving adoption: iPads have taken over the boardroom, and corporate CEOs an...http://bit.ly/sLk0PS
• CIO says supporting iPhone and iPad led to 92% reduction in broken devices: After switching to support Apple mo...http://bit.ly/vGDN7k
• Google's latest research digs into how #tablets are used. Interesting takeaway: multitasking is huge http://tabtim.es/7i 

Odd - Ball of the Week

• Who new that "calc" was this powerful.  Get the most out of calculator - calculate fuel economy, lease payments, and mortgage payments http://bit.ly/uqktit

My Visit to Ball State's CICS Program

On November 12th I was invited to speak at Ball State's CICS Placement Seminar for it's graduate students.  The goal of this seminar is to prepare the students for their upcoming entrance into the IT work environment.  It was an honor to share the platform with the individuals listed below and I was amazed that all of our presentations intertwined although we had never talked beforehand.  My talk, titled "After CICS Begins Now", focused on making sure the students are taking time now to think about what they want to do after graduation.  I focused a portion of this presentation on building your career brand via social media.



Beau King of ATT presented on personal Salesmanship
Branden Bute of Ball State presented on Job Mining
Todd Hollowell & Amy Reid presented on Resume Building

Good luck to all the students upon their completion of CICS.