A 100-Point Checklist for Social Interactions

From the most amazing connections you can make, to the weirdest and most inappropriate question asked in public, here is a 100-point checklist on social interactions:

1. step into the conversation realizing that not everything needs to be more dramatic online
2. be alright with the idea that relationships may be temporary
3. don't let judgment guide the next step all the time
4. share experiences, in moderation
5. use multimedia for learners and readers with different styles/preferences
6. use your content and smarts to build something
7. become a secret ally to strangers (makes it easier to get to know them)
8. care
9. help your readers, audience, users, customers be the hero
10. learn by doing
11. learn to learn
12. listen and ask questions
13. appreciate the context in which the conversation is happening
14. keep learning
15. participate with sincerity and abandon
16. connect others
17. take responsibility
18. resist copying in favor of being
19. liberate your inner fan
20. challenge your assumptions
21. be ready to change your mind with new evidence
22. think community, see yourself in it
23. collaborate
24. develop opportunities with others
25. stay curious
26. disarm with authenticity
27. keep an open heart... and mind
28. provide a way for others to find people with like interests
29. build interaction in your conversations
30. stay hungry
31. stay offline when you're tired or argumentative
32. dream, think, do
33. facilitate conversations
34. prototype ideas
35. invent possibilities
36. use engagement to accelerate learning
37. brag about the products and services your customers provide
38. be a champion
39. observe more, judge less
40. make stuff happen
41. build confidence
42. choose teaching over winning
43. open communication lines
44. prefer understanding
45. keep your promises
46. build an extra mile on someone else's runway
47. laugh more, especially about yourself
48. be courageous
49. stay with it through the thick and thin
50. tell bold stories
51. respect private
52. find a cause for the fire in your belly
53. be original, be yourself
54. celebrate
55. want less, do more
56. become the person you'd like to be
57. stay soft on people even when hard on issues
58. appreciate the small gestures, they are a big deal
59. communicate more, when in doubt
60. amaze yourself
61. recognize talent
62. take more walks
63. connect because you want to, not because you feel you have to
64. discover and highlight worthy projects
65. appreciate the power of silence
66. move when you think
67. thank often and liberally
68. be patient
69. encourage exploration
70. make your writing a work of art
71. find and give inspiration
72. practice what you preach
73. be flexible
74. credit good ideas
75. break down elitist walls
76. step out of formulas
77. reinvent joy
78. earn your stripes
79. face your responsibilities
80. recognize and celebrate differences
81. learn to act from experience
82. invest in building
83. appreciate success as a long term process
84. know your values
85. work with others, it's not a competition
86. make someone's day
87. put people first
88. read more, react less
89. know your limits
90. choose joy
91. experiment
92. adjust
93. be ready to be surprised
94. get to know your peers
95. accept kindness
96. know you make a difference
97. forget the numbers, you count
98. let others opt in
99. set a good example
100. shape your industry, support your community, thank your readers

The highly capable people, the "power users", are not those who mastered the tools, those who make perfect, know all the answers, and tower over it all.

The power users are those who elevate others.

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Valeria is an experienced listener. She designs service and product experiences to help businesses rediscover the value of promises and its effect on relationships and culture. She is also frequent speaker at conferences and companies on a variety of topics. Book her to speak here.