Claire Diaz-Ortiz on Starting Your Morning Out Right and the Present Principle
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2012
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Claire Diaz-Ortiz leads social innovation at Twitter, where she has worked since 2009. She wrote Twitter for Good: Change the World one Tweet at a Time and is a frequent international speaker on social media, leadership, and social change and is known for developing the TWEET model — a framework to help organizations and individuals best excel on Twitter.
Claire began using Twitter in 2006 while living in a Christian orphanage in Kenya. Claire holds an MBA and other degrees from Stanford and Oxford, and is the co-founder of Hope Runs, a non-profit organization operating in AIDS orphanages in Kenya.
Claire was named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and made the Fast Company list of the Ten Most Generous in Social Media.
Covered in this episode:
- Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time
- Digital Detox
- Five Reasons To Be A Morning Person
- The Present Principle
- Lead By Morning: 365 Days of The Present Principle
- How To Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto
- Not being constricted having an Entrepreneurial mind while being an employee in an organizational setting
- Being an Introvert in group settings
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
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| 1:06.8 | referral that's LinkedIn.com slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do List. |
| 1:37.2 | I am your host Eric Fisher and this week I have a treat for you. |
| 1:40.9 | I have an interview with the head of social innovation at |
| 1:46.2 | Twitter, Claire Diaz Ortiz. I talk with Claire about some of the things she |
| 1:50.8 | does for her job at Twitter as well as sometimes she took |
| 1:54.4 | recently doing a digital detox and some of the things she has written concerning |
| 1:59.2 | productivity. Specifically her book The Present Principal and you know that obviously since I'm a person who works in social media for my day job talking to somebody who actually works at Twitter was kind of a you know unique and cool thing for me so I geek out a little |
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