As an amateur photographer nothing makes me happier than giving my photos away so people can use them. This holiday season I reedited 24 of my photos, cropping them to fit your Twitter header image. None of the photos have watermarks, none of them require attribution. If you like any of them, click on the link located below these images to download on Flickr. If you are looking for my sweet Patagonia pics, find them towards the end of the post. Thank you for spending time on this blog. I really appreciate your time. Happy holidays! The First Presidential Tweet Hang Gliding in Hawaii Geoff Livingston on Google+

Sometimes I think Google deserves more credit. This is not a defense of Google+, anti-trust issues facing the company, or the apparent sunsetting of Feedburner. Rather, more admiration for the company’s overall approach and success online in recent years. When I learned Google had scrapped its facial recognition technology because the negative uses outweighed the good, I felt they were the better player of the big companies operating in this space. It’s not an isolated incident. Google changed its privacy earlier this year, uniting its many disparate policies across different products into one holistic company-wide statement. The company waged an extensive public relations and advertising effort to explain the new policy to the general public. When was the last time …

Yeah. I admit it. I know I’m not the only one, too. My mood rides on my social share count. It always has. While I tried to be cool and say this didn’t matter, after a period of unpopularity, I totally know that’s bullshit. I enjoy it when posts get read, liked and shared by you. I feel like a success when you retweet, and like I bombed when you don’t. Yeah, that’s pathetic, and I know it. But so true. I have TweetEsteem(™) issues. Like me (please?!?!?), Geoff Geoff Livingston on Google+

Olympians Missy Franklin, Katie Ledecky and me at last week’s USA Today 30th Birthday bash. Fathering a child, starting companies, writing books, getting work done, working out… Finding time for all of these things requires discipline and focus. That’s why over the past couple of years and in particular recent months, I have eliminated distractions wherever possible. Here are six things I have intentionally nixed from my day-to-day life: Geoff Livingston on Google+

It’s Friday. Let’s have some fun and talk football! While not my favorite, the NFL reigns as America’s most popular sports league. Yet, social media has yet to become widely embraced by the league and its teams outside of broadcast-like promotion. For example, the NFL does not offer access to commonly accepted social networks on its front page. Geoff Livingston on Google+