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What’s the point?!

Monday, July 5th, 2010 Posted in Business, Career, Communications | No Comments »

Have you ever found yourself plugging along... just doing your job... and you find yourself thinking "what's the point?" Seth Godin has me thinking again. I disagree with his assertion that doing your job and doing work worth doing are often ...

What Will We Do With Influencers

Monday, February 15th, 2010 Posted in Blog, Business, Communications, Community, Marketing, Online, Social media, Uncategorized, Web | No Comments »

What will we do with influencers? Do you even know who they are in the case of your organization? Do you then know how to reach them? Lots of folks ask these questions and I bring you some thoughts from Chris ...

Lucky 7 Time Management Tips

Sunday, January 31st, 2010 Posted in Business, Communications, Uncategorized | No Comments »

2010 is certainly off to a fast start. It's hard to believe it's already February. If you're feeling a bit crazed and overwhelmed already, here are some time-management tips I've found useful. Feel free to add others that work for ...

The relentless pursuit

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in Business, Career, Community, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, PR, Philanthropy, Social media, Web | No Comments »

"Strike while the iron is hot." Most of us have probably heard that old saying. It's about recognizing opportunity and the relentless pursuit of it. Chris Brogan's recent post on the topic got me thinking about how any and all ...

Have You Been Laid Off

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Business, Career | No Comments »

I've been offline for awhile, focused more on helping other organizations rather than myself. Anyhow, I got this post from Chris Brogan and just had to share it. Check out the Lemonade Movement. My friend, Karen, and I were just ...

Cooking up an enterprise

Sunday, September 20th, 2009 Posted in Business, Community, Leadership, Marketing, Online, Social media, Uncategorized, Web | No Comments »

I was saving some posts from Chris Brogan on ideas for starting, running and growing an enterprise when I received a lovely summary of those posts. So, here are Chris' Recipes for the Modern Business. They include how to evaluate ...

The long tale wins the race

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Business, Communications, Community, Marketing, PR, Social media | No Comments »

I really liked reading Seth Godin's post this morning and wanted to share it. In this age of hyper communication and competition, Seth reminds us that slow and steady wins the race. It's the every day, regular touchpoints that truly ...

In with open, Out with closed

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Blog, Business, Communications, Marketing | No Comments »

I found Seth Godin's post called the scientific method interesting because it encourages questions and openness - not defensivness and close-mindedness. He correctly makes the point that in many interactions, people tend to take a defensive posture - to defend ...

Cures for the common meeting-itis

Saturday, April 11th, 2009 Posted in Business, Communications, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Meetings seem to be a way of life. Whether in person or on the phone, are you sick of meetings? Do you find yourself wondering how much you actually get done? Are there lots of people discussing, but little decision-making ...

Good marketing meets social media

Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Blog, Business, Communications, Marketing, Online, Social media, Web | No Comments »

I found Chris Bogan's post on marketing trigger points and how to marry online social media really timely. We’re all fighting through an overwhelming amount of messages in all different forms to try to get people’s attention. It’s enough ...