Setting Guidelines

I am in the process of setting up the guidelines for the work I’ll be doing under the umbrella Debworks. It’s been an interesting process. I’ve from the school of thought that you learn as you teach. Now, teachers get paid. Students don’t. I’ve been a student who has shared her information with her friends…

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Top Ten Reasons I’m Going to SOBCon 09

Top Ten Reasons 1.  I’m a blogger.   2.  To actually meet the speakers that I follow on twitter.  Chris Brogan, Brian Clark, Chris Cree, Chris Garrett, Glenda Watson Hyatt, Julian Smith, Terry Starbucker, Liz Strauss — just to name a few. 3. To meet my some of my twitter friends like Becky McCray, Amber…

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Assignment Number 1 31DBBB

Assignment Number 1 from Problogger project: 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Create Your Elevator Speech. Here’s what I had on the blog. INTENTIONS, PURPOSE AND PERMALINK The intentions of this blog is share knowledge, entertain when possible and merge work life with home life.  Interviews and information for and about small businesses and…

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Think BIG

I met with one of my sponsors to SOBCon09 yesterday -Judy from Cornerstone Cottage.   She’s got a lot going on with her business.  She’s also a creative, inspiring, intelligent woman.  She gets it.  We talked about creating a mindmap for the things she wants to do.  I think her lightbulb moment was realizing that…

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Blogging – Are You?

Today I’ve put together the posts about blogging I’ve written for my 100 series into one spot.  If you aren’t blogging, this is a good place to start reading to see if you want to!   If you are blogging, I would love to see your comments.   30 Day Plan  What I’ve Learned Due…

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The Marriage of Blogging and Twitter

This is a great photo from Ogilvy’s  360 degrees digital influence team.  You can view it better at this link.   They have a Twitter strategy for Customer Relations, Crisis Management, Corporate Reputation Management, Event Coverage, Product Promotion and Sales and Issues Advocacy.   Ogilvy takes that strategy and figures out who to follow, how…

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Are You Writing?

Back to blogging. It’s been three days.  Have you written three posts?   Ahh, maybe you did.  Will you keep up on that pace?  Do you want to?   Maybe you didn’t.  What do you think you’re blogging pace will be?   Here are some things to consider. 1. Dont assume that blogging every day…

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Write Now!

Today is the day – let’s begin your blog. Sign into your account.  Do this by going to the website (I would go to www.debworks.com) and then sign in. Then click on New Post.  It will open up a page where you’ll write.  Be sure to give your post a great title.    We will…

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Due Diligence and The List

I know I said we’d write a blog post today.   I was playing with my 4 year old great nephew tonight.  We were playing Tent.  He said we have to make a list in order to play right.  I wrote, he dictated.   Blanket – check. chairs – check. kids (stuffed animals) – check.…

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Make A Blog

Have you decided on a name for your blog?  Go to www.godaddy.com and do a domain name search.  You can pay for a domain name – it’s about $9.99.  Don’t order anything else with it – you only want the name.   .com extensions are still the most popular and I recommend you stick with…

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