RAGBRAI Rides Through Webster City on Tuesday
Things to do during RAGBRAI when you’re in Webster City … Flipgrid (you can do this right now from wherever you are!) Flipgrid is an online application currently being used by design teams, in religious settings, in online research projects, at businesses and government offices for collaboration, at weddings, by architects, and in numerous community…
Sunday Update: Things Hurt
Aging is a powerful thing. What you used to do easily, now requires forethought and preparation. Think ‘staying out all night and going to work in the morning’. Thing ‘walking miles without have built up your body to doing so.’ The second one is my complaint today. We had an event yesterday and I was…
Marketing to Millenials
The Better Business Bureau has shared this article with us. It’s brief, concise and to the point. Tips for Marketing To Millennials The Millennial Generation is now as large, if not larger, than the Baby Boomers. They are a popular target for advertisers and marketers, but what is important to this age group born…
dot what?
They’re called gTLDs — that i generic Top Level Domains. Now you no longer need to be a .com or .net or .org. You can choose an extension that makes sense for your business. There are over 810 extensions now available, and don’t pay to get the list or sign up for a newsletter/email list/etc.…
The Enchanted Highway
Gary Greff because the process of building the world’s largest sculptures in 1989. He came home to Regent, ND to save his community. Gary had no idea how to do that but then thought “what if I create something that everyone will remember?” That’s what he did – built 7 sculptures made of scrap metal…
Sunday Update: Water
This week my focus has been on consuming 72 ounces of water. I met with my dietitian and the first thing she said was to consume more water. (She said more than that, but I’ll update next week on what she suggests.) It’s more than you think. It’s also doable. By today I’m consuming 72…
Sunday Update: Making a Choice
Oh where to start? Dr report: viral gastroenteritis, no food poisoning. So, some bug caught me and decided to empty out my guts and make me feel bad for about a week. my voice: could be acid reflux, trying Prilosec for a week and see if it will come back (it hasn’t yet, and it’s…
Creating a Personal Mission Statement
Forbes recommends that each mission statement answer these questions: What do we do? How do we do it? Whom do we do it for? What value are we bringing? In 2008 I wrote about creating a personal mission statement and came up with: I live each day with a listening, happy heart that guides me…
Iowa is Getting Younger
According to the US Census, in contrast to most states, five experienced a decline in median age between July 1, 2013, and July 1, 2014: North Dakota, Hawaii, Montana,Wyoming and Iowa. Millennials, or America’s youth born between 1982 and 2000, now number 83.1 million and represent more than one quarter of the nation’s population. Their size…
Sunday Update: Something Different
It seems that day after day we do the same stuff. Get up, eat breakfast, go to work, come home, go to bed. Weekends are full of work too – laundry, cleaning house, reading a book. Same ‘ol same ‘ol. This weekend I had the chance to take my 10 year old great nephew and…