Workshop: Putting Your Business on the Map
Sheila Scarborough is a friend. I met her on the Bloggers Tour in Hutchinson, Kansas in 2009. We met because of twitter. Both of us responded to a tweet to be a part of a bloggers tour. Now I have the great pleasure to host Sheila as the speaker and facilitator of a workshop next…
Justin Levy: Value in Social Media
Right now Justin is having brain surgery. On August 10 he had two severe seizures and during them he fractured both shoulders. He’s already had two shoulder surgeries and right now they are working on his brain to remove a tumor that caused the seizures. I first ‘met’ Justin Levy online. He was gracious enough…
Analytics and Why You Need Them
I would think that mostly women, over the age of 50, would be reading my blog. Maybe about 450 of them a month. I write about places I’ve traveled, diet and exercise, social media, tech toys, Webster City and building possibility. I would be wrong though. I use Google Analytics to track how many people…
Sunday Update: Tired
This has been a crazy,busy,insane week. I’m tired. When I’m tired I don’t like how I look. I looked at pictures this week and I hate how I look in them. Fat. It’s not how I see myself in my head, and when I butt up on reality, it depresses me. How did I get…
Four iPhone Apps
I’m really blown away by the amount of things I can accomplish on my iPhone. It truly is a mini computer and aids in making my life easier. Here’s just four apps I’ve started using. What are some of your favorites? How many different weather apps are there? How many just tell you the current…
5 Things You Need to Know about Webster City
1. We have Iowa’s First. The first fish farm to raise barramundi in the state of Iowa. The Nelson cousins, Mark and Jeff converted a couple of old hog barns into a fish farm. It’s actually out in the country with a Blairsburg address, but they are Chamber members in Webster City. Keep your…
Sunday Update: Listening to the devil
We’re gearing up for three big events in September: Cyndi Young comes the 3rd, RVTV is the 8th and Sheila Scarborough’s workshop is the 17th. That means lots of planning, organizing, herding cats, marketing and stress for me. Normally I’d turn to lots and lots of junk food to get me through. This past week…
Brookings: Accelerating Business
What if you found a way to help entrepreneurs and small businesses repopulate a downtown district? And what if that made your community a place people would travel to from all over the state? Brookings, SD is off to a great start doing just that. Their city council just passed the Retail Acceleration Grant Program.…
Small towns: Change is coming
A pattern is emerging. I’m old school raised. You want something done there’s a process: you find the person or group to do it, you follow the rules, you do all the paperwork, you form a committee, you discuss it to death, you figure out the rules and regulations around it, you find the money…
Sunday Update: Right Now
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. (Oh yeah, I made it to bootcamp all three days this week.) I think I look pretty good right now. RIGHT NOW. If nothing changes from here on out, I’m good. I’ll keep working out. I’ll keep trying to eat right. I’ll keep laughing with my friends. I’ll…