May 9 at 8:30 a.m.
Midwesterners – mark your calendar for May 9th. 140 Character Conference in Des Moines. Sponsors needed. Speakers needed. Listeners and conversationalists needed. Details to follow. Save the date.
Education for All
North Iowa Area Community College has hired me to be their program associate. I help promote and market their continuing education classes here in Hampton Iowa. These classes are designed based upon what you’ve told us you’d like to learn. Already this year we’ve had a Writers Workshop and a Bird House Class. Coming up…
What I Learned on Twitter Today
Iowa has more pigs than people. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/07/us/CENSUS.html Six Areas of Your Business That Should be Listening http://www.brasstackthinking.com/2011/01/6-reasons-to-answer-the-new-telephone/ Top 10 Largest Photographs in the World http://arkarthick.com/2010/10/11/top-10-largest-photographs-in-the-world/ 102 year old drives a car 85 years http://arkarthick.com/2010/10/11/top-10-largest-photographs-in-the-world/ What the heck is this Quora deal? http://noteasytoforget.com/2011/01/quora-quora-read-all-about-it/ Twitter is not just mindless chatter – unless you want it to be. …
Words to Live By
Integrity: Honor your word. That is, do what you said you would do by when you said you would do it. And, when you don’t, clean it up, make new promises and keep them. Being Racket Free: Give up being right. Being Powerful: Be straight in your communication and take what you get. Being Courageous:…
Once the door is open, where am I going?
There’s some things you need to have a successful website. Direction. Where are you taking us? What paths do you want us to follow? Is this a static website and we only need to come here once? Or are you constantly writing, updating, drawing maps – creating a path for us to follow. Goals. Is…
No Room for Hate Here
We have a right to civil discourse. We do not have a right to kill someone because of their beliefs. Today a tragedy occurred. We must stop the proliferation of hate. Give Peace a Chance pic
Clients who go away, on purpose
Debworks is designed so that it’s clients go away. That’s right, I want my clients to go away. My total marketing clients* come to me for a way to better market their business for growth. It’s my job to teach them the things they need, help them to see how it will benefit, and ultimately…
Get Over Yourself – Create Your Reality
I had a conversation about exploring possibilities versus complaining about the lack of them. If you are stuck in the “why does this happen to me” world – get out of it. It’s dangerous over there and nothing good ever happens in that world. How DO you get out of that miserable world? 1. Turn…
Innovation, Recognition, Sustainability – Three Words for 2011
My three words – Innovation, Recognition and Sustainability – to rock me through 2011. Chris Brogan started it in 2006, choose 3 words that represent where you are going this year. Innovation – From the Latin innovare – meaning to renew or change. So it doesn’t mean to start something new — it simply means…
Dream Board for 2011: Day 14
I save magazines and then on New Years Eve or New Years Day cut out pictures that appeal to me. The pictures get organized on my dream board that sits right by my desk. This year there’s a lot of travel on the board. Hawaii, Peru, North Carolina, Paris, a beach with a hammock and…