The Power of Community
I’m a Chicago Bears fan. A proud Chicago Bears fan. Bears fan around the world today are one big community. We are thinking, breathing and praying all together. This is our Super Bowl today. Win – and we’ll celebrate. High fives, beers, I told you so’s, tweets, facebook comments — you’ll see us all over…
Why do I want to make lists in Facebook?
Create lists. One for friends, one for fan pages, one for locals, one for social media people, one for news ….. you get the idea. Here’s how: Go to Friends (on the left side) and click. Edit friends. Create a list. Create more if you want. Then when you roll your mouse over the area…
A cottage to visit when you need a break
I have a spot I go to and find peace and quiet. I can be anywhere in the world and access this spot. It’s a cottage. The owner is very content there. She shares lots of pics and great information. I visited today and got a chance to win a very cool sign for my…
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…