Email Etiquette: Six Tips to Dominate Your Inbox
There were quite a few responses to my post last week, I Didn’t Email You Back Because I Wanted to Personally Offend You. Fittingly, many of them came to me via email. And many were quite good. I've pulled together some of the best ones, with hopes that they might help you (or enrage you!) in your quest for true email etiquette domination. Without further ado... Six Tips for Email Etiquette (from you readers): 1. On … [Continue Reading...]
Email Etiquette: Six Tips to Dominate Your Inbox
There were quite a few responses to my post last week, I Didn’t Email You Back Because I Wanted to Personally Offend You. Fittingly, many of them came to me via email. And many were quite good. I've pulled together some of the best ones, with hopes that they might help you (or enrage you!) in your quest for true email etiquette domination. Without further ado... Six Tips for Email Etiquette (from you readers): 1. On … [Continue Reading...]
Book Reviews: Little Princes and Trout Fishing in the Yemen
Days have passed, I've read more books. See my ongoing list of the 100 books I'm reading in 2012, and check out their (sometimes) pretty covers on my Pinterest board, cryptically entitled: The 100 Books I'm Reading in 2012. As always, if you've got a book you want me to read/review/spill chai tea on, just drop me a line. And now, for some irreverent book reviews. Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of … [Continue Reading...]
How (Not) to Do A Google Plus Hangout
And the technology gods have struck again. Today, I had the fine task in front of me of presenting some work stuff for a small group via a Google Plus hangout. I do not have the best history with Google Plus, but was eager to work with her to put aside our differences so that I could enjoy the magic of the hangout -- supposedly one of the best things going on over at Google Plus these days (I hear). The task -- login to Google Plus -- … [Continue Reading...]
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Book Reviews: A Homemade Life, Gluten-Free Girl, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse
So we've established the fact that I read a lot of books. At the prodding of some fine blog reader folk, I want to start sharing (a little bit) more in depth about some of my reviews of these books. I want to start with some of my favorite books read in 2011. Since I'm in a theme mood, the … [Continue...]
Colored Baby Chickens, Pinterest, and Business. #nowords
I have lots of things to say about this picture. And I'm sure I would be able to use this picture to come up with a halfway decent funny-but-smart social media or marketing blog post if I spent five minutes thinking about it. The importance of getting people's attention by being crazy, bold, and … [Continue...]
Podcast #6: On Being A Twitter Newbie with Bob Jones (Episode 6)
Want to listen to my latest podcast? Go here. I'm chatting with Bob Jones, founder of Give.Mobi about what it means to be a newbie on Twitter (him, not me!) and how he's gotten the hang of things with serious speed;) We'll also talk about what his company give.mobi does to help non-profits … [Continue...]
How to Interact With Your Blog Readers
In this post, you will learn about how interacting with blog readers builds relationships and loyal readers. You will also learn how interacting with blog readers sometimes does none of these things. People talk a lot about interacting with blog readers, and the importance of doing so if … [Continue...]
Why I Read My Spam
I am a big advocate that you should scan through your spam folder in Gmail (or whatever email program you use) every month (if you use Gmail, it is probably automatically erasing your spam every 30 days). I recently did my spam scan, and found the following useful things incorrectly buried in … [Continue...]
How to Get Newsletter Subscribers to Your Blog
In this post, you'll learn the key to getting new newsletter subscribers to your blog or online cult (the good kind). Enjoy! I was having a chat with a bloggy friend today. The chat was about things, and then other things, but all devolved into a discussion of why people subscribe to blogs, and why … [Continue...]
Why You *Should* Pay to Volunteer {Podcast #5}
I've got a new podcast up where I tell you why I think you should pay to volunteer. Yup - I said. And I'm serious. Paying to do short-term volunteer work in an international setting is (to me) essential to non-profit sustainability. Listen to it here. … [Continue...]
Why I Unfollowed You. The Top 10 Reasons I’m Not Following You on Twitter.
When I first declared Twitter bankruptcy last week, I didn't tell anyone. And, appropriately, no one noticed. For two days, it was the best thing I ever did that no one knew I had ever done. Or something like that. In fact, it took 48 hours for one of my former 700 Twitter followers to … [Continue...]
Who to Follow on Twitter (According to Me)
This is hardly a comprehensive list of the best people to follow on Twitter. But it is mine. So, after declaring Twitter bankruptcy for my birthday this week, I knew I wanted to make a big birthday Twitter bang when I followed back a bunch of my favorite Twitter users again. This "big birthday … [Continue...]
