The United Nations Won’t Let Me Into My Panel

by clairediazortiz | Sep 21, 2011 | Conferences

Today, I was excited to be on a United Nations panel at the International Peace Institute with such luminaries (and registered audience members/participants) as are often not seen around my parts. Because I have a photocopied list of all the speakers and participants,...

Miss Venezuela (& Co) is All-A-Twitter

by clairediazortiz | Sep 20, 2011 | Twitter

If you’ve ever wanted to truly waste five whole minutes of your life only to honestly believe that you did not, indeed, waste any minutes at all but rather added magnanimously to the abundant wealth of useless social media life-based experience (more...

Twitter for Good is in a Book Club. {Cheer Now!}

by clairediazortiz | Sep 15, 2011 | Twitter for Good

If you’ve always dreamed of joining a book club for the sole reason that you could one day turn down an invitation with the perfectly cultured and every-so-slightly pretentious phrase, “I can’t — I have my book club tonight,” you are not...

How to Stop Faxing (A Question on Eliminating Life’s Great Time Suck)

by clairediazortiz | Sep 12, 2011 | Business, Productivity

I’m a huge fan of productivity. I love reading books, listening to speakers, and running to podcasts that discuss new and old ideas on how to be more productive. I also love trying new and different things (that sometimes don’t work) on the road to...

My Referral Key Experiment

by clairediazortiz | Sep 10, 2011 | Business, Uncategorized

It’s been a few months since I first wrote about Referral Key, and the comments don’t stop coming to that now-popular post. The Referral Key main guy (founder or ceo or something that escaped me) also weighed in with his highly unbiased opinion. Given the...