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The ONE Documentary on Honduras is Here
Some of you know that last month I had the pleasure to serve as a delegate on a trip to Honduras with ONE, the grassroots advocacy campaign co-founded by Bono some years back. The trip was a chance to see the work of ONE's partner organizations especially as it...
The Women Who Change Honduras: My Trip with ONE
Last month I had the pleasure to serve as one of three delegates on a trip to Honduras hosted by ONE -- the grassroots advocacy campaign cofounded by Bono. It was ONE's first trip to Latin America (and first outside Africa). Alongside the other delegates, actresses...
Social Media Pet Peeve: People Who Constantly Ask for Retweets {Video}
I've got pet peeves, and I'm going to start telling you about them. In this first video of an upcoming video series on - what else - social media pet peeves, I'm sharing about one of my hands-down, feet-up least favorite of all social media pet peeves: people who...
Podcast #9: How to Get Great Book Endorsements
If you're writing a book, this may be the podcast for you. In it, I'll talk about the importance of finding good endorsers for your next book, and how you can maximize their support for marketing gold. I share ten key tips on how to best approach endorsers, how to...
How to Create Your New Twitter Profile in Three Easy Steps
This week brought a bunch of changes on Twitter, and the most commented on change of all is the new functionality to create a more awesome Twitter profile page. Specifically, you can now upload a header image alongside your handy avatar. The way your bio is displayed...
FIve Great New Twitter Profile Pages
The launch of the new Twitter profile page has taken the angst over choosing a profile image to new heights -- now prompting you to choose an awesome, snazzy background image as well. Thanks to your help on my plea for help choosing a background image for my Twitter...
Which Background Image Should I Use for My New Twitter Profile Page?
The news of the new Twitter profile pages broke this morning, and it's been a fun day of trying to decide which image to use for my Twitter profile page over @claire. I've got a few potentials, but, as usual, suffer from being a wee bit indecisive. Which do you like...
How to Mitigate Disappointment
Recently, I had an (organic) experience that perfectly clarified to me why disappointment makes you feel bad, and what you can do to mitigate that bad feeling. Here's what happened: I have been desperate for lazer eye surgery for years. In recent months, though, this...
Why I’m Now Writing More About Travel
If you need to know anything about my history as a blogger, it's this: I started as a travel blogger in 2006. A somewhat successful one, at that. Travel blogging is the art of moving, moving, moving, and sharing the absurdities that occur along the way. Travel...
How to Consume More Articles (Without Reading Them)
A friend who knows well how much content I consume sent me a great tip the other day. If you're sick of actually reading all those articles you find throughout the day (or that other people send you), just forward the articles to your free account on Sound...
When I Find Time to Listen to Audiobooks
Following my recent post on how audiobooks are changing my reading life, I received a few questions about when I find time to listen to audiobooks. As my best friend simply wrote: when do you listen to these? i can't think of anytime except exercise when i...
Why Audiobooks Are Changing My (Reading) Life
As I've said before, I read a lot. In 2012, the goal is 150 books, and I'm right on track. Amazingly, though, until this year I'd never really taken much of an interest in audiobooks. At least for the last 15 years or so. When I was younger, and I went on long, boring...
Recommended Hotels
The following hotels are either a) places that have come recommended to me in which I have not yet stayed, or b) places I am fond of. So, take my word for it. Or take someone else's. New York City The Surrey The Hudson Hotel (I stayed there for the US Open...
The Best WordPress Plugins
I've talked before about why Wordpress is the hands-down best blogging platform around these days, and I'm sure I'll talk about it again. Once you have a blog set up, though, the next most important thing is to have the right plug-ins. [Don't yet have your blog...
How to Set Up a Blog
I love to talk blogging, and enjoy sharing why I firmly believe that most entrepreneurs and business folk can benefit from blogging. To get a blog going, though, you do need to set it up. In this post I want to point you to some of my resources detailing exactly how...