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You Will Love This Video
"Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark." Jorge Luis Borges I swear I posted this last week. (But, apparently, I didn't.) My husband showed me this video recently and I was (as usual) in tears when poignant music and heart-wrenching topics combine. Even if you...
It’s Your Dumb Husband, Mom
Last week, I posted the first in what will surely be an ongoing series of weekly, biweely, who-knows-what-frequency posts. Specifically, this post was made up of three of the worst emails I received last week. One of them (#3) was of particular interest. THE EMAIL:...
Social Media for Non-Profits: An (Impressive) Conference
Last week, I had the distinct pleasure to speak at a conference I was thoroughly impressed by. Let me be clear. This is not always the case. Sometimes, conferences dissappoint me. This can happen for a variety of reasons. Bad organizers, bad audiences, incorrect...
Smart Marketers Give Easy Quizzes I’m an Expert On
If you haven't been living in a proverbial hole in the dirt, you know that marketers know that you love easy quizzes. Short questions that you know the answers to. Hence the "who is this celebrity? tell us and win $500!" quiz that beats you in the face every time you...
You Will Love This Video (Buenos Aires and Borges)
I love this video. If you know anything about the city of Buenos Aires or the incredible Argentine author Borges (who went blind at the end of his life -- as depicted in the video), you will smile. Even if you don't, you will still smile. Buenos Aires: Las...
A Giveaway: Win a Copy of Dave Ramsey’s Entreleadership
I love Dave Ramsey. Financial guru, straight-talking advice guy, smart man (all things he is). His is the one podcast I listen to most religiously. On occasion, my husband and I have even been known to role play Dave Ramsey on long car journeys -- "What would Dave do...
Mail Bag Maladies Edition #1
For years, I have been sending bad emails to my nearest and dearest. Let me restate that. Aside from sending the usual garbage that I create in my last-minute, rushed head, I specifically forward on the particular bizarre/bad emails that random strangers send me....
The United Nations Won’t Let Me Into My Panel
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
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 specifically...
Twitter for Good is in a Book Club. {Cheer Now!}
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 alone. If you've ever entered...
How to Stop Faxing (A Question on Eliminating Life’s Great Time Suck)
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 reducing my time...
My Referral Key Experiment
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 hubbub...
Buy Twitter for Good Today and Get Tons of Sparkly Goodies!
I know it by the angry emails with exclamation marks. Many of you have missed the 24-hour window for getting Twitter for Good for free on Amazon (and Barnes and Noble, Kobo, etc.). I'm sorry. I am. It was a great deal, but like all great deals it had to come to an...
Book Launches Are Better When Ellen Degeneres Shows Up
So, it's been a day. (And if you're still reading this on the night of Tuesday, 9/6, please know that the 24-hour kindle, nook and ebook downlaod will expire now. Moving forward we'll be breaking down the lists more to avoid oerlap.) There was my Washington Post...
Twitter for Good: Download Free for 24 Hours Only!
It's here, folks. The day I've been working my butt off for. To celebrate my book's launch, here's my big, bold surprise: For 24 hours only you can download the electronic version free on a number of platforms, including Barnes and Noble and Amazon (the two live with...