by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Aug 18, 2011 | Productivity, Uncategorized
Maybe you’re not me. Maybe you don’t have websites that you actually want to be live and readable on the Interwebs, including two sites (ClaireDiazOrtiz.com and Twitter4Good.com) that happen to be relevant to a certain book launch rather important to your...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jul 29, 2011 | Business, Uncategorized
This week, on a random work tangent, I ended up finding out the salaries of the CEOs of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. Now, this was not an intentional exercise in shock, confusion and free-floating ire. And yet it turned into one. Let’s look at some...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
CNN news alerts are, hands-down, one of my smartest email subscriptions. In the 2+ years that I have been getting these emailed to me, I have learned a lot. These days, I feel skilled at taking the temperate of the nation, at least as determined by the CNN news alert...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jun 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
We all need a little recess in our lives. Any business book or tome on workplace productivity (I’ve read a number of them and like to blab about them here) will tell you the importance of working hard when you’re working, and playing when you’re not....
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | May 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
When your wedding photographer tells you to get in the bathtub, you say yes. Even if it’s 45 minutes before your wedding starts. If you’re lucky, your groom, mother, and bridesmaids all agree. When Twitter coworker, friend, and photographer extraordinaire...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Apr 9, 2011 | Facebook, Social Media, Uncategorized
It all started when my friend Deanna did it. Since I take cues from others, I thought about it long and hard. Was making a public page for myself on Facebook a bizarrely egotistical thing to do, or a smart professional decision? Once I decided on the latter, the big...