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Twitter explained to a 90 year old grandparent
Many years ago I used to train retirees at companies on how to look after their retirement plans. The lights went on for them (and me) when I started following this simple philosophy: Pretend you are explaining the concept to your 90 year old grandparent or your 6 year old child. If I took my [...]
What I Learned This Week From You – Installment #1
When I started focusing on marketing and communications and the massive changes that were occuring a few years ago, I went from not knowing what a blog was to reading 200 blogs a day in about 6 weeks. Soon it was 300 a day and I was learning a ton and running out of hours [...]
JetBlue taps into current market sentiment
Definitely not targeting ex private jet travellers. Not sure what else to add.
Skittles gets it
My kids love skittles and so do I. In fact they love my home grown “Skittolies” even more. What are they? Frozen Skittles. I do not go skiing without skittles in my pocket and by the time we open the bag later in the day – Voila, you have frozen “Skittolies”! And the kid’s jostle [...]
Mortgage Bailout – Who is getting bailed out?
I have met with some pretty smart people in the last few days. Today I met with a partner at a private equity firm and a week ago I was with a fairly senior World Bank employee. The bail out was top of mind. For my private equity discussion, I was asked what I thought [...]
Back up your blog
So the last few days have been a nightmare. While moving some files around on the server, I deleted some files accidentally, and in one fell swoop my blog, my site and a whole bunch of other data and test spaces went poof. I had the blog backed up on the server – and luckily [...]
Twitter Information Overload
I have been thinking a lot lately about how many times I am engaged in something and I have a blog moment: “This is the post I want to write” and I think it through perfectly in my head – text, visuals and context. Most times that is the last I remember of it unless [...]
Being Present
I have been thinking a lot lately about balance. Whether it is karma, the economy or the weather, it seems that everywhere you turn the theme is starting to pop up. Staying current is in some ways easier than ever. Balance has so many meanings and they come together for me in… equilibrium, peace, grace, and [...]
Fight Cancer
Powerful Stuff from the Livestrong Foundation extremely well done IMHO! Inspiring.
Gifts, Charity and Presents this Holiday Season
Here is something on Blip.TV that I hope you will share with your friends. It is from a cool organization that has an initiative to help others this holiday season and beyond. It is a chance for us to do good. Please share this with your friends. You can get the videos on Blip.tv here and [...]
