Playing to Our Strengths

Strengths

Being human, we tend to focus on our shortcomings. Finding fault is a common theme in many workplaces and personal lives. But does this attitude really benefit us? Not according to Tom Rath, the author of StrengthsFinder 2.0.
As a researcher with Gallup, Rath has been conducting strengths-based assessments for years, and his studies have shown [...]

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Dealing With Blogger’s Block

How to Overcome Writer

When you keep up a blog, this is the big question on your mind daily.  What the hell do I blog about today?  Start the  coffee, turn off your phone and breathe.  I was thinking of ways to stimulate my brain on a new blog topic, and realized …  I am not alone.  This list [...]

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To Unplug Or Not to Unplug … What Was the Question?

Social Marketing

So many gurus are giving advice about unplugging from the net, facing our web addiction and how we’re so overwhelmed with technology that we aren’t living our lives.  Let me share with you a little tale filled with irony.  Last night I was looking at this “Internet Rehab” called reStart.  Their platform (as with many [...]

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Have We Gone Identity Mad?

Love the song “Grace Kelly” by Mika. “I can brown, I can be blue, I can be violet sky.  I can be hurtful, I can be purple,  I can be anything you like.”  And it made me think of how we behave in our campaigns online.  I see so much of, “I can be what [...]

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Fresh, Funky New Web 2.0 Websites/Widgets

Kevutu.com

We thought we’d start your week out with some new technologies and sites (they’re new, but thriving) that you may not have heard of, and that might fit with your business model.  Here’s a list of 10 places you should check out this week.  Have fun … click happy!!
Blink Geo
Publisher’s Description:  BlinkGeo is a new [...]

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Motivation is Your Dreams Wearing Work Clothes

I LOVE this quote. I mean, really. What better way than to illustrate that hard work goes into what we really want in life? In this post, I want to highlight some kick-ass stories about women from herfuture.com that show how we’re willing to do what it takes to make our dreams [...]

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Netiquette: 7 Golden Rules for Playing Nice on the Web

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1. Be cognizant with your friends online as you would IRL (in real Life). Friend people with common interests, those you know and those you would like to connect with for networking purposes. Swiftly unfriend anyone who is offensive or would not reflect well on your image.
2. Don’t disparage the work [...]

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What the Hell is a Microblog?

Granted, we geeks like to throw out web terms, acronyms and other made up words, just to keep you guessing and fetter out the “cool kids”. But, the English language has more than doubled in the last 10 years, thanks to “geek speak”. LOL, XML, BLOG, TWEET, IRL, AGGREGATOR, and of course, one of [...]

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Passion is the Genesis of Genius

“Passion is the Genesis of Genius” is a quote by Anthony Robbins, the great American motivator and author. But it got me thinking, can passion about something actually bring about greatness in what we do? I think it depends on our “rules of passion” , and I’m not talking about the provocative romance [...]

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Dust Off the Old Rolodex

Most of us don’t have an actual Rolodex anymore…but if you are one of those people who like to have your contacts where you can see them, I can guess that you haven’t turned that dial as much as you used to. See some cob webs around there somewhere??
We have a suggestion…turn it!! Pick up the [...]

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