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7 Things To Keep In Mind As You Get Started On Periscope
Periscope is Twitter’s live broadcasting tool, and it’s fast becoming the place to be to grow and develop your online brand. Large companies like Nestle, Tide, Fiat, and Taco Bell were quick to use Periscope for customer service, tutorials, Q&A sessions, and...
Featured on Friday: Holiday Gift Ideas
Mysterious boxes have been showing up on my doorstep for the last month, which have now turned into beautifully wrapped presents peeking out from under our tree. I love the holidays! It probably has something to do with being born in December - both a blessing and a...
Leading Before I Was Ready
Disclaimer: This post is not intended to be political, and neither do I wish to discuss the political situation. Rather, it is meant to illustrate my personal experience in a national time of danger. The first time I heard it, I wasn’t sure what it was. The siren...
Featured on Friday: #MasteringLeadership by @leadershipcir
Every Monday morning the Weaving Influence Directors (Becky Robinson, CEO; Amy Driehorst, Director of Client Services; Christy Kirk, Director of Social Strategy; and me, Carrie Koens, Book Launch Director), start our week by checking in with each other...
Underneath the Drywall
I have been unable to get the image of this simple wooden beam out of my mind over the past few days. An acquaintance of mine here in Tallahassee, Stacey, passed away at the age of 46 recently. She had been a true shining light in countless lives. Although I did not...
Featured on Friday: Linda Freeman @iamthrivingorg
Note: If you're looking for an "out of the box" holiday gift idea - KEEP READING! This is a much longer-than-usual post, but I ask that you hang in there with me because it's so important and offers opportunities to get involved, give generously, and be inspired this...
Indiana Conference for Women (Recap)
It’s not often you get to spend a day with 1,000 women in the same room. It’s especially not often you get to spend a day with 1,000 driven, career-focused INSPIRING women in the same room! This was the case for me during last week’s 2015 Indiana Conference for Women....
Featured on Friday: @WilliamFHigh
Did you know that besides launching books and handling social media, we also create websites? This fall our talented web team had the privilege of working with Bill High on the design and creation of his new website. Once it was done, we felt like there needed to be...
Nobody’s Got Time for Distraction: Putting the Pomodoro Technique to the Test
Do you sometimes look up at the clock and wonder where the time went? Do you get distracted by Facebook updates and email? Me too! I noticed my distractions increased in direct proportion to how interested I was in the task at hand. But let’s face it, not every task...
Featured on Friday: Servant Leadership Summit #SLS2015
Leadership is hard. There may be days when all you want to do is crawl home and pull the covers over your head. Or maybe that's just what you feel like when you're an introvert! Either way, leadership requires hard work and perseverance, and it helps if you can learn...
Featured on Friday: #NewSocialLearning by @marciamarcia & @tonybingham
I've been on Facebook since July of 2007. In 2011 I joined the ranks of Goodreads and Pinterest, and in January of 2012, I reluctantly got a Twitter account. The irony of my slow acceptance of social media is that I've now been gainfully employed in the social world...
The Power of Asking for Help
One of the hardest parts about starting a new job is the sheer amount of information that needs to be learned. You ask questions - and a lot of them - just to wrap your head around all the procedures, expected behavior, chains of command, and contingency plans....