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What Are You Waiting For?
Earlier this evening, the happy sounds of fourteen girls echoed through the ravine behind my house. The bravest of the bunch, eight or ten, waded into the creek, while the rest played in our treehouse, climbing the rope ladder, swooshing down the slide, watching us...
If It’s Not Fun, Why Are You Doing It?
Chris Brogan wrote a really great post this week called Social Media Fatigue. Maybe you already read it. If not, check it out, here. I've been thinking about it ever since, in my own way. My take on his idea of social media fatigue is this: If it's not fun, why are...
Everything Duplicates (and My Best Muffin Recipe)
I love homemade blueberry muffins. My mom is a fantastic baker, and she's been making them for as long as I can remember. Store bought muffins just can't compare. Store bought blueberry muffins often taste more like cake than muffin, and the worst kind use artificial...
Waiting for the time to pass
I'm at the airport today, waiting for a flight to Philadelphia so I can attend a training class. I'm excited, because I haven't been the student for a long time. I'm typically the teacher, not the student. And not that I'm complaining. I was thinking about what I...
How to Find Perspective in a Hard Moment
Early April and rain poured from the sky. I sat with my best friend's husband, Jason, in his car, waiting for the rain to let up a little. From where we sat, we could see huge puddles forming, a few brave souls walking toward the start line, dripping wet. Some wore...
A G+ Experiment
Google+ is new and growing very quickly. I have enjoyed being an early adopter and learning from others as we figure out ways to engage and connect on this new platform. But many of the people I have connected with on Twitter and Facebook are not active on G+ yet....
Do You Need to Use Google+?
Over the weekend, I got a Facebook note from my friend Garry Trammell. He wrote: " Have a couple of questions for you, when you have time to respond. I suspect you have been spending some time with Google + and I wonder what value you find with it. I've not had time...
Bibliophiles and Bookworms
A couple of weekends ago, my family and I spent some time at our favorite thrift stores. We all love browsing for books. I chose a stack of books two feet high —including Guy Kawasaki's Rules for Revolutionaries— for less than the price of one new book. When I got...
What You Can Do in 12 Minutes?
The premise of 12 Minute Social Media Playbook is simple: There are too many choices and too much to do and it's way too easy to get overwhelmed with all that's out there that's there's got to be a better way to market your business. After all, you need to be...
Time, Social Media, and Real Life
Yesterday, I asked a question on our Facebook fan page "What is your favorite social media platform?" So far, the responses are split pretty evenly between Twitter and Facebook, with only a couple of people saying that Google+ is their favorite. (Add your answer...
Abandoned or Postponed?
My oldest daughter is turning ten next Sunday. This decade, my first decade as a mother, has passed impossibly fast. Earlier this year, I had a big idea. I planned to write a book for my daughter as a gift for her birthday. She is a voracious reader and she loves to...
Google Plus, Being an Early Adopter, and Finding my Way Around
I was not an early adopter of Facebook; I joined in January of 2009. I was not an early adopter of Twitter, either; I joined in May of 2009. It's a new experience for me to be an early adopter of a social media platform, although after hearing all the buzz about G+...