From the monthly archives:

July 2008

How To Defeat Your Inner Deadbeat

July 31, 2008

Read this article and find out how!

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Robert McCammon Addresses Book banning

July 30, 2008

Go to YouTube and watch Robert McCammon addressing the school board about his banned books. Very inspiring.
McCammon used to be an advertising copywriter by the way. Hmm. He, Salman Rushdie and how many countless others learned how to write by first writing ad copy – so don’t give up!

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Banned Children’s books in Sweden? Say it ain’t so!

July 30, 2008

In light of the fact that in our country there is still a ridiculously high amount of “banned books” in school libraries, this is an interesting debate currently ensuing in Sweden.
By the way, one of my most favorite (still on some banned book lists)is Robert McCammon’s “Boy’s Life” and if you follow the [...]

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Age of Conversation Coming Soon!

July 30, 2008

I’m so humbled to be part of this amazing conversation, “Age of Conversation”, which will be coming soon!

Adrian Ho, Aki Spicer, Alex Henault, Amy Jussel, Andrew Odom, Andy Nulman, Andy Sernovitz, Andy Whitlock, Angela Maiers, Ann Handley, Anna Farmery, Armando Alves, Arun Rajagopal, Asi Sharabi, Becky Carroll, Becky McCray, Bernie Scheffler, Bill Gammell, Bob LeDrew, [...]

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Soul of A Horse by Joe Camp

July 28, 2008
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Love this book and the new YouTube vid here.

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New Search Engine Cuil.com Launches

July 28, 2008

A new search engine has launched today and my prediction is that it just might rival Google’s in a couple of years time. The search engine was created by Anna Patterson.
Here’s an excerpt from the article, “Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 [...]

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Don’t Be Greedy, Wait your Turn

July 27, 2008

So you’ve started a blog, and automatically (according to some of the folks doing blog webinars, social media webinars) your blog is going to be instantly visited by droves of people simply because you’ve now got a blog. You’re going to be famous, you’re going to have thousands of followers, you’re going to immediately be [...]

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God Bless Randy Pausch

July 25, 2008

Dr. Randy Pausch passed away today.
If you have not yet read, “The Last Lecture” please do.
If you’ve not yet seen this remarkable person’s “last lecture” please do. Last month I wrote a case study about Carnegie Mellon and its Web 2.0 initiatives including its own channel and vids on YouTube and sad to say, one [...]

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Lighting the way, Three Words

July 24, 2008
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Today I had the amazing pleasure of listening to a dedicated, fantastic, inspiring teacher talk about his love of teaching. He showed a “Three Words” vid that he did with his kids that was just stunning. I can’t find it on YouTube – but I did find a link to some others and encourage you [...]

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One Web Step at A Time – and then add a walk outside!

July 22, 2008

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all this social media buzz don’t let it stop you from taking “one Web step at a time” toward higher visibility on the Web. Take advantage of the tools you can and don’t get addicted to any one of them. They work for the greater good in tandem with your [...]

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Olga Murray – saves thousands of young Nepalese women

July 22, 2008
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I’m waiting for this memoir to happen. Where’s the book? There probably won’t be one, because thankfully Olga Murray is too busy changing the world to stop and write her own life story.
Olga Murray is inspiring, powerful and amazing. Read what she’s done for Nepal.

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Roger Fransecky on Happiness

July 22, 2008

Roger Fransecky is the Founder and President of the Apogee Group. Dig this post he penned for Huffington Post on Happiness.
His writing stye is conversant and engaging. Great proof that even if you’re the head of a deeply respected corporate firm, you can still write (or blog) from the heart. That’s the only way [...]

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