Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Buy the Safest Products for You and the World, With the Help of ….

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

… a good guide. Now here’s a new company I’ll use and hope will succeed.  GoodGuide has recruited scientists and other “trusted advisors” and gathered facts from a wide range of resources to enable you to make wiser choices about the consumer products you buy. It rates products three ways: health, social and environmental. At [...]

Where Love Belongs – at Work

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Every once in awhile I’m going to share a Me2We kind of nugget from someone on my blog roll. You can see it now on the right side of the page, scrolling down to “RECOMMENDED LINKS.”
What better way to start than with love, at work, no less. So, let me introduce you to Chris Bailey who wrote, “When you [...]

Two Experts’ Ideas for More Convivial Conferences

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Recession coming? Perhaps the best way to keep briefed on your profession is to attend the annual conference of your peers. Yet wouldn’t you enjoy the event more if you had a greater voice in the meeting design and formats, topics and speakers, participation and networking opportunities and ways you could meet online before and [...]

 
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Squeezing Every Minute of Fun Out of Your Life? Pausch Sure Did.

Friday, July 25th, 2008

It brings tears to my eyes as I write this and I’m not alone.  Millions of us were so inspired by Randy Pausch’s “last lecture” that we bought his book.
In that lecture Pausch said, “I’m dying and I’m having fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there’s no [...]

What Most Worries Women? Getting Fat or…?

Monday, May 26th, 2008

This news is sad, yet not surprising. As women, we are more concerned about our weight (56%) and eating right (36%) than we are worried about getting

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The Danger of GroupThink

Monday, May 19th, 2008

“If we are all in agreement on the decision–then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.”

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Make Your Meeting or Product Come Alive in Images

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Like to literally see a story unfold? Want to make your complex product or idea simple to understand? Yearn to make your next meeting more memorable – and enable more people to experience it? Here are three vivid approaches offered by the masters of their visual genres.
1. Animating Your [...]

Before We Buy: First Place to Look for Coupon Savings Online

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Before you buy something online visit RetailMeNot to see if you can save money with a discount coupon code. Sure there are other Web sites offering masses of coupons yet this new community-oriented coupon site offers us consumers more value. Here’s how.

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Want Others to Listen? First, Ask Yourself This Question

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

I don’t know about you but sometimes I take too long to get to the point. Instead of listening, my captive audience goes on a mental vacation. They feel talked “at” rather than “with. “ Especially if something is really important to me or I know too much on the topic I fall [...]

Join Forces. Attract More People. Spend Less. Find Camaraderie.

Friday, December 14th, 2007

An idle woman on her cell phone with her pet dog nearby. That’s a common scene in my county, frankly. And people poke fun at us. Legitimately. To many, Marin means rich people who live just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, in the lush hills with bay views yet there are [...]

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