What is the most famous speech in America’s history? If you guessed The Gettysburg Address you would be correct. This speech was delivered by President Abraham Lincoln just months after the Confederate troops had been defeated in the Battle of Gettysburg. The date was November 19, 1863. What was it that made this speach so [...]
It is true… sometimes you get in a rut when debating on what you should write on your blog. The depressing thought-police come crashing through your door and stop any hint of creative musing… just because they can. How do you push yourself out of the mind block and towards creative thinking/writing?
When I personally find [...]
I found this amazing example of kinetic typography last night and it created an idea that is not new… but needs to be rehearsed and rewritten hundreds if not thousands of times. Do we fully understand the power we have as an individual? Do we fully understand the power we have as a community of [...]
I know. I know. This is probably not the best title to read early in the morning. For that matter, it is probably not the best post title to read any time of the day.
When writing your blog, participating in social media, or just communicating (period) it is important to remember that your readers and [...]
Blogging fatigue. We all know what this means.
You start a blog and are high on life because this means… well… you have the potential of sharing your ideas to hundreds (if not thousands) of people on a daily basis. You start writing and get a couple of posts under your belt. You may have even [...]
We have all ready discussed why you should be blogging. Now I want to give you some tips how you can maintain this vital frequency.
#1 Schedule a Time and Date to Blog
This is the second more important tip. Take an hour or two out of one, maybe two, days a week to actually sit down [...]
Mark Evans has a great blog post called Is Anyone Paying Attention? Talk about some great everyday life visuals to relate to the transitioning of the web from cluttered to de-cluttered. All of that aside, Mark has a line in his post that was funny and hit me hard at the same time.
The lack of [...]
Check out this new video. It is a great source of information talking about the new “fundamental” shift in the way we communicate as a culture.
There is a lot of talk about building thought-leadership in the social media world today. For those of us who are small business owners, we tend to deal quite a bit with building trust and fostering relationships through our daily interactions. The Internet and its’ child, social media, present the perfect platform to share content [...]
In the world of small business owners… we would all love to be influencers. We would love to be perceived as the expert in the matter of which we are selling and we should be. A question that keeps surfacing among the “small biz chatter” is directed toward the subject of influence.
Well… I think we [...]
