Are you a consultant or a service provider? How many non-billable brain picking sessions did you sit through so far this year? Or, on the flip side, how many brains did you try to pick for free this year? I
Soon-to-be former VP
Since the end of June has arrived, I thought I’d share some thoughts about my adventure as the VP of Networking for the Puget Sound (Seattle) chapter of the American Marketing Association (soon-to-be former VP come July 1). As a
Are your skills relevant?
Something about the post below really rang true to me, so I wanted to share it. It’s about ageism as it relates to the unemployed many within the 40+ crowd. Please keep in mind that this post was part of
Timely ways to use LinkedIn
Loads of muckety-mucks from the tech and social media worlds spent some time at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland recently and here are the 4 things that caught my eye in Mike Arrington’s (Tech Crunch) brief chat with
our teutonic shift
Our country’s teutonic shift is in progress. I am beyond proud to be part of it and thrilled that Obama’s team continues to use all the tools I love in such smart ways. Being able to submit ideas directly to
Find yourself a coach
While it’s no secret that I do quite a bit of informal career and life coaching (a friend recently said she referred someone to me saying I was “the best cheerleader in the world” – wow!), I am not a
Email Basics – contribute to my Top 10
Been pondering ways for people to increase their Social Capital, and recognized that there is a serious need for a primer on, not necessarily email etiquette, but what I am calling email basics or common sense. A Top 10 List
LinkedIn for Dummies?
If someone isn’t working on the Dummies book for LinkedIn yet they sure should be. (Rumor has it that someone is.) While I know there are some non-LinkedIn employees in Seattle making money from sharing the basics of using the