Like Wade Roush of Xconomy, I’m not one of those people who think you can measure a person’s power, talent, or importance by the number of e-mails or phone calls they get every day. In fact, when people talk about
Looking for day of service projects?
Another plug for VolunteerMatch.org if you’re looking for service projects ala Starbucks You In? campaign and our new Prez. As of this morning, it appears Starbucks is definitely going to hit their 1,000,000 hours match, so VolunteerMatch is a good
Doing favors
Because I read a google alert about a new site for favor-friendly people (loved that description), and then posted it to my Facebook page, I decided to test out the LinkedIn Polls tool with this poll about doing favors. Please
DC in January
DC was uber cold, but after our 44th new president was sworn in our hearts were warm enough to handle any type of chilly weather. Plus, being from Chicago, we kept saying, “What’s the big deal?!” P.S. We, of course,
Networking Rules Video Fun
Some of you know that I’m working on content for a webinar about networking…here’s my first teaser video. Kind of kookie, but what fun to create this!
need something to do?
If you’re looking for work (and even if you are not), something good to do with some of your free time is to do good for others. I highly recommend signing up for email alerts from VolunteerMatch.org so that you
Seattle’s rub
Andy Sack sums Seattle up pretty accurately in this paragraph from an interview he did with Xconomy Seattle: Seattle brings some unique challenges to the very wealthy, Sack says. They might be overexposed because the community is relatively small. “The
Yet another PIF reference
A good refresher if you’re job hunting. This one is from LinkedIn….check out #10, yet another PIF reference. Hmmm, maybe we have been onto something?
Need to create new opportunities?
I recently delivered Bella Domain’s first “Learning to Love LinkedIn” group training for five of the execs on the sales team at Columbia Hospitality in Seattle. It really was a lot of fun (for them and me), and since this
Got some more ink, well, pixels
How crazy is this? I help a friend and find myself in print again. This time, I said “sure” when a former colleague contacted me about doing an interview for a column sponsored by PayScale, a company I once did
newly minted junior mint?
Are you a newly minted Junior Mint out there in Corporate America wondering why the heck you didn’t go to a trade school instead? Or perhaps you decided to be a stay-at-home Mom and are now just entering or even