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Does Your Relationship Need A Social Media Policy?

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Ever had this conversation with your mate about Facebook, Linkedin, et al?:
You: “What made you friend Joe/Jane?”
Them: “Oh, they’re just an old high school chum.”
You: “Didn’t you guys used to date?”
 
Them: “Uhm, yeah, but that was when we were kids.”
The great aspect about social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and others is that they [...]

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Top Ten Reasons NOT to Create a 2009 Resolutions List

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As the end of 2008 comes to a close, undoubtedly many of us will get the urge to create a New Year’s Resolutions list of endeavors we’d like to take-on, accomplish, or close-out in ‘09.  America’s great citizens, though courageous and strong, have grown accustomed to needing a reason to get involved or to launch [...]

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A Social Media Birthday & Christmas Celebration

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At 12:30 am this Christmas morning, my  best friend and his wife extended their annual tradition of being the first to call to wish me a happy birthday. Only this time, the wife half of the duo sent a text message from both of them.  Receiving the text wishes was a change of pace, but [...]

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Producer Tarsha Proctor Standridge Answers Relevant Questions

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I call her the Gordon Parks of our generation. That’s because when I first met Tarsha Proctor Standridge nine years ago she was crisscrossing the country writing a book about the 50th anniversary of the first black basketball player being accepted into the NBA. Today, you can find this Jill-of-all-trades as a photographer on a [...]

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What’s Your Personal Brand Statement?

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We are all familiar with examples of companies’ brands and the ways in which those brands impact our culture. Think Home Depot “You can do it. We can help.” The brand identifiers that we can touch, taste, and smell help to define a company’s products for us. It’s how we come to know the company. [...]

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Sy Smith Answers Relevant Questions

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Sultry Singer Sy Smith doesn’t sing, she gives of herself through her music. Sy’s the kind of artist that mere singers in the entertainment industry hear and say, “that woman can sang!” Millions of American Idol fans  recognize her voice (and the other singers’) singing backup to contestants as the key element that makes the [...]

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What Are Your Top Five?

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Gallup research has proven that the best way to develop people — and net the greatest return on investment — is to identify the ways in which they most naturally think, feel, and behave as unique individuals, then build upon those talents to create strength, the ability to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a specific [...]

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Excuse me, I have something to say.

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Ten years ago when I wrote my first book, I put fingers to keyboard because I felt that I had something to say about the dynamic travel, business, athletic, and educational experiences I had had up to that point. After seeing a wave of wannabe authors and me-too types jump on the author-bandwagon to turn [...]

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