Awareness is the 1st step to work/life balance
The hot topic of conversation at a meeting of the Halton-Peel Communications Association last week was work/life balance. HPCA members are all entrepreneurs who presumably have a little more control over our lives than those in the corporate world, which is key. Yet...
Newsletters & blogs both great tools
Corporate blogs are growing in popularity, but don’t discount newsletters as powerful communications tools. I recently had a little disagreement on just this topic with Jason Falls at Social Media Explorer. Jason wanted to convey the power of a blog and compared...
Brogan vs. Kawasaki: the Twitter smackdown
(With apologies to the gentlemen named, I submitted this for a class assignment.) Few people are retweeted more often than high-profile Twitter users Chris Brogan and Guy Kawasaki. But which one is more successful? That depends on your measure of success....
10 tips to polish your LinkedIn profile
Never, never, NEVER auto-post your Twitter comments to LinkedIn. It’s annoying, all those #hashtags and @signs are #messy and #confusing to #people who don’t use #Twitter, and you’ll just cause your network to hide your comments, which effectively hides YOU from...
Happy 5th blogversary (sorry!) to me
Five years, 517 blog posts. That’s nothing compared to the outpourings of prolific writers who crank out posts daily or even multiple times a day. But as someone who had a hard time keeping a regular journal, as noted last year at this time, I marvel at having...
Tips & tricks for cleaning up computer clutter
Do you keep your computer organized? Or do you have files in your email folders, files on the desktop, files on USB keys, files tucked in files hidden in files? Professional organizer Deanne Kelleher has seen it all before, and blames our disorganization for the...
Break the bars and say ‘si’ to life
Warm weather dreaming as winter sets in reminded me that last year, I spent five days in Cuba on a quick all-inclusive vacation during Son #2’s week off university. Juggling paying work and my own school work, I didn’t have a lot of spare time but figured...
Is this how to treat a ‘valued subscriber’?
“Dear Valued Subscriber,” the note began. Ah, my newspaper really appreciates my business. As well it should; isn’t the industry in distress? Millennials don’t read newspapers, do they? It’s time to renew my subscription and I’ll...