The Personal User’s Manual

I was reading a great blog post over on Edutopia about writing a Student’s User Guide. The title was a bit dull, but on reading it, a teacher talks about developing a “personal User’s Guide” not only for herself, but having each of her students...

Is It Time to Try Social?

I was listening to NPR this morning, and someone from an Ad Agency in Virginia was saying that because of the election, there’s been little opportunity for local businesses to get their own ads for the holidays and more on TV, and the inventory of open time...

Why Blog?

I’m doing a presentation this week to local folks we’re calling “To Blog or Not to Blog”. In getting my presentation together, I’ve come across a couple of interesting videos I thought I’d share. For those of us who’ve been...

Consumer Spending and the Economy

I was with my trainer this morning, and we were discussing post-holiday things, as is typical the first week in January.  And I was struck by the following thought: We got ourselves out of the Great Depression by an expansion of productivity, consumer spending, and...