Juggling, Triage and Honesty

If there’s anything I know about, it’s juggling many balls in my life.  Between being a Mom, working and volunteering, I often have so much on my plate, things risk falling off the edge and getting lost in the shuffle all the time.   This has always been...

Thinking About a Year as a Podcamper

Podcamp Logo Originally uploaded by Chris Brogan. It’s been a little over a year since I attended the first Podcamp. Since that time, I’ve been to and spoke at Podcamp Toronto, helped organize and spoke at Podcamp NYC, attended Podcasters Across Borders,...

Work Life/Personal Life- Should There be a Difference?

I read a blog post by Eric Olson, talking about trying to figure out if there was or should be a line between “work” and “life”. Eric pointed out that in the past, our customers were also our friends and neighbors. We were our work, but we were also the person next...

The Twelve Steps of Volunteering

I’ve been volunteering on one form or another for many years now.  I’ve been treasurer of a Hospital Fund Raising Organization, managing its four businesses and $1.5 million dollars of investments; I’ve helped run charity golf tournaments and silent auctions, book...

Another reason to Switch to Verizon FiOS

This morning, I woke up and tried to log onto my email over at Comcast.net. I had great connectivity; I could get to my gmail no problem, but the Comcast.net portal was not accessible.  The site was down.  Fine, it happens. When I called to see what was up, I was put...