25 Things Meme- 25 Things About Me

A few friends, including Chris Penn and the great Chris Hambly a.k.a. the Don of the Social Media Mafia (tounge firmly in cheek) have tagged me with this meme- the intent is to lst 25 things about yourself.  Here’s my list- you can also find it over in the notes...

Weaving Ideas Together for the Future

Information Superhighway Originally uploaded by nickwheeleroz I’ve been reading a lot of different sorts of books lately, ranging from business books to fiction and several in between. I’ve been skipping between them, in part because they each get me...

ROI of Your Brain

Many times my husband will ask me whether or not the things I am choosing to do are focused or not.  He sees some of my projects and interests as being distractors from the core mission.  I often think he is right, but other times, the core mission is not just one...

Rethinking Conferences

I got an email talking about a big “post-telecomm” conference happening in about a month.  It’s one of those $1,500-$2,000 type conferences, on a subject I’m interested in and think I could learn a lot from, but it’s not exactly my...

The Economy, Layoffs, and Perspective

I keep on hearing about all the companies announcing layoffs, and then some cumulative numbers, but I found I was having a hard time wrapping my mind about what this means, really. So I started to take apart the numbers- just those at the bigger companies, really, and...

Be Prepared

Everyone has heard this age-old Boy Scout motto. Our mothers preached it, and I preach it to me kids. Whether we say “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” or the more eloquent spin from Paul Newman that says “You can do anything, as long...