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Recipes
Recipe : Coconut, Vanilla and Walnut Macaroons
Last weekend I was looking for a dessert recipe that would be easy to make, delicious and also easy to share. All of the macaroon recipes I found online were great, but what I ended up making was a bit of a ‘what you have in the cupboard’ kind of recipe. I hope you enjoy…
Udderly Smooth Summer Skin
Recently I was chatting with @udderlysmooth, one of my Bloggy Conference Sponsors, on twitter about a weekend project that left my hands less than lady like. Linda suggested adding some sugar to my Udderly Smooth to create a scrub. What a great idea! I’m sending some to @reneedobbs, and avid gardener, so that she can…
Recipe: Sugar Free Chocolate and Coconut Covered Toasted Almonds
It’s been 4 months now that I’ve been sugar free. I’m 25lbs down and feeling SO MUCH BETTER! No I didn’t start this diet to lose weight, I did start it because I felt like crap and my health was failing. In addition to sugar, I’ve given up other things like starch, some grains, glutinous foods, yeast,…
Technology
Leveraging Down Time to Grow Your Bottom Line Goals
Last week, my mother-in-law shared a page straight out of Oprah.com . . . literally! The article was an aha moment from actress Leelee Sobieski and the importance a day of rest can make. After reading this article, I had my own aha moment. . . I wasn’t alone! It’s so refreshing to discover that…
5 Things NBC’s Botched Olympics Coverage Can Teach You About Business
It’s no secret that the running joke in much of the online community, throughout the entire 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, was how badly NBC handled the media coverage. Talk around the water cooler today is how NBC and the International Olympic Committee’s efforts to portray a “connected” world thanks to social media was…
How Your Cell Phone Can Kill You (and possibly those around you!)
I am beginning to believe that some of us have become willfully ignorant to the dangers our cell phones pose. It’s use, at certain times, can kill you and everyone around you if you are not careful. Do you understand that driving while distracted by a mobile phone is the leading cause of vehicular deaths now…
Business
Personal and Professional Progress: Small Actions, Big Difference
When it comes to reaching our goals, we can all get a bit impatient when we have to wait. Frustration at the lack of immediate fulfillment can diminish our excitement and inertia, often distracting us from the small actions required to make a big difference in our progress. What are those small actions that can…
Discovering New Growth: Why Composting Ideas is Good for Business
We’ve all done it. . . Thrown out perfectly good ideas just because they didn’t quite make the cut for the current project or immediate goals or were completely shot down by a co-worker or client. But have you ever considered composting ideas? Sounds strange right? Stay with me on this! This morning while I…
Daring to Disagree
I finally watched Margaret Heffernan’s Ted Talk today over lunch, ‘Dare to Disagree‘. [view interactive transcript here] Something from her talk struck me: “So how do organizations think? Well, for the most part, they don’t. And that isn’t because they don’t want to, it’s really because they can’t. And they can’t because the people inside of them are too afraid…
DIY
DIY: Drab to Fab Goodwill Makeover – Waverly Style!
There is nothing that I love more than discovering a piece of furniture that is a diamond in the rough. This $5 chair from my favorite local Triad Goodwill was no exception! Hands down one of my favorite places to hunt for my DIY projects is Goodwill. You just never know what you might find…
DIY: Jute Coasters using the Crochet Afghan Stitch
Since I finished my last blanket a while back, I’ve been trying out new materials to crochet with besides yarn – this week it just so happens that I picked up jute. It’s normally reserved for tying off presents and party invitations but, ever since I crocheted a jute coaster last year for my desk, I thought it would…
Sew Sexy: How to remove a cowl from a sweater
Though the before looks pretty – I can tell you that it did not lay so evenly when put on. I love the nautical stripes and thought that with a little help, this summer sweater (it is so soft!) would get a lot more milage if it lost the cowl. I’m no master at sewing…
Social Media
As I sit here this morning and process through the online maelstrom surrounding Jared Fogle, the grassroots social media/brand spokesperson from Subway, I see vicious comments and quips being posted at a dizzying rate…even from people that I thought wouldn’t be so quick to pick up a pitchfork and torch. There is something I want…
I know y’all are going to get sick of me bitching about inbox spam but DAMN. It’s like the spam dam broke and all the smarmy sales pitches are flooding my inboxes. Every. Last. One. LinkedIn, Email, Facebook, Twitter, and yes, even my post office box. . . gah. Just. Fucking. Stop. Two things. 1. This type…
I was a little late figuring out that Hootstuite templates feature (see video below) is gone for good (for free and pro users) and was replaced with a new, but not so improved, drafts feature on April 15th, 2015. Why OH why would they change this amazing feature? Let’s just say that I found out the…
Well, are they? Chances are you may not know even if they are. How your employees behave while you are around is one thing, but what about what they say to your customers and vendors when you aren’t around? What do they say to their family, spouses and friends about your online efforts? What are they…
Whether you have 1 employee or 1000, here are 7 ways to empower them to become brand evangelists. Educate your employees on how to properly use social media. Give your employees clear examples and detailed instructions on where you need their help and A. Don’t get frustrated that your employees aren’t sharing your content when you don’t make the time…
WAIT! Before you hit send on that status update, I encourage you to carefully consider if it should be a blog post. *brace yourselves for some tough love* Yeah I know, you hate writing f*cking blog posts.Well – tough shit. “It takes too long.” “It’s not my job!” “What’s the point?” Look, if you’re not willing…