We are all looking for some kind of sanctuary. A place where we can dream, create, focus, hibernate with a good book or even to simply rest. For some of you your ideal studio will be light and bright and for others, it will be dark and soothing. I’ve been on the fence until recently which category I fell into. You…
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Beauty and the Breakdown
My friend L. Danielle Baldwin shared this post by Aleksandra Slijepcevic of Elite Daily this morning and it’s a good thing too. I needed to hear every word. There is indeed beauty in the breakdown. Go ahead and read it. . . I’ll wait. 10 Reasons Why Losing Your Sh*t Will Make Your Life Come Together One of the many reasons that Aleksandra’s…
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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 of conflict.” Too afraid of…
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Success through Social Media Education?
While reading 5 Ways to Set Up Your Employees for Success in 2015 I was inspired to ask my Facebook friends this question: ‘What is your biggest challenge when trying to get more people inside of an organization to support their own brand’s social media activities?’ A quote that stuck out to me from the Entrepreneur article above and inspired this post…
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All about hashtags
Recently, the local CBS affiliate WFMY News 2, interviewed me about what hashtags would be big this year. I pointed out that jumping on the ‘hot’ hashtags may seem like the right thing to do, but more often than not, your message will get lost in the noise of everyone else hoping to get heard or smarmy marketers peddling things…
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