I’ve always loved helping, supporting and caring for others in my life. When it comes to myself, my patterns more resemble a martyr than a conscious, healthy person who makes their needs a priority.
Today I picked up the book, The Art of Extreme Self Care by Cheryl Richardson [link: books by Cheryl] and I already got [...]

I finished reading The Go Giver over the weekend and have started thinking and looking at things differently. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about mindset. I learn best using contrast so I created this list of values.
The left could be the mindset of a Go Giver and the right a Go Getter.
Valuing instead of Exploitive
Serving [...]

Elmer would never leave Bugs Bunny alone, he was always chasing that “wascally wabbit”.
Do you struggle leaving your Twitter account “alone”?
I think Twitter is my Elmer Fudd, I just get settled down to work and some Tweet, DM or @ reply needs my attention. Good problem to have you might muse, I get that however, [...]

It’s harder to hit a home run in marketing and business these days, it’s not impossible just harder.
I think we need to learn to approach marketing and the way we think about doing business differently. It’s the “little” bit that will make a huge difference, should you connect with the ball.
Who do you think should [...]

First of a four part series on collaboration. If you are so inclined or missed my prequel… “Seven Tips for Conscious Constructive Confrontation Within Collaborative Teams” you can read it here.
I thought it was about time I wrote something about collaboration. This is after all the Collaborating Entrepreneur!
Collaboration is something I think each and everyone of us [...]

Update: just found this on TheNextWeb: EU to Probe Google After Complaints from Three Internet Companies

Perhaps this will wake up the execs not to be so flippant about privacy, yes that includes you Eric Schimdt! According to Reuters…
…a Milan court has convicted three Google Inc executives for the 2006 transmission of a video showing the bullying of a [...]

I found this a very interesting read. The post at Pingdom has a number of great info graphics and information that is worth a read.
Although we can’t say how this will change over time, at the moment the older generations are for one reason or another (tech savvy, interest, etc.) not using social networking sites [...]

Seriously, the world is all aBUZZ and atwitter about Google’s newest toy – Google Buzz.
It’s a friendfeed like stream of posts (Buzz) and Google Reader shared items within your Google Account. You can see what I am Buzz’ing about at my Google Profile.
Here are 12 great tips on using Google Buzz. I have figured out [...]

In the hotel we are staying in Oakland is a little restaurant. Its run by a local entrepreneur who is very well dressed and friendly. The food? I could only eat there once, for breakfast. It was bad, I’ll spare you the gruesome details, it was bad and weird.
Down the street is a little [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about what drives me and other entrepreneurs. I’ve also been thinking about how important social media has become in the last few years. It’s fascinating to me that social networks are all the rage now because entrepreneurs have been building community since time in memorial.
So what’s changed?
Maybe Nothing, Perhaps Everything
I [...]