Live in the Chicago area? Love celebrating? Interested in social media? Here’s an event for you. June 30 is Mashable Social Media Day. To celebrate, Digital Innovation Forum [DIF] is hosting a Blog Birthday Bash / Summer Social in Glen Ellyn, at the heart of DuPage County. RSVP for Mashable […]
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Peanut butter and chocolate, ying and yang, search and social – now there’s a powerful, and natural, combination! And, lucky for us – search and social is the topic of the June 27 Social Media Club Chicago program. What questions do you have about search and social?
You talk. You market. You listen. Great! Let’s get serious . . . how good are you at communicating? June is Effective Communications Month. Now is a good time to hone your skills. But, where do you start? Lucky for us, my friend Felicia Slattery is hosting an effective communications […]
Thanks so much to PRSA SCC [Suburban Chicago Chapter of Public Relations Society of America] for inviting me to present a program on Blogging and PR on June 14 at the Sheraton Suites in Elk Grove Village. What questions do have about how to mix PR with blogging to build […]
From time to time, I share a client’s press release, this time about a live broadcast from our client’s studio. Here’s one that’s full of all kinds of fun angles. My great friends, MJ Tam, Doung Sheahan, Nancy Look and Beth Rosen will be broadcasting live from Drury Design Kitchen […]
When Illinois Institute of Technology’s School of Applied Technology, invited me to attend a cloud computing workshop, I was curious. My business is on the smaller side. I don’t have an IT department that manages systems, but many of our clients do. So, it’s important for me to be aware […]
Meet Sam, a pug. He’s a service dog. We met in a hotel lobby. He wasn’t a guest. I was. When I commented on how playful and adorable he was, I was told “He’s a working dog.” Here’s all I know about his story . . .
How is your business branding supposed to be performing right about now? Almost good enough, but not quite exquisite, doesn’t get it in business and in the garden. Recently, I took this picture of a vine that was supposed to be in full flower – according to the garden’s […]
“You’ve got to go create a ripple.” Those words came to me as our youngest son and I tromped around the woods. Early in the evening or late in the afternoon, depending on how you measured it, we were doing what we do best: an adventurous young man now, once […]
First, let me be completely up front about the fact that this my daughter, Phoebe. And, yes we’re both wearing wedding dresses. Well, dresses we would wear to weddings. After all, we are in the Gold Coast Room at the Drake and this is the eve of the Royal Wedding. […]