If you are thinking of a graduation party or any type of event, consider MyPunchBowl for electronic invites and other event planning necessities. The CEO is a friend and ex-colleague of mine (and lives 1/4 mile away) Matt Douglas.
One of the reasons I'm plugging his business is that he maintains a blog and frankly, up until this course, I just didn't "get it." OK, I still don't really get it (blogging as an important corporate marketing communication device) but I'm coming around a little bit.
If you have been influenced by a corporate blog, please let me know. I find it odd that I do about 80% of my purchases on-line, am on-line multiple hours each day, and have never had a "corporate blog experience". Is it just me? Are corporate blogs really an important element (from a customer's perspective) and if so, why haven't I ever been drawn to one (granted, this last question may be tough for you to answer ...)
Monday, March 8
No Whining
One of my post-its on my corkboard says "no whining". It's from my son Jackson (8) and it's a note to me, not him. It's a reminder for me not to get whiny when I'm trying to put them to bed and I'm stressed out because I need to study or write a paper. But it's good advice regardless of the circumstance.
Jackson and my other son Campbell (6) are ready for me to be done w/ school. It's been tough on them because they see all my time spent on studying, especially on the weekends, as time that I could/should be spending with them.
I'm ready too, as is my wife Darrah. Everyone is very excited about graduation this spring. We live in Natick, about 15 miles east of Boston so we will be attending the graduation.
Post-It Proliferation
Post-its are the most common item on my corkboard (yes, that's my corkboard/desk) followed by photos, newspaper cut-outs, buiness cards and artwork from my kids.
Honestly, I don't think I'm managing my Post-its well. just the other day I threw away about 40 post-its that had been all over my desktop (actual) w/out even looking at them. On the one hand, I was greatly relived to not have to read them and be reminded of things I probably didn't do. On the other hand, maybe there were some important "stuff" on them.
Does going electronic solve the problem? What if I just put all my thoughts, to do's, and ideas in a file on my computer? I'm a big fan of Coppernic desktop. It searches through my 50,784 emails and 48,490 files (complete coincidence that these numbers are so close) in a split second so I never have to remember where a file or email is stored. But, I need know a 'word' in the thing I'm looking for. I.e., something in the file or email that Coppernic will match.
A file may not cut it for me because I'm afraid I would never open it or search for it if I can't remember what's in it.
What do you do? Have you found an electronic solution to Post-It Proliferation?
The Work Goes on ...
Like many, I presume, I spent as much time thinking about what to say and pithy names as I did creating this blog. Well, OK, maybe more. Then, as I sat staring peripherally at my screen, my eyes focussed on the quaint Post-its and photos born of film push-pinned to my corkboard, I realized I would probably never have much to say about anything but I could probably say something about a lot of things.
So this initial post is about a dream. Not mine, exactly, but one I share in principle w/ the creator of that dream, Teddy Kennedy. And that's because his famous quote from his 1980 Democratic convention speech "THE WORK GOES ON, THE CAUSE ENDURES, THE HOPE STILL LIVES AND DREAM SHALL NEVER DIE" is the most prominent item on my corkboard. But I didn't even know it was from his 1980 speech when I clipped it out of the Globe last August, the day after he died. It is so relevant a message today - given the state of health-care reform -- I assumed it was just that, a message to all of us to continue his legacy and to change health care in this nation. His complete speech can be found here.
That I'm Canadian (although I've now lived more years in the US than in Canada after emigrating when I was 19) has something to do with why I align so naturally with Kennedy's ideas on health-care, but certainly not all. Rather, I consider health-care a human right, a civil right, and that is much less about my nationality than it is about being a human being on this earth.
So this initial post is about a dream. Not mine, exactly, but one I share in principle w/ the creator of that dream, Teddy Kennedy. And that's because his famous quote from his 1980 Democratic convention speech "THE WORK GOES ON, THE CAUSE ENDURES, THE HOPE STILL LIVES AND DREAM SHALL NEVER DIE" is the most prominent item on my corkboard. But I didn't even know it was from his 1980 speech when I clipped it out of the Globe last August, the day after he died. It is so relevant a message today - given the state of health-care reform -- I assumed it was just that, a message to all of us to continue his legacy and to change health care in this nation. His complete speech can be found here.
That I'm Canadian (although I've now lived more years in the US than in Canada after emigrating when I was 19) has something to do with why I align so naturally with Kennedy's ideas on health-care, but certainly not all. Rather, I consider health-care a human right, a civil right, and that is much less about my nationality than it is about being a human being on this earth.
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