Luckily For You, I’ve Booked A Video Coach!

August 3, 2009

I know, I know. My video sucks bigtime!
Folks I want to apologize upfront for the completely amateurish YouTube video you see here on my blog. For what you have there is a warts and all, unedited, completely unembellished self-shot video. My very first one. It was hastily recorded in a vacant lot in an industrial [...]

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Obstacles & Opportunities

August 1, 2009

I need your help!
Right now my daughter’s going through huge dramas in her new career as an ambulance officer – dramas apparently caused by other people who seem to be more interested in themselves than in doing simple little things that would help her tremendously to gain confidence in her chosen profession. She spent 3 [...]

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Mile-High Social Networking Club!

July 29, 2009

Hi there. Is anyone interested in passing away time in a chat room on a long-haul flight? Well on my V-Australia B777 it’s on the audio-visual menu in all passenger classes.
True story that happened on my return from LA to Sydney over the previous weekend. I tried it and I liked it, or more correctly [...]

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All That Twitters Is Not Gold

July 20, 2009

Subtitle: Thoughts from a new Twitter user.
There’s no doubting the ever-increasing popularity of Twitter. Its continuing meteoric growth rate puts it on track to become social networking’s killer app. Yet the question still has to be asked: Why is Twitter so popular? And another: Is it a useful marketing medium?
First let’s recap on the user [...]

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Message In A Virtual Bottle

July 14, 2009

Who can predict the reach of something we say or write or video today? Much like the legendary stories you hear of messages in bottles landing ashore years later in some faraway land to the astonishment not only of the original sender but also the recipient, not to mention the general public. Truly the possibilities [...]

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An Emporium Is Born. Press On!

July 9, 2009

How’s that for a slightly pretentious headline. ‘Empire’ was actually my first preference but you’ve got to be an emperor or some sort of political animal to run one of those.
So I’ve settled for Emporium, which is just a big word for ’shop’ or ‘merchant’. That about sums up what I’m doing here – simply [...]

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