Monthly Archives: July 2009

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  Big Stones

  Posted on July 30, 2009 by Diane in 3 inspiration, 5 life, living

  One of the first stories I heard from RE/MAX Prestige’s team coach went like this: There was a teacher. One day he was standing in front of his class, and pulled a huge jar from under the counter. He began to fill it with large stones. When he had piled every stone into the jar, [...]

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  The Emperor Has No Clothes?

  Posted on July 24, 2009 by Diane in twitter

  Regarding social media: …marketers need to bring a little balance to the justifiable demand for performance accountability… when you’re in a competitive market that demands innovation, you have to get in the trenches to help innovation along, instead of just throwing up knee-jerk stop signs to every project that doesn’t come with a business case [...]

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  In a place no one goes…

  Posted on July 22, 2009 by Diane in social media, twitter

  I was sitting outside today with my daughter and a person working for the local newspaper drove up- giving away copies of that paper. I was surprised at how thin the paper in general was, and when I glanced at the section that contained the classified ads was really shocked at how few there were. [...]

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  When “Happy Birthday is a Victory Song”

  Posted on July 15, 2009 by Diane in 5 life, living

  There are advertisements asking for your time and money all over the place: in the newspapers, on television. After a while, you just shut down. As an example, on Facebook I belong to 168 groups- some of them business-oriented, but many of a giving nature. The other day, I saw a post from my friend [...]

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  Barbie loves Ken

  Posted on July 13, 2009 by Diane in 5 life

  I was always the awkward one in school- like in the Ting Ting’s song, I was always “the last chick standing up against the wall.” So, good enough. Lately, though, I have been feeling more in the loop. I mean, after all, I AM on twitter and have that information live-streaming at me day and [...]

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  Top 5 or so Widgets

  Posted on July 11, 2009 by Diane in blogging

  Quick overview of widgets, the ones I use on my site, where I got them, and why I use them.

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  TweetDeck- the twitter client flavor of the month

  Posted on July 9, 2009 by Diane in social media, twitter

  Twitter itself is hard to follow and sort unless you have untreated ADHD, which may be another reason that I like it (Hey- is that a squirrel?). But most people download a client to help sort things out- like Seesmic Desktop , TweetDeck or PeopleBrowsr.  I have TweetDeck up, and I have filtering several columns that [...]

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  Shelving the Shelf Life

  Posted on July 7, 2009 by Diane in 5 life, twitter

  Today I will have posted my 25,000 tweet on twitter. I’m not that much of a numbers gal. I am very competive with myself and a few other people who just seem to press that button, but that’s a different type of measuring. To me, though, this number indicates something bigger. It means that there [...]

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  You’ve come a long way, Baby, but your coffee still sucks…

  Posted on July 4, 2009 by heyamaretto in 5 life, living

  I was working on another post when I read a post by my friend Pat Williams. At the same time, she challenged me: I LOVE that her blog is named The Sticky Floor. At least as much as a glass ceiling exists, there is that sticky kitchen floor that holds women by the soles of [...]

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  Here, kitty, kitty, kitty- thoughts on the Cougar Phenomenon

  Posted on July 2, 2009 by heyamaretto in 5 life, living

  How old am I? It depends on which site you check me out on, because I like to mix it up. Some places I am 39. some 42, some the ripe old age of 43. I usually use the JackBenny 39 because as long as I am over 18 or 21, that’s all the site [...]

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