A Story to Make You Stand Up and Cheer

This is one of those stories that just makes you want to stand up and cheer. Daryn Kagan has been a 13-year anchor for CNN – reporting some of the most important events of our time. She has received awards too numerous to mention and has been rated among the highest of all reporters for accuracy and fairness.

American Business Women’s Day-Connections and Reflections

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect…
- E.M Forester

And so it was, at the American Business Women’s event last Saturday. We came to “Conquer! Life’s Curves” and connect.  The lucky women (and a few brave men) had quite a day. What, you missed it?! Well, you can’t get to everything, and neither could I. But, I did end up with some very valuable insights that only such an event can trigger.

The Invisible Web – Part 5 of Add Value

Several years ago two guys wrote a book published by a small publisher. It sold only a tiny fraction as many copies as the Da Vinci Code. The book was written in 2001, before most of us had even heard of Google, and before most of us had gotten in the habit of relying on search engines for our information. It’s called The Invisible Web, and it has an impact of staggering proportion that far exceeds its sales – and also provides you with a huge opportunity if you are willing to pay attention.

Network the Internet – Part 4 1/2 of Add Value

Would you like to go to the most mammoth “business after hours” networking event ever held? Would you like to show up anytime it fits your schedule? And, would it help if it included the best and the brightest in your industry? Well, just such an event is happening every hour of every day on your computer.

Network the Internet – Part 4 of Add Value

It seems that networking is a hot topic these days. No, not networking, as in hooking up a bunch of computers in order to do something simple like searching 57 quadrillion pages of the Internet. Google has already done that. I’m talking about relationship networking, as in hooking up with 57 quadrillion other people (no, not that kind of hooking up!) in order to do something a lot more complicated – like grow your business.