Holy Shiso!

This little perrenial packs a spicy punch your mouth is gonna thank you for

The Benefits of Gardening in Community

I reserved our community garden plot yesterday at the city park. This will be our fourth year there and as I look out the window at the piles of half snow dotting the downtown yards around us, I think that spring -- and gardening -- cannot come soon enough. Before we...

Book Coming in Early 2014

Sue Urda from Powerful You Publishing contacted me in June 2013 about being a social media trainer for the authors on an upcoming book project. The more I talked to Sue, the surer I was that I wanted to work with her -- not just as a trainer, but as one of the authors...

Online Reputation Management Tips

I usually like to focus on the up-side of social media marketing for business. After all--it's free, not too difficult to learn and manage with proper training and a great way to build and maintain relationships with customers. So what's the "other" side? Reputation...

Benefits of Being “On Restriction”

I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia at age twelve. Most of the kids I went to school with came from military families and used terms that were sometimes unfamiliar. I remember kids talking about getting into trouble and then being...

Build a Better Mousetrap?

According to Wikipedia: Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door is a phrase attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the late nineteenth century. The phrase is actually a misquotation of the statement: If a man has good corn or wood, or...

Time Travel Fun with Social Media

Marketers have been experimenting with Facebook's timeline feature for pages since it debuted earlier this year. Now instead of an in-the-moment jumble of impressions, brands also have the opportunity to present their story in a historic format, noting important dates...