I don’t know about you, but I am time zone challenged. I live in Chicago so we are in Central Daylight Savings Time, which is -5 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and not to be confused with Universal Time (UT). On top of that, some states in the U.S. don’t adhere to Daylight Savings. It gives me a…
People get very passionate on social media. One of the things I try to teach people is “If you want to polarize or tick-off 1/2 your audience… talk politics or religion.” Whether you are talking personal brand or business brand, you stir emotions that will attract or repel people. People sometimes push back by saying…
I wanna be #1… How many times have you got this email… ” We can make you #1 on Google!”, “Offering a Free Evaluation of your website!”, “Rank #1 in the Top 10 Search Engines!”. I have a dare for you… Search Google, Yahoo, Bing, (and the other 7 companies they are promising – whatever…
Who Wudda Thunk??? Our Dog Buddy Guy is very good at Social Networking! This mild Chicago winter has allowed us to get some exercise with daily walks. Each day Buddy gets to network with the neighborhood dogs by checking his P-Mail (thanks to Kizer & Bender for that reference). He stops occasional and says “Hi…
Last year at this time I said… “I really don’t need or want an IPad”. Now that I have one I cannot say enough good stuff about it! I decided last year to save all the tips from our Dough! gigs for a year to save up the $499 for the WiFi only 16…
The Latest and Greatest Last week on Facebook, a friend posted “Attention techy people…I need help. I’m looking for a wireless card that will allow me to get internet access no matter where I am on my laptop?”. She had 13 replies with varying answers lauding the pluses and minuses of Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and…
So what are your New Years Resolutions? Some of you will have many… others will have none. I am turning 50 this year so I have 49 years of resolutions experience to share with you. At 2 years old I “Resolved” to stop drooling over technology or guitars, but back then… IPads had safety pins…
I don’t know about you… but I am addicted to connections. I came home yesterday from my 2nd networking group of the day (connections #1), only to find our cable was out (connections #2a), rendering our house in panic with no tv, phone lines or internet! So I jump on my cell phone to look…
Jiggy Wit It… I bet your not thinking about your taxes yet? Well I was… I have been going to Dino (at Marnell Financial Services Inc.) for about 15 years now. Every quarter we have a standing appointment to review where we are as far as personal and business taxes are concerned. The first time…
So how did Santa treat you this year? Hopefully he brought you a new Mac or IPhone for Christmas? If he did congratulations… You will have so much more time to do things you want to do. At our family Christmas get together, there was much fun tracking Santa with Google Earth on our IPhones.…