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Why I Love National Grammar Day
It’s hopelessly old-fashioned to care about it’s versus its. Who versus whom. Affect versus effect. But I do. I really do. As I wasted time on Twitter today, I ran across a tweet about National Grammar...
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Friending Over 50: Sex, Lies and Baby Boomers
Photo credit: Joey Devilla I’ve been searching for a catchy way to describe the surprising story of baby boomers and their love affair with social media. Sex, Lies and Baby Boomers (inspiration: Sex,...
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Not a Full-Length Book? Write a Kindle Single Instead
I’ve been wrestling with whether the topic of Friending Over 50 (aka baby boomers and social media) is a book idea – or just a fascinating phenomenon (links to Pew Internet report on Older Adults and...
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Q & A with Seth Godin about writing best-selling Poke the Box
Poke the Box, the first title to come out of Seth Godin’s new publishing venture powered by Amazon, The Domino Project, is selling like hotcakes. The book has been out less than 30 days and there are...
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How to prepare an Ignite or TED talk
TED and TEDx talks are the holy grail for speakers who want to move hearts and minds. But five-minute Ignite talks are an excellent warm up. Like TEDx’s, Ignite talks are regularly given in dozens of...
View ArticleAmplify Keynote
As part of Sydney’s biannual Amplify Festival, I gave a keynote on baby boomers and social media to executives and managers of AMP, one of Australia’s largest and oldest financial institutions, as...
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Hey, Stop Procrastinating and “Do the Work”
I know I’m in trouble when I haven’t posted to my blog in a while. I can feel the wall of resistance rising higher and higher. My inner voice chatters away: “For godssakes, write a new blog post....
View Article5 Reasons to Play Hooky in the Summer
This is not the first summer that I’ve taken a break from all digital, all the time. And I hope it won’t be the last. As I wrote last July, there’s something about a stretch away from DC that makes me...
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My First Article About Blogging
I published my first article about business blogging in August, 2001. You can read it here. Whew. A lot of water under the bridge since then, including 9/11, which happened only a few weeks later. The...
View ArticleAttention Business Authors: Self-Publishing Is No Longer for Losers
Ten years ago, the idea of self-publishing a serious business book would have been laughable. Self-publishing was for losers, right? Self-publishing was a last resort after not being able to get a book...
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Only 12% Are Corporate Bloggers, According to Technorati’s State of the...
No surprise: corporate bloggers are the smallest piece of the blogging pie, according to Technorati’s just released State of the Blogosphere 2008. Only 12 percent of bloggers self-identify as...
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The Big List of Big Brand Corporate Blogs
Corporate blogs are a subset of how social media is being used by companies and organizations. Think of a blog as the hub of the wheel, the home base of your social media strategy. From your blog, you...
View ArticleWhy Your Blog Is the Hub of Social Media Marketing
To mark the publication of the new, updated edition of The Coporate Blogging Book, I created a free ebook that explains Why Your Blog Is Your Social Media Hub. I asked a dozen or so high-profile...
View ArticleRunning the New York Marathon vs. Writing a Book
My daughter Amanda ran the New York Marathon yesterday. She hadn’t trained properly. She was sleep deprived. She walked for several miles. But she finished. Amanda is a surgery resident...
View ArticleReflections on My 65th Birthday
I dreaded it for months. But my 65th birthday came and went recently and life is still good. Grand, in fact. Despite recurrent depression, despite self esteem issues, despite everything about myself...
View ArticleWhen Depression Creeps In Like the Fog
The stigma around depression is stubbornly pervasive. No matter that depression affects 350 million people worldwide. Chances are that someone in your office or your circle of friends or even your...
View ArticleActing “As If” Your Writing or Speaking Makes a Difference
Do you read as a form of procrastination? I read the New York Times, Facebook, e-newsletters, and Kindle eBooks. I’ve got hard and softcover books stacked by my bed, along with print-outs of articles....
View ArticleProtected: 5 Writing Strategies That Crush Writer’s Block and Guarantee Success
Password Protected To view this protected post, enter the password below: Password: Submit The post Protected: 5 Writing Strategies That Crush Writer’s Block and Guarantee Success appeared first on...
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From Stomach Doctor to First-time Author: the Inside Story
Following is a behind-the-scenes story by my husband, Sam Harrington, a former gastroenterologist and soon-to-be published author of At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life. His book about...
View ArticleYour Gap Year – What’s Stopping You?
Guest Post on Chip Conley’s Wisdom Well blog My husband, Sam, and I took a gap year at age 62, forty-four years after our respective parents forbade us from taking a timeout before starting university....
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