I’m on the advisory board for a non-profit called Professional Women’s Anonymous. They are having a fundraiser at Chateau Elan on Sat. July 26. If you happen to be a golfer or a tennis player or someone who would just be interested in supporting a great cause while enjoying a lovely setting please visit http://prowomen.org/fundraiser.htm for more info. And if you think of anyone else who might enjoy it, I’d be
very grateful if you could pass the word along.
Thanks!
Just a couple of quick announcements:
1. I’ve put together an article for those of you readers who haven’t gotten started blogging yet: Getting Started Blogging (and Branding)
2. I’ll be teaching 1/4 of a new two day course called Slingshot Seminars targeted to the needs of small businesses. Think of it as a two day boot camp to sharpen your skills and gain new insights. This is a collaboration between my company, Equation Arts, along with Hunter Chatman Communications and The WallStreet Athletic Group. I’ll be teaching the morning session on the 2nd day, which will focus on branding of course. Find out more and register at SlingshotSeminars.com.
That’s a nice pairing of words; “soulful excellence”. Highly evocative, together they smack of quality and emotion, like art – not clinical quality, like a spreadsheet. So few pairings of words smack of anything so I just had to point them out. I wish I could say they were mine, but alas credit must go to the remarkable Joey Reiman who uttered that phrase yesterday during a presentation for the Technology Association of Georgia’s Enterprise 2.0 Society. Yesterday we had a fabulous meeting featuring Mr. Reiman, Thinker & CEO and Elizabeth Clubb, Thinker & CSO, of BrightHouse.
Perhaps even more remarkable than the phrase itself is that it was used in the context of discussing new enterprise technology solutions. The social computing mindset is different: powerful and enabling and dangerous to old modes of thinking. It is changing the way we brand and the way we work. They are becoming one. “Soulful Excellence” is evidence of that. Chew on that phrase and watch out for more.
It is getting to be a habit and I like it! Kathleen Smart has invited me to once again visit the Connect Grow Profit Radio show, part of the Blog Talk Radio network. The show will “air” live at 12pm eastern on Monday, April 14th 2008, and then be available as a podcast.
We’ll be discussing the self-service culture of the internet, the pitfalls of virtual “location”, and the essential elements of web branding: Clarity, Authenticity and Consistency.
Listeners will be able to call in with questions by dialing the Call-in Number: (646) 716-8171.
Only Jeff Pulver would fly around the world hosting “Social Media Breakfasts” and thank goodness! This was a great event, lots of fun. I don’t know if the concept is Jeff’s originally, but he has been going from city to city on a mission to bring social computing techniques to real-world networking. Using the web 2.0 metaphor of tagging and Facebook “Walls” you have a great icebreaker for starting conversations and learning more about the person you just shook hands with. The photo above is my personal tag cloud from about halfway through the event.
You need to be on Facebook to rsvp, but if Jeff brings one of these events to your town, definitely check it out. If not, host your own and send me an invite!
"I adore your doodles... I swear looking at those bunnies lowers my blood pressure, calms my mind and makes me smarter. Who needs meditation when there are bunnies?"
Interview on Atlanta Business Radio