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Re-entry
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | 2 Comments
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I came into the office this afternoon to ease my re-entry. I'm not supposed to be back until tomorrow from vacation, but we made the strategic decision to drive from Orlando to Grand Rapids non-stop, which put me in my bed sometime between 3 and 4 Read More...
No More Excuses
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | 9 Comments
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Annually Amway holds a "Weight Wars" challenge for employees, where teams (or, in the past, individuals) lose weight for six weeks and win prizes. I joined a team this year because I am at the heaviest weight I've been ... ever. Well, I Read More...
Kia's Kia
Thursday, May 01, 2008 | 8 Comments
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So, my 15-year-old Saturn SC2 has finally been put out to pasture. Well, not quite. A friend is taking it off my hands (one much better at handling minor repairs) and will probably drive it another 100,000 miles. So, Kari and I took off shopping for another Read More...
Blog Rankings
Friday, April 11, 2008 | 6 Comments
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I was reading an article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal about Heather Armstrong , a blogger mom who has one of the top parenting blogs online. Well, maybe not a parenting blog per se. A blog she writes, as a parent. I think her blog's success Read More...
A Five-Minute Mentor
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 | 2 Comments
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When I went to Loyalist College in Canada back in the 1980s, it was to study Print Journalism. We learned how to be two-way journalists (print and photo) and to do layout and more ... basically everything you'd need to know to do community journalism. Read More...
A Year in the Zone
Friday, February 01, 2008 | 2 Comments
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Happy Birthday O'zoners, and congratulations on a great first year! I just read David Prescott's musings in Code Review and have to agree, it does seem like much longer than a year for the Opportunity Zone. Well, for me that's especially true Read More...
DSA presentation
Friday, December 14, 2007 | 1 Comments
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Do you have a Google alert set up for your name? I do. No, it's not vanity (well, maybe a little). But if my name does appear in another blog or in a news piece, it's work-related and I want to see what others are saying about me, just like I Read More...
Rick & I, Boston Bruins, Miami Dolphins, and more . . .
Thursday, December 13, 2007 | 0 Comments
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One of the little things I thought was truly cool growing up was that my brother and I shared a birthday. No, I'm not a twin, rather, I was born on his fifth birthday. Moreover, he was born on the exact same day as my cousin Carol, with our mom and Read More...
Marketing & Communications Conference
Monday, December 03, 2007 | 6 Comments
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I'm in Baltimore now at the Direct Selling Association's 2007 Marketing and Communications Conference. Today we heard from some excellent presenters, including Eric Yaverbaum, [corrected info] president of Ericho Communications and author of Public Read More...
Reputation & Me & You
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 | 32 Comments
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I was asked to write an article on reputation recently and, while doing so, it really impressed upon me again how important a topic this is not just for companies and brands but for individuals. Certainly a company's reputation is important if it Read More...
It takes a brave man to wear pink ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 | 10 Comments
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Today I'm wearing a pink shirt. It actually has vertical green and blue stripes as well, but for the most part it's pink. I only mention this because, when I wear it, people comment on it. Not when I wear white shirts, or green shirts, or blue Read More...
Building Muscles
Friday, July 13, 2007 | 3 Comments
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For the past few weeks I've been putting myself voluntarily through torture ... aka physical therapy. As you may know, I had ACL replacement surgery in early May, after which I have done light stretching and the like. Early on I dropped my crutches Read More...
Pathway to Recovery
Monday, May 21, 2007 | 1 Comments
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A week has gone by since I've come back into the office on my crutches. I've since ditched one of them and now hobble along with just one crutch, so I can carry my own coffee! By end of week I was doing really well but, after a super active weekend Read More...
Recovery
Thursday, May 10, 2007 | 0 Comments
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It's one day later, and I guess I'm on a path to recovery from ACL replacement surgery. Yesterday I felt great after the actual surgery. I think they loaded me up with good painkillers. This morning has been a lot more painful. That said, I'm Read More...
One new ACL, please!
Friday, May 04, 2007 | 4 Comments
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We had just started scrimmaging and I was getting into the flow. I am a soccer nut. My parents were European immigrants, so soccer was THE sport for me when I was growing up. I still remember the excitement in our family when Ajax of the Netherlands was Read More...
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