Posts by Carol Ross
Don’t Push the River and Other Advice on Community-Building
I recently asked the ABV team to provide one piece of advice about communities or community-building. Here’s what they said: Join a community to enrich your life.Get involved to reap the rewards. This follows nicely with my experience of being part of the Coolest Women We Know community. Communities are unpredictable. This is neither good…
Read MoreBreast Cancer for Husbands
A friend just started a blog for husbands of women going through breast cancer. He described his reasons for blogging in this way: "My wife has had breast cancer over the past three years. Blogging about it seems therapeutic and also a way for husbands to support each other." In my discussions with Ilene Kouzel,…
Read MoreTell Me a Story
A Denver Post article talks about different projects to chronicle individual life stories. After helping the ABV pilot clients understand their life stories, I have a deeper appreciation for the power of connecting the dots in one’s life. Part of the Full Expression module, the theory is that if we understand the key events in…
Read MoreDeclining Value of Your College Degree
Dan Pink called this one a few years ago with his book, A Whole New Mind and this article provides concrete numbers to make the case. The median weekly salary for individuals with a bachelor’s degree, adjusted for inflation, decreased from 2001 to 2007 by 1.7%. Even those with a master’s degree experienced a decrease…
Read MoreMaking Social Networking Work
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal provides a mixed review of the effectiveness of social networking. The following day, the author of the article blogged about this same topic. The posting provides some good tips but what’s even better are the comments, where individuals have suggested platforms and tools, and provided existing sites…
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