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More From Coolest Women We Know

I've blogged about the Coolest Women We Know group before. It's a wonderful group of smart women, mainly from high-tech or related areas (e.g., recruitment for IT), who have a passion for their work and know how to joke around...

More on Three Cups of Tea

Last month, I blogged about Greg Mortenson's decades-long journey as a wisdom entrepreneur. Mortenson is the author of the best-selling book, Three Cups of Tea. Last week, Mortenson was in the news, having received the Star of Pakistan, Pakistan's highest...

Kim Dority, Part 2: Building Community, Top-Down and Bottom-Up

How many ways can we complement each others' missions? We are not here to compete but we are here to help everyone in this space. --Kim Dority, talking about how Disaboom collaborates with other disability-oriented organizations. In this second part...

Elevator Pitch

Just found a very cool tool from Harvard Business Review that helps you craft your elevator pitch, HBS Elevator Pitch Builder.  The elevator pitch is one way to crystallize your thoughts on the unique value you bring to the world...

Interview With Kim Dority, Part 1

In this next interview for A Bigger Voice, I talk with with Kim Dority, VP of Content for Disaboom.com, an online community with over 90,000 registered users, for people with disabilities and those whose lives they touch. Disaboom has been...

Bringing All of You To Your Work

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to get feedback on my coaching from a master coach--someone who "supervises" new coaches in training for a living. I coached a volunteer client for 15 minutes. The master coach then gave me feedback. Two...

Live Action Coaching

This page provides audio recordings of coaching demonstrations that I've done over the years.  You'll hear a variety of situations, both personal and work-related, with which my volunteer clients struggled. As a coach, there's always more than one way to...

How to Create a Grassroots Movement Using Social Networking Sites

This video talks about some, but not all of the elements of A Bigger Voice: And for a wonderfully prescient look at today's landscape from Kevin Kelly, ten years ago, click here.  What new ideas do you have now that...

Upside of the Recession

These days, everyone has a perspective on the recession. Peggy Noonan, a writer who I admire for her straight talk, recently wrote about the psychological depression that has descended on this country, a collective gloom that's not likely to go...

Geek Girls Band Together to Beat Recession

Last week, I blogged about a networking event that I had learned about at the last minute, a  Girl Geek dinner, hosted by Sun Microsystems. The CBS affiliate in Denver, KCNC, Channel 4 News, decided to cover it, complete with...