A New Blogger in the Family
I've been the sole blogger in the family (underground bloggers excepted--you never know.) Until now. Ryan, my 24-year old nephew just started blogging about his new adventure, a year in downtown Oakland, as part of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. His...
Traverse City on Sept 18
I'll be in Traverse City, Michigan on September 18 to lead a discussion about social entrepreneurship. My hosts will be Marguerite Cotto, from Northwest Michigan College and Elaine Wood, from the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments. Both of these women...
Jet Lag
I use a prep form with my clients that helps them summarize what's happened since we last met. It also helps them focus the conversation for our coaching session. I use the form myself, when meeting with my coach. One...
The Grace of Tony’s Mom
Yesterday was the start of a three-day weekend, yet my 13-year old son was glum. My husband had asked me to talk to our son, after getting a face that was ready to burst into tears when discussing of all...
A Cause Without a Community Means…?
Our first guest blog posting comes from Dave Murphy, who I first collaborated with on the Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving project. Dave has been a sounding board for A Bigger Voice since I started fleshing out the idea late in...
Obama, Eco-Systems and Communities
A topic of discussion with the ABV team has been eco-systems. Simon first introduced us to the concept of eco-systems for communications. Simon defines it this way: "All the options to communicate with your community." Visually, such an eco-system might...
Do You Clean Up As You Go?
Last week, I was feeling trapped, overwhelmed and underwater. I had piles of to-do's near by laptop, on my desk, on the kitchen table. I had flashes of that I Love Lucy episode where the conveyor belt moves faster and...
In Praise of Joe
This week, I was in the car, listening to the radio, and just happened to catch Garrison Keillor hosting The Writer's Almanac. He always reads a poem, in addition to giving tidbits about writer's lives. Sometimes I find that I...
Why Monetizing Before Community-Building Doesn’t Work for Books
I'm reading The Long Tail by Chris Anderson and this paragraph got my attention: "In 2004, 950,000 books out of the 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen BookScan sold fewer than ninety-nine copies. Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies. Only...