Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Living

Life Lessons

Digital Coaches and Hollywood Writers

Signs that technology is increasingly impacting the way we live and work: Seth Godin has a Squidoo lens for digital coaches. What's a digital coach? Read more here. The McNeil News Hour recently reported that Hollywood writers, in light of...

Empathy Babies (and Pets)

The Wall Street Journal reports that a Canadian non-profit, Roots of Empathy, is addressing school bullying with a novel approach--by bringing babies into the classroom. More than 2,000 empathy babies (and their moms) are in elementary school classrooms in Canada,...

Entreprenurial Heroes

A great resource that I stumbled on today is a podcast series produced by the National Center for Women in Technology, or NCWIT.  The podcast, Entreprenurial Heroes, is a series of  twenty short interviews with women entrepreneurs in high tech....

A Bigger Voice

In November 2007, I blogged about my experience at the Dreaming Room, talking about the process of dreaming and manifesting the dream, but not what the dream is for me. It's taken me longer than I thought to flesh out...

Flourish

Mitchell Ashley has a great post about the word, flourish--it's many meanings and how it relates to leadership in companies. After reading the post, I've concluded that flourish is an attitude, a mindset. Some people have it and as a...

Forget the Latte, Take the HOV Lane

Most days, I'm lucky to have a 30-second commute, down a couple flights of stairs to my home office. Recently, I had to be cross town first thing in the morning, in the south part of Denver, making my commute...

How Can I Support You?

This is a question that is often forgotten in networking. Like the proverbial neighbor who borrows one too many cups of sugar, your relationships will suffer if the giving is always in one direction. I've found most people are more...

Creating Focus from Overwhelm

This blog posting by social networking analyst, Jeremiah Owyang, gives a great inventory of web-based tools that are available today, many of which weren't around five or even three years ago. The list is overwhelming. And it underscores why it's...

Using Technology to Get Out the Vote

This Fast Company article by top blogger, Robert Scoble, shows how the presidential candidates are using a mix of technologies to reach different audiences, and to turn those into votes. The concept applies whether you are creating a community of...

We’re All Bozos on the Bus

Perfection is the enemy of our humanity. Lately, I've been wondering if I can do it all, be creative enough, and keep it together, at least until I've gotten off the phone with the last client.  Can I be wise...