From the monthly archives:

November 2009

No Greater Gift: Understanding Time vs. Money

November 30, 2009

Whooooooooooooooooooooooooosh.
We met in 1993. In 2000, I stood up at his wedding.
Before we could sit down again, life happened.
Sound familiar?

Nearly 10 years, 250 miles and 3.3 kids later, he’s here visiting.
When you get a bit older, time tugs a little harder in the war against money.
They’re two sides of the same coin, you know?
Time and [...]

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Message of Thanksgiving

November 26, 2009

Thanks to my friends Scotty and Carissa for passing along this true message of Thanksgiving. Have a great day and weekend.

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Silliness: A Muppet Rhapsody

November 25, 2009

Yeah, but it’s a very-well done silly.
You have to be serious about silly to get silly just right.
I have a well-documented love of all things muppet.

Have a great Thanksgiving.

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Welcome to The Daily Blur

November 25, 2009

Is your life a bit of a blur? A busy blend of thats and thiseseses?
Me? I’m a work-at-home-dad-writer-cook-repairman-designer-consultant-speaker-playmate-and-way-more-but-I’m-afraid-my-hyphen-button-might-break.
And that was just yesterday.
That’s it, really: Too many hyphens. If that’s you, too, this is your kinda place. The Daily Blur will be a quick respite of useful somethings for useful somethings.
A place for pause. A [...]

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Customers: Relational, Transactional, Social

November 24, 2009

As we peer out over the edge of the holiday season, in addition to readying ourselves for turkey and football and games, we’re thinking an awful lot about how our business, clients and customers will fare financially.
We’re also thinking about social media, or more correctly, practical applications of social media. Here in my midwestern college [...]

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How to Stop Facebook from using your photos in ads

November 23, 2009

Starting today Facebook will use your photos in ads that will appear on the profile page of your contacts.
If you want to prevent this from happening, do the following: Settings => Privacy Settings=> News Feed and Wall => Facebook Ads => Choose “No one” and save changes.
Here’s a quick video tutorial.

Thanks to Bryan Eisenberg for [...]

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Troll: This Week's Desktop

November 23, 2009
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Word of Mouth: "Clear is the new clever."

November 23, 2009

John Moore over at Brand Autopsy put together a compliation of attendees’ tweets and some images from the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s (WOMMA) recent Creating Talkable Brands Conference. He was kind enough to throw it up on slideshare. It’s worth a few minutes on a Monday morning.
The title of this post comes from the [...]

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Holiday Gifts and Reading, Part 2

November 22, 2009

Piling onto Friday’s list of books worth your time over the holiday season - particularly in this part of the world where night darks early, reading’s such a warm pleasure. This actually isn’t the list I’ve got on my bedside table, but these have been books I’ve recommended for the past couple years.
The Best [...]

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Holiday Reading & Following, Part 1

November 20, 2009

On Thursday, November 19th, Emily Poore (www.ColumbiaMOChamber.com) wrote:
Hi Tim,
I heard your talk at the Women’s Network luncheon on THE PENDULUM – MARKETING IN 2009 AND BEYOND. I really liked your examples throughout history of the two different sides and how it swings back and forth, and I wanted to learn more about this idea. [...]

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