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Welcome to my blog. I hope you enjoyed it and that you will return. Please leave your comments or contact me directly. "It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do about it that counts." Thank you for visiting.         When you are heavily involved with social media,...

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How To Monetize Your Blog: On and Off the Page Today’s post is by guest blogger Murray Newlands of Influence People There are many ways to turn the content you create for your blog into actual income. Some of these happen on your blog page, and some of them happen beyond your blog because...

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        There is a new social media site that is fun to use and very different to the big 4 that we seem to spend most of our time on , Facebook, twitter, You Tube and Google +. It’s Pinterest   a scrapbook type site where users create “boards” and then “pin” items...

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When arriving in Canada  a few years back as a Baby Boomer and coming from a background that valued privacy and independence very highly, the concept of social media frightened the life out of me. Back in the “old” days, while we obviously used every opportunity to promote our businesses and brands by every...

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Sopa : A sledgehammer to crush a flea

Wikipedia went dark today in protest at the SOPA and PIPA bills before the US House and Senate. Two of the biggest Social Media players, Facebook and twitter did not take their sites down. Twitter was quoted as not wanting to deny access to millions of its users who do not live in the...

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What happened to loyalty and standing up for one’s team mates? The furore in the media about the video of marines allegedly urinating on dead terrorists in Afghanistan is shocking not for what they are supposedly doing, but for the fact that: The video was recorded in the first place. It was released to...

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Two examples of people following their passion to create businesses this week. One already a financially successful blog after just two years and one a new offline business developed out of a hobby. Ana White, a mother and housewife from Alaska started writing about her carpentry hobby and woodworking skills in her blog, she...

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The capacity of the human brain to adapt and learn new skills never ceases to amaze me. When my mind learns a new skill and then puts that into practice it seems to be even more of a miracle. On behalf of all Baby Boomers who are, surviving the internet age, I want to...

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After mentioning the importance of having a daily routine or action plan for goal achievement in my last post, I have been asked to elaborate on the benefits of journalling or keeping a diary as I was more accustomed to refer to it in the more “English” environment of my former countries. The “I...

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Every second newsletter I receive at the moment seems to be on the importance of goal setting or another innovative system for achieving them. So I am not going to subject readers to yet another. Interestingly, I have not seen the oft quoted “Yale study of 1953″  which turns out to be an urban...

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