December 8, 2010 – 9:50 am
I continue to believe strongly that spelling and grammar are vital building blocks to success in business and life. Nevertheless, this is fantastic:
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November 23, 2010 – 12:37 pm
Have you heard about Small Business Saturday? It’s Amex’s effort to “support the local businesses that create jobs, boost the economy and preserve neighborhoods around the country.”
We love it! If big stores can advertise for Black Friday, and the internet can max out bandwidth on Cyber Monday, why not Small Businesses?
Here are a few in [...]
November 15, 2010 – 2:18 pm
I spent some quality time at the Apple store recently. Our Airport was acting bratty then just quit. So I dropped in on Thursday and was directed to the semi-Genius Bar (my name for it — that table almost in the back where you can see the Geniuses, but you can’t get any face time [...]
September 7, 2010 – 11:11 am
We’re loving Michael Spradlin’s guest blog at Imagination Soup about “The Kid Who Doesn’t Like to Read (TKWDLTR) Syndrome” and his proposed comic book cure. Comics as exciting, vocabulary-building reading that will keep kids engaged—why not? As Michael says, in the face of the literacy crisis among kids, “Any reading is good reading.” We concur! [...]
April 26, 2010 – 11:51 am
Right now — as in today, through midnight Thursday, April 29 – there is a competition among six very deserving high schools to bring President Obama to deliver the commencement address. Whatever your politics may be, you have to admit that the opportunity to have the sitting president deliver your high school commencement speech is [...]