Archive for the 'Observations' Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Here’s a resource for information that might be useful in these chaotic financial times. Not only can people get their credit repaired, these businesses have resources to build credit by adding good trade lines and helping businesses to get financing without going through SBA.
Here’s what industry expert JoAnn Holly says:
Due to the fall [...]
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
We have all encountered tough times when coming up with the right decision seems difficult and nearly impossible. The Turtle becomes our hero, pull in those legs and your head and wait until the smoke clears. I don’t think so!
#1 Find someone or a cause to give to.
Giving is not just about your [...]
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
The words “belief” and “believing” have morphed into many meanings, some of them self righteous indictments for those who don’t share the same beliefs.
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
When I produced the Positively Powerful Women Celebrate! Retreat (Triad West Inc. ) I wanted women to have a boost in their ability to accomplish their vision, greater confidence, more energy, a feeling that they were appreciated and appreciated themselves, and an environment where they could create connections to build their businesses, communities, or social [...]
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Corporate Clicks: FraserNetsearch
African American business search engine set to launch
By Ann Brown, Black Enterprise
June 9, 2008 — According to recent studies, African Americans turn to the Internet more often than others for career information and professional networking. According to the 2005 AOL African American Cyberstudy, conducted for AOL by IMAGES Market Research, 62% of [...]
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
If you are like me and love technology, here’s a great article - Living In A Device-Centric World - about one very intriguing aspect of those wonderful devices. It comes from Andrew Zimmerman of Accenture. Here’s a quote:
The current market focus on the “three screens” of the consumer—a television in your family room, a [...]
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
"Back in the day" the transformational trainer would float or charge confidently to the front of the room with the elevation that knowledge, dedication, and vision brings. Then he or she and would stand and with utmost seriousness, let us know that it was time for a new way of thinking. Of course we all [...]
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Myspace, Facebook and other social networking sites have altered how we react and interface with one another. They have begun to redefine and form a new understanding of what binds us together. Through these online programs, diversity may be occuring out of view and is none the less, right under our noses.
There is evidence that [...]
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
On Aunt Carrie’s Speak Easy blog, a light easy way to stay current on points of view on much that is happening “now”I read about Andy Palacio. Mr. Palacia was a bandleader and songwriter who spearheaded a revival of the Garifuna music of Central America. He died Saturday in his native Belize City, Belize. He [...]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
As we approach the new year, there are many words that won’t be missed by me. I gladly put them in the recycle bin: The N word, the H word, the B word along with all of those who felt it necessary to utter them in order to get attention from the media with them. [...]
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