Archive for the 'Observations' Category

Credit repair: A growing business

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 [...]

Step # 1: Ways to be Positively Powerful in Tough Times

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 [...]

Belief

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.

Positively Positive Workforce Tips

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 [...]

Is the digital divide closing? “African American business search engine set to launch.”

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 [...]

The device-centric world

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 [...]

Unearthing "what matters" is still important, open source, transformational learning, and generations…

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 [...]

Diversity vs. the Social Network

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 [...]

Belize: Seen and noted, heard and felt.

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 [...]

Words that won’t be missed.

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. [...]