Casual Fridays

I am trying to find a story that I briefly heard on NPR news.
Basically, it was about Jewish children separated from their parents during the holocaust. It included a story of one young man who was waiting to be reunited with his parents. He was shaking like a leaf as he turned to [...]

Well, Wednesday was a huge highlight of the year for me. I helped present the BMA Tulsa / OSU annual seminar. The speakers were great and included John Moore (johnmoore) of Brand Autopsy as well as some very impressive local speakers. I was blown over by these guys.
There were SEVERAL “Aha” moments [...]

Good ol’ Michael Wagner of the White Rabbit Group has apparently tagged me via his Own Your Brand! blog. In the 4 Things Meme, Michael says he hoped I would accept to do this because of my servant’s heart. When someone says that about you, how do you say no… without contradicting him?
Besides, [...]

This is probably less insight, and more of just a flippant observation.
My wife and I were watching some college basketball last night. During which, we saw an ad for Carrabba’s, one of our favorite places to eat. Toward the end of the commercial, Johnny Carrabba says, “This may be the best Italian food [...]

Betty Hinshaw
1943 - 2006

Some of you may have noticed I didn’t post on Friday. That is because we laid my mother-in-law to rest yesterday (Friday). She didn’t care for the ‘in-law’ part, so I just called her Mom and she just called me son.
Friday was bitter-sweet. Mom had been struggling [...]

If you’re in the Tulsa area on March 29th, don’t miss the BMA Tulsa annual seminar. It will cover small business and marketing topics. Speakers include the pithy and engaging blogger, John Moore of Brand Autopsy.
The small business topics covered in the morning are as follows:
The One Page Business Plan
Hoyit Bacon
Greenwood Performance Systems
Lean [...]

For those of you in the Tulsa area, Jennifer Rice will be speaking Wednesday, January 25th for the Business Marketing Association. There are details on the BMA website.
Her presentation is Brand Humanity: How Social Technologies are Changing the Way We Do Business.
If you are wondering how blogs, wikis, and RSS change how we do [...]

OK, so now you have your list of
1) Things that bring you life
and
2) Things that bring you death
Here’s what you do with them (don’t read this until you’ve gone through the first part of the exercise)
Think about your life recently. Be honest. What are you doing with it?

Are you spending it pursuing life?
or…
Are [...]

If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend, you’ll have plenty of time to do this:
1. Write out the things in this world that bring you life. Could be a person, an activity, a tradition, etc. Just make sure they are things that energize, inspire, or breath life into you. You should be able [...]

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