@jamievaron started this site - Twitter Should Hire Me - back on Monday 3/9/2009. In her own words she says: This site was started on March 9, 2009 while trying to decide between throwing myself in front of Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, or Biz Stone’s respective vehicles OR creating a site in the ho...

…how the hell do you write a eulogy for your Dad? I have no idea where to start....

Those of you who follow my blog should have noticed a new look and feel today!  If you receive this missive in your email box via an RSS feed, I encourage you to stop by www.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com to see the new look. As most of you know, I'm quite serious about helping organizations realize that ...

As research for the book I’m writing on public speaking, I’ve been listening to tons of famous speeches and various CDs of collected speeches. Recently I found a list of the top 100 speeches of all time and I’m working my way through it. Interesting observations: We have technology...

Considering they, as an organization, aided, abetted, and otherwise supported, the sexual (and mental) abuse of minors, this, doesn't necessarily, come as a surprise; Vatican defends Brazil excommunication A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-y...

Here's an interesting video from a pushy woman down in Spring Training, who tries to get the Mets' shortstop to quit speaking that unintelligible Spanish talk and just say something in English, dammit. [Sports Rubbish]...

I have been so touched by the kind words people have written about me with respect to my winning the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology (or as my father-in-law started calling it to everyone he saw last weekend “tech librarian of the ...

“Standing Cattle� 22� x 7.5� Pen and Watercolor on Paper I have spent years of my life watching cattle. As a rancher, one of my jobs was to watch and monitor cattle for health. I have a talent for identifying cattle that are coming down with illness. As a competitor at cow cutting competitio...

I assume by the end of the weekend, the 1138 (I was 1139) followers will be in the neighborhood of 10 times more. Have you followed @finkd yet? What am I talking about? Well if you somehow just woke up, @finkd is the real Mark Zuckerberg. Apparently this so called secret account is no longer a secre...

*** Monthly Feature Column *** Positively Speaking Building Assets in your Kids by Kelly Curtis, M.S., author of Empowering Youth: How to Encourage Young Leaders to Do Great Things. This month, the National Education Association celebrates the 12th annual Read Across America, in conjunction with Dr....