The Top 10 Steps to Use LinkedIn for Business This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on 10-05-09 I’m often on the Internet for work. Really…it’s for work. So it isn’t my fault that I was so engrossed in posting to social media accounts last week that I failed...
Bowling for Business
Bowling for Business: About Face(book)
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on 9-28-09 Every September 24 since I could talk, I’ve told anyone within earshot that it was my birthday…family, friends, the Culligan Man. Typically, the polite, sometimes somewhat perplexed response was, “Well,...
Bowling for Business: Getting My Tweet Wet
This column first appeared on 9-21-09 at RIMOFTHEWORLD.net When it comes to games of chance, I’ve never been particularly lucky. In fact, I can probably count the number of times I’ve won contests on one hand. So it isn’t difficult recalling the win that meant the...
The Good, the Blog and the Ugly
This column originally appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on Sunday, September 13, 2009 Whenever I'm tempted to drone on in blogs and columns, I remember a particularly disturbing episode of the Twilight Zone called The Living Doll. In it, a talking doll named Tina has it...
Bowling for Business: Website Monkey Business
This column first appeared on RimoftheWorld.net on 9-07-09 at 4:13 p.m. By Kathy Bowling I grew up in the 70s. So, in my children’s eyes, that makes me roughly the age of dirt. Considering how much change I’ve witnessed in the field of technology over the past 30...
Bowling for Business: The Internet Imperative
This column first appeared on RimoftheWorld.net on August 31, 2009 My first experience as an entrepreneur dates back to 1974, when my best friend, Lori, and I opened a lemonade stand. Typical, I know. But our approach was not. You see; we lived on a pretty quiet...
Bowling for Business: To Push or Pull, That is the Question
Since the nature of a blog is to point to valuable content threads, found anywhere on the web, I'd like to provide my readers and clients with information about the most common question I recently hear, "What exactly is social media and how can I use it? Should I use...
Twitter Me Confused
So, at first, this whole social media thing was intriguing. I took some time to sign up for a few social media networking sites, in an effort to learn the medium so I could share my findings with clients. But no sooner had I started trying to locate these sites than I...
Life in 3-D
I just got back from a PRSA seminar. For the uninitiated, that is a professional networking group for public relations' practitioners where people actually sometimes meet in the flesh instead of over bits of data on the Internet. While I was there, I ran into several...
BUNCO to Blogging
So what marketing lessons can I pass on from the game of BUNCO I just played with my neighborhood friends? Each month, about 16 of us get together to catch up on each other's lives and to try to roll dice in order to win up to 50 whole dollars. I won last month and...