How many times do you hear that someone “hates this” or “dislikes that” and it doesn’t come off in the nicest tone? This week dear Emma came home to tell me that she had dinner at Sarah’s. I knew they were having fish and knew she might not like that. Instead of saying she hated it or really disliked it, she said “Dad, that fish was not my style!” How awesome is that? I love the tone that she took.

Can you imagine if hate was stricken from the book and we replaced it with “Not My Style?” Think about it.

Under the wire and pressed for time, I forgot to order new Meet-meme cards for my Graphic Users Association trip till Thursday. I asked Anna if I order them on Thursday could I get them by Saturday. She said yes. Little did I know she would need to FED-EX them Saturday delivery to get them to me.

THAT’S AWESOME Customer service. That is how it is done. I appreciate all the people at Meet-Meme and the hard work they did. These cards really help differentiate you in the overcrowded business card market. Why have a plain dull card when you can have one of these babies!
YOU ALL ROCK!!!
www.meet-meme.com

Happy Snow, happy Friday and happy new Orleans. I leave for my GUA trip to New Orleans on Monday. So excited!

Today I discuss taking time to slow down and enjoy what’s around you. Don’t be that person who works from 7 am till 11 pm all in the name of family when you have no time to spend with them. Take time to smell the roses!

Today I talk about the Papa John’s receipt social media boondoggle. I’m pleased with how well they handled the issue where an employee wrote a defamatory comment on a receipt and the subsequent outcry from social media. If they had not been listening to their social media channels, or had not answers, this black eye would have been so much worse.

What do you think? How did Papa John’s Do?

This weekend I had an email and phone call with a casting person who is casting a new social media minded reality show called the “Escape Routes.” A very Amazing Race type show where I had to pick a partner for the project. After talking to a few people i chatting with my sweetheart, I decided to say no.

This week has been a big social media week for me. I’m planning a few speeches for events in the coming weeks and today was the new North Social Media Breakfast. One thing that has been on my mind lately is when to charge and when to give it away for free. It is a tough topic to tackle and one that I do take seriously.

What are your thoughts on the topic of social media sharing and charging for your knowledge?

What were you doing when you heard the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden? I was on the couch watching DVR‘d shows when I saw the The POTUS was having an emergency press conference come across my twitter feed! WOW!!. I immediately tuned to the cable news shows to see what was happening. While they were trying to make sense of it all..across my twitter stream came UNCONFIRMED: BIN LADEN DEAD! HOLY COW!!! The scoop was on twitter and not the news channels.

Where were you on 9/11 when you heard the news of the terrorist attacks? I’ll never forget that day as I’ll never forget where I was last night, May 1st 2011 when I heard the news…

I have the opportunity to speak at LeaderFest a regional for young professionals sponsored by the Fox Citied Chamber of Commerce and the Pulse Young professional network. www.foxcitiesyoungprofessionals.com

I am so excited to co-speak with Jess Dennis from Red Shoes PR on the topic How to be a Killer Social Media Advocate for your Company. I’m excited about this topic and its one that I’m passionate about. Many businesses are scared to embrace social media. I came from a culture that was 100% scared of the tools. I look forward to help inspire the next generation of leaders to do great things with social media.

Take a tip form the Tom Dickson – Blendtec rule book. be different, stand out and you will be great! Look at what they are doing with their Will It Blend series. Take a normal boring item and really kicking it up by blending items. What a way to totally win! More business needed to follow their lead and take notice!

Life just gets better and better. Sorry I have not said a lot over the past few days. WOW What a whirlwind deal. HC Miller asked me to come back… WOW… I have some new opportunity to teach small business social media int eh valley, Double WOW and the Tech is interested in me teaching more small business classes Triple WOW. I am so blessed. Now i’m off to SLC to be with my family and to see my sister Nancy get married. So cool to be able to co back to my old stomping ground for a spell. SUPER EXCITED TO see my brother Andy. … (more info) (less info)