Archive for the 'Communications, Awareness, . . . Attitude' Category

Future Generations

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

What Would You Say?

A very creative artist named Heather Layton is working on a project at Cornell University as an artist-in-residence. It is titled “Letters to a Future Generation”. Here is her blog if you would like to know more about it.  www.pocketsfortheteeth.blogspot.com.  I added to her collection of 500 letters and this is what [...]

Neale Donald Walsch Quote

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

“The mind is the last part of yourself to listen to.

Doodles

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Doodling as an asset.
Last week I read  that Doodling during a meeting helps to increase retention up to 30%.  The article I read said that the study was done by Jackie Andrade, who is a psychology professor at the University of Plymouth in England. The study appears online in Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Doodling, they say in [...]

Personal Energy

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Your energy and how it affects others
At a presentation on personal energy and how it affects others, a couple of weeks ago, I did an exercise that had some interesting results. It was for a group of about 70 health care professionals.
Here is how the exercise went.
I asked on a scale of 1 to 10,  [...]

Email Security

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Safe Email Transactions
A conversation with a client, CPAmerica about the challenges of compliance and security with financial services led us to create a new product that we have named OakPortals.com. This is a private, encrypted, secure, easy to use portal page for the transfer of documents without email.  We have set up the initial software [...]

Word of Mouth

Friday, September 26th, 2008

 Reputation, Trust, Referrals.
These words all go together, especially here, where we are referring to the world of business.
What stirred my thinking on this topic this morning was my partners breakfast meeting. This was a first time meeting from a call she got yesterday from someone interested in developing a new web site. This person was [...]