Debra on March 24th, 2010

Hi, I am Debra Oakland. With all the competition out there, it can be hard to keep up.  The world of technology is changing daily. How do you keep up?  What are other people in the marketplace doing?  How does social media play into it all?  To answer some of these questions, I would like [...]

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Okay, so Ivy Bean is 104 years old!  Come on, and you don’t want to Facebook or Twitter?  Social Media is the way we connect now and will be the way we connect in the future.  Of course we will have wonderful personal relationships like always.  I can’t begin to tell you of all the [...]

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admin on May 12th, 2009

A new report of public-facing blogs reveals key findings: 57 percent of nation’s top 100 charities have public facing blogs 42 percent of higher education sector have blogs 16 percent of Fortune 500 companies have blogs Some other key findings include: 28 percent of Fortune 500′s blogs link to Twitter accounts (others have accounts but [...]

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admin on April 9th, 2009

I postponed creating a blog until last summer, when a co-author Debra Oakland turned me on to WordPress. It was easy to learn and navigate. What is a blog? Blog stands for “web log.” It is a website that allows you to write on topics of personal interest and of interest to your clients and [...]

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admin on April 8th, 2009

I postponed creating a blog for my business because I didn’t know what a blog was. Plus, I didn’t feel like I had the time to learn. When author Debra Oakland suggested a blog for our Guide to Home Based Business eBook 11 months ago, I could feel my shoulders scrunch and all the stories [...]

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