More than a year ago, I made the decision NOT to sign up for Twitter. This decision was made strictly from a time management perspective. I often lose myself in email and blog reading and instinctively knew that Twitter would become a major distraction. So, I opted not to join. Actually, I thought it was a passing fad and that if I sat it out long enough, the world would be on to something new.

Many of the folks I admire in social networking fell in love early with Twitter and now have incorporated it into their online presence and business promotion. After months of being told that I should reconsider my Twitter position, I recently joined and became a part of the Twitterverse. Read the rest of this entry »

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Does your organization see the recession as a sales problem or a strategic business opportunity?

Josh Gordon, a well-known sales coach and author, posed this essential question to a group of sales professionals, and his findings are available in a new white paper that is free with registration.

Here is a summary of what he has to say: Read the rest of this entry »

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Nicholas Negroponte deserves the credit for taking the concept of one laptop per child from ideal dream to reality. In our sometimes myopic focus on public K-12 education, some of us lose sight that there are dozens and dozens of countries where children still do not have access to even a substandard education. Addressing substandard education in the U.S. and supporting access to basic education across the world are not mutually exclusive goals.

The One Laptop per Child initiative makes inexpensive ($199/child) computers available to schools and communities around the world including the U.S. According to the group’s website, their mission is:

To create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

Check  out their website and watch the following TED talk by Negroponte about the group’s work in Columbia.

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