Personal Branding – Your Identity

I’m working on a coaching class to help my colleagues and team build personal brands. Once I’ve completed the class, I’ll share the material here for anyone who wishes to build their own online brand. Here is a teaser: STEP 1: Identify a high-interest topic that YOU are interested in and that you want to…

Women in Business Award Luncheon

I was so honored to be awards a Women in Business Award today, along with 23 other deserving women. Inside Business were the hosts and organizers, and put on a terrific event to honor us. I was grateful to Nicole Newsome, my husband John, sister Kylie, brother in law Kyle and my team from Dominion…

A Personal Update – and Setting New Goals

Its been a very busy few weeks. I started a new job, while wrapping up with old clients, attended a conference in Raleigh, NC, organized a fundraising event for The Geekettes Club, and worked on selecting a Board of Directors for The Club. Phew! I need a holiday 😀 In all honesty, I’m having a…

Dana Todd: Internet Summit – 2015 Predictions in Search

  Dana Todd @DanaTodd Newsforce.com  (P.S. her hair is purple today… Love her!) From #isum10 2015 Predictions: – UPC Search (bar codes and mobile codes) – DSPs and custom dashboards for the masses – “App SEO” – Sponsored stories in news via PPC – OOH search/augmented reality – TV search – iAds $bigger than Yahoo!/Bing…

Ten Simple Blogging Tips to Increase Your Traffic

Are you satisfied with your blog traffic? Do you know hot to increase it? I was reading some of the posts on Inbound Marketers – For Marketing Professionals (a group of which I’m a member on Linked In) and saw a post by one of our members, Erin Smith that resonated with me. She  put…

Top 15 Favorites – Social Media Websites and Experts

Lately, a few friends have asked me who I follow for Social Media news. So here is my list of just a few of my favorites – both websites and ‘experts’. It includes folks I know who may not yet be famous, but are pretty darn smart 😀 Please feel free to add your recommendations in the ‘comments’. I’ll also probably keep adding to this list as I find more great people to recommend. Enjoy!

Top Secrets to Writing a Great Press (or Media) Release

A press release (otherwise known as media or news release in this digital age) is still worth the paper it’s printed on (or the site it’s published on!)…here are the secrets to writing a great media release. By guest blogger Kylie Ross, who happens to be my sister in addition to being an independent communications…