Jim Blasingame has news for businesses: it’s a new age in the business world. Control in the marketplace is shifting from the seller to the customer. In “The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance,” Blasingame stresses that timing, access, and convenience are prime relevance expectations in the new customer-driven age. In […]
3.57 Miles To Remember Our Heroes
Five Hundred Miles. Five Hundred Miles in Nine Months. The “500 Mile Runniversary” of my relationship with Gareth, the child I run for through I Run for Michael, will happen on Thursday. And on Thursday, Gareth and I will be doing a run “together.” Here’s the bib: On Thursday, I am running my “usual” run […]
Move Nourish Believe Challenge (Week Three Wrap-Up)
Week three of the Move Nourish Believe Challenge has just ended. This was the final week of the challenge, and although I am relieved to let go of the daunting number of tags and hashtags required every day (five!) I am sorry to see it go, and hope the connections I have made remain long after the […]
I Enlisted in #ConnorsCrew (A Mama Kat Writing Prompt)
March 7, 2014, is going to be many things: National Cereal Day National Doodle Day National Salesperson Day National Crown Roast of Pork Day For Connor’s family, though, March 7, 2014 will be the day they celebrate his first birthday. Connor was stillborn on March 7, 2013. On March 7, 2014, his parents want to […]
Move Nourish Believe Challenge (Week Two Wrap-Up)
I just completed week two of the Move Nourish Believe Challenge. I do challenges frequently, and often take a “day by day” approach (i.e., figuring out the day’s assignment the night before or morning of); in the case of this challenge I just figured out that the reason the entire week’s assignments had to do […]
Breaking Free of the Hunger Cocoon (A Feeding South Africa Post)
Do cocoons make you curious about what’s inside? What color will the butterfly be when it emerges? Where will the winds and its wings take it? Will it bring someone joy? For children in South Africa, hunger threatens to keep them in the “cocoon” of hunger. 65% of all South African children live in poverty. […]