Andrew Bagley, Director of Emerging Media & Client Strategy at Sitewire Interactive Agency, was a recent guest on our Expert Series teleconference. Andrew talked about why business owners should learn to manage social media, how we should equip our employees to contribute, and what “platforms” or tools we might use to get started.  He explained…...

I am a big fan of Michael Katz who founded Blue Penguin Development.  And not only because he also has an Arctic theme to his company!  (Penguins and whales are friends). Michael does only one thing, and he does it extremely well–he helps companies make money by producing e-newsletters for their customers.  So it’s not surprising that…...

One of my favorite newsletters is the Working Solo Minute, written and distributed each Wednesday by Terry Lanier, founder of workingsolo.com. Even if you’re not a solo entrepreneur, her advice is great for business owners.  This week she writes about the problem of “not having any money,” and how she hears business people using that…...

It was announced today that Frances Hesselbein, founder of the Hesselbein Leadership Institute, has been named the Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.  She is the first woman and only the second non-military person to hold that distinguished position. Why is this announcement relevant…...

My friend Mike Yarnall, who is now a Certified Whale Hunters Trainer, sent me an article that really resonates with whale hunting these days.  It was published in the Harvard Business Review, March 2009, and you can read a summary version at no charge or you can purchase the article or a subscription to HBR.  It’s…...

I posted the first of a series of blog posts today on the topic of “competition” and “collaboration”  at the Women on Business blog. I believe we are operating in an economy in which the skills of collaboration are even more important than the skills of competition.  But I have been challenged to better define…...