January 19, 2013 • 0 comments • Posted In: Culture

Smokra!

Tasty and a great name. Smokra! Came in a Big Z deli box. Awesome!

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January 18, 2013 • 0 comments • Posted In: Business

Productivity Tip – Block It Out – #TimeTrickery

If you want someone to “do” something. (review, write, think, etc…and you really need it done) Schedule a meeting/block the time in their calendar. Subject:  Not a Meeting, Time for You to “do what I need you to do” If you want to have a moment to actually be productive. [...]

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January 6, 2013 • 0 comments • Posted In: Creative Maven

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have [...]

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Art/Internet/Shopping – a Retail Technology Trifecta

October 7, 2012

I love this company  -http://www.20×200.com/ - art at affordable prices on a monitor near you. Brought to you by Jen Bekman, NYC gallery owner and online marketing guru.  20×200 brings art lovers and artists together online.  Affordable original art at your fingertips. This is from her LinkedIn profile: Specialties I know a lot about [...]

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@JimmyJamesSRT Buongiorno Fritatta, a #DoggieAstrology Coffee w/a nod to @jamieoliver @sandrashm

April 15, 2012

spoiled rotten.  4 hour body frittata made in about 15 minutes by my husband James (@JimmyJamesSRT).  along with some great coffee in my Aquarius Doggie Astrology Coffee Mug (our catahoula Pierre’s sun sign). honestly, I put all dishes up against what I am very lucky to be served all the time in [...]

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Seattle Restaurant Week at Spur Gastropub – Fantastic! @McCrackenTough

April 14, 2012

Happened to be in town this week for Seattle Restaurant Week. And my Mom scolded me for not blogging about all the places I get to go – so – back on the blog bus y’all. 10 days. Over 150 Restaurants. 3 courses for $28. Dine out and celebrate the [...]

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Social Noodling – #TweetJam #cmswire

August 19, 2011

I attended the #CMSWire sponsored Tweet Jam yesterday – SharePoint in the Enterprise #EIMChat and I was summarily intrigued… Are you a player in the game?  I say kudos to CMS Wire for showing initiative and creating the proverbial buzz that they normally do around innovation and technology and getting vendors [...]

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Creative Maven Sponsors SharePoint Saturdays

June 14, 2011

Join us for SharePoint Saturday Sacramento – June 18, 2011 at the beautiful Folsom Lake Community College Regional Performing Arts Center! Mingle and learn with SharePoint business users, architects, developers, and other professionals that work with SharePoint 2007 and 2010 every day.  SharePoint Saturday Sacramento will be an educational, informative [...]

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Viral Events – What is a @SharePint Event?

May 11, 2011

With high-tech event season upon us I keep getting asked about this so I thought I’d repost a comment I made on Christian Buckley’s blog awhile back.  Being an event producer – I love these events and their viral nature.  SharePint events have no barrier to entry and a strict no vendor policy [...]

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Promoting and Protecting Your Image/Brand

April 11, 2011

Image is in the Eye of Everyone As I produce more and more trade shows and receive tons and tons of business cards on-site, post-event here is what I do for networking and business development: Visit the Company Website Request to Become an Individual’s Contact on LinkedIn (if appropriate) Look a Person Up [...]

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Kogi Where Tweetin Meets Eatin – Tablesmackin via @whereLA

March 27, 2011

Video maven, Allison and I were walking up to the Golden Gopher (my favorite downtown LA faux-dive) one night to check it out for a potential after party place about two years ago and we were not thrilled that there seemed to be a line out the door on a weeknight.  We soon [...]

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The Art of Self-Promotion #1 – Speaking at High-Tech Events, Conferences & Tradeshows

March 21, 2011

I was recently asked following question: I am thinking about getting back into speaking at some more conferences abroad. I am honestly not that well-connected ((internationally) after leaving a large technology company based in Redmond, WA) so I was wondering if you have any good input to where and how [...]

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Check out Geekwire.com – @geekwirenews

March 15, 2011

Event/Expo Maven, Sarah Cook’s Brother-in-Law John just launched a great new site/blog/news extravaganza for us Geeks!!  Check it out!  It’s awesome.  Twitter at @geekwirenews.  www.geekwire.com Congrats John & Todd!!          

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Prince Concert – Oakland – Feb 23 – Funky and Tight

February 26, 2011

Prince is and has been one of my favorite artists since I bought one of my first few .45 records.  Funny enough the best thing about pulling these out is that song prices are now back to what they were in the early 80′s.  99 cents,  baby.  But back then [...]

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Bocce & Great Zin In The Neighborhood – @Gratonridge

February 13, 2011

Had a ton of visitors to the house over the last two weeks and we explored a bunch of lovely family owned wineries within a few miles of the house.  One of our favorites: Graton Ridge – http://gratonridge.com/  We had a lovely tasting at Graton Ridge – Barbara was so sweet and their Pinot [...]

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