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When I first joined LinkedIn, it was difficult to find anyone who had a LinkedIn account. This is similar to what must have happened when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. It must have been exciting to own the first phone in your neighborhood, but who in the heck were you going to call? Now…
My dad died suddenly at 54. My mother’s father passed away at 49. My father’s father died at 65. Staying alive has always been one of my top priorities.
My wife, Ina-Mae, a lifelong educator, has worked in the Birmingham School System most of her adult life. Many years ago she asked a middle school student to answer the question, “What planet do you live on?” The child responded, “Woodlawn.” I was amazed that a twelve-year-old had been unable able to differentiate his neighborhood…
What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? I found an ordinary man who discovered the answer. I had just finished making a presentation to an MBA class at UAB when I mentioned to the professor, Dr. Allen Johnston, that I really missed Mickey. Mickey Gee, who recently passed away, was the…
Four guys are standing on a street corner; an American, a Russian, a Chinese man, and an Israeli. A reporter comes up to the group and says, “Excuse me, what’s your opinion on the meat shortage?” The American says, “What’s a shortage?” The Russian says, “What’s meat?”
When Phyllis Neill and I became biz partners, we were excited about our new social media business and put Social Media Outsourcing in our name. But as we started adding clients, we determined we weren’t really in the social media business, we were in the “content creation” business and we changed our name to Buzz12…
There’s probably not been a single week in my life that I didn’t get some kind of bad news. Thank goodness, most of the time it’s not that important. But even inconsequential news has a tendency to create stress, angst and fear. We’ve all have had many a day ruined over trivial problems.