Queen Anne Helpline Offers Hope

Social service organization narrows the gulf between Seattle’s affluent and the new working poor


Digital Strategy + Good Works

Digital strategy enables those who do good to do well. By maintaining and nurturing a digital presence, one can increase awareness, image and urgency. Whether an organization is large or small, fully budgeted or on a shoestring, the basic tools are available with equal access. Charities can take advantage of online tools to serve their goals.

                  Messaging is critical. Be it a tag sale or a global effort, online...


Protecting Your Brand in the Brave New World

It hardly needs to be said that the world has changed dramatically in the last decade or so.The proliferation of social media has done more to transform communication and branding than anything since…well, maybe since moveable type.

And it’s not going away or slowing down.If anything, the world is getting ever smaller and noisier.So how do you project and protect a brand in the digital age? The short answer is there are steps you can take, but they will only get you so far.

 


Where have all the Man Buns gone?

My friend, Phyllis Korkki, Assignment Editor for the New York Times wrote an article “Spare a Hair Band? A Man Bun to Go”. Phyllis’s article ran a year ago but lately, the man bun phenomenon seems to have stalled.  In fact, the more we searched for man buns on the street, the fewer we found. My last...


Need Money? Get a Life! Wali Collins and his Y’NEVANO philosophy

NYC Comedian and Entrepreneur Wali Collins has created a popular movement around his book The Y'NEVANO Book of ENCOURAGEMENTS.  


A Winding Path

Laura Longley didn’t start out to be a talk radio host or a spiritually-oriented coach for people in career and life transitions. In fact, her family taught her to value math and science skills, so she worked in IT for 28 years.

“I liked getting a paycheck,” she said. “But beyond that…” she trails off, searching for other moments of pleasure, not finding many.

Beyond interacting with people, not much about IT project...


Whose Ashes Are These, Anyway?

There has been much hoopla surrounding the construction and completion of Tower One at New York’s “Ground Zero.” It seems to me to be a modern analog to the recurring myths of reincarnation in a similar (or even identical) form.

Throughout the ages we, as a species, have been fascinated by the possibility of and the hope for rebirth. Almost every culture has believed that an immutable spirit or soul inhabits every person and has...


The Lowest Point in Life? Impossible.

When you are so convinced that life sucks, consider this: It could be worse. Think of those days when you felt like life punched you in the gut. It always could have been worse. No matter how “bad” you believe it is, it could have been worse.

There is no such thing as the “lowest point in your life” because you can always go lower. So instead of focusing and getting depressed on how bad you think life is, take joy in knowing it...