Category Archives: Inspirational

Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger

You may know Lauren Wiesberger for her book-turned-movie, The Devil Wears Prada starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and a score of talented actors and actresses. I’ve to confess: it’s definitely one of my favourite movies of all time. So when I was at the library and spotted Everyone Worth Knowing, I was ecstatic. [...]

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Is It True Behind Every Successful Woman Is a Man – A Response

Gini Deitrich, of Arment Deitrich PR based in Chicago wrote a blog post entitled Is It True Behind Every Successful Woman Is a Man? today. As I was reading it, I was reminded of a book entitled I Can’t Believe She Did That!: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work by Nan Mooney. This book [...]

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Old Posts and Memories

There’s a trend right now of bloggers going through old posts on Twitter and re-posting them on their blogs. Hummingbird604 has posted a bunch and so has Michael Kwan. This prompted me to look through some of my old posts and I found a couple gems worth sharing. I wrote this piece about five years [...]

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Social Media on TED

TED is one of my favourite resources for inspiration and education. After watching a couple talks on social media, I decided to put together a small collection of these talks. I have to start with Evan William’s talk on Twitter: He talks about how Twitter evolved, and how they realized just how useful it was [...]

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It’s Not How Good You Are… CONTEST!

Lesley’s First Contest Giveaway! – Win Paul Arden’s Best selling Career Enhancing book!  This book is a definite MUST HAVE for anyone in advertising, communications, PR, marketing, sales, or even graphic design. Yep, you heard me right! I’m holding my first ever contest on this blog (and there will be more to come in the [...]

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