Business networking and the power of connection

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Most of my business-oriented advice is shared at RiverwoodWriter’s Connection Blog, so if you have a small business and want some help navigating the ever-changing landscape of effective marketing and business etiquette, head on over and subscribe so you don’t miss anything. The power of connection is an important concept in business as well as [...]

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Weirdly Wonderful Orchid Sex

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Okay, so call me a voyeur, but Mother Nature has really outdone herself in devising clever ways to ensure that her beautiful creations propagate themselves successfully. I was mesmerized listening to NPR’s Science Friday yesterday as Flora Lichtman regaled listeners with “An Orchid Explosion:” the story of the orchid genus catasetum, about which Charles Darwin [...]

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Top 101 Woman Bloggers to Watch!

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What a thrill and honor to be included among the 101 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2011 in this article by Heidi Richards! It’s an example of the Power of Connection at work. I’d been learning from master blogger Denise Wakeman (The Blog Squad) for quite some time when I actually met her at a [...]

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New Year…but not so Happy

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Nothing is certain and nothing can be taken for granted. My planned “Happy New Year” wish to my readers seems hollow in the face of a phone call I just received telling me that a fine young man who was in my daughter’s high school class and whose parents are friends of mine was killed [...]

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Connection Lessons from Sept. 11

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“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.” Washington Irving * * * * * * * No one who was older than a few years will forget where they were [...]

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“Everyone Communicates, Few Connect”

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Book Review: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John C. Maxwell John Maxwell is a great communicator–especially as a public speaker–so when this intriguing title crossed my radar screen, right at the time I was developing this blog about the Power of Connection, of course I checked it out. At the time, it was not yet [...]

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