Video: Running with the Bulls Presentation on Thursday

It turns out that not everyone is on Facebook. (Who knew?) That means that there are some cool cats who have not yet seen the video that both introduces some of the guys who show up at Cigar Therapy and tells you that if you come on at 4PM on July 9th, you will get to see Keith Rodgers talking about his experience in running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.



In this video you get to meet Clifton Adams, Halfway To Habana Greenville, Jon Evans, Keith Rodgers, Phil Yanov, and Russ Davis.

Power Tip for News Junkies - Search Google News by Author

Google News now lets you add "author:name" as a search term.  This lets you more precisely search the news for all of the articles written by a particular author.

Example Search: All News Items by Rudolph Bell

Once you've done the search, you can then subscribe to the RSS feed in your favorite news reader or have email news alerts sent to you when new news articles match your search criteria.


Give it a whirl: http://www.news.google.com

Free or Cheap - Tools for Non-Profit Success

A couple of weeks ago, I led a panel discussion for the local alliance of non-profit organizations about the tools they could use to leverage membership, fund-raising, and engagement of their committee members. We had several requests for the handout, so I thought I'd post the handout in case others might find some of these sites or tools useful. If you run a non-profit, there are tools here that can help you do your job faster, better, cheaper.

Free or Cheap Tools for Non-Profit Success -
View the handout (jpg and pdf available)

Liz Coleman calls for a reinvention of liberal arts education

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.

What's new in the Blackberry Facebook App version 1.6

Facebook for the Blackberry version 1.6 came out over the weekend and sports some pretty cool new features.

Here's what they say:

• NEW! View your friends’ highlights like status updates, photo uploads, comments and wall posts.
• NEW! Check out your friends’ profiles with access to status updates, wall posts, friends and recently added pictures.
• NEW! Open recently added photos, entire albums, or tag photos of friends. You can even comment on pictures!

The most striking think about the new app is the interface and new features. The new app wipes the screen when loading a new tab.  The effect is slick and makes the Blackberry Curve feel just a bit more hip.

The new version of the app also asks if you'd like to connect with Calendar, Message, and Contacts and offers to update the photos on your Blackberry with Facebook profile photos.  (Pretty cool!)

The new version also allows you to have your posts spell checked before sending, a great help.

Most of all, I like the idea of having photos on my Blackberry updates from FB.

The Link: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/features/social/facebook.jsp

What if search could so some serious math? A Better Sneak Preview of Wolfram|Alpha

What does LDL 140 mean for me? What is the GDP of my city? How has the weather changed over the past ten years in my town? Stephen Wolfram demonstrates Wolfram|Alpha, a search engine that can answer these questions in a graphical format. This is an improved video over the longer version we Twittered about earlier in the week. This ten minute extract shows what is on the computer screen while Stephen Wolfram demonstrates.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.   -Robert Heinlein

Setting goals is difficult because it is almost exactly equivalent to determining what your life is about. The problem is that we tend to avoid hard things like figuring out what our life is about and fill our lives with easy things like answering email. Only later do we realize that a big stack of easy things done almost never equates to getting just one of those hard things, those big things done.

Don't have all your goals figured out, yet? Welcome to the club. Instead of beating yourself up for not having those goals figured out, how about giving yourself a small taste of getting something done towards that.

Today pick just one of those big things you know would be on your big list of goals and work on that for just one hour today. You might miss the flurry of other activity, but you sure are going to like seeing what you might accomplish once you jump over your unnamed fear and put in even one hour on something that will make a difference in your life.

Stimulus funds are available to expand or train your workforce

Got employees? Want to find stimulus funds to expand or train your workforce? There is a free workshop for qualified employers on May 12. Phil Yanov is speaking on one of the panels.



Email [thinkhammer (at) gmail (dot) com] or call to ask for an invite.