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2013 Minnesota Blogger Conference: read all about it!
Exciting news—the 2013 Minnesota Blogger Conference will be held Saturday, Oct. 12 at Concordia University! The conference, now in its fourth year, is a one-day meeting for Minnesota bloggers from all...
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#mnblogcon Soliciting Submissions Aug. 16, 2013 Want to present at #mnblogcon on Oct. 12? Want to present to more than 150 fellow bloggers from across the great state of Minnesota on Oct. 12 at...
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Self-starter: Edition One
There’s value in what you have to offer yourself (and your team and your boss) when you take an extra 10 to 20 minutes to complete an assignment at work that has a step-by-step process you are...
View ArticlePart One: entry-level marketing and communications job seekers
Dear Entry-level Marketing and Communications Job Seekers, “What does that job title even mean?” I set out on a mission to answer this question on a variety of levels. On Monday, I’m debuting the first...
View ArticleTime
“The problem with time I’ve learned…eventually time always runs out.” If you haven’t seen the movie “Dear John” it’s fantastic. That line is from the final scene in the movie. Why I’m sharing this with...
View ArticleJoin the entry-level job seekers conversations using hashtag #JSMC
You can find all posts related to the entry-level job seekers series here as many will ask this one question: “What does that job title even mean?” The focus is within marketing and communications....
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Meet Katie Anderson – Directors’ Assistant
Editors note: join the conversation on twitter using the hashtag #JSMC. Q: You’ve been with a large corporation for one and a half years and previous to that, you were an account manager for a boutique...
View ArticleWhat happened to using our eyes?
This commercial is hilarious, isn’t it? It’s also shows how ridiculous we are with technology. And then the look on the kids faces toward the end. They’re mortified. Why are we so quick to look through...
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The universe
When does that moment happen? That moment when you decide that you are who you are and you’re comfortable with it without having to second guess the moves you’re making. It’s a feeling. A gut feeling....
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Cancel the noise in your feed(s) and find your passion
The video I talk about at five seconds in the video below titled “The domino theory” can be found here. The 23-second marker, I talk about a blog @garyvee posted on LinkedIn in which he mentions how...
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Think twice before clicking the unfollow function
I talked about why you might be considering unfollowing someone to rid their “noise” in your social feeds in this video at 7:17. I use the term “noise” very loosely because respectively, I have no idea...
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Making sense out of job fairs
Raise your hand if you’ve ever enjoyed going to a job fair!! *looks around room* Clearly, if you look below, I am not. I said I would write a blog post with three ways you can get ahead of the game...
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A story bigger than Switchfoot and #FadingWest combined
I’m nobody special. I’m just a fan of amazing music that has been brought to life time and time again through philosophies of lessons and then a journey that has brought five guys together. Nine...
View Article“Can We Do That?!” by Peter Shankman
The first phrase that comes to mind for me while reading “Can We Do That?!” by Peter Shankman for the second time (and half-way through it) is: believe in yourself or we’re all doomed. I can only help...
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Book Review: Nice Companies Finish First by Peter Shankman
I recently went on vacation to southern California. My reading material on the flight was “Nice Companies Finish First” by @PeterShankman. In the first or second chapter, Shankman gives you various...
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Memories of Switchfoot’s “Fading West” told by Instagram
Passion is the act of not just knowing what the basics of what something stands for, but investing valuable time to understand the depths of where the beauty of the blood and the sweat was created...
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Happy Friday
These are a few of my favorite things: The new KIA commercial. Before this commercial, the only thing I thought of was giant rats because that’s what KIA did to the consumers thought process. When I...
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Four years is to four days
I am really, really bad about blogging sometimes. A lot of the time, actually. Because I’m struggling to decide what is relevant material for my blog to share with you. I’m a woman of many, many words...
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A Dedication to Our Veterans: Thank You
I took this while on the USMC Miramar base. The coolest picture I’ve taken in a while that has real meaning to it. Thank you for serving, military veterans. You deserve recognition every damn day for...
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And the name of the game is…
If you wonder how you can make your own blood start moving again, it’ll come to you when you least expect it. Passion. What makes you tick? It was the summer of 2012 for me. I knew I had to rename my...
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