Social Media Vacations: Good For You, Bad For Business?
Easter is this weekend and a lot of my Catholic friends have given up social media for Lent. I have other friends who, throughout the year, have taken time off to decompress and…
That Day I Published a Book.
When I was in high school, I ran for student council eight times. I lost all eight times. I had to ask a bunch of boys to my senior prom before a gay…
7 Tips To Picking Up The Pen
Our Top Takeaways of Ann Handley’s Everybody Writes With vocabulary, grammar, and organization in mind, the thought of writing can be, well, daunting. From a simple tweet to an email, writing is a task we…
Content Marketing – Beyond the Buzz Words
There are many buzzwords that marketing professionals are faced with during their day-to-day activities. In the world of digital marketing there is a seemingly endless supply of them. However, amidst all the noise…
Getting Found By Building an Effective Digital Marketing Strategy.
There are many issues to consider when building an effective digital marketing strategy for your company. Using an approach that will help your organization “get found” on the internet is often a high…
Ask More Questions.
As a meeting facilitator, I often use a technique called Q-Storming to lead a discussion. This technique, from the Inquiry Institute is designed to get people to ask questions to solve a problem,…
Technology: Gratitude Over Fear
Yesterday I had the honor of attending the Mashable Social Good Summit. The conference is described as “a two-day conference examining the impact of technology and new media on social good initiatives around…
The Internet is a Bunch of Crap.
I am totally in love with Dutch student, Zilla van den Born, who faked her South East Asian vacation to prove a point that much of what we read on the internet is completely…
All That Is Good In The World.
Today, September 11th, is a day of reflection for many people. While I remember the day back in 2001 vividly, I was not directly impacted by it. For that I am grateful. Today,…
Who Are You Giving Your Foul Ball To?
Last night I read a discussion on Facebook that had to do with a rant about giving free consulting time. People are always asking consultants to pick their brain for a few minutes.…
Operation: Network – Take Our Survey
We spend a lot of time thinking and talking about networking. On special days, we obsess about it. Networking is a large part of the Seven Degrees Communications DNA. So after many years…
Tools for Email Management
If you are like me, you send A LOT of emails every week. It can get difficult to manage follow-up and tracking. The good news is that over the last few months we…
Inspirity: Easy Mobile-Friendly Websites in Minutes.
I have a lot of clients who are waiting for the perfect time to make their websites mobile-friendly. As much as they know that they need to do it, they just aren’t ready…
Overcoming the Obstacle of Opinions: A look at Claudia Chan’s SHE Summit
This post was written by Stacy Hanas, Marketing Assistant at Seven Degrees Communications. If you can be anything in a world where stereotypes were non-existent, what would you be? An astronaut? A firefighter?…