Dining Out For Life 2009 occurs in Milwaukee all day today, Thursday, April 30. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner or late night drinks and food at participating Milwaukee area restaurants and 25% of your bill will go directly to One Heartland. “One Heartland is a national non-profit organization committed to greatly improving the lives [...]

We’ve all heard the phrase “April showers bring May flowers,” but have we ever thought about what it means? Are people just being cheerful so we can get through the dreariness of the rain? Perhaps, but I think it is also a message about planning. The only way the “April showers” will [...]

My husband and I bought our house in February 2007. Since purchasing the house, we haven’t heard one peep out of the real estate company except for the monthly magazine we receive. Yesterday we received a “Welcome Spring” card from the real estate company. The inside of the card included the following message:
The beauty of [...]

I am honored to be one of the speakers at today’s Invention to Venture conference. The event brings together technology entrepreneurs for a series of success workshops. Collaboration is key for regional growth and I thank Milwaukee-newcomer and UWM engineering professor Mike Lovell for playing a key role in getting the conference together.
Here is my [...]

If you are like me you’re often reluctant to sign up for another social network. Not only do I dread the account setup time, but I dread having to keep track of another account. Luckily, with the tools below it doesn’t need to be a hassle. Here is a list of applications that can help [...]

A few weeks ago I posted about my experience with three fence companies. My fence was in need of repair and I called on three companies to estimate the project. Unfortunately, only one of those three companies called back and estimated the project, which from my perspective is poor customer service.
I accidentally found [...]

Susan Boyle is probably a household name by now.  Some day she’ll probably even be a verb as in “you Boyled me over.” You’ve probably seen her on You Tube, or perhaps you caught her on CBS news this morning. She’s had more than 100 million hits  on You Tube and is the top trending [...]

I called the customer service line for Educators Credit Union yesterday and to my surprise the President, Eugene Szymczak, was the voice for the “on-hold” message. To be honest, I was expecting the typical voice-message lady to tell me about my customer service options. Instead I was happily surprised to hear the President’s [...]

I cringe when I hear people talk about the death of the newspaper. I personally have a hard time reading a lot of content online and still look to the newspaper to get my information. The solution for newspapers is not to sit back and let newspapers disappear but rethink what a newspaper is and [...]

I recently finished reading The Dip, by Seth Godin. It’s “a little book that teaches you when to quit and when to stick.” The book is short (76 pages) and full of tidbits that really made me think - the intent of the book I’m sure. Here are just three of the sentences [...]