Seminar - Social Media

I'm teaching, again. Feel free to join me for a fast paced look at formulating your Social Media Strategy.

Small Business Development Seminars

June 16th!
Pre-registration required.
Call 336.631.1320, 336.631.1167
or 336.761.1002.

Time: Noon - 2 p.m.
Cost: Registration Fee - $10
Location: Room 105, 4th Street Small Business Center, Chamber Building, 601 West 4th Street, Winston-Salem

Strategy & Success in Social Media Marketing
This workshop is an in depth discussion on social media marketing (SMM) strategies and how to measure your success in SMM. Find out what key performance indicators you should be watching. Learn how to “listen” for your brand on the internet. This workshop will show you how to take what you’ve learned in the previous sessions and weave it into your interactive marketing strategy for fabulous results.
Course Code: #41788 Wednesday, June 16

Regarding the Oil Spill in the Gulf, USA

A moment of consideration brought to you by Natalie Merchant:

Memorial Day - In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
   That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
   Scarce heard amid the guns below.

   We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
   Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
         In Flanders fields.

   Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
   The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
   We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
         In Flanders fields.

What Did You Say? Episode 4

Singing along to the radio with your teens in the car can be hazardous. Let me just leave it at this - the lyrics are not "Go Charlotte, it's your birthday."

What Did You Say? Episode 3

What Did You Say? Episode 3

Do you know the song "American Woman?" Made popular in the 70s by The Guess Who and remade a few years ago by Lenny Kravitz, "American Woman" is a playful is not thought provoking romp through some classic rock. It is important, however, not to mishear the lyrics.

My son, tells the story on himself as hearing the words "American Woman" as "A Naked Woman." Insert that into the lyrics and you might understand why a pubescent male was so confused by the song.

What Did You Say? Episode 2

What Did You Say? Episode 2

There was a time when my mother was into crochet work, especially afghans. She made dozens of them and gave them to family members. They were wonderfully colorful, well made and fun to wrap-up in while sitting and reading.

One day my Grandmother was resting beneath one of mom's creations and answered the phone. I heard her reply (to what must have been the "Whacha Doing?" question), "Nothing. Just laying here under this African that Lib gave me."

What Did You Say?! Episode 1

Laughing About What We THOUGHT We Heard - Episode 1

My son (now 21) tells the story of a car ride with his mom and older sister when he was a young teen. The song playing was "Jump, Jive an Wail" sung by Brain Setzer.

He rode in the back in disbelief as he witnessed his sister and mother 'seat dancing' and singing enthusiastically the song. His problem, he learned later, was that he had the chorus line wrong. What we know as "jump, jive" he heard as "drunk drive." See the lyrics below as he heard them.

Baby, baby it looks like it's gonna hail
Baby, baby it' looks like it's gonna hail
You better come inside
Let me teach you how to drive and wail

You gotta drunk drive, and then you wail
You gotta drunk drive, and then you wail
You gotta drunk drive, and then you wail
You gotta drunk drive, and then you wail
You gotta drunk drive, and then you wail away!

Papa's in the icebox lookin' for a can of ale
Papa's in the icebox lookin' for a can of ale
Mama's in the backyard learning how to drive and wail

(chorus)

A woman is a woman and a man ain't nothin' but a male
A woman is a woman and a man ain't nothin' but a male
One good thing about him
He knows how to drive and wail

Jack and jill went up the hill to get a pail
Jack and jill went up the hill to get a pail
Jill stayed up, she wants to learn how to drive and wail

(chorus)

Funny stuff!

Silence's Voice

Such a wondrous, bellowing creature is silence.
Screaming prerecorded messages
Demands for fulfillment
of parental needs

An eccentric racket, noisy nymph
Promoting historic agendas
Commands for realizing
Ancestors' wants

Such a wondrous, noisy nymph
Is Silence
Personally, I'm inclined to hear whispers more

Too Full for Words

Too Full

The quill rests full
Dripping onyx truths
Upon parchment
Unable to spill
Small enough droplets
To inscribe
You

A Rose is A Rose

A weekend Rose for you, dear reader compliments of the local Arbor Acres rose garden. I hope you are enjoying the weekend.