Facebook Places

You can add your own company and put a tag line with your company. Also, you can send messages and tell people what you are working on as well. All of this has similar functionality as foursquare without all of the awards for check-in.  For me this makes ...

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Omaha Nighthawks – Getting more pumped each day

Professional Football is coming to Omaha - The Omaha Nighthawks are  coming.   Former NFL Star Ahman Green and Jeff Garcia have signed on.   Games this fall will be played in historic Rosenblatt Stadium. The big news is Jeff Garcia. Jeff will be ...

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Facebook Announcement regarding new location application

Today is the day at 4.30pm that Facebook is supposedly going to tell all of us about geo-location functionality coming to Facebook.  This could be quite a big dea or not. Twitter has geolocation, but I don't find it to be a deal breaker. Foursquare is a cool application, but its all about location. Facebook with ...

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Social Media Policy

Some type of policy statement needs to be enacted.  However, is it any different than email. How have we lived with email all these years? A new article in the Chicago Tribune sheds some light on this issue. Facebook and Schools - I used to teach. ...

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Passion for Teaching and Learning

I have a passion for teaching and learning. I really enjoyed my time as a high school teacher in Detroit and in Omaha. In the 1990's I also started teaching classroom and online classes at Nebraska Wesleyan and Concordia University.  I still continue to teach off and on at these two colleges, but I ...

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LinkedIn – Some tips to try

Have you seen all of the neat things you can do on LinkedIn? Here are a few... Twitter Updates in LinkedIn - You can follow people in Linkedin. You can create a list of your LinkedIn Connections. Also checkout the company profile.  Everytime you make an update it goes out to your followers.  In return, you receive ...

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Zoo Memorial to Rosenblatt

The Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo announced plans for expansion.  It's really good to see that Rosenblatt Stadium will not be forgotten.

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Big Omaha – One Month Later

Its been almost a month since I attended the Big Omaha Event with several other business professionals. Where are you at with your dreams/goals.  The twitter stream is still buzzing at #bigomaha For me, it is personal and as this site says its time to move to the action side and engage those clients and co-workers. I ...

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Big Omaha 2010

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! This was one of the best  conferences I have ever attended.  I cannot get over the talent I  saw today.  It was purely awesome. I took away so much information from the conference and I am fired up. These guys brought it and brought it with ...

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Stuck in 2nd Gear

Today was my first real-life experience being stuck in 2nd Gear. My Buick Lacrosse, 172,000 miles lost its transmission. Shifting down from Drive down to 3 and then to 2. Lucky for me I could still drive in 2nd Gear and ...

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