Every Day is a Reunion on Facebook

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With over 200 Facebook friends, I have an online family that includes: relatives, high school/college friends, writer/artist friends, friends from my time living abroad, and a few people who were suggested as friends. They all have their own status updates, profile pictures, and "what element are you" results. Snaking down the page as well are Farkle, Farmland and Mafia War scores on the update feed, which grows like a ticker tape. Amidst this overwhelming barrage of personal information are … [Read more...]

A Wonderful Chain Reaction

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My journey started over an e-mail asking if I would organize my high school reunion from several hundred miles away, with two other classmates. I had joined Facebook maybe three months before that, and honestly didn't know how to use it, or how to contact people. I was, and still am, on the business networking site, Linked-In, but I realized how important it is to spread your business name around in different menus. So why not use Facebook also to promote my coaching business and express my … [Read more...]

Social Networking Goes Galactic

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My first coach bus trip took me from Minnesota to Lebanon, Ore., as an exchange student in 1972. It was the longest and farthest I'd ever been away from home. One memory of that trip is the feeling I had in my legs, a quiver of energy that I now know as a higher frequency energy coursing through my body, not accompanied by nervousness. As I think of how today's networking sites have connected us with others throughout the world, I am shown a picture of the internet as a hard line connecting … [Read more...]

Spiritual Networking

It can be filled with raucous laughter or sober sincerity. It can manifest as a support system or a lecture series. Spiritual Networking Group is all of the above, and much more. Founded by graphic artist and website designer Karin O'Dell of Minneapolis, this fledgling organization is helping people to establish themselves as entrepreneurs or transition from corporate life into private business. It is helping people to expose their fears about doing what they really want to in life and offer … [Read more...]