Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 10, 2011

Social media is an interesting animal. We talk often – myself included – about using it to build relationships , about getting to know one’s community, about deepening human interaction. Yet how much do we really know about the people behind the avatars? I was thinking about this yesterday, when I realized that someone whose path crosses mine quite often, has “another life&# I knew absolutely nothing about.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 9, 2011

Guest post by Narciso Tovar. Music, beautiful music. Whenever I think of chamber music, I think of Haydn, Beethoven or Mozart – beautiful stuff, but something I *really* have to be in the mood for. Don’t get me wrong – their compositions have everything I look for in music: passion, depth and that element of surprise. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find me say something like, “Hey, the Dallas Symphony is going to have a chamber music series this year – we should check it out !”.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 11, 2011

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. Since I’m not in Austin at SxSW, and I have no interest whatsoever in Charlie Sheen other than wishing someone would put him in a box and throw him away , and I’m sick and tired of the rain we’ve had in the DC Metro area the past couple of days, I’m going to write about something completely unrelated to any of this stuff.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 5, 2011

I returned from a trip to Kansas City, Mo., yesterday. As is wont when I travel, I get behind on email, Twitter messages, and so on… which would normally send me into a tizzy. But this time, I was able to forestall said tizzy because of a number of “small things.&#. Which made me happy. Such as: My flights to and from KC were on Southwest Airlines. … not my favorite airline, not least because of the lack of assigned seating.

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Two years after its initial release, Peter H. Paulsen’s book, From Brick and Mortar to Prosperity, continues to inspire readers around the globe.

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 6, 2011

I didn’t get to spend much time in Kansas City, Mo., this week; my trip was literally a flying visit – in and out. Which was a pity, because the event I was speaking at – the Business Communicators Summit, organized by KC/IABC (see this lovely write-up by Justin Goldsborough ), was held at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Hall.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 7, 2011

Guest post by Steff Metal. Two weeks ago, the city of Christchurch, in New Zealand, was recently hit by a disastrous earthquake. The city had just begun to recover from an earthquake on Sept 4, 2010 , and over 5,000 aftershocks, when this quake – much shallower and more destructive – hit. Photo: Fairfax via theage.com.au. The death toll currently stands at 166 , with over 50 missing people still to be accounted for.

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