It's amazing when someone joins LinkedIn and starts connecting. People can easily find others who might be in their local community, or share a common interest. Then it's an easy enough and comfortable action to invite someone to connect to your network.

Yet I am quite surprised with some people who extend their hand when they are not quite ready.

Maybe they are new to networking let alone LinkedIn. Since LinkedIn has the reputation of being a most professional business online networking website, you would think people would from the get go act, well, professional.

It's not always my experience.

If you are on LinkedIn and wonder why you aren't attracting who you want to in your Connections or prospects or collaborators, consider how you can revitalize your presence there. Continue reading this post...

How did I miss this one? Do know Empire Avenue? Are you there? Or was it just me who has been lulled into investing, or spending, my time on all other online social networking?

Maybe you might find your time on LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, even Facebook, to be getting more difficult for a return on your investment. While Empire Avenue isn't for everyone, it is for you if you want to propel your online presence with what you are already doing with Tweets, G+s, even Likes and Shares. I can attribute a growing Twitter following to this quite uniquely collaborative social networking site.

Or maybe you want to increase your Klout or Kred score? For me, I noticed my Klout score climb 3 points since joining here.

Or maybe like me, you are just growing weary of less engagement on some of the places you hang out online? Heck even introverts like to have – meaningful engagement but so much of what is online now, is just chatter.

Why not play around with this one for a period of time to discover what can happen? It's after all, just virtual money!

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Yes, my husband and I have a robot. My son convinced me it was a cool way for us to – cut back on our housekeeper expenses without me having to do all the work.

And wow, I amazed what Mimi, our name of the Mint iRobot, can do. I'm not sure where or how that name came to me but we call our robot, Mimi.

My blogger friend Catarina Alexon just blogged about, Want to turn your phone into a robot? as I was putting this post in draft form. So you can see, robots are – hot, hot, hot. Continue reading this post...

Being in the car hobby can be pleasant and not so pleasant. Likely I have more pleasant experiences than not to report on although this recent unpleasant one reminded me of some general sales and marketing lessons.

Earlier this year my husband won an auction bid for a 1970 Chevy Nova, 396. It's a muscle car, which has meaning for us that if I tell you what, it's highly likely you would try to guess my age, and then not pay attention to the lessons shared here.

Suffice it to say, the meaning is romantic. Don't let your mind go to the gutter with that hint!

One thing we've learned about older classic cars is that they must be driven. Finally on getting the Chevy inspected locally and writing a check for the repairs we started driving it weekly.

Up until this trip out one evening to a favorite local Mediterranean fare restaurant, I felt the gear slip from drive to a lower gear.

My husband looked over at me and winced. Continue reading this post...