It's going to happen June 5th, is what my webmaster told me about the launching of my renewed look website.

She and I have planned this since late 2012. Here's the backstory, and more importantly, what you might really be here for - the $100 almost like cash give-away.

Where do you find an easy, online gift that lets you treat someone to a place they'll love?

A place they pick?

And decide on how to get the gift: in their PayPal account, as a check, as a credit (not debit) card or even deposited right to your bank account?

If you win, then you'll get to tell Giftrocket your preference.

And just how do you enter? Continue reading this post...

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!

Continue reading this post...

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...