We’re excited about the rapid growth and popularity of the website Bucket List Publications, most notably for the contributions its founders plan to make to the fulfillment of others’ dreams. Bucket List Publications is accomplishing this in a number of a ways. First, by introducing people to and guiding them through a world of adventure. The founding author, [...]
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Noteworthy Site For Realizing Your Dreams: Bucket List Publications
Posted in Entertainment, Noteworthy Sites, Personal Enrichment, Travel, tagged Adventure, Bucket List, Bucket List Publications, Dreams, Entertainment, Excitement, Happiness, Health, Jan Hanson, Lesley Carter, Life, Travel, Wish Fulfillment, Wishes, World on 2012/03/04 | Leave a Comment »
Noteworthy Career Advice Site: Business Fitness
Posted in Getting Ahead, Hiring Decisions, Job Search, Manage Successfully, Noteworthy Sites, Resignation Tips, tagged Big Picture Consulting, Business, Business Fitness, Career, Dawn Lennon, Development, Employment, Leadership, Management, Success on 2012/02/19 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a while since we’ve been to a website that offers career guidance as comprehensively as Business Fitness, a blog by Dawn Lennon, a Career Strategist and founder of Big Picture Consulting. Ms. Lennon’s advice is succinct while addressing matters from all angles: managers, employees, colleagues, and HR. Her blog is honest, without being brutal or offensive. Ms. Lennon does not [...]
Noteworthy Crowdsource Funding Site: Kickstarter
Posted in Business, Noteworthy Sites, Personal Enrichment, Technology, tagged Crowdsourcing, Financing, Gifts, Innovation, Kickstarter, Publishing, Success, Supermechanical, Twine on 2012/02/12 | 1 Comment »
The crowd sourcing site Kickstarter is a funding platform enabling people to finance the production of an item in exchange for a copy of or other benefit tied to that item. Innovators seeking financing for a project, such as the production of a gadget, but wanting to maintain control over their project can post it on Kickstarter. An innovator sets [...]
Site To Follow: Courtney Mara
Posted in Noteworthy Sites, Travel, tagged Adventure, Arts, Courtney Mara, Fun, Recreation, Travel, Trip, Weddings on 2011/12/24 | 1 Comment »
Courtney Mara is a very young, increasingly popular, interactive travel blog that invites its visitors to be contributors. It’s travel tips range by location, season or holiday, and interests. The blog offers great recommendations for trip planners, “DOs” and “DON’Ts” for casual travellers, and interesting highlights and tidbits for local inhabitants looking to try something new. Courtney Mara.com It also has an [...]
Noteworthy Site For Employment Guidance: Ask A Manager
Posted in Getting Ahead, Hiring Decisions, Interview, Manage Successfully, Noteworthy Sites, tagged Ask A Manager, Direct Report, Employment, Employment Advice, Getting Ahead, Happiness, Hiring Decisions, Interview, Job Satisfaction, Job Search, Jobs, Manager, Office Politics, Site of the Week, Successful Management, Tips, Unemployment, Workplace Bullies, Workplace Conflict on 2011/08/15 | Leave a Comment »
The site Ask A Manager is a great, interactive resource for credible and thoughtful employment guidance. In addition to authoring the site since 2007, Alison Green has written and co-authored books and articles dispensing management and work advice. An attribute of Ms. Green’s publications is that they aim to construct a collaborative and mutually rewarding relationship between managers and direct reports, which [...]
Site Of The Week: Blue Mountain Library Staff Connection
Posted in Noteworthy Sites, tagged Blue Mountains Library, Books, Enrichment, Happiness, Holiday Flair, Joy, Library, Pleasure, Reading, Site of the Week on 2010/12/18 | Leave a Comment »
It might not be your local library, but, it’s difficult not to smile each time the Blue Mountain Library Staff Connection is open. Posts on this site have global appeal, ranging from amusing, charming, and informative. Looking for respite from holiday felicitation controversies and overcooked holiday flair? Check out Blue Mountain Library Staff Connection’s Advice for the Festive Season.
Site Of The Week: Dan & Noah’s Single Dad Laughing
Posted in Noteworthy Sites, tagged Dan & Noah, Enrichment, Happiness, Laughing, Laughter, Life, Love, Perfection, Pleasure, Single Dad Laughing, Site of the Week, Uh Oh, Youth on 2010/11/05 | Leave a Comment »
As the author of Dan & Noah’s Single Dad Laughing says, his blog is about a lot more than fatherhood. It’s insightful (see the post, The disease called “Perfection”, for a dissection of the impact pursuing perfection has on lives), humorous (see the post Uh oh. for an interesting spin on immigration, human migration and world peace), and frequently contemplative (when offering a [...]
Site Of The Week: Body & Mind Balance
Posted in Natural Remedies, Noteworthy Sites, Penny Recipes, Personal Enrichment, tagged Aromatherapy, Balance, Energy, Enrichment, Grace, Happiness, Health, Joy, Life, Natural Remedies, Pleasure, Respect, Self Definition, Site of the Week, Youth on 2010/10/22 | Leave a Comment »
Living up to its name, Body & Mind Balance provides insights on various routes to enriching one’s life. Check out the 10/14/10 post on chasing away the winter blues, introducing greater pleasure and joy into the winter months; and the 8/27/10 post on guiding adolescents towards self-defintion.
Site Of The Week: WhyNot? Idea Exchange
Posted in Business, Noteworthy Sites, tagged Ayres, Business, Business Development, Community, Economics, Exchange, Expertise, Finance, George Bernard Shaw, Honest Tea, Idea Exchange, Idea Sharing, Ideas, Incentives, Industry, Ingenuity, Innovation, Invention, Investment, Nalebuff, Networking, Problem Solving, Professors, Robert F. Kennedy, Site of the Week, Why Not?, Yale on 2010/10/15 | Leave a Comment »
Two Yale professors, Barry J. Nalebuff and Ian Ayres, created a communal site, WhyNot? Idea Exchange, enabling members to submit and contribute to the development of ideas. (Mr. Nalebuff is also the cofounder of Honest Tea.) To learn more, view the engaging (and humorous!) Yale Economics lecture by Mr. Nalebuff, the inspiration of which he attributes to the following George [...]
Site Of The Week: Running To Slow Things Down
Posted in Noteworthy Sites, Personal Enrichment, tagged Cat, Cooking, Cooks, Enrichment, Happiness, Insights, Life, Life Enrichment, Life Lessons, Perspective, Photos, Pleasure, Recipes, Site of the Week on 2010/10/08 | Leave a Comment »
Running To Slow Things Down offers a delightful blend of personal insights, delicious and inventive recipes and beautiful pictures. Check out the 10/7/10 post on enriching one’s life from a (a cat’s) life lessons! 5/4/11 Update: The site has moved to The Flying ONION.
Site Of The Week: Idea Bounty
Posted in Noteworthy Sites, tagged Business, Networking, Site of the Week on 2010/10/01 | Leave a Comment »
Idea Bounty and Idea Bounty Blog provides a forum where ideas meet facilitators.
Site Of The Week: GoodSearch
Posted in Noteworthy Sites, tagged Charitable Work, Charities, Donations, Financial Support, Google, Schools, Site of the Week, Web Search, Yahoo! on 2010/09/24 | Leave a Comment »
Through its partnership with Yahoo!, GoodSearch donates a portion of money derived from your online search to the charitable cause of your choice.
Site Of The Week: Minding the Workplace
Posted in Getting Ahead, Manage Successfully, Noteworthy Sites, tagged Bullies, Employment, Ethics, Etiquette, Jobs, Office Politics, Politics, Site of the Week, Successful Management, Unemployment, Workplace Bullies, Workplace Conflict on 2010/09/03 | 2 Comments »
Take note, those concerned about workplace bullying. You have an advocate in Minding the Workplace! In addition to reporting on workplace bullying and related legislation, Minding the Workplace addresses an assortment of valuable matters regarding employment, professional and business development, and the work environment.
Site Of The Week: Modeled Behavior
Posted in Business, Education, Finances, Noteworthy Sites, Politics, tagged Business, Enrichment, Industry, Life, Site of the Week on 2010/08/27 | Leave a Comment »
Modeled Behavior applies statistics to a diversity of matters - economic, political, social, etc. – in a cooperative environment with its readers.
Site Of The Week: That Recruiter
Posted in Getting Ahead, Hiring Decisions, Interview, Job Search, Networking, Noteworthy Sites, Recruiters, References, Unemployment, tagged Employment, Interview, Job Search, Jobs, Lay Off, Networking, Office Politics, Site of the Week, Unemployment on 2010/08/20 | Leave a Comment »
That Recruiter shares insights from its author’s journey through unemployment to employment, with valuable guidance from both sides of the Recruitment field.
