Purple Wren

Blogs of a Feather 4

Blogs of a feather flock together. Do you know what these three blogs have in common? (In the spirit of TriBond.)

• ProBlogger
• Intersections
• ConverStations

 How fast can you land on the answer?

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Answer to Blogs of a Feather 3:  Chris, Phil and Joan each served in the Navy.

• SuccessCREEations - Chris Cree
• Make It Great! - Phil Gerbyshak
• Accelerating Momentum - Joan Schramm

Blog Tag: Five Things You Might Not Know About Me

I've been tagged by Drew McLellan to tell you five things you don't know about me and then I get to tag five others to do the same. Good way to get to know each other. Not too difficult to think of five about me since not a lot of people in the blogosphere know me well.

1. I love bird watching (which is another reason that the PurpleWren name works for me).
2. I spent a year living in Half Moon Bay, CA and working for the Stanford Report at Stanford University when Jim was on sabbatical. I was very sad to leave the Bay Area.
3. I spent ten days in Singapore and India the summer of 2002 teaching co-workers how to use a custom CRM software system and I would love to visit again.
4. I practice yoga, and haven't lately because it's hard to do a downward facing dog pose with a recovering wrist (broke it last year).
5. I'm a big basketball fan. We've been to two women's final four tournaments.

OK - this is the interesting part - finding five people who have not yet been tagged. Let's see. It doesn't look like anyone has tagged Mark True, Kyle Eslick, Carolyn Manning, Kirsten Harrell, and Christine Kane yet - hope you'll play along.

Photo on Flickr by SaintSeminole

Blogs of a Feather 3

Blogs of a feather flock together. Do you know what these three blogs have in common? (In the spirit of TriBond.)

• SuccessCREEations
• Make It Great!
• Accelerating Momentum

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Answer to Blogs of a Feather 2: they each wrote about taking a bike ride on Thanksgiving Day

• the moderate epicurean - Stephanie Levy
• Matty Speaks On - Matty V.
• Cathe's Blog - Cathe Olson

Did they follow through?

Blogs of a Feather 2

Blogs of a feather flock together. Do you know what these three blogs have in common? (In the spirit of TriBond.)

• the moderate epicurean
• Cathe's Blog
• Matty Speaks On

How fast can you land on the answer?

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Answer to Blogs of a Feather 1: they each write poetry

• Funeral Words - BT
• Shallowlands - Ros Barber
• Dare I read? - Glenn Ingersoll

Branding: Beggars' Night in Iowa

I was reading and commenting on Michael Stelzner's Blog post about Halloween Marketing Lessons and started to continue the conversation when I realized that this was a post I wanted to write, and I have to get it out there today since it's time-sensitive.

We have what they call "Beggars' Night" in Des Moines, Iowa. This year it was Monday, Oct. 30 from 6-8 pm. We know when the "beggars" are coming around and can either put on the porch light and participate, or choose not to. The trick-or-treaters tell a joke before they get their treat. It's fun and a good way to catch up on jokes.

As I was reading Michael's comment, I remembered that traditions are not the same everywhere, so I looked ours up. According to this article in the Des Moines Register, Beggars' Night has been going on for 50 years.

Guess this is part of our brand. What is the Halloween tradition where you live? (doesn't have to be Halloween)

Photo on flickr by ohmomof1

Birthday Greetings for Successful Blog

Something clever just for fun,
Successful Blog is turning one,
'Cause it's late I cannot wait,
But have want to say "Your Blog is GREAT!"

Happy Birthday Successful Blog! Didn't want to miss the 25-word birthday challenge from ME "Liz" Strauss, so had to think fast.

Photo on flickr by Andrew J. Swan