I want to share a story with you, a real life story that shows that anything is possible, if you put your mind to it. With this story I also want to encourage you to start writing. You may think that it is not interesting what you have to say. I am sure you know something that soemone else wants to know about or somebody else is interested in.

I met Richard today, a delightful volunteer in a thrift shop who had a stack of two different children’s book sitting on the counter  in front of him. I found out that they were his books, he had written them just recently. When he approached a publisher with his first one he was told that it wouldn’t sell, that it was too Australian. He took it elsewhere and so far has sold 1500 copies!

BUT the most remarkable thing about the whole story is that Richard was illiterate for 63 years of his life. He went to the local college and started learning to read and write.  Within 3 years he became an author.

Check out his website and get the full details of his story at:

http://www.richarddabinettbooks.com.au

Till next time

Connie and Charly

http://www.stretchyourmindandbody.com/blog

Today Charly and I talked more about Twitter. We talked about the benefits of integrating twitter with you blog. By tweeting about a blog post you have just made, you can start a lively discussion with this post as a starting point.

I was wondering how to make sense of the “twitter stream” and Charly explained that it is like walking into a room full of people who are all having conversations and you just join one of these ongoing conversations.

You can refer people to each other on Twitter which makes for great networking. Read the rest of this entry »

Today Charly and I talked about “Twitter”. It is an amazing phenomenon sweeping the internet.

What is Twitter? It is a microblogging engine, each “tweet” is limited to 140 characters or less. Or, to describe another way, it is like an SMS chat but instead of two people chatting it can be any number of people creating a lively discussion.

On Twitter there are “Followers”. Your followers can see anything you write and you can see everything somebody you are following is writing. There needs to be a balance between following and being followed. You cannot be selfish and only accumulate followers and not follow anybody else. Choose wisely who you follow – you don’t want to end up following a spammer. Read the rest of this entry »

Carol Deckert is a networking and netweaving wizard.  Carol joined Charly on our Blog Talk Radio Show to talk about achieving balance in networking.

The main focus of the discussion was using your time effectively when connecting and networking with people – how to ensure you make worthwhile connections whilst still having time to run your business!

Social networking is on the increase and the number of places to connect just keep growing.  Most of us receive 1 or 2 invites a day to connect on one platform or another – and quite frankly, we’re overwhelmed by the sheer ‘enormity’ of it all. Read the rest of this entry »