Chad Barr
JANUARY 1, 2008
My wife Laurel who is a Cantor at Temple Emanuel in Cleveland, Ohio, put together an amazing concert back on November 10, 2007. You should have been there as it was an amazing night. It is with tremendous pride and love that I have for her, and with the hope that you too may enjoy this concert, that I would like to share it with you. I uploaded the concert in segments to Youtube (this is the way they allow it.
The Nonprofit Consultant
JANUARY 17, 2008
Michael L. Wyland of Sumption & Wyland consulting has written an op-ed piece on Argus Leader (dot-com) under the unassuming title of " Accountability changes philanthropic landscape " that perfectly expresses what I'm sure so many of us have been thinking for years. The opening paragraph reads: "There has been a major change in philanthropy in recent years.
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The Crazy Lives of Consultants
JANUARY 30, 2008
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, January 30, 2008. 10 Ways Lazy Stupid Coworkers Can Help Boost Your Career. Sent by an alert reader who also runs a blog. 10 Ways Lazy Stupid Coworkers Can Help Boost Your Career Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 1:26am by admin By Jessica Hupp Lazy coworkers may seem like a nuisance, but in reality, they offer a number of excellent opportunities to improve your professional life.
The Nonprofit Consultant
JANUARY 10, 2008
There's lots of talk about how nonprofits should be using "Web 2.0" - interactive applications, two-way online communications, user generated content, "social media," etc. - perhaps so much so that it can be bewildering to smaller, grassroots organizations who are just struggling to get the word out locally and are wondering what they need with a World Wide Web.
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Chad Barr
JANUARY 29, 2008
We are working on a client project that involves two people in my organization, the client and another business partner. In order to improve communication and make sure all people involved are in the loop, I requested we all hit “reply all” when responding to emails. Doing so is not just common sense but also good business practice. Well, you guessed right.
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Chad Barr
JANUARY 23, 2008
Improving your web site effectiveness. In my quest to constantly improve our clients’ web sites and develop better and new successful Internet strategies for their business, I come across and review many web sites on a daily basis. To illustrate and discuss the “good, bad and ugly” techniques used by others, and us, I am starting a new blog category today. “ How to improve your web site effectiveness ” will be devoted exactly for that purpose, discussions and illustrations of such practices, bot
The Nonprofit Consultant
JANUARY 23, 2008
My postings on fundraising fees and rates get a lot of hits, and sometimes some heated discussion. My recent posting Yet more on percentage-based fundraising was no exception. While some people have agreed with me that, "it's about time that donors put the needs of nonprofits ahead of their own," others have taken great exception to that. One such person is Barbara Ruth Saunders, who this morning wrote: Aren't nonprofit organizations, in fact, supposed to be the vehicle by which DONORS direct th
Chad Barr
JANUARY 20, 2008
While vacationing in St. George, Utah, back in December, I couldn’t help but notice this creative sign and ashtray: The post Cleaner Environment With A Sense Of Humor appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 18, 2008
I am a frequent Continental flyer and enjoy flying with them and the service I receive. Last night, I booked a round trip flight for my son using their online service, which I use quite often. I find www.continental.com to be an easy site to navigate to quickly book my flights. When logging on to their site this evening, I noticed the price for the identical flight was much cheaper.
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Chad Barr
JANUARY 17, 2008
While at the mall, my wife and I left Nordstrom and had some time to kill before our dinner reservation at a nearby restaurant. We walked into Dillard’s women shoe department when my wife noticed the boots she got several weeks ago were significantly discounted and on sale now. The sales person explained that even if the boots are still brand new in the box, since they were purchased three weeks ago she couldn’t credit my wife the price difference.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 16, 2008
My wife and I went to the mall the other day to stop at Nordstrom in order to get my new mail-ordered coat altered. While waiting for the tailor tp arrive, the friendly salesman started to process the alteration order request on his computer. “I have good news for you Mr. Barr”, he said. “I just processed a credit for over $100 on your account to reflect the price adjustment on your coat since it is now on sale.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 15, 2008
It was back in December and a couple of days before my trip to Las Vegas to visit my son in Utah when I realized that I forgot to rent a car for the trip. In a great hurry and armed with the power of the Internet, a couple of minutes later I rented the SUV from Dollar Rent A Car. A couple of days later I landed at the Las Vegas airport and within a short time found myself standing at the long line of the previously mentioned car rental office.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 14, 2008
I came across these powerful quotes written by Mark Twain: “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”.
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Chad Barr
JANUARY 12, 2008
Organizing your reading and writing. A question was asked today on one of the online forums I help implement and moderate: “How do you organize potential book commentary, blog posts relevant to an upcoming article, news stories that could be adapted to a speech, etc. so you can find them when you’re ready for them?”. I find my organized digital world much more efficient and faster to search than my paper world.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 11, 2008
While visiting one of my clients today and walking by their computer room, I noticed that their backup tapes were neatly stacked on the desk next to their server. When taking a closer look I also noticed that they had two tape sizes, the larger to backup their main legacy system and the smaller size to backup their windows server. Interestingly enough, there were only four tapes in each stack and the ones labeled Thursday were missing from each stack.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 8, 2008
I know that I keep talking about delivering genuine value through your blog. But how do you make your text come to life? Simple. Incorporate picture images, audio and video in your posts and throughout your blog. I visit too many blogs where the author did not realize this simple rule. Unless the message strongly captures my attention, I find most blogs to be quite boring.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 6, 2008
I recently purchased this amazing little gadget called Flip Video and I have to tell you that I truly love it. This digital video camera is small, compact, light (fits in my pocket) and from the moment I turn it on it is ready to be used within 3 seconds and it stores up to 60 minutes of videos. Once the videos are taken, I simply flip the switch which reveals a built-in USB interface which then plugs to my laptop.
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Chad Barr
JANUARY 2, 2008
When visiting Utah last week and attending my son’s parents conference, several of us parents decided to have dinner together. I was seated next to my wife on one side and one of the parents on the other. He is a retired professor of many years from one of the famous and top universities in this country. I started the conversation asking him about his life, teaching position at the university, his kid at the school and other great questions (at least I think so) in order to engage him.
Chad Barr
JANUARY 1, 2008
Our latest December newsletter for 2007 contains a couple of articles that you may find to be of interest. Blogging in the New Year is an article I recently wrote after attending the Blog World Expo last month in Las Vegas and after getting tremendous amount of questions about leveraging blogs in ones business. I also decided to publish Additional Lessons Leaned From Running My Business article after releasing the first Lessons Learned article and getting many emails requesting I share more such
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
JANUARY 29, 2008
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, January 29, 2008. Career Death, A Consultants Lament. Oh career death how you abusin’ me, Taking away any advancement I may see, Making me a highly paid secretary, Tempting me with other opportunities Pulling them away so there is nothing I can see, How did it come to this? Oh Career Death, did I not do all I was asked?
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
JANUARY 11, 2008
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Friday, January 11, 2008. Life and Death on the Consulting Savannah. What is consulting? What shall I compare it to? Is it like the sky? Vast, and empty and blue? Perhaps it is more like the clearing summer sky, warm, sunny with large fluffy clouds of opportunity moving across it? Each opportunity as fleeting and diaphanous as the vapor that makes up the cloud?
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The Crazy Lives of Consultants
JANUARY 10, 2008
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thursday, January 10, 2008. Death before Dishonor. Ok.so I’m on this project that is the career graveyard. Careers dont begin here so much as they come here for a "final resting place. People don’t progress through the levels of the organization as stagnate and ahem, digress, into a slimy puddle of organic matter.
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
JANUARY 28, 2008
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, January 28, 2008. State of the Union.Its Tonight. Asbsolutely, Positively DO NOT WATCH UNLESS YOU"RE USING THIS: [link]. Posted by. Crazy Consultant. at. 7:15 PM. Labels: Randomness. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Crazy Consultants. were type A (who, us?
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
JANUARY 28, 2008
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, January 28, 2008. Change Is Great! Posted by. Crazy Consultant. at. 12:09 PM. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Crazy Consultants. were type A (who, us?); we use words like synergy and leverage in sentences; we know that "Decks" arent made of wood; we drink wine, not beer; we wear boxers, not briefs; we actually like to travel; were platinum elite with every airline and hotel; we stay at the W (
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