Facebook Groups are a great tool for building online community, offering value, and encouraging true social media engagement. However, life in Facebook-land means responding to ongoing changes to Facebook’s algorithms, including those that govern groups. As a simple explanation, the algorithm is a process that ranks all available posts that can display on a user’s newsfeed based on how
As an advocate for a healthy relationship with screens and devices, I consider it a bit of a personal mission to find ways to use the Internet to support positive change. Vast social media networks and the huge reach of the web allows us to coordinate ideas, promote causes, and enlist aid across time and space. Whether our goals are personal, professional or community centred, we can use
February is the month of love. Be your own valentine. Give yourself the gift of freedom and peace. Take on four weeks of short and simple decluttering and organizing challenges that will inspire you to create space, freedom and peace in your day-to-day life. Join Conny Graf Lewis and I with the Chaos to Peace Challenge. The clutter clearing challenge will cover 4 areas over
Nothing is quite as exciting as a shiny, new year to play with. January is a great time to pause and reflect in order to set goals and craft a plan for the upcoming year. Let me offer up some planning advice from a coaching perspective. New goals and plans need to be devised in a way that integrates them with all the dimensions that make up our lives. If we look at our lives through a lens
I’ve written about managing holiday expectations and choosing to participate only in what truly brings you joy. So often, though, we do the opposite. I get it – it’s tough to stand down from the desire to create a perfect celebration, and find the perfect gifts. On the surface, it’s far easier to overindulge, overspend and get overwhelmed. I was inspired by a recent email
Hello, December. It’s the festive season and that its time to shop, wrap, decorate, feast and frolic. For some, it is a time of wholehearted joy and celebration. For others, it is a sensitive time, particularly for those dealing with loss or struggling with health or financial issues. For all of us, it is a time we can reach out and connect with family, friends, clients and customers.
A great gift of the Internet is its use as a research tool. For the past year or so, I have been working on a manuscript that chronicles a period of my childhood, populated with an intriguing array of characters who were largely the summertime friends of my late father. The work is a form of memoir, and the people I am writing about are real people. The freedom I give myself as a writer in
One of the many things that have changed in the digital age is the way we grieve. Researching our book, Digital Legacy Plan, due out in March 2019, co-author Angela Crocker and I discovered some interesting research by professor Tony Walter, a sociologist from the U.K. who has written and taught widely on the social aspects of death, dying and loss. In his examination of online memorial
As I write this, I’m putting the finishing touches on a book manuscript. It will be sent to the editor in the morning, and following about a month of substantive edits, it will go into the hands of a copy editor to take care of things like commas and periods. After that, it will be readied for print. The book will be released in March 2019. I’ve had the privilege of co-writing the
Ah, October. Rainy days, autumn colors, cozy sweaters and fireplaces, and every four years, a plethora of election signs. Offline and online, local politicians are working hard to get their platforms out to voters. The sudden appearance of signs at the roadside and candidates at events rarely attended previously, mailboxes stuffed with brochures and flyers – all this tells us the race for