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Profiles in Profit joins VBOT Breakfast Round Table

Wooo hoooo!  I’m celebrating joining the Vancouver Board of Trade this spring and my first Round Table breakfast meeting on wondrous Wednesday May 21, 2014 

VBOT has told us all to be ready to meet 30 or more, new and seasoned members, before office hours even begin! Very excited to hear what my co-participants do at the heart of  British Columbia’s business community.

VBOTPost event UPDATE: Breakfast was yum. Orientation light & fun with some GREAT benefits to check out ASAP. I did indeed meet 30+ folks of the 100 or so in the room, as promised by VBOT before 8:45 a.m! Lots of energy. Great ideas. Like minded business women and men looking to support each other.

LOTS of other newbies. Wore my name tag for the first time, with pride, to have joined a commercial and also conscious community.

Kudos to the organizers, the membership reps in the room and the volunteer ambassadors!

My gift to mark the 1st of many tales to tell of the VBOT members and team is a chapter excerpt of work in progress on my upcoming book on accessing both the Fun & Profit of the Power of Storytelling @ Work.

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Better Messaging in Plain Language

Is simpler language the solution for understanding each other better in our complex and hurried times?

The Plain Language movement, which in the USA took root in the 1990s, is spreading. Plain language would certainly make the ‘red tape’ of daily life more manageable. Simpler language then is promoted by educators, citizen groups and in some cases law makers in other language groups, worldwide.

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George Takei Occupies Social Media

George Takei is back from outer space, in a big way.

Watch George occupy a small screen near you via Facebook. Or, tote his humor along as the portable pocket sized George Takei on Twitter. What we know for sure is that since his splashdown on social media in March 2011, he has become a big big sensation.

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Tiny Town of Buford, Wyo. Packs Big PR Message

One proved to be a very powerful public relations number in the marketing of America’s tiniest town and the making of a big dream. One is the population of Buford. While everyday folks prepared to celebrate one of the two holidays of Easter and Passover, on the same weekend this year, a man named Pham Dinh Nguyen was already flying back home to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where he would wait to find out if Don Sammons accepted his bid to buy Buford for $900,000.

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