Chris has launched the site for the workshop “From Social Media to Corporate Media.” You can hear great speakers like Robert Scoble and Lisa Stone – and get an ‘unconference’ experience. Plus, a party! All for $150.
I hope to be there to join in the fun.
Thanks to Sanford for a nice birthday present. He got me a subscription to the Premium version of the Roadhouse Podcast. What’s premium? No commercials for one thing, and a higher bitrate file, which means better sound quality for the “finest blues you’ve never heard.” And it supports Tony Steidler-Dennison in his podcasting efforts. Tony is not only generous, in that he has helped many podcasters, including me, with setup tips and tricks, but he is also a professional’s professional in sound and show creation.
When people ask me for an example of a really great podcast, I ask if they like the Blues, (and if they are intelligent and good looking, of course they say yes) then I point them to the Roadhouse. Big thumbs up and highly recommended.
I just returned from a funeral for the mother of a good friend. Beth’s mother, by all reports, was a wonderful, generous, intelligent and strong willed family center. A fantastic hostess, gifted decorator, and ever a listener, recommender and connector. She garnered 6 euolgies, including one from each child, two from the neighbors, her freshman roommate from college (the deceased was 76 years old, to show the length of the friendship), and even a beloved niece who considered her a substitute mother.
All in all it was beautiful. I sat wondering, as one must, who would come to my funeral and would they say things as nicely? Would I stand the test of time with friends? What final things would be said as to my lot in life?
My good old friend (qualifying that by saying long time friend, never “old”) Sunny Bates was standing around with a group of us afterwards, and she voiced what most of us were thinking: “Why do people wait until you’re dead to say these things about you?”
I felt this is an interesting topic for Tom’s Uplift Academy to discuss at some future date. If we want to “get good into the world,” have funerals before people are dead!
Of course, at that point it is not really a funeral – it is more of a life-affirmation ceremony. If you could hear people tell you how you touched their lives, hear what a great host, a generous giver, a bridger of worlds you are —what would that make you do? If you didn’t hear what you wanted – would it give you pause? How would you change knowing what would be said at your funeral, while you still had a chance to add to the list of compliments?
I don’t know what to call this. I’m sure I’m not the first person to describe this. It just seems timely and current for me, so I’m sharing it.