It was July 4th 2oo6 when I first launched this blog.

Man what a ride!

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Ok folks… It’s time for our seventh caption contest. The last time we did this, we had 130 entries!

Take a look at the picture below…

Your task: Create a killer caption for this image.

I would like to reward the person who comes up with the best caption by giving him or her a free copy of my book Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged in e-book format.

I will annouce the winner on Friday April 24th, 2009.

THE WINNER:

Liz Donnelly: “Dang! I thought my escape plan worked great but I forgot to tell my partner to release the YELLOW ducks!”

Ok folks…

Take a look at the picture here.

Your task: Create a killer caption for this image.

I would like to reward the person who comes up with the best caption by giving him or her a free copy of my book Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged in e-book format.

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

Congratulations to Jim Lodico.

His winning caption is:

After months of study, scientists finally prove that when thrown from an airplane, failed banking CEOs accelerate at the precisely the same rate of speed.

Honorable mention:

Stephanie Tilton, “This year’s salary cap is being modeled by former Bank of America exec John Thain, Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein, and Citigroup director Robert Rubin.”

Great contributions EVERYONE!

First let me wish you and yours a very warm Merry Christmas!

Can I ask you a question: What does Christmas mean to you and your family?  I also wanted to share a story with you…

WARNING: This post is NOT politically correct.

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I remember waking up to the news of tower one crashing down.

I remember watching those brave men with fire hoses rushing up the stairs of tower two.

I remember bodies falling from smoke filled windows.

I remember ash covered women emerging from the gray haze.

I remember bending my knee in church and praying.

Never forget.

Today I had a friend who just had 5 valves in his heart bypassed. He survived.

But these kind of experiences make me think about my life.

So I have two very important questions for you:

1. If you found out you only had 30 more days to live, what would you do/want to accomplish?

2. Perhaps more importantly, why aren’t you doing those things now?

I’d like to hear your response.

What if there were no stop signs.

What if a corporation (perhaps one of your clients or your company) was tasked with coming up with the “new” stop sign.

Watch this really funny video!

Ever been on a project like this? I swear this is one of my old clients!

It was July 3rd 2oo6 when I first launched this blog.

Man what a ride!

I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the more than 3400 comments and 425 articles that have been posted on this blog!

Here’s a little treat from Target Marketing: 6 Ways to Optimize B-to-B Free-Content Offerings (yours truly was interviewed for this article).

Thanks everyone!

My days seem to be getting shorter and the “to do” list keeps growing!

For the last few weeks I feel like I have been running in overdrive. No time to relax.

No time to write on this blog. Little time to Twitter.

Certainly no time to read. Not other blogs, not the newspaper, not the magazines piling in my office.

Am I alone? Are these times ultra-busy with no end in sight?

I thought the computer was supposed to simplify our lives??

It only seems to make things worse.

Here’s an interesting story about an experience I had today. (more…)

Ok folks…

Take a look at the picture here.

Your task: Create a killer caption for this image.

I would like to reward the person who comes up with the best caption by giving him or her a free copy of my book Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged in e-book format.

Contest winner announced Thur. July 3rd.

THE WINNER: Congrats to Kyle Tully.  The winning caption: “Delete… DELETE…” he screamed, as the instructions from tie-a-tie.net went so horribly, horribly wrong.