change therapy

if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!just a few quick thoughts here, inspired by my twitter friend todd. in his tweetings today and his most recent blog post, he talks about a social media tool called friendfeed.
“friend” is a word that’s used a lot […]

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two months ago, vivien at inspirationbit started the social media mega project. we are trying to create a place where all the social media wisdom is gathered together.
my job was to gather blog posts on twitter.
there are two social media tools that i feel quite passionate about. stumbleupon is one of them; the […]

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i love all your comments, people! one of the things i had hoped for in my goals for this year was to have more conversations on this blog, and i think that’s happening. thank you so much!
so with this in mind, i thought it’s time to throw together some comment guidelines. not […]

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once a while i like to share with you which blogs i’m reading and commenting on. sometimes it seems i spend way more time writing comments on others’ blogs than writing my own posts. so here you have a little taste of my blogospheric meanderings in the last few days:
i can’t believe i […]

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one of the presenters at northern voice was vancouver ADD coach pete quily. he spoke on attention deficit disorder - ADD - for techies. let me share some of the information.
“the internet,” he said, “is the crack cocaine of people with ADD.”
one of the things that happens for people with ADD is […]

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it’s friday: frozen pea day.
what’s that?
two months ago, susan reynolds found out she had breast cancer, and she started posting about it on twitter. all the twitterers flocked around her in a beautiful show of friendship and support.
what about the peas? susan discovered that frozen peas were ideal in helping keep the post-surgery pain […]

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here we go again - yet another guest post! told ya, this week is guest post week. so let’s go over to vivien’s blog, at inspirationbit. i’m waxing semi-intelligently about the psychological profile of a blogger.
(and that image, it’s by mollyparker)

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hey, friends … just a quick note today, to tell you about three interesting health interactive health projects here in the blogosphere (btw, that’s where blogospherians hang out, as anthony informed me the other day).

the first one ends on february 4 so you better run. you could win a $50 gift certificate at target. […]

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nettie has arrived! she’s “your emotional blog adviser”. is she going to become the bloggers’ dear abby? the dan savage of web 2.0? the dr. phil of social media?
only time will tell …
but you gotta love her handsome little 60’s picture.
visit her for her first column: what to do when you’re too […]

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good monday, everyone!
many of you know how much i like twitter, the social media site. (if you’ve never been there, go visit here; if you’re looking for me there, you can find me here.)
that’s why i’m really happy to be one of the hosts in my friend vivien’s social media mega project over at […]

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next month i’ll be hosting the appetizer course of a progressive dinner blog carnival! i’ve never been to a progressive dinner until the main host, kilroy, explained it to me. you start out at one house or restaurant to have hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, then move on to a different one for appetizers, and […]

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a few years ago on easter, first united church in vancouver’s downtown eastside carried a cross through the neighbourhood. it was a big, simple cross – and there were needles stuck all over it. the christ of the drug addicts. an image i will never forget.
there is much about the message of […]

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the three wise men the three monks are inviting us to write about compassion.
compassion: literally, to suffer (passion) with (com-) another. in latin, this suffering did not only refer to the suffering that occurs in pain, it also generally refers to things that we don’t actively instigate – things that happen to us, […]

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well, folks, i finally have my new theme up and running. what do you think? i still need to iron out all kinds of little kinks and realize that i want to re-write all my pages (as opposed to the posts) - but all in all, i think my new “house” is ready. […]

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so much of blogging is about building relationships, and sometimes even friendships. and ideally, it’s not just about using relationships to further the blog; it’s about furthering relationships. maybe blogging can help us do that, can help us learn a bit about relationships.
take this:
linkfarming, linkbait, link begging and, urgh, link whoring.
these words don’t sound […]

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