Reflect and Manifest
Similar to the Best of 2009 blog challenge, I am going to be participating in #Reverb10 beginning tomorrow.
Quick rundown on #Reverb10 from the website:
“Reverb 10 is an annual event and online initiative to reflect on your year and manifest what’s next. The end of the year is an opportunity to reflect on what’s happened, and to send out reverberations for the year ahead.
With Reverb 10, we’ll do both.”
If you’re interested, check out the website and sign up. You can get email alerts of the daily writing prompts or simply follow on Twitter.
Once you sign up (or if you already have) let me know so I can follow your posts throughout the month. Otherwise, feel free to reflect on the prompts on your Twitter account, Facebook page or in the comments.
When I was 12-Years Old
Posted by Kristin in In the News on November 16, 2010
Do you remember what your life was like when you were 12-years old?
I was in middle school. My biggest concerns in life were mean girls, spending time with friends, avoiding my (then) embarrassing parents and staying on top of the latest trends in fashion and pop culture.
Unfortunately, for more than 600 girls growing up in the developing world, their concerns are much greater – with more serious implications.
Change.
One simple word can emit so many different emotions.
Change. Excitement. Anxiety. Fear. Unease.
With change, however, comes the chance to grow, adapt and discover more about oneself. So, it is with angst and excitement that I am moving on to a position with Greater Twin Cities United Way. As of November 1, I will be the marketing coordinator at United Way, assisting with media relations, external communications, marketing and additional responsibilities.
Another “Top” List
Posted by Kristin in Media, Social Media on October 9, 2010
I can’t remember where I came across this particular list, but I do love me a good list. Whether it’s TIME.com or Mashable, a top 10 list or top 50, I learn a lot of new things from lists – and I can see why they are such popular blog posts.
This list from Top Tenz of 10 Helpful Websites You Have Never Heard Of offers just that, websites that I have never heard of.
Of the 10, some of my favorites are:
Newsmap. Newsmap is a graphical representation of Google News that makes it easy for you to find the news you actually care about. It relies on something called a “treemap algorithm” for this. Basically, more popular and important stories appear larger, while the lesser stories are smaller. Stories are also arranged by theme and represented by different colors.
Boxee. Think of the copious amounts of videos that exist all across the vast World Wide Web today. This is where Boxee comes in and helps us maintain whatever sanity we will have while embarking on this impossible quest of entertainment. Boxee gathers the videos from a plethora of websites like Hulu, Youtube, and even CNN.com, and feeds it to you in a very aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-use interface. You can even organize the videos, images, and music on your own computer with Boxee.
DailyLit. Despite popular belief, many people do actually enjoy reading books, but they just can’t find any time to set aside for this underrated hobby. The DailyLit fixes that easily. First, you choose the book you want to read. Then you choose the time and day you want to read it. Maybe you want to read it every day at 8 P.M. And that’s it. DailyLit will send you short installments of the book via RSS or e-mail and you can read it on a mobile device like an iPhone or on your computer.
Retaining Millennial Employees
Posted by Kristin in In the News on August 17, 2010
While searching for inspiration for this blog post, I found a story I had bookmarked on my Delicious account. On the Brazen Careerist, 36 Facts about Generation Y in the Workplace and Beyond, the author shares facts and observations about the Millennial generation – the known and relatively unknown.
Many of the facts are interesting, and worth a look, broken out in categories like Racial Make-Up, Debt & Financial Outlook and Lifestyle, Civic Engagement, Family. However, the two facts that really stuck out to me were:
10. About 60% of younger workers say it is not very likely or not likely at all that they will stay with their current employers for the remainder of their working life. (In contrast, 62% of Generation X workers say it’s likely they will never leave their current employer while 84% of Baby Boomers expect to remain with their current employer for the rest of their working life.)
11. Only 1/3 of Millennials say their current job is their career.
Life-Changing Experiences
I haven’t had very many life-changing experiences, which I suppose is obvious given the word “life-changing.” However, skydiving with my co-workers on July 11, definitely counts as one of those moments. When I think back on all of my adventures, across the world and back again, very few can be identified as events that altered my state of mind and being. In my opinion, the experiences that can be defined as life-changing encompass the following characteristics:
- Something that challenges you, whether it be physically, mentally or emotionally
- Changes the way you view yourself or the world around you
- Provides a rush of emotions: accomplishment, excitement, fear, etc.
What do you think defines a life-changing experience? Or, is it the very nature of these experiences that they cannot be defined by any number of qualifiers?
Have you had a life-changing experience? Multiple?
“Life changed after that jump…I’d suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain.”
– Charles Lindbergh (1902 – 1974), describing his first skydive
Street Art
I love street art and murals. Living in Uptown, there’s plenty to be found. I pass by this one each morning on my way to work, and I wanted to share it.
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?” ~Howard Ikemoto
About Me
Marketing, web and communications professional. Passionate about sports, photography, travel, friends and family. Minnesota gal, who happens to cheer for the Packers."In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." --aaron rose