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Oprah Winfrey

Are we human beings or human doings?

I’ve been listening to the worldwide ‘webcasts’ by Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle called “A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.”   It’s a 10-part series on Monday nights that broadcasted its final segment this past week. I downloaded the whole series on my iPod and have listened and watched attentively….usually while doing something else like driving my car, riding the stationary bike or traveling across country in a plane.  It’s been fascinating. Continue reading

Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Oprah Winfrey’s Media Empire

Nancy at the Media Marketplace of the Society of American Travel WritersI’m working on building my networks in Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. I haven’t done too much with Facebook and MySpace frankly but I am going to work on it this week. On LinkedIn, I have been building my network consistently for several months.  I love being able to see how many degrees of separation there are between others and myself on LinkedIn.

Here is my Facebook page.

Today I purchased an ad on Facebook to promote this blog. We’ll see how we do with it. I am experimenting with all these communities so I can better counsel my clients on how to leverage the marketing value of being involved. As I continue to experiment with different aspects of each community, I will report back.

I’ve invited my son to ‘friend me’ on Facebook. We’ll see if he does. I don’t really think he wants his mother as his friend on his page, unfortunately. Jean Chatzky, the financial guru who has a radio show on the Oprah XM 156 Radio Station, was just complaining about the same issue on her show the other day. Jean, if you’re reading this blog, I feel your pain.

By the way, I love Oprah’s radio station on XM and I think that Oprah and her team have set the standard for multi-media exposure to build Oprah’s celebrity and expertise with the TV show, soon to be TV Network called OWN, the radio station on XM called Oprah and Friends, the Magazine, the website, numerous blogs and published books. In so many ways, Oprah inspires me. It’s not only her leadership and sheer success, but for her commitment to doing the right thing as well as how she stays true to herself and true to her friends. Her best friend is Gayle King who also has a radio show on XM 156. I enjoy listening to Gayle, too, as well as Dr. Oz, Dr. Robin Smith, Marianne Williamson and Bob Greene, Oprah’s personal trainer.