Saving the environment is something that I am very passionate about. I conserve whenever possible, so much so that I even have a compost. I work hard at being environmental so anything I can do, I do.

One thing that I started doing was getting new window blinds. Next Day Blinds offers a huge selection so anyone is sure to find what they are looking for. I found really great bamboo blinds. Next Day Blinds even came and installed them, which means they started saving energy that much sooner.

Next Day Blinds is even replacing their vehicle fleet with hybrids. So they are helping the environment too. I like to support progressive businesses like this one and so should you.

I love Shakespeare. His plays and poems changed the world in many ways. No one is quoted more than Will and no playwright has ever had more movies and adaptations made about his work. And I love going to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival every year.

Some very important people go there like Arthur Trueger. He loves the festival also. I think that he loves a lot of the arts, even ballet.

Yes, Arthur Trueger is a patron of the San Francisco Ballet. He has been spotted there several times and if you do a Google search for “SF ballet,” Arthur Trueger is often one of the first results that appear.

Management development training is one option available for those wanting to keep their skills sharp during these trying financial times. By keeping up with trends in management and updating skills, you are helping to keep your job during a recession.

Many of my employees have enrolled in customer service training programs to better serve our customers and to ensure they come back and purchase our services again. We feel that if we provide a great experience for our customers they will want to return.

The CEO of my company wants all of the managers to participate in organizational development training to make sure we are all as professional as possible and to keep our company in performing at its best. Professional development programs keep everyone looking sharp.

By participating in any courses that improve skills, we are helping to keep the recession from hurting us. The investment is small compared to the monetary gains.

I collect a few things like thimbles and stamps. But, my favorite things to collect are maps. I have all sorts of different kinds from city maps to road maps to country maps. The thing that I like most about collecting maps is that for every place you can think of, there is most likely at least one map for that area.

My mom is from southern Texas and my father is from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Every time I go there I end up finding new maps of the neighborhoods where they grew up. Now, my parents are in a nursing home so they don’t get to make it to Texas to much these days but they like to see those maps so they can tell me what used to be at some intersection.

It’s like showing them the maps of all over the USA gets their memories going and it refreshes their minds too. They seem more coherent after they look over a map.

Greg Jarboe writing for Search Engine Watch suggests that Online Reputation Management Requires Cabinet War Rooms.  What he is saying is that  because of the speed that news is now incorporated into universal search results, you’d need to havea specialized ‘War Room’ in place to deal with almost inevitable reputation crisis the moment they arise.  He compares this ‘War Room’ to the one Churchill used in London during WW2.

If your CEO suddenly faces a crisis that will negatively impact your company’s share price by 20 to 30 percent, is there a war room?

And down the corridor, is there a map room, where your SEO and PR people can collate and summarize all relevant information on the crisis and present it on maps, which are constantly updated?

There is a new reputation monitoring tool called Trackur.  Check it out…

Fionn Downhill looks at the ethical position of online reputation management

I believe that you decide whether or not to handle an online reputation management project much in the same way as you decide on which other clients you work with. I have been asked to handle multiple reputation management projects and have walked away from many.