In the blossoming adventures of speaker-dom, I’m looking to raise awareness of my business in the local geographical area. Up to this point, I’ve solely relied on word of mouth (and the occasional newspaper articles) to spread the word.
This month I joined the Grass Valley/Nevada County Chamber of Commerce. I figure this ought to […]

Our local paper, The Union, gave fellow organizer Amelia Barrett and myself front page coverage of the Business Section today! The article, by Greg Moberly, is entitled Everything in its Place.
The photo is by The Union’s photographer, John Hart.

Another organizer in the area, Amelia Barrett, and I were interviewed by Greg Moberly, a reporter with our local paper (The Union) today. If all goes as planned, a story should be in or on the front page of the Business section next Tuesday.
A quick tip: if you know you are going to be […]

For the archives.
The Northern Mines Business and Professional Women submitted this blurb to The Union newspaper about my talk there in July.

Oooohhhh, I’ve been remiss. I received the honor of front page, above-the-fold press last week and haven’t reported it here on my own website. Busted!
I thought I’d scan in the hard copy, then Photoshop froze, and, well, logistically, it proved to be a bit much amidst the flurry of last week’s activity. So […]

We like to have fun at our Toastmasters meetings! I got to be “vivacious” that day. :)

Here’s a belated posting of some of the press coverage that preceded Shawn’s organizing workshop for parents a while back. We’ve been trying to smush out the wrinkles in this clipping, but didn’t have much success with that, so here it is with wrinkles and all. (The wrinkles give it character…yeah, that’s it!)