by Dayna on January 11, 2012
From a recent segment I did for Great Day Houston on using social media to find a job: To start: Looking for a job is a full-time job, treat it as such. Plan to spend time on your efforts and be consistent with those efforts. Know what you want going in, a general idea is [...]
by Dayna on January 1, 2012
It’s early in the morning as I sit with a cup of coffee on this first day of January 2012 trying to figure out how to explain to others who will inevitably ask what I did for New Year’s Eve. They always expect such an entertaining answer from a former rock diva and seem so [...]
by Dayna on November 4, 2011
Whenever possible, always say yes to an invitation to do just about anything – a lunch, a meeting, anything with anyone. It is always a great way to grow your network. Speaker and author Craig Price took me up on a Facebook invitation posting and ended up on this podcast. www.speakercraigprice.com Click here to listen: Speaker Craig [...]
by Dayna on November 3, 2010
For those of us who spend days, weeks, months on the road – standing in security lines, squeezing into too tiny airline seats, eating bad road food, trying to remember what color car we rented, what tonight’s hotel room number is and wondering how long the meeting will go on – I have some suggestions [...]
by Dayna on October 3, 2010
We hit Noah’s Ark in Bacliff, Texas yesterday for a beer and burger. OK, Nick’s 11 years old, he had a Sprite. Gorgeous weather, an amazing view of the bay with all the boats out for a Saturday afternoon, a restaurant/dive dripping withpersonality, the best burgers, coldest beer and a patio full of members of the [...]
by Dayna on September 27, 2010
Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC’s Late Night, was recently asked about hosting his hit evening talk show. He had a great observation, that it’s like throwing a party. When you have a party, you can have fun but ultimately it is your responsibility to make sure everyone else is having fun, that there is plenty [...]
by Dayna on September 20, 2010
In the September 2010 issue of Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine, there is a great tidbit of information about cows. I know because I have read it six times this month already. Seems that cows with names produce 68 more gallons of milk every 10 months than cows without names. Farmers who referred to their cows [...]
by Dayna on September 9, 2010
We may be bringing troops home but there are still plenty of brave men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan in the US military. Let’s use the power of social media to do some good today. Here is a list of items they could use. My friend Scott is over there in intelligence – he [...]
by Dayna on August 30, 2010
As an author and a speaker, I am often called upon to talk about networking — like there’s a big secret to how it’s done. It’s actually quite simple. Networking is not about getting out and meeting people. Networking is about what you do after you meet people, the follow-through and keeping in touch. Speaker, [...]
by Dayna on August 27, 2010
My iPhone died. I never saw it coming. One minute it was fine and the next – the black screen of death. No amount of begging, pleading or wishing would bring it back last night. All night I tossed and turned worrying about my life line. What would I do? How would i get anything [...]
