Saturday, August 25, 2007

Back at the Blog...

It's August and I'm back. In order to answer my question about "Where do I go next?" I joined the blogger group for Empowering Women Network (http://www.empoweringwomen.net/), a group of fabulous business women, and am learning more and more from Heidi Miller (http://www.heidimillerpresents.com/) who is leading the charge for EWN's blog. I'm part of a brave group of pioneers helping create EWN's blog and I want to revive this blog as a platform for communicating with clients, colleagues and friends.

I lost an opportunity to blog while in Taipei, Taiwan, on business for ModusLink, but God knows I tried. While in my gorgeous hotel room, I had no trouble logging on from the five-star hotel Grand Formosa Regent Hotel, but when I linked onto my blog, it showed up in German! I couldn't figure out how to switch the language--French, yes, and Spanish, OK, but I couldn't even fake my way through German (much less Mandarin Chinese), so I had to laugh and sign off. I guess that means CHOICES Worldwide really HAS gone worldwide when my blog shows up in some random foreign language. (I'll have to ask Heidi about that one.)

My next mission: to let people know I even have a blog. According to Heidi, who is a corporate spokesperson with amazing technical skills and known as EWN's Podcast Princess, blogs are an ideal format for creating two-way conversations. And people can't respond if they don't know I'm here... so I'll get cracking on that. In the meantime, check out my contribution to EWN's blog and if you're a woman in business in the Chicago area, please consider joining us. EWN is one of the most powerful women's business groups I know.