Facebook has changed the idea of becoming a fan to something a little less committed – Like. Now you can like or recommend a fan page to your friends. The net effect is the same as your choice to like something is noted on your wall.

The big change is that Facebook wants you to start sharing your likes from anywhere on the web. Look for web publishers to start installing the FB like button on web sites, blog posts and in reference to individual items and products.

via Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing.

According to SNOPES…

THERE IS A VIRUS SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE ON FB. DO NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS THAT ASK YOU TO WATCH A VIDEO ON YOU -TUBE. SNOPES JUST CONFIRMED. IT IS A TROJAN WORM VIRUS CALLED KOOBFACE. IT WILL STEAL INFO, INFEST YOUR SYSTEM AND SHUT IT DOWN. DO NOT OPEN THE LINK. PLEASE REPOST THIS IN YOUR STATUS.

1. I don’t like being told what to do by people who are less capable than I am.
2. I like challenging myself.
3. I like to win.
4. I like being my own boss.
5. I always look for new and better ways to do things.
6. I like to question conventional wisdom.
7. I like to get people together in order to get things done.
8. People get excited by my ideas.
9. I am rarely satisfied or complacent.
10. I can’t sit still.
11. I can usually work my way out of a difficult situation.
12. I would rather fail at my own thing than succeed at someone else’s.
13. Whenever there is a problem, I am ready to jump right in.
14. I think old dogs can learn — even invent — new tricks.
15. Members of my family run their own businesses.
16. I have friends who run their own businesses.
17. I worked after school and during vacations when I was growing up.
18. I get an adrenaline rush from selling things.
19. I am exhilarated by achieving results.
20. I could have written a better test than Isenberg (and here is what I would change ….)

via Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take This Test – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review.

Many thanks to my generous friends, family and business associates who sponsored me for this year’s Alzheimer’s Walk on January 30, 2010.

• Zoe Lucyk
• Tom Weir
• Susan Oliver Benedet
• Susan Carey
• Sharon Wilcken
• Sector 57
• Scugog Women’s Networking Breakfast
• Sandy Terry
• Placida Acheru
• Peter Cluff
• Paul Urban
• Pamela Mansfield
• Michelle Nichols
• Michael Rundle
• Meghan Delany
• Louise Thibert
• Louise Reid
• Kirk Speirs
• Kerri Bouffard
• John Rogers
• Jennifer Thibert
• Janis Amzallag
• GoNaturalCanada.com
• Don Bridge
• Denise Franklin
• Debbie Walsh
• David Swain
• David Michaels
• David & Rose Hooker
• Darrell Ashby
• CCI The Renaissance School
• Carol Edwards
• Bill Hogg
• Betty Penny
• Aviary Group

Fundraising is now closed and I am very proud to have personally raised $1,130.

I love Reading Seth Godin’s blog and look forward to reading it each day. Yesterday’s post was called…

What’s expected vs. what’s amazing

I visited a favorite restaurant last week, a place that, alas, I hadn’t been to in months. The waiter remembered that I don’t like cilantro. Unasked, she brought it up. Incredible. This was uncalled for, unnecessary and totally delightful.

Scott Adams writes about the cyborg tool that is coming momentarily, a device that will remember names, find connections, bring all sorts of external data to us the moment we meet someone. “Oh, Bob, sure, that’s the guy who’s friends with Tracy… and Tim just tweeted about him a few minutes ago.”

The first time someone does this to you in conversation (no matter how subtly), you’re going to be blown away and flabbergasted. The tenth time, it’ll be ordinary, and the 20th, boring.

Hotels used to get a lot of mileage out of remembering what you liked, but it was merely a database trick, not emotional labor on the part of the staff.

Today, if you go to an important meeting and the other people haven’t bothered to Google you and your company, it’s practically an offense. We’re about to spend an hour together and you couldn’t be bothered to look me up? It’s expected, no longer amazing.

 On the other hand, consider Dolores, a clerk with kidney problems at a 7 Eleven, who broke all sorts of coffee sales records because she remembered the name of every customer who came in every morning. Unexpected and amazing.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.

If you like this post, you’ll love the others Seth writes daily on Seth Godin’s blog

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1. Lots of energy
2. Willing to try things – take risks
3. Ready to talk, can talk a lot
4. Get along well with adults
5. Can do several things at one time
6. Smart
7. Need less sleep
8. Good sense of humour
9. Very good at taking care of younger kids
10. Spontaneous
11. See details that other people miss
12. Understand what its like to be teased or to be in trouble so are understanding of other kids
13. Can think of different and new ways to do things
14. Volunteer to help others
15. Happy and enthusiastic
16. Imaginative, creative
17. Articulate – can say things well
18. Sensitive – compassionate
19. Eager to make new friends
20. Great memory
21. Courageous
22. More fun to be with than most kids
23. Charming
24. Warm and loving
25. Care a lot about families

This above list was compiled by staff and parents at Learning Centre Summer Camp of Children with A.D.D. July 1992 as reprinted by C.h.a.d.d. Toronto Spring 1994.

Hope you can catch me on TV on Jan 7th @11:15 am EST where I will be joining David Cohen (Small Business Big Ideas) and Kasia Bodurka and Christian Pritchard of Rogers Daytime.  We’ll be discussing David Cohen’s upcoming event called Create Ignite and Inspire which is being held on January 16th, 2010 (9am-4:30pm) in Markham, Ontario.

CAN”T WATCH?  No worries!  Rogers Daytime generally posts it on their website, and I’ll add a link to it in the comments when it’s available for download.   If you’d like to get on the notify list, add a comment below. 

For more information about CREATE IGNITE AND INSPIRE, click on the following printable poster
http://www.smallbusinessbigideas.com/CreateIgniteandInspire.pdf and please do share your friends.

Save if you register early or bring a friend, so take a moment to share this with a friend or two now!

I will be walking in the 2010 Manulife Walk for Memories on Saturday, January 30 in honour of my father Curtis Reid (Bubba) and all of those living with Alzheimer’s disease.

It’s not easy for me to ask for help, but I want to make a difference in the lives of all those who have been touched by this disease. Will you sponsor me?

https://secure.supportthealzheimersociety.ca/ParticipantPage.aspx?L=2&CCID=32&PID=5549&GC=GTv2

If you cannot make a donation at this time, or would like others to support alongside you, please forward this to your friends and family and ask them to make a pledge too. Just think, 1 in 13 Canadians above 65 is affected by Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia – I am not alone in this struggle.

Thank you so much for your generosity.

Kindest regards,
Sue