1. May – Support an End-of-School Party Bash: $100
2. June – Send a Child to Camp: $60 for One Week of Camp
3. July – Purchase a Flock of Ducks for the Annual Great Nashville Duck Race: $50
4. August – Support our kids with Back-to-School Supplies: $100
5. September – Attend the Green Hills Nordstrom’s Grand Opening Gala: $100
6. October – Support the Annual Ingram cup Golf Tournament at Golf Club of Tennessee: $100 Hole Sponsor
7. November – Support our Award-Winning Wine Down Main Street, Franklin: $85
8. December – Make Christmas a Reality for our Club Members: $100
9. January – Start the New Year right by Giving an Annual Pledge: $100
10. February – Be a Valentine – Throw our Youth a Party: $50
11. March – Support our College Tour for 50 of our Teenagers: $75
12. April – Support our Youth of the Year Gala Event: $200

William Fitzsimmons tells me his new song “Beautiful Girl” is an encouragement to those who suffer anorexia. It’s hits close to home, considering he’s “one of the few and the unproud” 5-10% of males who suffer from the eating disorder. “Psychasthenia” also touches on “one of my other personal diagnosis,” obsessive compulsive disorder. “I love going as deep as I possibly can,” Fitzsimmons says.

Originally posted on HitFix

My dad finally has a website. After working for all of the major military defense and space firms, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and Cobham, he’s officially doing consulting. While most people his age are well into retirement, he still loves working on top secret projects and helping large corporations strategize and win billion dollar government contracts. His new consulting firm is called Strategic Intent and he describes the firm as:

Strategic Intent Associates brings 40 years of defense and intelligence experience to your firm’s competitive pursuits and strategic direction through win strategy workshops, increased probability of win, competitive assessments, market analysis and M&A due diligence and integration.

The site is just a one pager, but at least it’s something. I SEO‘d the crap out of what I was given, so hopefully it will gain some traction in the SERPs from onsite SEO alone.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6_2tNZHoQ0

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I’ve seen the phrase “game changer” a lot this year. Like the word douchebag, its usage has been steadily increasing. It’s been most prevalent in marketing copy, with companies calling every new product and service they release a “Game Changer!” I looked at stats from Google News, and it (unscientifically) confirmed my observations.

• > 10k results in 2010
• < 5k results in 2009
• < 2k results in 2008
• < 2k results in 2006 & 2007

Calling your own product or service a game changer is like publishing a video on YouTube and telling the world that it’s going viral. Game changing and memes are not something you have control over. They simply happen, and it becomes obvious to everyone if your product or service ends up changing the game.

I’m hoping to see less game changing marketing hype in 2011.

Update: Is it a game changer? drives my point home.

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“Power revealed is power sacrificed,” said Setrakian. “The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”