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Douglas speaks on “A Year of Action at Tuesdays with Transitioners this week

dewelch — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:08:07 +0000

Due to personal family issues with the scheduled speaker, I will be speaking at this weeks’s Tuesday’s with Transitioners meeting on the topic of “A Year of Action!”.

Action — any action — can help us to get our careers and lives moving forward. Douglas presents a few “action items” you might want to explore or use as jumpstart points for your own ideas.

Learn how action benefits you no matter what your job, current job status or career!

Please share this event with anyone you know who might be interested. All are welcome!

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What: Douglas speaks on “A Year of Action” at Tuesdays with Transitioners

When: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – Noon-2pm

Where: Congregational Church of Northridge, 9659 Balboa Blvd, Northridge, CA 91325-1902

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Rafflecopter is giving away tablets!

dewelch — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:00:56 +0000

Rafflecopter, the service I have been using for my giveaways is having a giveaway of their own. You would win an iPad or a Kindle Fire.

Rafflecopter is a great service and their support has been very, very good for my giveaways. Check them out!

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Elsewhere: Giveaway: Podcasting for Dummies Book

Elsewhere: Giveaway: Podcasting for Dummies Book

dewelch — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:46:42 +0000

To start the podcasting New Year right, I am giving away a copy of Podcasting for Dummies (1st Edition), written by two of my podcast buddies, Evo Terra and Tee Morris.

This book is a great introduction into the world of podcasting and can get you up and running in just a couple of hours. Learn about recording your show, starting your blog, RSS feeds, the iTunes podcast directory and more.

There are several ways to enter. You can do one or more to gain extra entries.

Contest ends January 22, 2012

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Start Your New Year Right with my eBook Discount

dewelch — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:08:04 +0000

Start Your New Year Right with my eBook Discount

The New Year is always a great time to rededicate yourself to old projects and start new ones. Don’t consider them resolutions, but rather a re-lauch of your most important projects!

As my part in helping you with that endeavor, my Kindle eBooks are now on sale for 2 weeks only. Usually $4.99, both Cultivating Your Career Reputations and Social Media Self Preservation are now only $2.99 unitil January 15th, 2011.

* Kindle books are readable on almost any computer platform including Windows, Macintosh, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android smartphones and tablets. Download the free Kindle Reader software

Wishing You A Very Productive New Year in 2012!

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Douglas’ Top YouTube Videos for 2011

dewelch — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:57:26 +0000

Here is a list of my viewed videos on YouTube for 2011

	Video	Views
1.	Setting up the new birdfeeder	9,595
2.	Install Firefox for Mac	3,276
3.	A Gardener’s Notebook:Repairing a damaged drip irrigation li	2,233
4.	Product Review: The Troy-Bilt TB154 Electric Cultivator	2,137
5.	A Garden Scene – December 31, 2006	1,691
6.	Converting audio files with iTunes	1,204
7.	Forwarding GoDaddy Domain to WordPress.com blog	996
8.	Palm Springs Weekend	685
9.	A Trip to the Slim Gauge Guild Model Railroad Club	597
10.	Places LA – Van Nuys Cruise Night	564

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All About Douglas – Choosing what you want to see and hear

dewelch — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:22:32 +0000

I have a lot of interests, as most of you already know. Therefore, I have a lot of different blogs, events, and groups in my portfolio of online engagements. I also try to make myself available wherever people want to converse. This means that each of my interests usually has multiple presences on the Internet.

Here is a list of almost all of the ways you can talk with me and learn about what is happening in my life and work. You don’t need to, nor should you, try to subscribe to all of them. That would only lead to you seeing multiple copies of the same information. Rather, pick and choose whatever ways you would like to consume my “content.”

If you are a heavy Facbeook user, you might want to join my pages there. Is Google+ catching your fancy? I have a home over there, too. Maybe email is your thing? No problem, almost all of my content can be emailed directly to your Inbox. My goal is to make my content available in whatever way makes the most sense to you. It also means you can contact me and converse with me on your favorite online services.

This list is also broken down by interest. If you want to see everything I post and share, the first section is where you can find it. This will contain information from all my areas of interest including events, careers, gardening, technology and my organizations. Maybe, though, you are only interested in my gardening information. You can narrow your reading to my gardening blog or Facebook page. The same applies for careers, technology and my organizations. Select whatever is most interesting, and valuable, to you.

Thank you for supporting me, my blogs and podcasts and my organization of the years! I look forward to talking with you — and sharing more with you — in 2012.

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Christmas Cards and Posters from Local Artist

dewelch — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:30:45 +0000

A good friend, and local artist, Jeanine Colini has some great Christmas Cards, notecards and posters available for sale. Here “Spyrograph” cards immediately caught my attention when she first showed them to me. Fond memories of plastic gears, stickpins and pens flooded back. You can contact her directly using the information included below.

Buy local! Buy Often!

Click for full resolution versions of these PDF flyers

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New blog series — “Do It Like Doug!”

dewelch — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:46:40 +0000

I am planning planning on starting a new series here on the blog and in my Twitter feed — “Do It Like Doug!”.

I often have people ask how I do everything that I do – from writing my Career Opportunities blog and podcast, to organizing CareerCamp, to speaking at conferences, to computer consulting. The fact is, over the years I have developed a series of tools and ideas that help keep me on track, no matter how many things are vying for my attention.

“Do It Like Doug!” will focus on my tools, tips and tricks how you can use them in your own life and work. They won’t all be easy, but I know from personal experience that they can help rein in the craziness in your life and turn it into something productive.

Watch this space, and my Twitter account (@douglaswelch) for upcoming [DoIt!] messages.

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What I Share…

dewelch — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:46:04 +0000

I share a lot of information every day that I find in my Internet reading and travels. You can see it all here on My Word or you can subscribe to various subsets of the information. See the links below to fine tune your WelchWrite Information Flow.

You can read these items from a standard web page or subscribe to them directly using RSS.

All Shared Items via Google Reader [Web | RSS]
Career and work Information [Web | RSS]
Recipes [Web | RSS]
Garden [Web | RSS]
New Media [Web | RSS]
Technology [Web | RSS]

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My Word with Douglas E. Welch » Announcement

Douglas speaks on “A Year of Action at Tuesdays with Transitioners this week

Rafflecopter is giving away tablets!

Elsewhere: Giveaway: Podcasting for Dummies Book

Start Your New Year Right with my eBook Discount

Start Your New Year Right with my eBook Discount

Wishing You A Very Productive New Year in 2012!

Top My Word posts for 2011

Douglas’ Top YouTube Videos for 2011

All About Douglas – Choosing what you want to see and hear

Christmas Cards and Posters from Local Artist

New blog series — “Do It Like Doug!”

What I Share…