Personal values and opinion with people who may have different views than them.. staying gentle, openly listening, civil and agreeing to disagree, perhaps but stayin in the conversation.  A book, The Big Sort covers why this is increasingly less likely to happen
Kare

In a civilization when love is
gone we turn to justice and when
justice is gone we turn to power
and  when power is gone we
turn to violence.

Failure is no more fatal
than success is permanent.

Opportunity is often inconvenient.

Some people control by defining
the rules of the relationship.
You can choose to define the rules
of how you will relate.

Being defined by others
gives them control.
Defining yourself
gives you choices.

Power resides not in
aggressiveness but
in conscious choice.

You can't empower or
disempower someone else.

As you fix the problem,
you won't have to
fix the blame.

Holding onto your anger is like
clutching a vibrating pole. 
The harder you clench, the more
every part of your being
vibrates in reaction.

Strengths spread
just as fears do.

The stronger the signal
you send  yourself of your
highest purpose, the higher
the priority you assign to that area.

Think well of yourself.
The subconscious
can't take a joke.

We do not see things as they are. 
We see them as we are.

Beliefs shape your experience,
not the other way around.

You eyes see what
they are trained to see.

Your body speaks to you constantly,
telling you what your own needs are.

Problems seldom exist
on the level at which
they are expressed.

It is easier to act your way
into a more positive feeling
than to feel your way into
a positive way of acting.

You can't raise
positive people on
negative feedback.

What you praise you'll encourage to flourish.

Praise actions you respect,
offering that praise to
someone  who matters to them.

Unflinching kindness in
the face of cruelty  is
your strongest protection.

Quiet the chattering mind
promotes directed action.

Point out to someone that
She is acting like a jerk
and she will go out of her way
to prove it to you some more.

People like people who like them.

All that we are is the result
of what we think. All that we will
be is based on our ability to
feel and to think with warmth.

Our emotions fuel our energy.

Resenting someone is
a way of never leaving that person.

Look to their positive intent,
especially when they
appear to have none.

Act as if the world is
going to treat you well.

What you do not say
often says it all.

If I say you are a bad person
I can almost see you worsen. 
Funny how my words for you
have a way of becoming
true in my mind.

You can disagree with an argument,
but not with a personal experience. 
You cannot defect from an insight.
You cannot unsee what you have seen.

Better to see something once than
to hear it a hundred times. 
That's why actions are often 
more powerful than  words.

A personal experience shapes
your opinions without
your conscious willing.

Whoever most vividly
characterizes a situation
usually determines how
others see it, talk about it, and
make decisions about it.

Speak English like it tastes good.

Offer verbal snapshots that
penetrate the mind and the gut
in an instant then linger, leaving
a bright after image.

If you are arguing for more
than ten minutes, you are probably
not be arguing about the true
conflict.

How we do our tasks
may  have more impact
than the tasks themselves.

Whatever you press against
will press back.  However hard you
press against it, it will press back
at least equally hard.

Shut people out
and they shut up.
Bring people in
and they open up.

In most cases stress
is caused not by the event itself
but rather by our response
to the event.

Forgive all who have
offended you, not for them,
but for yourself.

Act genially in the
face of rancor.
You may be the only
angel in that person’s life.

Happiness is a state
of minimum regret.

You only and always
have three choices
in any situation: 
change, accept or leave.

Take each step with reverence
as if it is the axis on which
the whole earth revolves,
slowly, evenly, without rushing
toward the future.  Only this
actual moment is life.

The sweetest revenge
is a well - lived life.

Love is not always power; that
may be as good a description of the
human predicament as we are
likely to get.

Walk with the light.

Remember the many
compartments of the heart,
the seed of what is
possible.  So much of who
we are is defined by
the places we hold for each
other.  For it is not our ingenuity
that sets us apart, but our
capacity for love, the
possibility our way will
be lit by grace.  Our hearts
prisms, chiseling out the
colors of pure light.

Even with your asthma or allergy, you won’t give up your beloved pet. Few will. Some make their dogs unexpected stars on YouTube (“Doberman attacking Chihuahua”). Or create montages of their cat’s odd antics or sleepiness. One substitutes a ball machine for a nanny to keep their beloved pet entertained and, well, fit. Another besotted owner actually trains his Jack Russell to entertain, perhaps for a new sport category in an imaginary pet Olympics.

Yet if your pet makes you sneeze, tear up or worse you can take steps to dander-proof your home. That helps. Yet even in the cleanest home, action happens. Dirty particles get raised into the air. So it helps to make the air throughout your home cleaner than fresh air.

No room for parody these days. Certainly, it’s important to know that, “some viruses and bacteria can live for two hours or longer on surfaces like cafeteria tables and doorknobs.” That's why San Francisco’s health department just spent $390,000 on a campaign to “keep your germs to yourself." You might win the song competition. While “no profanity is allowed” try using (clean) tongue in check. BTW, what's your slogan?

Men aren't born passive. Women aren't born wild. We just have that effect on each other … too often.

When and why does a conversation become one-sided, or dissolve into conflict, and how can you turn it around and stay sane?

Here's some gut instincts research-based insights on:
- why things often go sour between the sexes, followed by
- four suggestions for smoother, more satisfying ways to stay connected:

At work, the man is often active, articulate, assertive, and usually successful in his conversations, especially with other men.

But at home he can become inactive, inarticulate, and withdrawn.
He becomes passive with his wife – especially in certain situation.

Yet even when the woman works outside the home she tends to communicate in a more active way at home - and instinctively wants the same style from her mate.

His apparent passivity drives her crazy.

In the face of his further retreat, she goes wild.
Then he becomes more still, and escapes at the first opportunity.

In personal relationships women often want too much talk, as men sees it.
She feels resentful, complains, keeps asking questions, talks more, may even act bitter.

He feels he can’t meet her needs and ends up feeling guilty and sulks.
They both end up blaming each other.

He thinks: If only she’d shut up.
She thinks: If only he'd talk to me.

Want your kids to have a fun, safe and eco-friendly Halloween? Corey Colwel-Lipson did last year in Bellevue, Washington. Now she shares thegrassroots template to make it happen in your community. “

She wrote, “Parents from all over the Puget Sound began contacting me to find out how they could bring Green Halloween to their neighborhoods. Merchandisers began asking if they could put the logo on their items. Even better, everyone involved has said, ‘Yes!’ to helping our non-profit partner and “host”, Treeswing, by donating money to their cause: improving the heath of children through nutrition and exercise.”

For the majority of 76 million baby boomers and the 90 percent of seniorswho prefer toage in their own homes, there’s help. Certified “aging in place”specialists and Senior Resource have checklists of changes to consider making at home. This approach has much in common with "universal home design" - “design that is universal, that accommodates needs of people of all ages.” For example, Peggy Arbaugh suggests “paddle or lever handles instead of door or faucet knobs. They can be easier for small children or parents with an armful of groceries, as well as those who might be slowed by arthritis.”

"People want to live in houses, not institutions," says William Owens, president of Owens Construction in Columbus, Ohio.

Before they need it, those who live in a two-story home move the master bedroom from the second floor to the first. Others choose elegant yet easy-to-use products, “such as better lighting, bigger light controls, easy-grip handles and cabinet hardware, adjustable shower heads, seats and bars and bathtubs with textured bottoms. Other home changes to consider are services you may need and “low-step showers, wide doorways, first-floor bathrooms, hard flooring, low-pile carpeting, electric stair lifts and even in-home elevators.” 

Other possible changes: remove scatter rugs, install an ADA-height toilet or toilet seat and more. As we get older we want more security and less maintenance. New technology helps.

There’s money in serving us boomers. The National Association of Home Builders estimates that aging in place will “capture at least 10 percent of the $214 billion home improvement industry.” Next steps for aging in place trend: healthcare. 

Says Laura Gitlin, director of the Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. “ “What helps people age in place is not covered by insurers at this point. Many seniors have chronic health conditions, such as dementia, diabetes or urinary incontinence, and must take multiple medications. But their medical care is often disjointed. Their primary care doctor doesn’t have the time to coordinate that care, and nurses, home aides, geriatric care managers and technological devices are rarely covered by insurance.” 

Even with your asthma or allergy, you won’t give up your beloved pet. Few will. Some make their dogs unexpected stars on YouTube (“Doberman attacking Chihuahua”). Or create montages of their cat’s odd antics or sleepiness. One substitutes a ball machine for a nanny to keep their beloved pet entertained and, well, fit. Another besotted owner actually trains his Jack Russell to entertain, perhaps for a new sport category in an imaginary pet Olympics.

Yet if your pet makes you sneeze, tear up or worse you can take steps todander-proof your home. That helps. Yet even in the cleanest home, action happens. Dirty particles get raised into the air. So it helps to make the air throughout your home cleaner than fresh air. Get a continuously high-performing unit that bolts right onto your home (HVAC) heating system. It is made by AspenAir Inside. It uses less than 2 watts to remove 99% of what’s called Respirable Suspended Particles in air.

BTW, here’s good news for those who don’t own a pet, are allergic to cats yet yearn for one. An ostensibly hypoallergenic cat is waiting for you – for just $35,000.

Even our highest court isn’t immune from making political decisions about voting results in a presidential campaign, Jeffrey Toobin found. It’s a tight race. Turnout is already record-breaking.  Some have already been given the wrong polling address. It’s up to us as citizens to ensure every citizen can vote and have every vote count. Now we can cover what we find at polling stations. Traditional media invites us to get involved. Document any interference, malfunctioning machine or long line at a polling place and post it at Video Your Vote  - co-sponsored by PBS and YouTube.  Judy Woodruff promises the best videos will be shown during election night

 

 coverage. You still have time to learn how recognize trouble at Video the Vote.   The project is recruiting volunteers to video-monitor voting in all 50 states.

They support “timely, complete, and accurate reporting of voter suppression and election irregularities by organizing citizen journalists to document elections and then using their footage to raise awareness about the ongoing challenges facing American voters.” 

Or you can staff hotlines. Also see two wikis that enable us “to collect examples of problems with voting, whether exceptionally long lines or more direct actions meant to scare off voters.  They are SourceWatch’s Election Protection Wiki and the Voter Suppression Wiki. This is an historic time to participate in election protection in your community.

“Presidential candidate George Bush will be active in making pronouncements in the coming weeks… He wants to define himself before his opponents do it for him,” intoned a radio commentator when the previous Bush became president.

Yes, nicknames stick.

“To name a thing is not the same as to know a thing,” Richard Feynman wrote, yet naming is a potent persuasion tool.

In fact, your ability to successfully label a person, product or political campaign is probably the most powerful way to influence others’ perceptions of their choices.  (Too many choices frustrate us.) Consequently, be armed to argue well. As hot opinions swirl around our presidential campaign and economic troubles, here are some nuggets from Anthony Weston’s pithy  Rulebook for Arguments:

1. “If you can’t imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you just don’t understand it yet.”In seeking possible explanations, solutions or causes, Weston suggests that we keep looking for more options, rather than immediately narrowing them. That way, we can state our case more fairly, and possibly head off objections more effectively.

2. Find out what other sides consider the strongest arguments for their position.   Also, I suggest that you find the best evidence and most vivid examples they use or could use to support their positions.

3. Preemptively raise possible counter-arguments. Develop them in sufficient detail that your readers will fully appreciate the position you are disarming.

4. Avoid using two “great fallacies”:

- Generalizing from incomplete information.

- Overlooking alternative explanations.

5. In writing your view:

• Use definite, specific, concrete language.

• Develop one idea per paragraph. Don’t “fence more land than you can plow. One argument well-developed is better than three only sketched.” Attempting otherwise is akin to offering “ten very leaky buckets to one well-sealed one.”

• Get to the point quickly. Avoid redundancy and unnecessary details. (See, also the Heaths’ warning regarding “semantic stretch”).

• State your conclusion clearly, directly and briefly.

6. Emotionally loaded or prejudicial language “preaches only to the converted.”

• Careful presentation of the facts can itself convert.” Moreover,

• “It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.”

7. Stay open to changing your mind or improving your approach by incorporating others’ ideas, giving them fulsome credit for their insights.  (Lincoln would be proud of you.)

Here’s an extraordinary, recent example of two ambitious leaders arguing agreeably about a BIG issue.

Ready for more on decisionmaking traps? T o better understand yourself in relationship to others – and for more ideas to move from me to we – read about Nudge, Sway, Multiplicity, On Being Certain, The Starfish and the Spider and Here Comes Everybody.

Want to stand out from the competition? Take a cue from a bank.  Some people in Orange County, California, will be walking into a local bank branch to vote.  Many will be assisted by bank volunteers who have been trained as poll workers.  This SmartPartnership made local and international news. Would you like customer-attracting media coverage too? Read on.

Help Solve a Problem

In past elections many county registrars across the country scrambled to establish places for people to vote and attract enough poll workers. The bank is offering this service for free and will not be “drumming up business outside voting booths” says Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley.

Yet Wells Fargo gains a priceless halo effect as Americans carry out the centerpiece of our democracy in their bank.

“The poll site is a sanctuary of sorts. It’s a place that is completely neutral: There’s no promotion, there’s no advertising, nothing,” Kelley said. “The goal of the program is to recruit poll workers — not to brand a stadium.”

In exchange Wells Fargo wins the opportunity to use the Orange County seal on its literature and website, and advertise its partnership with the county – and thus its support of democracy. This Me2We approach generates fresh value and visibility for partners that they could not achieve on their own.

Smart Partnering Method Generates Goodwill and Good Value

A SmartPartnership is an alliance among two or more organizations that generates additional value for the “mutual market” of customers the partners seek to serve.  In a weak economy, SmartPartnerships is valuable for consumer-serving companies as they are often less expensive yet more credible and memorable than traditional advertising and solo promotions. For example, another popular, private /public SmartPartnership is the Adopt-a-Highway programs sprinkled across the country.

Any Kind or Size of Consumer-Serving Organization
Can Become More Valuable by SmartPartnering

If you are in business, what kind of SmartPartnership with a government agency would generate fresh value for the agency and positive visibility in front of your kind of customer?

If you work in a government agency what kind of SmartPartnership would expand your capacity to serve or offer a new program or provide more convenience for those you serve?

To start a SmartPartnership ask your customers what other companies they use and like.  Soon you will discover that some firms are mentioned more frequently.  They could be valuable partners. See more examples of SmartPartnering here and here.  Learn proven methods, 80 success stories, pitfalls to avoid,  steps to forge a SmartPartnership and jumpstart an easy first alliance.

Many social media businesses offer everything for free.  Founders want a strong base of users before charging. 

Some start-ups might take a closer look at charging sooner, as the battle between Twitter and Yammer demonstrates.  Twitter is a wildly popular microblogging tool (’”right now I am…”).  

You use the Web or your cell to send 140-character messages to your group of opt-in friends and fans. It has millions of users, uneven service and no ads or other revenue sources. 

Alternatively, copycat service Yammer, dubbed by TechCrunch as leading “Twitter with a business model” made money almost from the beginning.

As Yammer’s chief executive David Sacks boasts, “because it spreads virally like a consumer service, but earns revenue like a business service.

Anyone with a company e-mail address can use Yammer free. When that company officially joins — which gives the administrator more control over security and how employees use the service — it pays $1 a month for each user. In Yammer’s first six weeks, 10,000 companies with 60,000 users signed up.”  (Of course the service has to work.)

Next year Twitter will create profit centers.  Ironically, one under consideration is emulating Yammer by charging companies. Twitter founder, Evan Williams promotes a “growth-first approach” to demonstrate a track record before monetizing yet attracting customers is a credible record.  My preferred “stay in touch” tool is Socialcast, what Rafe Needleman calls a “Friendfeed for business.”

One lesson from these startups: A hybrid approach of either “free + fee version” or “ free + advertising” seems best for many us, both as social media business owners and as sought-after “customers.”  Hybrids have proven to be popular and profitable, for example at Flickr, Ning and wikiHow. There are glorious exceptions (craigslist and PostSecret) where free is forever for a legion of fans – but that’s part of the unfolding wonder of social media.

Find the cheapest gas near you plus change how you use and care for your car. Try these easy-to-use sites: GasBuddy, MSN Auto and Mapquest Gas Prices.   On a cell phone? Try GetMobio. In true Me2We fashion, some of these sites ask for your input.

We can also alter our driving habits to reduce costs. Buy regular unleaded fuel mid-week at independent gas stations away from expensive neighborhoods or highway exits.

Conserve gas by avoiding idling, clearing out your car and trunk, using cruise control and keeping tires full and balanced annually. (Steel-belted radial tires can increase gas mileage up to 10% per year.)

A poorly tuned car uses between 25% and 33% more gasoline each year so change the oil and oil filter every 3,000 miles.

Keep the air filter changed, engine tuned and the windows closed.

Check fluid levels regularly including coolant, battery, automatic transmission, brake and clutch. Drive your fuel-efficient car for 5 - 7 years.

Of course we can all use our cars less by combining errands, carpooling, sharing cars and walking or biking to some places– perhaps in the company of friends.

Instead of staying in a hotel, rent a room from a local. Travel cheap.  Discover more.  Try the “temporary bed and breakfast” peer-to-peer sites, AirBed & Breakfast or Roomorama where a night’s stay can range from $45 to $100 or so.   Anyone with a bed, airbed or couch can rent it out for the night.   Reserve your night online, paying with a credit card or via PayPal.

AB & B charges guests a 5 to 12 percent service fee and Roomorama charges 8.  

Live in a hotly-contested state for the upcoming presidential election?  Then AirBed & Breakfast suggests you host at your home a visiting, get-out-the vote volunteer.

Want to sidestep the service fee oh brave one? See house swaps or vacation rentals at the venerable Craigslist.

Braver still?  Get a free room through couchsurfing. While you’re laughing at this approach know that it has nearly 470,000 users.

Going upscale a bit, reserve a private room in a hostel. Marin Headlands, near me, has priceless views. 
Want a more posh and private place to stay where you can still benefit from a local’s recommendations?  Then join Home Exchange. 
Enjoy encampment in a villa or a vacation home. 
There’s always that reliable place where Tom Bodett promises, “We’ll leave the light on for you.”

Why do Yankee fans flock to their favorite online community, YanksBlog?  Perhaps, it’s because they feel welcomed and supported, as you would want to be at the site for your passionate interest. Patrick O’Keefe is a gracious and savvy host  for this avid baseball fans. He manages several communities including PhotoshopForums, KarateForums and BadBoyForums.

Like Augie Ray, he can help you decide whether to join or build a community.Now, would you like to launch and manage a lively online forum for people who share your favorite interest?  And perhaps make money? Or become more adept at most any type of social interaction online? Then listen in as O’Keefe, the author of Managing Online Forums, describes how to jumpstart and care for a lively, growing community online.

•Work from anywhere.

• Host a popular place for people who share your interest to gather.

From mothering to scuba diving, managers of some of the largest online forums rave about O’Keefe’s advice. Hear how powerful a community can become, ways to set up a community and a content site, mediate squabbling members, develop guidelines and promote your community.

Here are more resources to get you started. As you can tell I am a fan of this generous community-building expert and his book. As both O’Keefe and Peter Block suggest, what makes communities work online is the same as in face-to-face time - –it is the sense of belonging.

… a good guide. Now here’s a new company I’ll use and hope will succeed.  GoodGuide has recruited scientists and other “trusted advisors” and gathered facts from a wide range of resources to enable you to make wiser choices about the consumer products you buy.

It rates products three ways: health, social and environmental.

At home or on your mobile, standing in the store, get the facts that are most important to you about the kind of product you are contemplating buying.

UC Berkeley professor and GoodGuide CEO Dara O’Rourke’s lofty aim?  To be “the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of products and companies.”

He sure has impressive partners.

They are in start-up mode so there will be bugs in the system. Make suggestions about how you want it to operate or the products you want them to rate. 

See and vote on others’ suggestions too.  (Ah, the Wisdom of the Crowd at work.)

Tell me if you find it helpful.

While PostSecret provides us with vicarious and often poignant peeks into actions people choose to divulge, Sidetaker takes private disagreements public. 

One aggrieved party posts her or his side, then offers their lover the chance to respond. Providing just a few details in defending oneself can lead to recognition, at least among friends, family and others.

Summer fling?  Tightwad? This is akin to setting the stage for fights on tawdry reality shows. Watch people at their worst.

Few can take their eyes off an “overheard” lovers’ quarrel. Like gossip, people acting their worst attract an audience. 

It’s unlikely that Sidetaker will bring couples closer but it will attract a crowd.

The crowd gets to vote on who is right.  This may not be what James Surowiecki had in mind in The Wisdom of the Crowds – or the advocates of crowdsourcing want to see as a success story.  As Deborah Tannen suggested in The Argument Culture, traditional TV, radio and other setting are trending towards offering two opposing “experts” as a black or white way to see a situation.  What next?

a wizard behind the curtain, whispering questions and comfort into the ears of others.... that's my pipe dream anyway.  maybe writing this will encourage me to live up to the costume in my minds eye... and you?

From cinema to cities to sports, from places to people, hear how words and names are pronounced in their native tongue. In other words, “avoid the faux pas of mispronouncing the phrase ‘faux pas’” advises Finding Dulcinea.

Also help others hear words in your language by participating in this ambitious Me2We-style start-up project called Forvo. For yourself, type out a word you want to hear.  For others, answer their query and pronounce words in your native tongue.   So far Forvo has 104,429 words in 190 languages. About half of them already have audio pronunciations for us to hear.  Thank you ever-fascinating VSL for this tip.  If you are a word-lover then you’ll enjoy visiting these magnificent resources for us: Truespel, idioMeanings, The Rosetta Project and LingWiki.

“Presidential candidate George Bush will be active in making pronouncements in the coming weeks… He wants to define himself before his opponents do it for him,” intoned a radio commentator when the previous Bush became president. Yes, nicknames stick. “To name a thing is not the same as to know a thing,” Richard Feynman wrote, yet naming is a potent persuasion tool.

In fact, your ability to successfully label a person, product or political campaign is probably the most powerful way to influence others’ perceptions of their choices.  (Too many choices frustrate us.) Consequently, be armed to argue well. As hot opinions swirl around our presidential campaign and economic troubles, here are some nuggets from Anthony Weston’s pithy Rulebook for Arguments:

1. “If you can’t imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you just don’t understand it yet.”In seeking possible explanations, solutions or causes, Weston suggests that we keep looking for more options, rather than immediately narrowing them. That way, we can state our case more fairly, and possibly head off objections more effectively.

2. Find out what other sides consider the strongest arguments for their position.   Also, I suggest that you find the best evidence and most vivid examples they use or could use to support their positions.

3. Preemptively raise possible counter-arguments. Develop them in sufficient detail that your readers will fully appreciate the position you are disarming.

4. Avoid using two “great fallacies”:

- Generalizing from incomplete information.

- Overlooking alternative explanations.

5. In writing your view:

• Use definite, specific, concrete language.

• Develop one idea per paragraph. Don’t “fence more land than you can plow. One argument well-developed is better than three only sketched.” Attempting otherwise is akin to offering “ten very leaky buckets to one well-sealed one.”

• Get to the point quickly. Avoid redundancy and unnecessary details. (See, also the Heaths’ warning regarding “semantic stretch”).

• State your conclusion clearly, directly and briefly.

6. Emotionally loaded or prejudicial language “preaches only to the converted.”

• Careful presentation of the facts can itself convert.” Moreover,

• “It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.”

7. Stay open to changing your mind or improving your approach by incorporating others’ ideas, giving them fulsome credit for their insights.  (Lincoln would be proud of you.)

Here’s an extraordinary, recent example of two ambitious leaders arguing agreeably about a BIG issue.

Ready for more on decisionmaking traps? T o better understand yourself in relationship to others – and for more ideas to move from me to we – read about Nudge, Sway, Multiplicity, On Being Certain, The Starfish and the Spider and Here Comes Everybody.

Tired of self-promotion? Would you like to make work and life easier, more productive and fun – with others? Here’s four ways others accomplish more together than you can on your own – and sometimes forge friendships.

1. Co-create Products, Cause Support and More

• From clothing design to science experiments, the right crowd can get more done together.

• Collaborate online for a cause or faster innovation - and to become more well-known.

• Crowdsource a contest; take it public.

2. Swap and Share

• Enjoy more travel  by house swapping or other shared hospitality.

• Swap books, lightly-used clothes and more.

• Moms share everything from recipes to medical advice.

3. Get More Out of Meetings

• Organize meetings for those who share your interest and perhaps make money.

• Capture the benefits of twittering at conferences.

• Create conference formats that will excite and involve attendees.

• Start a mutual growth, support or mastermind group.

• Share ideas in a fast and fun way for everyone. Try Ignite and Pecha Kucha.

• Make conferences more popular by harnessing the right technology.

4. Attract Customers With the Right Partners and Methods

• Even and especially in a bad economy partnering can be profitable.

• Train others to teach your methods – even sell your stuff.

• Forge an alliance with a bigger business or other organization.

• Recruit an unlikely ally to attract more interest.

Now, what Me2We methods have you used to accomplish more with others?