Last week, long-time client Suzanne Lockwood of DJSuzieCue.com sent me an e-mail about her website.  The e-mail ended with “Happy Spring”, and attached was a beatiful photo of flowers from her garden.

Not only is Suzanne a great DJ and wonderful jazz singer, but, now I know she is a talented photographer too! 

Flower from garden in Houghs Neck, Quincy© Suzanne Lockwood

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White Flowers Houghs Neck Quincy © Suzanne Lockwood

Guess those creative types got it going awwwnnn!  File under: You don’t know what you don’t know…

Last night I attended the first annual Employment Options Celebrity Roast. This year’s celebrity was former Massachusetts State Representative Steve LeDuc. The Roast was emceed by Channel 5’s Ed Harding, and included videos, powerpoint presentations, and roasters. Roasters included Steve LeDuc’s friends, former employees and former Massachusetts Speaker of the House, Thomas Finneran.

Marlborough’s local cable TV station, WMCT TV was there in full force. Five employees, 4 cameras, pre-recorded videos, and more. I learned from WMCT TV staff that they had been preparing for weeks; creating and editing original videos, and coordinating efforts and scripting the evening’s festivities with David Greenwood of David A Greenwood Associates (PR) and Toni Wolf, Executive Director of Employment Options.

As a spectator, it was a learning experience to see the amount of staff and equipment it took to record the evening. Witnessing what that took, I can not even begin to imagine the hours it must have taken to prepare the videos that they showed last night. They had produced the “Person on the Street” interviews, the “Let’s Cut Live” segments with Heather Unruh (Channel 5) and Dan Guindon (WMCT TV),  the Steve LeDuc bio, and…all the other videos.

My hat is off to them this morning! Great job WMCT TV…So proud to have you as a client! I hope you are making CDs of the Roast!

Congratulations to client Chrissy Carew for her article which was posted in the Podium Sports Journal today (April 28, 2010)!

Chrissy Carew is a personal and business coach, and the Founder and Head Coach of the Insightful Player™, a bold movement of hope. The Insightful Player website is where high-integrity people such as current and former NFL players share their inspirational stories and interviews in an effort to lift the spirit of all, especially children.

Visit the Insightful Player™ website.

Learn more about Chrissy Carew’s personal and business coaching.

Client News… Adventures Online’s client, Linda Tatten of Travel by Tatten is running an outrageous draw!

If your entry is chosen, you get FOUR nights FREE at a Four Seasons of YOUR CHOICE in Hawaii. (There are 4 Four Seasons on three different islands.) All you have to do is answer 4 questions about the Four Seasons and you will be entered into the drawing. The answers are in Linda’s blog. It can’t get any easier!

Each adult in your household can enter (One entry per person, NOT one entry per household).

THERE ARE NO TRICKS or Gimmicks. You pay for your flight and stay at the Four Seasons of your choice.

Hop on over to her blog and click through to the registration form. http://travelbytatten.com/travel_blog/ ( Look for It’s Time to Enter! )

Only a few days left to enter… so hurry along and GOOD LUCK! Winner announced Dec. 17th.

Congratulations to long-time colleague, DEC co-survivor, and client Susan P. Joyce of Job-Hunt.org for the recent article that appeared in both the online and print versions of Time Magazine!

Time’s online article entitled, “Job-Search Scams on the Rise in the Recession” by Barbara Kiviat tells the story of how online job seekers are being scammed; their identities stolen, credit cards opened in their names racking up thousands of dollars of charges, after having responded to ”fake” job postings at work-search websites.

It quotes Susan,

“The scammers have gotten so much more active since the recession,” says Susan Joyce, who runs the work-search site Job-Hunt.org. “There are more of them and they’re more sneaky.”

The article goes on to highlight a very significant difference between job postings at Job-Hunt.org and larger websites like Monster and CareerBuilder. The difference is that Job-Hunt.org is proactive in its attempts to preclude fake jobs from ever appearing on its website. Job-Hunt.org monitors the postings, researches the companies, and attempts to validate the positions before posting them to the public. The author of the Time article went on to report,

“That simple process leads her [Susan Joyce] to toss about a third of the postings she receives. On larger sites like Monster and CareerBuilder, there’s no one doing that legwork for you. And the scammers are definitely out.” [bold added by me]

If you know Susan Joyce, be sure to congratulate her on this high-profile exposure.

Help your family, friends, and colleagues who are seeking new positions. Let them know that Job-Hunt.org actively works to create a safe environment for job seekers.