By now you know I changed my Twitter handle from @geechee_girl to @leslie. This has sparked a storm of reactions, with three being the most common. I thought I’d make a quick video to answer the three most asked questions: 1) How will this affect your “personal brand”? 2) Can you help us change our [...]

In which I discuss the need to look beyond the minutia of the daily and into the future, charity, and more.

(if you follow me on Twitter, you will see this twice – once direct from Utterli and once from the blog)

(those on Twitter will get this auto posted twice – once from Utterli and once from the blog)
Here is a link to Mark’s post I mentioned. Worth a read to grasp some of the potential misapplications of the retweet button as it stands today.
I neglected to mention another great post on the implications of [...]

For some of us, tweeting is more than just updating our friends as to what we put on our turkey sandwiches for lunch or how far we’re forced to walk from our cars to Starbucks.  Twitter is a powerful tool, and amongst other things, can be used as a medium for business negotiation.  And what [...]

Another person who has helped me a great deal is Jim Keenan. He is the consummate sales person, yet he manages to be in his field, and get the results he does, without being smarmy, or making people angry. He’s a good listener, he thinks out of the box, he isn’t afraid to take risks, [...]

Michelle (@chelpixie) is a smart, kind and giving person. More importantly (well, to me anyway), she keeps me where I need to be (she recently came on board to help handle speaking gigs and scheduling things with me, and she is amazing). She is a great example of turning your life into what you always [...]

I’ve decided to add a feature to this blog that lets me give other people the attention they deserve. We don’t do this in a vacuum, and there are some great thought leaders in a variety of spaces that touch my life, and teach me things. One of my inspirations in Tara Hunt, author of [...]

After reading Chris Brogan’s post on interruptive communication today, and responding in the video below on Utterli, I started percolating on the concept. I love when something simple gets my brain cranking, don’t you? Here is the link to Chris’s post, the video is embedded below, and after that are my thoughts as they strayed [...]

As I watch more and more people and companies jump on the social media consulting bandwagon because it looks like easy money, I cringe. These new agencies and new individual consultants have no experience, no web presence, no strategy – no clue. It pains me to think of the poor companies and people who will [...]

Lately it seems folks are so obsessed with “doing it right” and being heard that they have forgotten how to listen and how to respond. Don’t get lost in “best practices”. Learn to listen, and try to follow my lead (or the lead of whoever is talking).
My biggest word of advice for today is to [...]