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Webconsuls has recently been recognized as a Google AdWords Certified<br />
Partner. This certification is given to companies with Pay-Per-Click<br />
managers who currently run successful Google AdWords marketing<br />
campaigns and have also demonstrated in-depth AdWords knowledge by<br />
passing multiple professionals exams created by Google.</p>
<p>Google has created the Certified Partners Program for businesses that<br />
are looking to use Google marketing as a business tool to create more<br />
business but donâ€™t have the knowledge or time to successfully manage an<br />
AdWords campaign. The Google stamp of approval lets potential<br />
businesses know about companies with a high level of expertise and a<br />
significant amount of history in the medium.</p>
<p>Our PPC Specialist Keith Hansen is our Certified Google Partner. Before<br />
joining our team over four years ago, Keith was a Yahoo Search<br />
Marketing specialist. He was trained from the inside of the industry, a<br />
real advantage in this very competitive marketplace. As a result of<br />
this new certification, Webconsuls and Keith will have access to<br />
next-level Google training and resources, as well as $100 in<br />
promotional credits to new businesses who are interesting in trying<br />
Google AdWords to promote their business goals.</p>
<p>Let us create a PPC/Google AdWords marketing proposal customized to<br />
your business goals and web site so you can see how it works and what<br />
it brings to the table. Here is some basics on the value AdWords<br />
provides, and why it is so successful:</p>
<p>- You set the cost- we can work with any budget.<br />
- Reach 84% of internet users.<br />
- Track-able to the penny- ability to know what works and what doesnâ€™t<br />
towards optimization.<br />
- Complete Control- come up on Google searches for the keywords your<br />
target audience is searching.<br />
- Find searchers looking for your service/product! Read more about Pay<br />
Per Click campaigns here and feel free to leave a comment or question.<br />
Keith will be happy to join the conversation.</p>
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Image via WikipediaThe street sweeper just drove through your GOOGLE<br />
Place page. And it might have been swept clean of reviews. Go<br />
ahead&#8230;mosey over to your GOOGLE Place page. You will notice a few<br />
changes. The most important visible change is, according to GOOGLE:</p>
<p>&#8220;Based on careful thought about the future direction of Place pages,<br />
and feedback weâ€™ve heard over the past few months, review snippets from<br />
other web sources have now been removed from Place pages. Rating and<br />
review counts reflect only those thatâ€™ve been written by fellow Google<br />
users, and as part of our continued commitment to helping you find what<br />
you want on the web, weâ€™re continuing to provide links to other review<br />
sites so you can get a comprehensive view of locations across the<br />
globe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ok, here is what GOOGLE is saying: Let&#8217;s say that you own a country inn<br />
and you have a GOOGLE Place Page. Up until July 21, 2011, the number of<br />
reviews displayed to the right of your GOOGLE Place Page result on the<br />
search engine results page would have been the sum total of all<br />
reviews: Google users + Trip Advisor + Bed and Breakfast + Yahoo users.<br />
Now the number of reviews displayed will be the total of GOOGLE users,<br />
and if NO GOOGLE users have reviewed your property then it will just<br />
display the words Place Page. Now you really need to take the time to<br />
reach out to your customers, clients, guests, shoppers. If they are<br />
GOOGLE users encourage them to write a review. And should they write a<br />
review (good or bad) respond to the review.</p>
<p>Like I said at the beginning of this post&#8230;the street sweeper went<br />
down your GOOGLE Place and if you are a business owner you might want<br />
to make sure the street sweeper didn&#8217;t change the look of your property<br />
too much. You know what I mean. Think back to where ever you have<br />
physically lived before. Did the street sweeper come by once a week,<br />
maybe every month? Remember the street signs that would say &#8220;No Parking<br />
9:00AM-Noon TUESDAY STREET CLEANING&#8221;? Did you ever forget to move your<br />
car?</p>
<p>The GOOGLE Places update that took place last Thursday happened quickly<br />
and without warning. It might have been nice to know the street sweeper<br />
was coming. What do you think?</p>
<p>Related articles<br />
- Google Cans Third Party Reviews From Places. Now What?<br />
(businessinsider.com)<br />
- Google Places removes third-party review snippets (digitaltrends.com)<br />
- The Ongoing Evolution of Place Pages (google-latlong.blogspot.com)<br />
- Google &#8216;Places&#8217; Drops Outside Customer Reviews (huffingtonpost.com)<br />
- Google pulls third-party reviews from Places (news.cnet.com)<br />
- Google Cans Third Party Reviews From Places. Now What?<br />
(smallbusinesstrends.com)</p>
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Image via WikipediaIt has been a while since we talked about BING.<br />
Lately clients have been asking more questions about BING. Sometimes<br />
they think it is an entirely new search engine and then they realize<br />
that prior to two years ago they knew BING as Live Search, Windows Live<br />
Search or MSN Search. In July 2009, Keith Hansen wrote a post about<br />
Microsoft &amp; Yahoo agreeing to a search partnership. In the last few<br />
months a few clients called to verify why their Pay Per Click charges<br />
referenced BING, instead of YAHOO. On April 11, 2011, BING launched<br />
their Business Portal beta, which is:<br />
&#8220;a new service from Bing to help business owners create and control<br />
their online listing, making it easier for their customers to find them<br />
on Bing. With it, owners can even create deals and promote the offers<br />
on both the Bing desktop and mobile experience â€“ for free. The BBP will<br />
replace the Bing Local Listing Center (LLC), and all existing listing<br />
on LLC have been seamlessly migrated to the Bing Business Portal.&#8221; So<br />
now it is time for you to claim your listing(s). Don&#8217;t worry, it is<br />
free; but it will take a few minutes. And BING wants you to know that<br />
by claiming your listing your business will have a better chance of<br />
being found on BING and you will be able to highlight your strengths<br />
and create campaigns that you can even publish to your FACEBOOK<br />
account.</p>
<p>OK, like I said: You need to claim your listing&#8230;so start by going<br />
here and See How the Bing Business Portal Can Help Your Business Grow.<br />
Follow the step by step instructions and if you have more involved<br />
questions you can visit BING&#8217;s Business Portal Frequently Asked<br />
Questions.</p>
<p>Let me know how you do or feel free to contact me if you have more<br />
questions.<br />
Related articlesSee How the Bing Business Portal Can Help Your Business<br />
Grow (bing.com:80)</p>
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Image via CrunchBaseGOOGLE makes news every day. If you don&#8217;t see the<br />
headlines hot off the presses, you may catch them later via a TWITTER<br />
feed, a Nightly News program, a cable news program, a co-worker, a<br />
client, a FACEBOOK page, or even GOOGLE&#8217;s Official Blog. February 2011<br />
was flush with GOOGLE news. News about algorithms, JCPenney and<br />
Overstock.com. Each bit of news is vital for you to understand how it<br />
relates to your business efforts regarding search engine optimization<br />
and your search results.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with algorithms&#8230;</p>
<p>Do you know what an algorithm is? According to Wikipedia: &#8220;In<br />
mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is an effective method<br />
expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating<br />
a function. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and<br />
automated reasoning.&#8221; All you really need to know for this conversation<br />
is that GOOGLE uses many algorithms to deliver SEARCH results to those<br />
that use the GOOGLE search engine. Oh, and one more thing: GOOGLE is<br />
constantly reviewing and tweaking their SEARCH algorithms.</p>
<p>Everyone dreams of being #1 out of 2 million+ results, or at least<br />
everyone dreams about being on page 1. Right? I am not talking about<br />
being #1 for your business name, most businesses can accomplish that<br />
feat with a little time, good content and responsible search engine<br />
optimization. No, what I am talking about is being #1 or on page 1 for<br />
a really competitive, albeit generic, keyword or keyword phrase. The<br />
fact is there is a lot of competition for most businesses&#8217; wares and<br />
services, unless of course you have a very specific niche with no<br />
competition. I will not belabor this, but instead invite you to read<br />
GOOGLE&#8217;s entire announcement for their latest algorithm update, that<br />
really deals with what they call &#8220;content farms&#8221;. Here is an important<br />
highlight:<br />
&#8220;Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice<br />
them. But in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic<br />
improvement to our rankingâ€”a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of<br />
our queriesâ€”and we wanted to let people know whatâ€™s going on. This<br />
update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sitesâ€”sites which<br />
are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites<br />
that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better<br />
rankings for high-quality sitesâ€”sites with original content and<br />
information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and<br />
so on.</p>
<p>We canâ€™t make a major improvement without affecting rankings for many<br />
sites. It has to be that some sites will go up and some will go down.<br />
Google depends on the high-quality content created by wonderful<br />
websites around the world, and we do have a responsibility to encourage<br />
a healthy web ecosystem. Therefore, it is important for high-quality<br />
sites to be rewarded, and thatâ€™s exactly what this change does.&#8221;What<br />
about GOOGLE and JCPenney?</p>
<p>We all know JCPenney, the store. Heck, I used to live in a town where<br />
the only &#8220;department store&#8221; was JCPenney. We didn&#8217;t have a Macy&#8217;s,<br />
SEARS, K-Mart, Walmart, Bloomingdales, Nordstroms&#8230;somehow we managed<br />
and what we couldn&#8217;t find in the store itself we purchased from the<br />
JCPenney catalog. Did you know it was founded in 1902? That is a lot of<br />
merchandising. But this month the New York Times reported to GOOGLE<br />
that JCPenney&#8217;s website was violating GOOGLE&#8217;s &#8220;link scheme&#8221; policy.<br />
GOOGLE investigated the claim and after finding the claim to be true,<br />
then took action against JCPenney.</p>
<p>&#8220;On Wednesday evening[in early February], Google began what it calls a<br />
â€œmanual actionâ€ against Penney, essentially demotions specifically<br />
aimed at the company.<br />
At 7 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, J. C. Penney was still the No. 1<br />
result for &#8216;Samsonite carry on luggage.&#8217;<br />
Two hours later, it was at No. 71.<br />
At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Penney was No. 1 in searches for &#8216;living room<br />
furniture.&#8217;<br />
By 9 p.m., it had sunk to No. 68.<br />
In other words, one moment Penney was the most visible online<br />
destination for living room furniture in the country.<br />
The next it was essentially buried.<br />
PENNEY reacted to this instant reversal of fortune by, among other<br />
things, firing its search engine consulting firm.&#8221;And now about<br />
Overstock.com&#8230;</p>
<p>I have never bought anything from Overstock.com, but then I am not much<br />
of a shopper. How about you? I see their television ads and I have<br />
visited their website a number of times when I was trying to find an<br />
obscure item. This story also has to do with links, but particular link<br />
types and how GOOGLE&#8217;s algorithm considers .edu links. The fact is<br />
GOOGLE views both .edu and .gov sites as trusted and authoritative. Now<br />
it seems that Overstock.com was &#8220;gaming the system&#8221; and GOOGLE took<br />
action.<br />
&#8220;The incident, according to Overstock, stemmed in part from its<br />
practice of encouraging websites of colleges and universities to post<br />
links to Overstock pages so that students and faculty could receive<br />
discounts on the shopping site. Overstock said it discontinued the<br />
program on Feb. 10, before hearing from Google, but said some<br />
university webmasters have been slow to remove the links.&#8221; The bottom<br />
line to all of these incidents is that we&#8217;d all like to think there was<br />
some fairness in the wide world of the World Wide Web. If you own a<br />
business it is natural that you want to do well and you probably want<br />
to be able to sleep at night. Right?</p>
<p>My thoughts about GOOGLE&#8217;s actions are: A few years ago, I saw a<br />
movie, &#8220;The Winslow Boy&#8221;, and in the closing scene a defense attorney<br />
states: &#8220;I wept today because right had been done.&#8221; When questioned by<br />
the defendant&#8217;s sister, &#8220;Not justice?&#8221; to this the attorney<br />
replied, &#8220;No, not justice. Right. Easy to do &#8216;justice&#8217;. Very hard to<br />
do &#8216;right&#8217;.&#8221; GOOGLE tries to do right.</p>
<p>My thoughts about businesses that attempt to game the systems: Mark<br />
Twain said it best. &#8220;The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a<br />
most unpleasant encumbrance. How easy it is to make people believe a<br />
lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!&#8221;</p>
<p>It would be great to hear from you. What do you think about GOOGLE&#8217;s<br />
attempt to level the playing field?</p>
<p>Related articlesHas Google&#8217;s New Algorithm Really Cleaned Up Search?<br />
(nytimes.com) Google Rakes Content Farms (blogs.wsj.com) Overstock<br />
Penalized in Google Search (online.wsj.com) There&#8217;s No Clear Winner in<br />
Google&#8217;s Search &#8216;War&#8217; (pcworld.com)</p>
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Image via WikipediaDo you wait for the mailman? I am talking about the<br />
US Postal Service employee. I think we all do this. We hope that the<br />
mail will include something more exciting than a bill. Today Chris<br />
Brogan published a video post &#8220;A Look In the Mail Bag.&#8221; Did you watch<br />
it? Chris shared what I guess is a typical day&#8217;s mail, it included<br />
books to review, toys like a Carol Roth doll and an early edition of a<br />
Chevrolet Camaro model car&#8230;the list goes on, but he also received a<br />
toy pony from Jamie Eriksen of SEMA. Apparently Chris has a habit of<br />
telling people that if they ever get famous he would like a pony! As I<br />
watched Chris hold up the plastic toy pony I wondered what Chris would<br />
do if someday someone who became famous actually had a real live pony<br />
delivered to him.</p>
<p>It could happen you know. Chris Brogan wants a pony, not unlike how<br />
Jack Snyder wanted a baby elephant. Sales contests are still popular in<br />
the business world. We have probably all been involved in a sales<br />
contest, it really starts in school when they ask you to sell<br />
magazines, or cookies, or wrapping paper. It is for some good cause and<br />
if you sell the most you win a prize. From these we grow into sales<br />
jobs. Sooner or later all jobs are about sales. And sooner or later<br />
there will be a contest. Prizes vary for sure. I once had a friend who<br />
won an all expense paid trip to The Masters in Augusta. (He was<br />
delighted until he realized the income tax implication.) Even Chris&#8217; is<br />
part of a contest. He helps people &#8220;sell&#8221; their stuff&#8230;and I am<br />
willing to bet that someday the pony is going to arrive, just like<br />
Annabelle arrived in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1966.</p>
<p>It was 1966 Crown Zellerbach (CZ) sponsored a Chiffon Tissue sales<br />
contest. I think, as the story goes, a Crown Zellerbach employee who<br />
was in charge of the contest jokingly said the winning sales person had<br />
their choice between $3000 or a baby elephant! Try to envision what<br />
went on at CZ headquarters when the winning sales man chose the baby<br />
elephant and to make matters worse that winning salesman, Jack Snyder<br />
lived in Anchorage, Alaska.</p>
<p>Remember now, this is 1966. Alaska had only been granted U.S. Statehood<br />
in 1959. Even today many companies do not make their products available<br />
to be shipped to Alaska or Hawaii, so you can imagine what went on to<br />
get two year old Annabelle, an Asian Elephant, all the way to<br />
Anchorage. She made it, but the next problem is where she would live.<br />
She couldn&#8217;t live with Jack Snyder and Anchorage did not have a zoo, so<br />
Sammye Seawell who owned the Diamond H Horse Ranch volunteered to house<br />
Annabelle in one of her heated horse stalls. Little 300 pound Annabelle<br />
arrived, Sammye fed her with a gallon bottle and for a while Jack<br />
Snyder would take Annabelle to his market everyday for his customers to<br />
enjoy.</p>
<p>By August 1969 the Alaska Zoo opened and Annabelle had a great new<br />
home, with both a heated winterized building and a beautiful natural<br />
outdoor enclosure. I met Annabelle when I moved to Anchorage in early<br />
1983. She was delightful and she was a painter. She earned her keep as<br />
her paintings were sold in zoo&#8217;s gift shop.</p>
<p>Annabelle lived to be 33. Her story never fails to make me smile. So<br />
today when Chris said he jokes about getting a pony I naturally<br />
remembered the famous sales contest &#8220;$3000 or a Baby Elephant!&#8221; I can&#8217;t<br />
wait to see the pony!!!</p>
<p>How about you? What is the most interesting item you won in a contest<br />
or that you joked about wanting and actually received?</p>
<p>Waiting to see Annabelle 1984</p>
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Image via CrunchBaseI don&#8217;t know how many times I have posted about<br />
Twitter on this blog. You can search our twitter label and read all of<br />
those posts and it will let you see the evolution of this social media<br />
tool and our/my approach to it. It is kind of interesting, but today I<br />
want to talk about how Twitter is my virtual birdfeeder.</p>
<p>This morning I read a very simple Tweet from @lizstrauss How to change<br />
your Facebook Page&#8217;s Category. See it explained here.</p>
<p>This caught my interest and I quickly clicked on the link and realized<br />
that by &#8220;category&#8221; this news was about business Facebook pages. And<br />
that meant that I needed to really dig into this news. I tweeted back<br />
to Liz:<br />
&#8220;thank you. I luv twitter 4 items like this. I&#8217;m like a dove sitting<br />
below a birdfeeder waitin 4 seed droppings.&#8221;From Liz&#8217;s Tweet I went<br />
over to my personal Facebook page and saw an item from<br />
BlogWorld &#8220;Facebook Pages Get a Facelift.&#8221; If you have a business<br />
Facebook page I hope you will take the time to read this post, Nikki<br />
Katz did a great job of summarizing this Facebook news.</p>
<p>In closing I would like to share a photo that I took today (from inside<br />
my house looking through a window). You can see our new bird feeder<br />
hanging from one of our Palo Verde trees. If you look closely you will<br />
see the small colorful wild birds taking seeds from the feeder, but<br />
just below you will see the doves and a squirrel enjoying the extra<br />
seeds that have fallen to the ground. It is a wonderful symbiotic<br />
relationship, not unlike what I enjoy with my Twitter friends.<br />
Bird feeder- click on the photo to enlarge I&#8217;d love to hear what you<br />
think about feeding the birds. How often do you learn helpful hints<br />
from simple little tweets?</p>
<p>Related articlesFacebook Pages Get a Facelift (blogworld.com) The<br />
Perfect Style of Bird Feeder Brings Numerous Hours of Fun!<br />
(hbb2obm.com) Bird feeders don&#8217;t always help out wildlife<br />
(msnbc.msn.com)</p>
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Image via WikipediaThis past week has been filled with historic<br />
anniversaries like President John F. Kennedy&#8217;s 1961 Inaugural Address<br />
and while this is a business blog, I think it is important to sometimes<br />
stop and remember the impact of these significant events. When I talk<br />
of impact I am not just talking about personal memories, but also how<br />
events shape our creativity and spark our willingness to take a chance.<br />
In today&#8217;s world it appears we don&#8217;t really have to rely on our<br />
personal memories or historical facts. Easy enough to &#8220;Google it&#8221; or<br />
search Wikipedia, as our brains have become cluttered with usernames<br />
and passwords.</p>
<p>I have written previously about my memory of Man&#8217;s Walk on the Moon. It<br />
was a great day for Americans, important for all mankind, but we should<br />
today stop to remember a cold winter day, January 28, 1986, when we<br />
watched live as the Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral.</p>
<p>People of my generation were raised on the space program. It is our<br />
program. From the very early days families were committed to watching<br />
each endeavor on television. We were deeply saddened, horrified even,<br />
when on January 27, 1967 (44 years ago yesterday), the crew of Apollo 1<br />
died in a cabin fire during a pre-launch test.</p>
<p>So it was on January 28, 1986, I was living and working in Conway, New<br />
Hampshire, and we were all excited that Christa McAuliffe of Concord,<br />
NH, was chosen to be the NASA&#8217;s Teacher in Space. I for sure was going<br />
to watch the lift off. It was a Tuesday; I believe NASA may have<br />
decided to plan this take-off to occur on a school day so that students<br />
throughout the nation could watch the event on live TV (CNN). We had an<br />
old black and white television in our work lunch room. At about 11:00AM<br />
I walked downstairs and took a seat with my co-workers. There was a lot<br />
of excitement in the air. The news cameras actively panned the public<br />
observers at Cape Canaveral, including Christa&#8217;s parents. And as we all<br />
watched the final countdown and lift-off the cameras panned back to the<br />
crowd and then we knew by the look on Christa&#8217;s parents&#8217; faces<br />
something was terribly wrong. The trail in the sky was not normal&#8230;and<br />
they were gone.</p>
<p>In shock, we continued to watch CNN for a while longer. I reached for<br />
the phone and called Dennis. He was watching at home. I went back to my<br />
office and throughout the day my co-workers and I took turns monitoring<br />
CNN&#8217;s coverage. And so the day went.</p>
<p>This February 1st we will stop to remember the 8th Anniversary of the<br />
Columbia disaster. Yes, I was watching live coverage on that Saturday<br />
morning, too. Like I said this is our program and it came to be because<br />
of a young president&#8217;s challenge 50 years ago.</p>
<p>25 years&#8230;hard to believe. Here&#8217;s to the crew: Michael J. Smith, Dick<br />
Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory<br />
Jarvis and Judith Resnik.</p>
<p>I would love for you to share your memories&#8230;</p>
<p>Related articlesSchoolchildren Watched to See Christa McAuliffe Become<br />
First Teacher in Space &#8211; ABC News (news.google.com) City Still Mourning<br />
25 Years After Challenger Explosion &#8211; Fox News (news.google.com)<br />
Challenger: 25 years later, the wound still aches (msnbc.msn.com)<br />
Astronaut teacher still mourned in N.H. hometown (msnbc.msn.com) The<br />
Challenger disaster&#8217;s teachable moment (cnn.com)</p>
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Image via WikipediaThis past week has been filled with historic<br />
anniversaries like President John F. Kennedy&#8217;s 1961 Inaugural Address<br />
and while this is a business blog, I think it is important to sometimes<br />
stop and remember the impact of these significant events. When I talk<br />
of impact I am not just talking about personal memories, but also how<br />
events shape our creativity and spark our willingness to take a chance.<br />
In today&#8217;s world it appears we don&#8217;t really have to rely on our<br />
personal memories or historical facts. Easy enough to &#8220;Google it&#8221; or<br />
search Wikipedia, as our brains have become cluttered with usernames<br />
and passwords.</p>
<p>I have written previously about my memory of Man&#8217;s Walk on the Moon. It<br />
was a great day for Americans, important for all mankind, but we should<br />
today stop to remember a cold winter day, January 28, 1986, when we<br />
watched live as the Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral.</p>
<p>People of my generation were raised on the space program. It is our<br />
program. From the very early days families were committed to watching<br />
each endeavor on television. We were deeply saddened, horrified even,<br />
when on January 27, 1967 (44 years ago yesterday), the crew of Apollo 1<br />
died in a cabin fire during a pre-launch test.</p>
<p>So it was on January 28, 1986, I was living and working in Conway, New<br />
Hampshire, and we were all excited that Christa McAuliffe of Concord,<br />
NH, was chosen to be the NASA&#8217;s Teacher in Space. I for sure was going<br />
to watch the lift off. It was a Tuesday; I believe NASA may have<br />
decided to plan this take-off to occur on a school day so that students<br />
throughout the nation could watch the event on live TV (CNN). We had an<br />
old black and white television in our work lunch room. At about 11:00AM<br />
I walked downstairs and took a seat with my co-workers. There was a lot<br />
of excitement in the air. The news cameras actively panned the public<br />
observers at Cape Canaveral, including Christa&#8217;s parents. And as we all<br />
watched the final countdown and lift-off the cameras panned back to the<br />
crowd and then we knew by the look on Christa&#8217;s parents&#8217; faces<br />
something was terribly wrong. The trail in the sky was not normal&#8230;and<br />
they were gone.</p>
<p>In shock, we continued to watch CNN for a while longer. I reached for<br />
the phone and called Dennis. He was watching at home. I went back to my<br />
office and throughout the day my co-workers and I took turns monitoring<br />
CNN&#8217;s coverage. And so the day went.</p>
<p>This February 1st we will stop to remember the 8th Anniversary of the<br />
Columbia disaster. Yes, I was watching live coverage on that Saturday<br />
morning, too. Like I said this is our program and it came to be because<br />
of a young president&#8217;s challenge 50 years ago.</p>
<p>25 years&#8230;hard to believe. Here&#8217;s to the crew: Michael J. Smith, Dick<br />
Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory<br />
Jarvis and Judith Resnik.</p>
<p>I would love for you to share your memories&#8230;</p>
<p>Related articlesSchoolchildren Watched to See Christa McAuliffe Become<br />
First Teacher in Space &#8211; ABC News (news.google.com) City Still Mourning<br />
25 Years After Challenger Explosion &#8211; Fox News (news.google.com)<br />
Challenger: 25 years later, the wound still aches (msnbc.msn.com)<br />
Astronaut teacher still mourned in N.H. hometown (msnbc.msn.com) The<br />
Challenger disaster&#8217;s teachable moment (cnn.com)</p>
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Image via WikipediaThis past week has been filled with historic<br />
anniversaries like President John F. Kennedy&#8217;s 1961 Inaugural Address<br />
and while this is a business blog, I think it is important to sometimes<br />
stop and remember the impact of these significant events. When I talk<br />
of impact I am not just talking about personal memories, but also how<br />
events shape our creativity and spark our willingness to take a chance.<br />
In today&#8217;s world it appears we don&#8217;t really have to rely on our<br />
personal memories or historical facts. Easy enough to &#8220;Google it&#8221; or<br />
search Wikipedia, as our brains have become cluttered with usernames<br />
and passwords.</p>
<p>I have written previously about my memory of Man&#8217;s Walk on the Moon. It<br />
was a great day for Americans, important for all mankind, but we should<br />
today stop to remember a cold winter day, January 28, 1986, when we<br />
watched live as the Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral.</p>
<p>People of my generation were raised on the space program. It is our<br />
program. From the very early days families were committed to watching<br />
each endeavor on television. We were deeply saddened, horrified even,<br />
when on January 27, 1967 (44 years ago yesterday), the crew of Apollo 1<br />
died in a cabin fire during a pre-launch test.</p>
<p>So it was on January 28, 1986, I was living and working in Conway, New<br />
Hampshire, and we were all excited that Christa McAuliffe of Concord,<br />
NH, was chosen to be the NASA&#8217;s Teacher in Space. I for sure was going<br />
to watch the lift off. It was a Tuesday; I believe NASA may have<br />
decided to plan this take-off to occur on a school day so that students<br />
throughout the nation could watch the event on live TV (CNN). We had an<br />
old black and white television in our work lunch room. At about 11:00AM<br />
I walked downstairs and took a seat with my co-workers. There was a lot<br />
of excitement in the air. The news cameras actively panned the public<br />
observers at Cape Canaveral, including Christa&#8217;s parents. And as we all<br />
watched the final countdown and lift-off the cameras panned back to the<br />
crowd and then we knew by the look on Christa&#8217;s parents&#8217; faces<br />
something was terribly wrong. The trail in the sky was not normal&#8230;and<br />
they were gone.</p>
<p>In shock, we continued to watch CNN for a while longer. I reached for<br />
the phone and called Dennis. He was watching at home. I went back to my<br />
office and throughout the day my co-workers and I took turns monitoring<br />
CNN&#8217;s coverage. And so the day went.</p>
<p>This February 1st we will stop to remember the 8th Anniversary of the<br />
Columbia disaster. Yes, I was watching live coverage on that Saturday<br />
morning, too. Like I said this is our program and it came to be because<br />
of a young president&#8217;s challenge 50 years ago.</p>
<p>25 years&#8230;hard to believe. Here&#8217;s to the crew: Michael J. Smith, Dick<br />
Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory<br />
Jarvis and Judith Resnik.</p>
<p>I would love for you to share your memories&#8230;</p>
<p>Related articlesSchoolchildren Watched to See Christa McAuliffe Become<br />
First Teacher in Space &#8211; ABC News (news.google.com) City Still Mourning<br />
25 Years After Challenger Explosion &#8211; Fox News (news.google.com)<br />
Challenger: 25 years later, the wound still aches (msnbc.msn.com)<br />
Astronaut teacher still mourned in N.H. hometown (msnbc.msn.com) The<br />
Challenger disaster&#8217;s teachable moment (cnn.com)</p>
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Image via WikipediaThis past week has been filled with historic<br />
anniversaries like President John F. Kennedy&#8217;s 1961 Inaugural Address<br />
and while this is a business blog, I think it is important to sometimes<br />
stop and remember the impact of these significant events. When I talk<br />
of impact I am not just talking about personal memories, but also how<br />
events shape our creativity and spark our willingness to take a chance.<br />
In today&#8217;s world it appears we don&#8217;t really have to rely on our<br />
personal memories or historical facts. Easy enough to &#8220;Google it&#8221; or<br />
search Wikipedia, as our brains have become cluttered with usernames<br />
and passwords.</p>
<p>I have written previously about my memory of Man&#8217;s Walk on the Moon. It<br />
was a great day for Americans, important for all mankind, but we should<br />
today stop to remember a cold winter day, January 28, 1986, when we<br />
watched live as the Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral.</p>
<p>People of my generation were raised on the space program. It is our<br />
program. From the very early days families were committed to watching<br />
each endeavor on television. We were deeply saddened, horrified even,<br />
when on January 27, 1967 (44 years ago yesterday), the crew of Apollo 1<br />
died in a cabin fire during a pre-launch test.</p>
<p>So it was on January 28, 1986, I was living and working in Conway, New<br />
Hampshire, and we were all excited that Christa McAuliffe of Concord,<br />
NH, was chosen to be the NASA&#8217;s Teacher in Space. I for sure was going<br />
to watch the lift off. It was a Tuesday; I believe NASA may have<br />
decided to plan this take-off to occur on a school day so that students<br />
throughout the nation could watch the event on live TV (CNN). We had an<br />
old black and white television in our work lunch room. At about 11:00AM<br />
I walked downstairs and took a seat with my co-workers. There was a lot<br />
of excitement in the air. The news cameras actively panned the public<br />
observers at Cape Canaveral, including Christa&#8217;s parents. And as we all<br />
watched the final countdown and lift-off the cameras panned back to the<br />
crowd and then we knew by the look on Christa&#8217;s parents&#8217; faces<br />
something was terribly wrong. The trail in the sky was not normal&#8230;and<br />
they were gone.</p>
<p>In shock, we continued to watch CNN for a while longer. I reached for<br />
the phone and called Dennis. He was watching at home. I went back to my<br />
office and throughout the day my co-workers and I took turns monitoring<br />
CNN&#8217;s coverage. And so the day went.</p>
<p>This February 1st we will stop to remember the 8th Anniversary of the<br />
Columbia disaster. Yes, I was watching live coverage on that Saturday<br />
morning, too. Like I said this is our program and it came to be because<br />
of a young president&#8217;s challenge 50 years ago.</p>
<p>25 years&#8230;hard to believe. Here&#8217;s to the crew: Michael J. Smith, Dick<br />
Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory<br />
Jarvis and Judith Resnik.</p>
<p>I would love for you to share your memories&#8230;</p>
<p>Related articlesSchoolchildren Watched to See Christa McAuliffe Become<br />
First Teacher in Space &#8211; ABC News (news.google.com) City Still Mourning<br />
25 Years After Challenger Explosion &#8211; Fox News (news.google.com)<br />
Challenger: 25 years later, the wound still aches (msnbc.msn.com)<br />
Astronaut teacher still mourned in N.H. hometown (msnbc.msn.com) The<br />
Challenger disaster&#8217;s teachable moment (cnn.com)</p>
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