Conversation this morning with my 7yo son:

William: Dad, yesterday Taylor (4yo girl) said all of the cusswords.

Me: Oh yeah, did mom hear?

William: yeah. And she didn’t even get in trouble.

Me: What did she say?

William: She said

• stupid
• dumb
• your not the boss of me
• and all the other cuss words there could be, except the V-word.

Me: What is the v-word? (thinking I knew all of the cusswords, but the gravity of this v-word issue was almost concerning…)

William: (hesitating, and in a whisper) … “vain”

One of my goals this year was to have a full article dedicated to me in The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.  This is because I was told by someone that that is where JibberJobber would get credibility – not through any articles I wrote on my own.

I’m happy to share an article that just went live today, which has turned into one of my favorite articles… the title is Boosting Your Sales With Social Networking.  How cool is that?

I recently posted on the LI blog about hitting almost 2,000… in fact, it was at 2,058. You can see the braggy post here.

… now, we just need to break 1,000!

When I first login I have the IM client set to automatically login, and I get the MSN news, gossip and all that stuff open in it’s own window. I always click over to “News” to see what’s going on.

But this one caught my eye:

I love it. It’s just missing one simple word. But this went to probably tens of millions. This is portraying their brand.

Why do I find and care about stuff like this? Probably because of the time when I presented new brochures in a board meeting at my old company and the chairman crumpled the pamphlet and threw it at the wall when he found something he didn’t like.

I got the impression we were mickey mouse, and that other real companies would never, ever make mistakes like that.

… alas, I love finding the big companies making mistakes.

Not that I’m immune from it, as I know my mistakes are (and will be plentiful), maybe I just like knowing that nothing is as perfect as it seems.

I’m using real info on this, outting my new Twitter buddy. Actually, we met on Saturday in person, and I doubt Clint would care if you know he and I hang out (well, hung out for 20 minutes :p).

Here’s the e-mail I get when someone follows me on Twitter:

I would so love it if they also told me:

1. If I was following this person. If the name and handle doesn’t ring a bell, it would be uber-helpful. Plus, if I already know who they are, and you TELL me that I’m following them, then I don’t have to click through to check. Please Ev, do that one for me?
2. Please plug in their little summary. If I don’t recognize their name or handle, this would really help. Especially if you make their URL a hyperlink, so I can click on it from my e-mail. You know what I’m talking about, all this stuff:

Oh yeah, include the stats, also. That way if they are following 3,000+ people and have 4 people following them I KNOW I don’t want to be #5.

Evan, seriously,this would take your programmer like 20 minutes to do. Please make my life just a little easier!

I love it. Because I know my mistake like this is coming.

You can see the link here -it’s a CNN page.

On Twitter I mentioned something about outsourcing parenting responsibilities… as I was headed out to take my kids to a babysitter. Notice, I said outsource, not offshore.

My buddy Tammy Lenski sent me this video:

That is excellent reporting

One of my online buddies and JibberJobber members sent me a couple of article that I really enjoyed… totally different but really cool:

Blogging’s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool – I like this because it’s inline with my new CEO Training for CEO’s of Me, Inc.  I’ll be referring to it in those sessions.

How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time - This is about privacy online.  Love the first two paragraphs to set the stage (I didn’t know that about Ford).

Thanks NHR!