Goals for the Week:

I just have a great feeling that this is going to be a very, very good week.  I need to make sure, so I'm sending out my intentions and we'll see what I can make happen.

Here are my goals for this week (in no particular order):

Sell my 1997 Mercedes S500 or trade in for a Subaru wagon or other great snow vehicle.

Find a new place to live (either a house in Bellevue with a lease purchase, or a condo in downtown Bellevue that will allow pesky little golden retrievers like Hannah Montana Kennedy.

Find the right people to take over BellevueBusinessJournal.com and Eastside Entrepreneurs with the new energy and focus required to make them each thrive.

Contact at least 200 San Francisco area nonprofits about Deals4Dreams and help get at least 10 of them started raising money for their orgs through a D4D Deals Site.

Continue with the great progress with diet and exercise in my still top secret LuxFitFun project.

 

I know that there is a lot more I want to accomplish this week, but am working on a deadline right now.  Will finish this list a bit later ....

 

My 49th Birthday Wish: Help 49 San Francisco Non-Profits with Deals4Dreams

The new Bellevue-based start-up, Deals4Dreams has been up and running for just over a month and already has a bunch of awesome nonprofit partners - most so far here in the Seattle area.  These partners are rather happy, as they have already been getting checks for 50% of the net proceeds.

I am on a quest to offer the services of Deals4Dreams to help nonprofits down the west coast and throughout the US.  Since there are only so many hours in a day, I have to choose somewhere to focus first and I will pick San Francisco because The City is a great place, with very diverse people and also has a huge number of fantastic nonprofit organizations that do such wonderful work.  It doesn't hurt that it's only 750 miles away and hosts a lot of great tech and social media events.

MAJOR Changes Coming at Facebook with Timeline and OpenGraph apps, but What Does it Mean for Business Pages?

After watching Mark Zuckenberg's keynote this morning at Facebook's annual f8 Conference, I'm very fascinated at some of the planned changes with TimeLine and OpenGraph apps and am looking forward to checking them out.  It seems to me that there may be a whole lot more over-sharing going on with the new 'light-weight' updates.  Not sure I want to know everything all my friends eat and drink ...  Not sure I want my friends to know everything  my other friends eat and drink ...  Not sure I even want to share everything I eat and drink .. or listen to ... or watch ...

At the same time, I'm most interested in how these changes may or may not affect businesses and organizations and Facebook Pages.  Does anyone have have information on this?  How do you explain the total lack of even mentioning business and Pages?

You can watch the rest of the f8 conference here (or below).

Watch live streaming video from f8live at livestream.com

PETA Has Gone Too Far and MUST Be Stopped

A few years ago, I took my then 4 year old daughter to the Ringling Brothers Circus in Everett.  Standing out front to greet every man, woman and child were PETA protesters with signs that contained very graphic photos of what they claimed were animal abuses by Ringling.  Now it is never ok to hurt or torture an animal (and I'm not sure if Ringling has or does), but do two wrongs make a right?  Is it OK for PETA to ruin a 4 year old's first circus?  Or anyone's circus?

Now the Seattle Times has an article saying that the brains behind PETA have organized a protest in Seattle of all fish-eating places, to tell people not to catch - or eat fish.  They must have been ingesting way too much of something ...

Apparently, according to King5.com and Reuters, PETA is planning to launch a porn site in the name of animal rights.  Adult, XXX Movies mixed in with PETA's propaganda photos - sounds like they are looking in the right place. Most of the other people out there that are crazed and delirious enough to support PETA's extreme actions without regard to the general public, are probably watching snuff films anyway.

What's YOUR take?

Dinosaurs Reproducing in the United States???

According to a story by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News, and spread through various social media channels by Guy Kawasaki and HolyKaw/AllTop, a five inch long baby dinosaur with a short nose and spikes was found drowned in Maryland.

And we've been taught that dinosaurs are extinct .... What's next?  Are they going to find Dodo Birds in TJ?

Life Changes, Web Partners and Community Advisors Sought for BellevueBusinessJournal.com and Eastside Entrepreneurs Social Network

WOW!  There is just so much good stuff going on that I don't know where to start ...

During the last I've been having some fun helping some friends who have created an awesome "Daily Deals" site that benefits lots of very cool nonprofit and charity organizations.  It is called Deals4Dreams and has had some really amazing "Dream Deals".  Today's deal is $15 for $30 worth of food and drink at Pasta Freska on Westlake in Seattle.

If You Watch TV, You Probably Want to Check Out Jason Griffin's TVaholic.com

I just stumbled across a site called TVaholic.com which just happens to be published by Eastsider Jason Griffin.  If you are into TV at all, there is information there for YOU - including listings, reviews, announcements and giveaways!

Great idea Jason - Nice site - I hope you are getting tons of traffic!