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Join the Brag Basket

By Small Biz Survival

Every week, I open a Brag Basket, so you can introduce yourself or share some good news.

Speak up and add yourself or another deserving soul in the comments. We all cheer, and everyone feels great. It lets you meet each other a bit. Reading each others’ stories brings us a bit closer to being a community. 

This particular basket is open from Dec. 11-13, 2009.

How does it work? You write a comment on this post. You tell something great about your week, or you give plaudits to someone who did good stuff this week. Or you celebrate a terrific failure. It’s not an ad; it’s a conversation with friends. So jump in.

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December 11, 2009 Filed Under: brag basket

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  1. Timothy says

    December 12, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    Downtown Ellensburg’ Festival of Trees raised $8,000 for Main Street revitalization and our 19th new downtown business for 2009 opened on Tuesday

    http://www.facebook.com/EllensburgDowntown?v=app_2347471856&ref=mf#/note.php?note_id=122692879994

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  2. Becky McCray says

    December 12, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    Congratulations, Timothy. I love to hear stories of downtown successes.

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  3. Chris S. Cornell says

    December 13, 2009 at 3:50 am

    First, congratulations on this great community building website. It is truly a gem of a resource for individuals, businesses and local organizations looking to improve their ability to communicate their message.

    Thanks for this brag basket. It really provides a unique opportunity, which I am now going to take advantage of for the first time.

    I own and operate a small business (custom picture framing) in the Village of Pleasantville, NY. I’ve been attempting to build community through the use of social media for the past eight months. One of the tools I’ve used is my website http://TwitterProfessor.com, which has featured articles about individuals and organizations in the local community using Twitter and other forms of social media to communicate their message. Through TwitterProfessor, I’ve been able to build a network which has led to the formation of a social media group called Westchester140 (we’re on Facebook). This group organized the highly successful 1st and 2nd Westchester TweetUps (both were booked to capacity), and is now in the process of putting together the 3rd Westchester TweetUp (150 people are expected, and there will be a moderated panel of social media speakers).

    The reason I am posting this (in addition to bragging) is to reach out to others who might be interested in discussing ways local groups can build community and promote businesses. If you are working on similar projects, and would like to exchange ideas, please feel free to contact me.

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  4. Becky McCray says

    December 13, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    Chris, thanks for the kind words! And congrats on the new social media group in Westchester! I think I’ll start a new post on this topic, so we can help folks connect. Great idea!

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  5. director says

    December 18, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    I am in my fourth year as the director of the Mrs. Oklahoma International Pageant. I know that a lot of people laugh at pageants but I am so proud of my titleholders that I’d just like to brag here a little.

    Our contestants, who are married, must have a community service platform. At the pageant, fully 50% of their score is based upon interviews regarding this platform. For this reason, we encourage them to enter early and work their local title. By this I mean, get out there, put their energy and their voice to their chosen platform and really get to know it. This helps them in two ways. The first, obviously, is that it will fulfill them like nothing else. We all know how great it feels to help others. Secondly, though, this community interaction helps them to become more familiar with their chosen cause and results in a better interview with the judges at the pageant.

    The result for me is that I am so proud I could burst. I have amazing women doing incredible things all over the state of Oklahoma! From post partum depression, to sexual child abuse, to pancreatic cancer awareness and everything in between, our ladies are out there raising awareness, raising funds, and making our state a better place.

    I thank you for letting me brag. I always feel that if more people understood our mission, they would be just as proud of these ladies as I am!

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