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By Cathy McPhillips Social Media ManagerApril 25, 2013 Join in next Thursday, May 2, during our one-day social media blitz to encourage the public to join Team No Kid Hungry and help us end childhood hunger in the U.S.! The day’s goal is to recruit 5,000 new members to Team No Kid Hungry, and we need your [...] - Amanda Hite

This is for YOU, you know who you are. You make us better and we want to return the favor. Sometimes many of us learn the hard way is that we’re not indestructable. We often put everything and everyone ahead of ourselves and our health when in reality the better condition we are in mentally, physically [...] - Amanda Hite

This week, during Dine Out For No Kid Hungry, we have an opportunity to truly be the change – an opportunity to use our collective “Klout,” “Kred,” Reach, and Influence to give a voice to the 16.1 million children in America who are hungry. In 2011, the Dine Out for No Kid Hungry raised over [...] - Amanda Hite

I’ve been meaning to do a follow up post to our Serve Hope Tweet-a-thon. It’s way late but worth the wait. Thank you. On November 10th we did a “Tweet-a-thon” for Serve Hope raising money for Share Our Strength who aims to end childhood hunger in America and The Global Hope Network who is transforming [...] - Amanda Hite

Happy New Year! Here is a way you can "Be The Change" today  in literally 5 minutes. We're asking you to watch a video and share it with your networks.  If we all join together today we have the opportunity to raise $5,000 for the Acumen fund and win some cool prizes. Here are the details: I met Molly Fletcher last summer after I heard her speak at People Report… - Amanda Hite

Earlier this year I met<a href=”http://globalhopenetwork.org/about...> Jeff Power</a> at an <a href=”http://www.ungeekedelite.com/”>Ungeeked Conference</a> where we were both speaking. We had an amazing breakfast my last morning, me, Jeff and Spike Jones. <a href=”http://globalhopenetwork.org/about...>Jeff, </a>works with <a href=”http://globalhopenetwork.org/”>Global Hope Network International</a> helping the poorest villages of the world transform themselves. I love following his <a href=”http://www.pangeo.typepad.com/”>travel [...] - Amanda Hite

September 19th will be our biggest Tweet-a-thon of the year THE TwEAT OUT. Our goal is to engage 2,000 Bloggers and Tweeters to help us promote the Dine Out For No Kid Hungry. We need your help! You won’t want to miss being a part of this and having the opportunity to “Use Your Influence [...] - Amanda Hite

Top 10 signs of @luckypenny 's awesomeness:    10. You throw THE best conferences, w best content, best people hands down.    9. You are keep the industry relevant. Leading so many companies into tomorrow.   8. Uve built an amazing community that's foundation is trust & drive is making a… - Amanda Hite

The new Moon in Leo is all about creativity, having fun and taking time to play, some romance, being a child or experiencing the… - Amanda Hite

Communication is the key to success!   If we have heard it once we have heard it a gabillion times.  It’s easy to say and much harder to do.  Why do organizations typically struggle with communication?  I realize opinions are like noses - everyone has one.  Allow me to offer several on this important topic.   The Telephone Game   If you are of a certain age you remember playing the telephone game as a kid.  This is where you sit in a circle with… - Amanda Hite

There are 5 things in life you cannot recover: A stone...after it's thrown. A word...after it is said. An occasion.. .after it's missed. The time...after it's gone. A person...after they die. Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never forget anything that made you smile, - Amanda Hite

Soup and Sandwich.  Bacon and Eggs.  Love and Marriage.  Peanut Butter and Jelly.  Culture and Customer Service.    Some things just go together !  Like the lyrics from a song my Mom used to sing “you can’t have one without the other”!  If there’s any truth to this premise, why then are there so many organizations that seem unable to admit it?   (Break out house analogy) The house is only as good as the foundation.  In business it’s been proven… - Amanda Hite

Those little points of light up there are the great unknowns calling me. I know I should not fear the unknown and I… - Amanda Hite

I am a luminous body no less than the stars in the heavens we see And the stars are not just up there in… - Amanda Hite

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Just a note to let everyone know I have a new Blog.  I have combined Opinion, Hospitality New Links and Hospitality Job openings into one site.   Hope you enjoy it! Blog address: https://sites.google.com/site...   Enjoy your… - Amanda Hite

In my opinion, when it comes to leadership, there’s no one better than Chip Conley.  He’s the author of PEAK, How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow and he’s the Founder and CEO of Joie De Vivre Hospitality.  Chip is truly one of my business heroes.  His writing and speaking have inspired me to write this blog.     Joie De Vivre (jewah-de-veev) owns and operates boutique hotels located primarily in the Bay Area (SanFrancisco).  In the 90’s business was… - Amanda Hite

You do not own me I am here because I choose to be. The bustle of the city surrounds us Always crying for… - Amanda Hite

When I go to Kroger I am inspired.  No kidding!  The Kroger I frequent is really no different than any… - Amanda Hite

I still meet people every day who say “I don’t get social media”,  or “I think it’s just a fad.” They question if it will ever be anything of significance. I shake my head…They have no idea. They don’t know yet that social media is a digital extension of our lives and the world we [...] - Amanda Hite

Every once in a while I meet someone on Twitter that touches my life in a way that I know I’ve just discovered a lifetime friend. After exchanging a just a few tweets with the lovely and ever so passionate Twitter Maven Jessica Northey I felt that way. Those few tweets turned into a few phone [...] - Amanda Hite

This weekend I started a part of my 30 Day Bucket List that had been evading me like a mouse evading a cat: Meditation. It… - Amanda Hite

I love air travel when it goes according to the plan.  I hate air travel when it doesn’t go according to the plan.  Today was all about the latter.     I got up around 6 am to handle last minute preparations for my 2-day trip to Austin from my home in Lexington KY.  The normal routine was in effect early - throw on some shorts, head downstairs with the dogs in hot pursuit, let them out, fill their bowls with food, let them in to chow down then let them out… - Amanda Hite

It is Independence Day for the United States, a day that I personally love. Everyone celebrates family, country, (dare I say: God?) - you get the picture...Fireworks spread across the countryside's skyline - take a drive in the evening along country roads - if you haven't before you will see what I mean. … - Amanda Hite

On July 4th, Saul Good Restaurant… - Amanda Hite

I'm a procrastinator.  Not in my fast-paced professional life (where I rock), but in my quiet, personal life (where I suck).  I have a 10-year pattern now of putting off as many things as possible at home.  So much so, that nothing seems important or urgent...until it is.    Lately, I've had an opportunity to immerse myself in some pretty stellar experiences with some of the most unbelievable people...each moment affecting me positively.  Participating in TR Live in Lexington,… - Amanda Hite

I remember when I was a kid playing games there were certain times when it was okay to ask for a “do-over”.  In golf before you duck hook one into the woods off the first tee you can ask for a “mulligan”.  If the guys you are playing with aren’t too cutthroat they’ll usually oblige but only if they get one in return.  The unwritten rules about do-overs and mulligans are: … - Amanda Hite

Attention Boys and Girls   I’ve got every excuse in the book but I’m not even going to attempt to explain why my bucket list has gone done the tubes.  I will however own it and ask for a reprieve from my friends and fellow bucket list participants.     I know something about me.  I’m either all in or all out and for the past couple of weeks I’ve been the latter.  Here’s a… - Amanda Hite

Saturday - June 25, 2011 - Sioux Falls, South Dakota - approximately 7:20 am.  … - Amanda Hite

Recently I have been forced to look at my world and what is happening in it. Not forced at gun point. Forced by life and circumstances. By events and happenings that have compounded themselves for whatever reason to present themselves in a certain time frame. All these “happenings” have had positive elements to them and they came at a point where a darkness was rearing itself into my personal life. In other words, the universe knew where to direct its light. It found me waiting for… - Amanda Hite