Tara's Dot

Everybody's working ON the weekend...

I love 80s music and pop culture. Remember the song released by the Loverboy's, "Everybody's Working for the Weekend" and Dolly's "9 to 5" - they represent that decades approach to the work/life balance dilemma. Almost 30 years later a lot has changed in our society and I think some would welcome rewinding back to 9to5, Monday through Friday (without the shoulder pads.) I personally don't mind putting in a high volume of hours as long as I love what I'm doi… Continue

I learned a valuable lesson of blogging last week - I had this entire post drafted within the Ning text editor and forgot to click 'publish' before I boarded a flight to Costa Rica. I was fortunate to travel with my MacBook Air and Ted was quick to jump on it when we got to our hotel. Needless to say he closed the browser and I lost my post - hay dios mio! So this month's post is a bit delayed, but better late than never...

March Madness. Most of our members have kept very busy with projects, n… Continue

A short snapshot on what's been going on with doterati in Feburary:

After 8 months of waiting, we finally received official approval from the IRS of our 501c6 status. We only had a few revisions and overall the process was not as difficult as I anticipated - it simply required patience on a decision. To learn more about not for profit status check out the IRS site.

We decided to keep our website on the Nin… Continue

I've been working on a multimedia piece highlighting some of doterati's key milestones from 2008, while in the midst of ongoing 2009 planning. I thought I'd share some of the interesting facts I've come across along the way:

• We have over 500 people in our online community.


• Over 50% of our members are on Twitter.


• Over 50% of our members have a personal website or blog.

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First of all, let me start out by saying thank you to everyone that served on both the advisory council and 2008 doterati board. I am very grateful for all of the time, energy, ideas and excitement all of you brought to our developing organization!

We held our first annual board election on Friday night (1.9.08) at CoLab Orlando. The meeting was open to all dues paying members and we also had a few people vote in advance via proxy. After introductions and some discussion, the nominated slate wa… Continue