Tara's Dot

As doterati continues to mature it is essential to continually identify volunteers that are passionate and willing to get involved with our growing organization. As a volunteer based organization it is natural to observe ebbs and flows in our volunteer’s time availability, commitment and area of interest.



During our first meeting/vision planning for 2009 I handed out copies of the book,… Continue

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… 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… 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… 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…

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