Posistively Pittsburgh Live Interviewee Makes TV

Pittsburgh Innovators, PPL Interviewee, Makes TV

Lani Lazzani was part of Episode 34 on Pittsburgh Innovators on Positively Pittsburgh Live Talkcast. You can't keep a great story down, Lani was also interviewed on December 20 on channel 4 news at 6 PM in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Lani Also spoke at the Women's Economic Development Outreach Tour in Pittsburgh and received a standing ovation from other women entrepreneurs.

Positively Pittsburgh Live wishes Lani and mom, Gina, continued prosperity and success in 2008. The Simple Sugars Story. (As told by Lani Lazzari)

My name is Lani Lazzari and I am the creator and founder of Simple Sugars. I am thirteen years old and in the eighth grade.

Simple Sugars began in December of 2005, when my mom decided that we would have a homemade Christmas and insisted that my brothers and I make the holidays gifts that we wanted to give to family and friends.

Since I was a baby I have had very sensitive skin and have been prone to eczema breakouts. I have never been able to use a commercially produced product without experiencing skin irritation or a major rash. So, I decided to make an all-natural product that would be safe for very sensitive skin like mine, would be fun to use and smell great too.

The first sugar scrubs I mixed up were a simple formulation of ingredients that I found in our kitchen. I made two scents, vanilla and almond, and gave them out to friends and family.
Shortly after the holidays, people started calling me telling me that they loved the scrub and asking me if I would make more and sell it to them!

In the meantime, I had been busy doing lots of research on aromatherapy and what natural ingredients were best for sensitive skin.

Based on my research, I reformulated my products and tested them, and reformulated and re-tested, until I had a really great product that I thought other people would love as much as I did. (I should mention that my aunt also has very sensitive skin (psoriasis) and is another one of my “testers”.)

When I’m not doing homework (evil!), I’m making and selling sugar scrubs. Currently, the Simple Sugars team is made up of myself, my mom, my grandmother (Mimi) and my aunt.

My mission is simple (no pun intended!): • To make the best all-natural, high quality scrubs that I can.• To provide my customers with the best service that they can get anywhere.• And above all, to keep things simple!

I hope that you enjoy my products!Stay Smooth!
Lani

http://www.simplesugarsscrub.com/

PittsburghProfessionalWomen.com Publisher sends out Law of Attraction "Peace" Message

From Beth Caldwell, PittsburghProfessionalWomen.com

Hi Everyone,

I have just finished up a 3 day retreat and I noticed something. In many of the windows I was browsing I saw signs for PEACE.I remembered a quote used in The Secret about Mother Theresa saying she would never attend a war protest, but she would be happy to attend a rally for peace.

I have been thinking a lot about all of the families devastated and separated by this war. We visited the cemetery last week, and I was humbled by the number of soldiers graves there. What would happen if we all began to think about peace instead of war? If you believe in the power of positive thought, then you know what I am talking about. If you don't believe in positive thinking, then what can this hurt?

I have created a PDF for PEACE. Please print it out and hang it in the windows of your home and office. Every person that sees it will think"Peace" if only for a moment.
What may happen?

Please download the attached PDF and hang it in your window at home and at the office. Pass it on to your families, friends, and all businesses that you knowof.

Wishing you Peaceful Holidays,Beth Caldwellwww.PositiveMoms. com
412-875-5336

Find "Peace" PDF at: http://www.mediafire.com/?1nqoxm0ddrd

Technocrats Teach Technology Tools at Duquesne SBDC 2nd Pennsylvania Technology Conference

Technocrats Teach Technology Tools at Duquesne SBDC Technology Conference
Pennsylvania Business Technology Conference
on December 6, 2007.

Experts to Share Sales-Driving Strategies & Technologies

ü Is your Web site generating the business that it should?
ü Want to learn how to utilize affordable and fast eMail marketingeffectively to secure new business?
ü Are you utilizing the latest sales tools that can help you close morebusiness quicker and strengthen customer relationships?

Are you interested in learning how you can drives sales with new medialike eNewsletters, blogs and talk casts?Learn how today’s technologies are helping successful companies cut costs and drives constantly increasing sales!Don’t miss the Pennsylvania Business Technology Conference onDecember 6th.

· 11 information-packed, expert-led workshops
· Keynote address by John Clinton, The 10 Greatest Myths of the Internet
· Talk Shoe Developer, Dave Nelson on Pod casting for Profit table
· Business Technology Roundtable & Showcase
If You Build It, They Will Come:
Launching A Killer New Web Site For
Beginner Internet Marketers
Don’t let lack of knowledge and a limited budget keep
you from launching a great first Web Site that will put
your business on the map. This in-depth workshop will
cover domain name registration, design tools and how
to drive traffic to your site through cost-effective online
advertising.


New Media Weaponry: Using Blogs,
Podcasts & Other Communications
Technologies To Drive Business
You’ve experienced them but how do you use them for
your own business to strengthen your brand and attract
new business? Businesses can no longer ignore these
digital age tools that competitors are using for growth.
Learn how to utilize blogs, podcasts, e-newsletters, RSS
feeds and webinars to exploit the reach available only
through the Internet.


eMarketing: Affordable Online
Strategies for Maximizing Sales & Profits
With rapid responses, faster returns and lower costs, it’s
not surprising that eMarketing has major appeal, but how
do companies tackle this ever-changing digital medium
and fully exploit the capacity for growth and branding?
Learn how to utilize eMail Marketing, online surveys and
search engine marketing for your competitive advantage.


Virtualizing Your Network and Ensuring
Business Continuity
The hottest topic in IT today is virtualization. It is
predicted that by 2008, the cost for small businesses to
power their servers will exceed server acquisition costs,
leading companies like Cisco and Fannie Mae to turn
to virtualization. Virtualization of servers and storage
drives down the cost of acquisition (40%), the cost of
operation (50%), and provides a disaster proof solution to
organizations of all sizes.


Register today!For full workshop, speaker and discount registration information,

Visit www.conference.duq.edu.

School Teacher Re-Invents Herself as Suburban Dry Cleaner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Patricia DuVall 412-271-6000, Cell: 412-287-3191

September 18, 2007; Pittsburgh;Local Forest Hills Dry Cleaner Opens just in time for Homecomings and Winter Cleaning.

Retired Teacher Proud to Be a Part of the Business Community
Official Grand Opening, Saturday, October 6, 2007

Forest Hills, Pittsburgh--September 18, 2007--It has been two years since Forest Hills has had a local dry cleaner and tailor. Patricia DuVall, recently retired schoolteacher, is pleased to be a part of the Forest Hills, Ardmore Business Community. Patricia DuVall is the owner of Strong II Dry Cleaners, which is conveniently located next to Citizens Bank near Subway and the Hands on Healthcare at 3 Parkway Center East. Strong II Dry Cleaners opened in June of 2007. Patricia is proud to be a first time minority, woman business owner and loves the business and the people in the community.

Ms. DuVall, the owner of Strong II Dry Cleaners, brings with her three generations of dry cleaning experience in association with Strong Cleaners, the licensor store. Since 1933, Strong Cleaners has been a community established dry cleaning business. Strong Cleaners is a member of the International Fabric Care Institute, which is an organization devoted to research and analysis of the garment industry and training in the care of fine clothing. Ms. DuVall says, “This makes us also ‘total fabric care specialists,’ backed by over seventy years’ experience of Strong Cleaners.”


Now Patricia says, “You can go to the bank, get a sandwich and drop off or pick up your dry cleaning in the same area. That’s the kind of convenience a community like Forest Hills deserves.”

Strong II Dry Cleaners offers home pick up and delivery service, which can be scheduled by calling Strong II Dry Cleaners at 412-271-6000 or on line at www.strongcleaners.com.

Strong II Dry Cleaners also has a defining niche in its Pre-Paid Value Added StrongCard™ . Clients can receive a savings of 10% to 28% on regular dry cleaning prices.

Another unique and time saving service is Strong II Dry Cleaners’ WorkPlace Valet Service. The aim of this service is to keep employees happy, well groomed, and stress free on the job. Strong II Dry Cleaners will set up drop off and pick up days at workplaces throughout the Greater Pittsburgh Area. Employers can contact Strong II Dry Cleaners to set up designated drop off and pick up days at their workplace. Ms. Duvall says, “What a great time saving opportunity to offer your employees. Instead of running out after work or during a lunch break for dry cleaning needs, Strong II Dry Cleaners can pick up and drop off on scheduled days at the workplace.”

The Official Grand Opening for Strong II Dry Cleaners is on Saturday, October 6, 2007 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Strong II Dry Cleaners invites everyone and especially the Forest Hills Community to come out and meet Patricia DuVall and her staff for a fun and festive day. There will be balloons, refreshments, and activities for everyone. For one day only, October 6, 2007, the Grand Opening Special is a 25% discount on all winter coats and jackets. (dry clean only)



Strong II Dry Cleaners
Located in Forest Hills
Retired Teacher, MWBE Owner
Third Generation Fabric Care Specialists
Convenient Location
Home Pick up and Delivery Service
WorkPlace Valet Service
Pre-Paid Value Added StrongCard™
Grand Opening October 6, 2007
25% off winter coats and jackets

The World Gets Smaller as I Get Older

The World Gets Smaller as I Get Older

I have always been a first class networker and great on follow up even though I will have to will my shoeboxes full of contacts that may never make it to my Act Program. The ones who have, number in the thousands but the internet is a whole new arena that can take you around the world in minutes. Through the wonders of the internet, I have recently met fifty or more people through my Talk Cast shows that I would never have met.

By my own admission, because no one has documented this, I am the only 58 year old talk caster in captivity with four talk casts. So sorry, us talk cast hosts are snobs and don’t like to call it a pod cast which is what it really is. A pod cast is a radio show on the internet but usually is little more than audio blogging. Well, since business owners and seniors have arrived on the scene, pod casts have taken on a whole new format.

My “Techno Granny” Show is an internet talk cast which is recorded live at 7 AM every Monday on the Talk Shoe network at www.talkshoe.com.
“Techno Granny” is a show originally designed to bring baby boomers and beyond up to snuff with 21st Century technology. The need arose because most of my interviewees on “Positively Pittsburgh Live, ” my 7 PM Monday evening show were not conversant with how to access the talk cast to be live.. So I started “Techno Granny” to let people know, “If I can do it, anyone can.” As technology is ever changing, the subject matter grew from there.

To educate my generation was my initial goal, however at 7 AM; the originally targeted audience is either asleep or in gridlock on their way to work. A serendipitous phenomenon of the internet, you never know who is listening and in Sydney, Australia, it’s 9 PM. A young man named Ben Wilson stumbled on to “Techno Granny” around the tenth show and has used Techno Granny as homework entertainment ever since.

Ben Wilson is also a pod caster on Talk Shoe and has a following of his own and brought them with him to listen to Techno Granny. As a result the show has become popular in Australia with the 14 to 25 age group and at 7 AM, a grand group of youngsters from across the ocean log on to listen and participate. Often I get advice from my informal “producers” who help me out with the multi-tasking of running an audio and chat show at the same time. The younger generation has not paradigm shift with technology as a rule.

“Often these guys and gals are in the chat room talking about who knows what while I interview my guest for the week on the scheduled topic.”

Recently Ben e-mailed me to see if I thought he could run a techno show like mine. I suggested he run it the day after mine for technology for teens and call it Techno Teen.” Ben had been running pod casts of his own but basically audio blogging. Thanks to stopping in to various shows on the internet and regularly listening to Techno Granny,” he has become conversant in interviewing guests and running his shows like a radio show.

So now, “Techno Teen” is a transoceanic offshoot of “Techno Granny.” Ben Wilson’s premier “Techno Teen” show aired at 7 AM, EDT, 9 PM in Australia, premiering on October 23, 2007. “Ben’s show will probably garner more live listeners because of the age group and the time slot, however Techno Granny gets a tremendous amount of downloads after the fact as all Talk Shoe shows are archived for listening later.” Also many people just love the name, “Techno Granny.”

Just to give you an idea of how the word spreads, as a result of the “Techno Granny” show, I have been interviewed on a show that originates from Paris, France called “Agless” or Age-Less and hosted by Ran Dulu. Also another granny in Iowa has picked up on the show and blogged about it on her blog, “Boomer2School.”

The internet through pod casts or talk casts and on line social networking has taken networking to a whole new level. When Talk Shoe, the network where my talk casts are hosted advertised a thing called “Ning, “I had no clue what a social networking site was all about, I decided to try it out. I now have around 60 “friends and members” on my Positively Pittsburgh Live site on Ning, who I might not have met even though most are from Pittsburgh. 60 and growing! I hope that you will log on and do some “shameless self-promotion of your own” about your business or profession.
(c) Joanne Quinn-Smith, 2007


Joanne Quinn-Smith is the Creative Energy Officer of Dreamweaver Marketing Associates, a full service marketing company and the host of four talk casts:
“Techno Granny,” “Monday Morning Marketing,” “Professionals with Impact” and “Positively Pittsburgh Live.” Coming in early 2008, Joanne will be the publisher of an On Line Community Magazine, “PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com”
To reach Joanne you may call 412-628-5048 or join her on line social network at: www.pospittlive.ning.com e-mail: jqsdreamweaver@hotmail.com

Transoceanic Techno Granny Show

For Immediate Release Please!

Contact Info:
Joanne Quinn-Smith
Dreamweaver Marketing Associates
412-628-5048

“Techno Granny” Inspires “Techno Teen”
Pittsburgh Talk Cast inspires Australian Teen Caster

Pittsburgh, October 22, 2007, “Techno Granny” is an internet talk cast broadcast run by 58 year old talk caster, Joanne Quinn-Smith and airs at 7 AM every Monday on the Talk Shoe network at www.talkshoe.com. Joanne claims to be the only 58 year old pod caster in captivity with no less than four regular talk casts: “Techno Granny,” “Monday Morning Marketing,” “Professionals with Impact” and “Positively Pittsburgh Live.” Three of the shows air regularly on Monday. Joanne says, “I am a busy person and have just decided that this is my Talk Cast day.” Joanne is President of the National Association of Women Business Owners and recently addressed the NAWBO National conference about “Techno Granny.” She spoke about using pod casting to promote other chapters of NAWBO and also member’s own businesses which is how she uses her talk casts, to promote her business, Dreamweaver Marketing Associates.

“Techno Granny” is a show originally designed to bring baby boomers and beyond up to snuff with 21st Century technology. The need arose because most of her interviewees on “Positively Pittsburgh Live” were not conversant with how to access her show. So she started “Techno Granny” to let people know, “If I can do it, anyone can.”

To educate her generation may have been her goal, however at 7 AM; the originally targeted audience is either asleep or in gridlock on their way to work. A serendipitous phenomenon of the internet, you never know who is listening and in Sydney, Australia, it’s 9 PM. A young man named Ben Wilson stumbled on to “Techno Granny” around the tenth show and has used Techno Granny as homework entertainment ever since.

Ben Wilson is also a pod caster on Talk Shoe and has a following of his own and brought them with him to listen to Techno Granny. As a result the show has become popular in Australia with the 14 to 25 age group and at 7 AM, a grand group of youngsters from across the ocean log on to listen and participate.

Joanne says that often she gets advice from her informal “producers” who help her out with the multi-tasking of running an audio and chat show at the same time.

“Often these guys and gals are in the chat room talking about who knows what while I interview my guest for the week on the scheduled topic.”

Joanne says, “Recently Ben e-mailed me to see if I thought he could run a techno show like mine. I suggested he run it the day after mine for technology for teens and call it Techno Teen.” Ben had been running pod casts of his own but basically audio blogging. Thanks to stopping in to various shows on the internet and regularly listening to Techno Granny,” he has become conversant in interviewing guests and running his shows like a radio show.

So now, “Techno Teen” is a transoceanic offshoot of “Techno Granny.” Ben Wilson’s premier “Techno Teen” show will air at 7 AM, EDT, 9 PM in Australia, premiering on October 23, 2007. Joanne says, “Ben’s show will probably garner more live listeners because of the age group and the time slot, however Techno Granny gets a tremendous amount of downloads after the fact as all Talk Shoe shows are archived for listening later.” Also many people just love the name, “Techno Granny.”

Hi-Lights

58 year old pod caster with 4 Talk Casts
“Techno Granny” has transoceanic listeners—7AM EDT
“Techno Teen” a transoceanic show inspired by “Techno Granny” premier 10-23-07, 7 AM EDT
Australian Youth 14 to 25—Techno Granny fans
Listen to Techno Granny at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/30986
Listen to Positively Pittsburgh Live at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/18520
Listen to Professionals with Impact at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/33431
Listen to Monday Morning Marketing at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/33960
Website: www.pospittlive.ning.com
Website coming: www.positivelypittsburghlivemagazine.com
Some “Techno Granny” titles:

· Episode 7 - That Darned Cell Phone! GeorgeAnne Muchnok of Schooley Mitchell Telecom
· Episode 8 - Blue Tooth, is that a cavity? GeorgeAnne Muchnok of Schooley Mitchell
· Episode 9 - Text messaging--Are you talking to me?
Episode 10 - Quick Books--Quick Nothing if you don't know how?
Episode 11 - Palm Pilot's--Who’s Flying this Plane? Steve Montellese/Virtual Devices
Episode 12 - My Space--What are those kids talking about? Actress Sydney Chase
Episode 13 - Blogging?--a Country Dance? Kirsten Womack/Immackulate Impressions
Episode 15 - Live Chat--where can I hear it? Ben Wilson, Comedian
Episode 16 - What's a Google? Joe Rinehart; Config.com
Episode 18 -On Line Magazine--Where's the Paper? Penny Haynes
Episode 19 -Emily Post--no Emily E-mail
Episode 20 Constant Contact--Contact Who? Kirsten Womak, Im-mack-ulateImpressions
Episode 21 - GPS and On Star--but honey, I'm not lost! Patty Jennings, #! Cochran, Monroeville