What a year! I don’t know anyone who had a “ho hum” 2008. From the election to the economy, we all got a good spin.

There were new discoveries and lots of ideas. A great year in all.

The Dotson family had a few changes and great times.

Nash is following in my footsteps with his rice at a Japanese restaurant

and golf.

My brother and I went to a great concert.

The Pool at Andover was fun.

My family welcomed a new addition, Parker, in July. And, since his b-day is July 1, I know I can remember it easily!

We added another one in August – different kind of baby though.

(Of course there are lots of other pics – we’re considering buying stock in Seagate – but I’ll leave those for another time.)

Thanks to my wonderful wife, Jen, for making our house a home and being a great mom to the boys. She’s the queen of holiday fun – as you can see by our Halloween face painting:

Thanks to everyone who helped me in 2008:

John and Bill – the credit card wizards

Russ and everyone at HEA

Julie and everyone at Ventas

John Lee, Perry Hoffman, and Tucker Oldham

Chris and the Pattco team

Nick Huhn, Scott Clark, Jason Falls

David Caldwell and Brittney Edwards of the Lexington Ad Club

Jim Host (great advice)

Scott Williams at Morgan Stanley

Nick Rice – the marketing expert, John Meyers – a great small biz attorney and consultant, Kent Howell – the sales consultant, and Chris Powell – who knows how to treat your employees (and needs to get his web site up!)

Brian and the guys at Sfenity/Apax

The WebMedley Team and all our clients across the US

Vladimir and friends at IUCN

Kirk at Cardinal Office Products

Lou Allegra and the Vistage Lexington members

Tom Nickell and the former staff at Lightworks

Sean Massey

Joanna Betlej at eAnkaDesign

Grant Friedman at ColorBurned

Bev Hagan and the Fifth-Third Hamburg team

What’s in Store for 2009?

Hard work, lots of fun, and more pictures: a christening, Seabrook, the Dominican Republic or Jamaica, the Derby Ball, a few birthdays (we’re up to 5 in the family now), golf lessons, growing our web hosting business, and remembering to enjoy life as we live it.

I just added a video on how to list your business in local directories.

The blog post is titled: Adding Your Organization to Local Directories.

Every business should be in these directories.

 

Last week, Scott Clark, Nick Huhn, Jason Falls, and I gave a 101 event for 60+ people. The event was sponsored by the Lexington Advertising Club.

I had the pleasure of moderating the three experts. They put together a great presentation and a wonderful document that’s like a Getting Started guide. Scott recorded the whole presentation and has posted it online for everyone to see.

The presentation and video are below. The Digital Dialogues Handout is here.