Positively PIttsburgh Live Perks, Vol 4

These great perks are culled from

• the guests of PositivelyPittsburghLive™., The show airs on the Talk Shoe network at 7 PM EST every Monday.

• members of Positive Pittsburghers: http://positivepittsburghers.com

• Guests of the TechnoGrannyShow™

• Memebers of PositivePittsburghers™ Group on LinkedIn

• Vendors on PostiivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com

• Other Positive Pittsburghers from non-profits who send me their info

In this Issue:

No Cost Events

Part Time Jobs

Where in the World is TechnoGranny™?

Shows Hosted by TechnoGranny that You May Have Missed?



No Cost Events





SEI Webinar Series: Improving and Sustaining Processes for Managing Operational Resiliency: CERT’s Resiliency Management Model

WEBINARS

Start Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010

End Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010

Start Time: 1:00 PM

End Time: 2:00 PM

Organization's need the ability to fulfill business missions despite disruptions (i.e security breaches or natural disasters) Learn how at this free webinar: http://bit.ly/86mIsl





Local Pediatric Dentist Providing Free Teeth Cleaning To Kids In Need

Good morning! Please see the information below regarding February's National Children's Dental Health Month and how one dentist is looking to help children in need. Please pass this information along to any person or organization who may need this service for their children!



A local pediatric dentist, Dr. Jennifer Pacella of Mars Dental Specialists, is planning "Give Kids a Smile Day" for February 5th. This is a day-long program offering underserved children an opportunity to receive teeth cleanings and oral examinations free of charge - no insurance required. This program is supported by the American Dental Association and is being used as a platform to bring awareness to the silent epidemic of oral disease in children of low-income families across the nation.



With the arrival of the children from Haiti, Dr. Pacella would like to extend the invitation out to them and their caregivers as well as local children in need of attention. Mars Dental Specialists is located at 160 Brickyard Road, Suite 500, Mars, PA 16046. If you have additional questions, please contact me at 412-298-7333 or reply to this posting.



Thanks,



Ashley Moss

ashleymoss.events@gmail.com

Where in the World is TechnoGranny™?

Pittsburgh’s First Ever Live Tweet Up!

Sponsored by PositivelyPittsburghLive™, TechnoGranny™ and Entrepreneurial Thursdays.



Bring your iphones, blackberries and other handhelds and find twitter friends to follow and twitter friends to follow you.________________________________________

The "ENTREPRENEURIAL THURSDAYS" Happy Hour Show

Live Music by City's Great Jazz/R&B Artists!

Interviews @ Musical Break with City's Leading Entrepreneurs/Innovators!

Great Business & Professional Networking!

January 28, 2010

"Entrepreneurs with Success Using Social Media"

First Ever Pittsburgh Live Tweet Up

PositivelyPittsburghLive and TechnoGranny Tweet Up

Come find people to follow and get people to follow you!

Featuring Interviews with:

• Host Joanne Quinn-Smith, the TechnoGranny, SBA Journalist of the Year has created a social media platform of blogs, talkcasts and an online community magazine, PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com (http://pplmag.com)



• Jo Ann Forrester, Empress of Biz TalkShoe Talkcast (http://tinyurl.com/EmpressofBiz)



• Marben Bland, MarbenBlandGroup, Social Media Employment Strategist (http://marbenblandgroup.com)



• Donna Baxter, Soul Pitt Media, On Line Internet Community, Online and Terrestial Radio (http://thesoulpitt.com)

• Scott Kerschbaumer, ESSpa Kozmetika Organic Skincare

Uses all forms of social media to market his business, one of top spas in the country (www.esspa.com)

• Curtis and Cassandra Brown, Jireh Mobile, Interactive and Blue Tooth Marketing, Uses Text Messaging Marketing (www.jirehmobile.com)

Community Interview

Meet Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre!

What could make a ballet company an innovator? Meet Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre! Learn about the dancers, the dance makers and why PBT is one of Pittsburgh's most exciting cultural organizations.

Also Get Your Complimentary Copy Just off the Presses Copy of Pittsburgh Women’s Yellow Pages and Meet the Publisher, Ann Marie Gire.

Vocalist Jessica Lee & Friends

LIVE RHYTHM, JAZZ & BLUES

Musical Networking Happy Hour

EVERY THURSDAY!!!

5:30 PM - 8 PM

Little E's Jazz & Blues

949 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

2nd Floor above Mahoney's Restaurant

412.392.2217

Cover Charge: Only $5.00!

Shows hosted by TechnoGranny™, Joanne Quinn-Smith that you may have missed.





Techno Granny Show™—Updates on 21st Century Technology Live at 7 AM EDT, Mondays or listen archived.



11/16/2009 Techno Granny, Twitter Twitter Ramblings by TG herself

11/16/2009 Techno Granny, Twitter Chat, You Don't Have to be a Twit

11/30/2009 Techno Granny, TechPOWR, Ladies Grab Technology and Whistle

12/07/2009 Techno Granny, Windows 7, Are You Ready, Willing and Able

12/14/2009 Techno Granny, Macrobiotics, Improving Health with Plant Based Diets

12/21/2009 Techno Granny, Christmas Technology of the Fifties

01/04/2010 Techno Granny, 2009 Shows in Review, Highlights

01/11/2010 Techno Granny, Device to Make You Look Younger without Surgery?

01/25/2010 Techno Granny, Alternative Phone Service for Your Business







Monday Morning Marketeer™—15 minute no cost seminars on how to jump start your business with no cost or just your time!

Live at 9 AM EDT Mondays or Listen Archived



11/02/2009 Monday Morning Marketeer, Customer Service, Fact or Fiction

11/16/2009 Monday Morning Marketeer, Listening to Your Clients and Prospects

11/23/2009 Monday Morning Marketeer, Customer Service in Advance

11/30/2009 Monday Morning Marketeer, Customer Service Can Never Be Too Enthusiastic

12/14/2009 Monday Morning Marketeer, Legendary Santa Claus Type Customer Service

01/25/2010 Monday Morning Marketeer, Customer Service Two Best Tools









PositivelyPittsburghLive™ All the Good News About Pittsburgh, Live at 7 PM Mondays or Listen Archived



11/04/2009 Positively Pittsburgh Live!Specil Edition Racial Justice Awards

11/09/2009 Positively Pittsburgh Live! Coro Center for Civic Leadership Mock Elections

11/16/2009 Positively Pittsburgh Live! Go to On The Spot, Positively Pittsburgh

11/18/2009 Positively Pittsburgh Live! CORO Center Civic Leadership Running for Office

11/23/2009 Positively Pittsburgh Live! Pittsburgh Holiday Happenings

12/07/2009 Positively Pittsburgh Live! Pittsurgh Cultural Holiday Events

12/14/2009 Positively Pittsburgh Live! Steeler Alumni Life After Football

12/21/2009 Positively Pittsburgh Live! Pittsburgh Helping Organizations



01/04/2010 Positively Pittsburgh Live! Positively Pittsburgh News and 2009 Review

01/11/2010 Positively Pittsburgh Live! Pittsburgh Financial, Business Outlook 2010



01/25/2010 Positively Pittsburgh Live! Pittsburgh Haiti Relief Efforts



Listen to all archived shows at: http://pplmag.com

PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com, Pittsburgh on Line Community Magazine and Pittsburgh Internet Radio and TV Network

Pittsburgh Talkcast Host Celebrates 100 Shows

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Joanne Quinn-Smith, Host and Publisher
PositivelyPittsburghLive™ Talkcast, PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com™
412-628-5048
jqsdreamweaver@aol.com
joanne@positivelypittsburghlivemagazine.com


Pittsburgh Talkcast Host Celebrates 100 Shows
Interviewing Pittsburgh Centenarians
Positively Pittsburgh Live Explores Only Pittsburgh Positive News


Pittsburgh, January 2, 2008 Centenarians and the anniversary of 100 shows, what could go better together, unless the centenarians are quick witted and humorous and the show’s content is only positive news stories. Positively Pittsburgh Live Talkcast™ is a show about all the positive news about Pittsburgh. Host, Joanne Quinn-Smith began recording the one hour show in February, 2007 every Monday from 7 PM to 8 PM EST to combat the negative news about wrecks and shootings and burglaries. The theme of the show is: “All the Positive News for Pittsburghers, about Pittsburghers and By Pittsburghers. “ In 100 Shows, Joanne Quinn-Smith has interviewed over 300 guests each week taking on a positive core value, institution or topic concerning Pittsburgh every week. On Monday, December 22, 2008 she celebrated Positively Pittsburgh Live’s 100th show with two centenarians who live at St Barnabas Assisted Living in Gibsonia. The interviews with the two Centenarians were on the spot interviews and later interspersed with the usual 15 minutes of Positive News combined with a live guest interview.

The live guests were Cathy Brenneman, Director of Public Relations and Advertising for St. Barnabas Health System and Jim Roddy, spokesperson for Presents for Patients which is run in five States through the St. Barnabas charities. Jim Roddy, former Allegheny County Executive is also the “unspoiled” only son of Margaret Lichtenstein, one of the Pittsburgh Centenarians interviewed for Positively Pittsburgh Live™.

In the Live interview Margaret Lichtenstein talks about her life since 1909 including North and South Carolina, Texas and now here in Pittsburgh. The prides of her life are her awards in elocution as a young girl, her business man/public servant son and her first 15 point buck that she shot when she took up hunting at 66 years young. She shot a buck every year for 15 years, says deer meat is her favorite meat and she would not have killed it if she didn’t intend to eat it. She still has the head of her first buck on the wall in her living room. Mrs. Lichtenstein will be 100 in January and is a life long avid reader who still listens to books on tape and accredits her longevity to keeping busy and constantly educating herself.

On the other hand, Marie Provanzano, 101, is a delightful and humorous Pittsburgh native of Swissvale who tells stories of her native Swissvale which has always been an ethnic Italian neighborhood. Marie loves people and had 120 people at her 100th birthday party, showing that her family and friends are still growing over the years. She accredits her longevity to her love of people and her faith in God. She also does not discount her Italian heritage which gave to her a love of fun, music and dancing. She also enjoys the St. Barnabas Community and her relationships with her neighbors in other apartments. She still likes to do her own laundry at 101.

Pittsburgh Centenarians and 100 shows in almost two years have inspired host Joanne Quinn-Smith but since February, 2007, she has had no dearth of inspiration in the Positive aspects of the Steel City. In 2009, her editorial calendar included:

Pittsburgh—on the Cutting Edge, Technology
February—Pittsburgh’s Black History, Events, Historic Communities, Heroes
March-- Pittsburgh Creative Arts
April—Pittsburgh’s Helping Hands
May—Pittsburgh Mothers/Fathers; Pittsburgh in Bloom
Pittsburgh Parks
June—Pittsburgh a Vacation Destination
July—Pittsburgh Tech Capital
August—Pittsburgh Schools and Universities
September—Pittsburgh Sports
October—Pittsburgh Economic Strength and Viability in Current Economics
November-Pittsburgh Schools, Community Outreach
December-Pittsburgh Restaurants, Tea Rooms, Parties

In her quest for the Positive News, host, Joanne Quinn-Smith has been led to interview
these Pittsburgh notables such as:

• Dr. Kenton J. Zehr, Chief Cardiac Surgeon, UPMC
• Clarence Hopson, Deputy Director, Allegheny County Parks Department
• Tom Savini, nationally acclaimed actor, director, and special make-up effects artist
• Tom Link, Urban Redevelopment Authority
• Ed Fasulo, The Pittsburgh Casino
• Teresa Conn, Pittsburgh Passion
• Penny Folino, Folino’s Restaurant, Tom’s Diner
• Bill Flannigan of Pittsburgh 250 and Our Region’s Business
• Magdeline E. Jensen, CEO of Greater Pittsburgh YWCA
• Kathryn J. Heidemann, Director of Pittsburgh’s First Night

Positively Pittsburgh Live editorial calendar in 2009 will address in January, Pittsburgh Warm up Activities and Winter Sports. Other topics for the year will be Pittsburgh Communities, Pittsburgh as and Ethnic Melting Pot, Pittsburgh Business Organizations and various topics dealing with 25 year celebration of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Hi-Lights:
• Positively Pittsburgh Live™ Talkcast celebrated 100 shows
• Positively Pittsburgh Live™ only reports the Positive News about the Greater Pittsburgh Area
• Centenarians Interviewed: Margaret Lichtenstien, 100, Marie Provanzano 101
• Live Guests:
• Jim Roddy, former Allegheny County Executive and spokesperson for Presents for Patients
• Cathy Brenneman, PR and Marketing Director for St. Barnabas Health System
• PositivelyPittsburghLiveMagazine.com™ provides an online community magazine for Pittsburghers, with calendar and forum and a cost effective way for local merchants and organizations to advertize.

This show is archived at www.talkshoe.com at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/18520
or:
http://www.positivelypittsburghlivemagazine.com on its own unique radio channel

Episode 56, 1 Year Anniversary Positively Pittsburgh Live; Pittsburgh Authors

Episode 56, 1 Year Anniversary Positively Pittsburgh Live; Pittsburgh Authors

The line up of Pittsburgh Authors was diverse and nothing short of brilliant. It’s amazing when you get a group of creative people together who have not previously talked how recurring themes emerge. And that is the most I am going to say about that because I don’t want to spoil the show for you.

Check out this line-up:

• Nancy Stampahar; "Peace, Love, Lemonade, a recipe to make your life sweeter;"
• Gina Mazza Hillier; “Everything Matters, Nothing Matters;” “Romancing the Future;” co-author, “Cosmic Kids”
• John Brewer: “African Americans in Pittsburgh;” also “Pittsburgh Jazz”
• Diane Fletcher and Weston Lyon: “Creating Space 39 Strategies To Help You Make Time for What's Important;”
• Weston Lyon: “Fit in Fifteen;” “Use it to Lose It”
• Joyce Faulkner, For Shrieking Out Loud;“In the Shadow of Suribachi;" "Sunchon Tunnel Massacre Survivors"
• Lisa L. Spahr: “WWII Radio Heroes: Letters of Compassion;”


Guest bios:

John M. Brewer, Jr., is a historian and consultant for the Pittsburgh Courier archive project, a consultant for the Carnegie Museum of Art's Charles Teenie Harris photograph project and the curator and founder of the Trolley Station Oral History Center and author of the Black American Series African Americans in Pittsburgh. John also owns one of the largest banquet ballroom facilities in Pittsburgh, the Coliseum. John is one of the foremost authorities in the country on African American History and a much sought after researcher and speaker. John’s unique brand of historical story telling has added much to the history of African American Culture in Pennsylvania and around the country.

Joyce Faulkner I writes history, historical fiction and humor. Her blogs are: http://www.forshriekingoutloud.blogspot.com and http://www.rrpstorytellers.blogspot.com. She is a speaker and consultant for folks who want to write and publish books. In particular, she works with the veteran community – although she has helped all sorts of people write their stories and publish them. She evaluates books that people have written and gives them advice on how to prepare their writing for publication. She ghostwrites for those who have a story but do not wish to write it themselves.

Diana Fletcher Author, Speaker, & TotalHealth Coach
Diana is the author of Creating Space. She’s also the publisher of a monthly newsletter called TotalHealth. Diana is an energized, yet down-to-earth speaker for businesses, organizations, and associations on how to reach TotalHealth. Diana is a recognized authority on fitness & nutrition. Using her experience and knowledge, she helps clients find time to exercise and eat right. Diana works with individuals, as well as entire families (at once).

Gina Mazza Hillier is a journalist, editor, co-author of two nonfiction books and a founding partner of Epiphany Works, LLC. To learn more about Gina and her upcoming book events and media appearances, visit: EverythingmattersNothingmatters.com, Ginawriter.com and epiphanyworks.org.. Everything Matters, Nothing Matters is for the woman who finds herself overworked, under-inspired and lost amid the demands of spouse, house, kids and kin, and/or long hours at an unfulfilling job – with zero time for herself. Its 7-step plan encourages readers to step back, get real and joyfully reclaim who they are.

Weston Lyon Author, Speaker, & KING of the Functional Fitness Jungle Weston is the author of the internationally recognized book USE IT TO LOSE IT. Weston is a passionate, dynamic speaker who is a master at bringing the audience to life and getting them involved. He speaks to companies, organizations, and associations across the country on…Weston personally coaches a select group of clients in the picturesque town of Sewickley, PA. As one of the leading authorities on functional fitness, Weston helps his clients become stronger, more flexible, and full of energy.

Lisa L. Spahr, Author and Life Coach Lisa Spahr is a master’s level psychologist and sole proprietor of Spahr Consulting, a life coaching business based in Pittsburgh. She has an extensive background working in law and psychiatry and the military and policing domains with respect to human performance and optimization. Before finishing her book she could be found on a military base wearing a gas mask, firing an M-16 and leading a squad of soldiers through a simulated village; or flying over L.A. with the L.A.P.D. during a gang takeover; interviewing psychopaths in prison; or teaching our front-line officers how to stop a suicide bombers.

Nancy Stampahar is an organizational development consultant, trainer and keynote speaker who earned her degree in human resource management and created her own business, Silver Lining Solutions®, after she decided to make lemonade. Nancy delivers a new, clever twist to the "When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade" metaphor. From her real-life personal and professional stories and examples, Nancy Stampahar explores the power of choice with a practical, how-to approach to empower people to live happy and fulfilling lives.

Despite the echo in audio which my sound engineer, Greg Matthis, is trying hard to alleviate with editing, this is a great talk cast. ( By the way, this is the first time that I have ever had this kind of audio challenge on Talk Shoe. Someone called in on the call using VOIP microphone and did not have their volume turned down. It was not a guest but a listener.)