Sherri Ross

05
Feb
2016

You asked for it!

It’s that time again…dance walk time! I haven’t done a dance walk since April of 2014 (shame on me!), so it’s long past due. The last one was a bit rained out, but we shall motor on! The People have been asking for it and the People shall have it! 🙂

What is dance walking? Fun, free fitness! It’s basically a moving, dancing flash mob. It’s insanely fun and chaotic and spastic and everything that an afternoon of music should be in Birmingham. I first saw the idea here and have been doing them (somewhat sporadically) in Birmingham ever since.

Our next dance was has me exceptionally excited because of our partners. We have fitness fabs Zyp Bikeshare and SOL Dance Experience on board as our presenting sponsors. We can’t thank them enough and will be telling you more about both in the coming weeks.

To get all the details for the Dance Walk coming up on in the Parkside District at 4p.m. on March 20th, check out the Facebook event here (and be sure to RSVP too!). We’ll have giveaways, music, and dancing – all for FREE! What more could you ask for?

See you on March 20th with my dancing shoes on!

02
Feb
2016

I finally did it (and a special deal)!

categories: goal

Sorry, I’m a wee bit excited. I finally launched my new site – goal #1 for 2016, CHECK! I’ve been working on it behind the scenes for some time now, but hadn’t been able to put the finishing touches on it quite yet…until tonight. Behold, my new YGR site with my blog, information about Birmingham Girls Club, Birmingham Dance Walks, and my services – technical consulting and social media – all under one pretty purple and green roof!

Please look over the site, take it for a test spin, tell me what you do and don’t like about it, and let’s tweak this puppy! As a special thank you for being loyal readers (and in honor of this LOVELY month), I’m offering a deeply discounted one hour technical consultation called “Date with Your Site” where you can ask me anything you like or have me help you with an issue (or ten! Whatever fits into an hour). You can read more about the special here.

Now for the side-by-side comparison:

Muuuuuch better. Let me know if I can help you with your site!

24
Jan
2016

Acupuncture? Sure!

categories: health

Photo courtesy of http://anthosacupuncture.com/

I have wanted to try acupuncture for quite a while, ever since I heard it might help with my plantar fasciitis pain. I had inquired around Birmingham, to no avail, and was happy to see a Facebook event pop up on my timeline about a new herbal and acupuncture clinic in town.

Anthos Acupuncture & Herbal Clinic opened a few months ago off Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard near Vulcan. They had an open house last week to introduce the community to Fotios Sardelis and his practice of traditional Chinese medicine. His focus includes acupuncture, Chinese herbs and tea.

Traditional Chinese medicine has been used for thousands of years to help resolve ailments by restoring balance to our bodies without harmful side effects, unlike many traditional Western medicine treatments. Foti uses a special combination of these medicines to treat ailments such as headaches, weight loss, hypertension, sprain, depression, neck pain, rheumatoid arthritis, and more.

The clinic is very nice and serene, with 2 private rooms for treatments and a kitchen in back with warm Chinese tea at the ready. During the open house, I tried one of the “relaxing” teas and loved it, feeling less stressed than when I had arrived. Foti also took the time to tell me more about traditional Chinese medicine and went through his cabinet of herbs with me, describing the purpose of each.

I’ll be making my first acupuncture appointment soon and hope you will join along for the ride. While I’m not afraid of needles, I don’t necessarily want 20 in me at once so this will be very interesting. I’m more interested to see if a series of treatments will help relieve my plantar fasciitis pain, which I’ve been told it can do.

Anthos Acupuncture & Herbal Clinic can be found at 1901 Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard South, behind the Law Office of Kathy Long Skipper (go around the back of the building). You can also find his web site here and on Facebook here. Drop by and visit Foti to find out more about his education, his treatments, and some tea.

19
Jan
2016

Do you Periscope? You should Katch.

categories: #techtuesdays

It’s time again for #TechTuesdays with You Got Rossed!

A friend of mine recently started broadcasting on Periscope. If you don’t know what Periscope is, it’s basically live video streaming wherever you are while you’re doing or watching whatever. Anyone with a Twitter account can Periscope. Think of it as your own personal YouTube channel without a lot of the YouTube fuss. You download the app, you press a button, and viola – you’re live streaming to the world!

The good thing about Periscope is the ability to start sharing with anyone, anywhere, doing anything. The bad thing about Periscope is it doesn’t live on the internet indefinitely for people to watch later. Well, not on its own. When you start a Periscope broadcast you can choose whether to make it accessible after you finish the broadcast or not. If you choose to save it, people can open the app after you’ve finished and still watch your broadcast for up to 24 hours. If you don’t choose to save it, it’s deleted as soon as you’re done broadcasting. Until now…

Katch is a great application that integrates with Twitter to allow you to keep and share your Periscope (or Meerkat) broadcasts as you like. This is extremely beneficial for someone who has missed your ‘scope (as they’re called) and won’t be able to watch it for some time. With the Katch app, you can provide a link to it and they can watch it any time.

You can find out more about Katch at their web site here including learn how to use it and sign up for it.

Happy ‘scoping!

17
Jan
2016

What’s Your Word for 2016?

categories: goals

My friend Jennifer recently wrote a post about her word for 2016. It’s ‘action.’ I love that! It prompted me to think about what word I would want to represent me in 2016. It’s RESULTS! That is what 2016 is going to be all about from finances to entrepreneurship to my day job to my health.

During Javacia’s #GoalDiggers workshop earlier this year, I really thought about what I wanted for this year and put pen to paper. My big, overall goals are to save some mega bucks and pay down my bills, get in much better shape health-wise, kick off my side gigs of technical consulting and social media training, and really expand the platform I was hired for at work. I put numbers with all those things and have created “Momentum Moves” to help me get there and have my accountability partners checking up on me!

So, my word this year will be results and I plan to have an epic blog post at the end of the year with all those results listed, along with the numbers I have projected for myself. What is your works for 2016? How are you going to get there?