When it comes to nurturing professional relationships and developing a community, LinkedIn is one of the best resources.

Not only is a LinkedIn group free to create, it can enable you to offer your professional network a vibrant, useful information resource, all while driving traffic to your site and increasing sales.

It can be easy to become 'friends' or 'connected' with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.

Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

I love talking about the game and passing on knowledge if I can but being a coach full time is another story.

Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.

Although the ACLU would argue that it is unconstitutional for me, as a public official, to do this in a government building, let alone at a football game, I will end with my prayer for the next administration: Please God, no more Souters.