To get something new, different, or better — one must change. To stay the same and be wowed by everything changing around us, that is not wise. To stay the same and to be unwise, that alienates. To alienate, that yields corresponding results. How are you going to make change happen and learn to enjoy [...]
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die I’m reading Made to Stick. The timing is excellent….
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TEDxNextGenerationAsheville – Birke Baehr – “What’s Wrong With Our Food System” HT: my friend Carrie who shared it on Facebook
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As I work with clients and also in my own life, I am often challenged to come up with solutions to various issues. I think we need to look at things from different perspectives. Solutions do not need to be overly complex and they don’t have to be expensive. This TED talk challenges a few [...]
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Virgin America had a bad flight. It turned out not to be such a disaster because they (sort of) dealt with it early. United, on the other hand, well they shat on their own faces by being dorks about breaking a guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo I kinda like the song. I’d like it even more if it [...]
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This past month I moved across the country, back to the Seattle, Washington area. I love it here! And, I’m glad to be back. This trip back was done with everything I own able to fit into my truck with the top carrier. It was not really that tight of a fit. That’s mostly because I [...]
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There are many reasons. One of the Twitter co-founders writes about one good one. They listened.
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It’s always time to simplify. We need to make information simple. We need to listen and organize and purge. We need to be patient with those around us who adapt at different rates. We need to revisit our approach. I just watched this “Web 2.0″ video again. It is information overload. Yet, it also is [...]
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From: The Webby Awards – The Webby Top 10 HT: Awards honor top 10 Internet moments of the decade Also, (note from me, not the quote below) this same decade was the one where SharePoint took off! The Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade Craigslist expands outside San Francisco (2000) In 2000, the free classifieds site [...]
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In response to this goodbye post by Carmine Cayote, I have replied: “Carmine~ Thank you so much for your input into the various communities. I have appreciated and learned, not just from your direct input, but also from the results of that input being applied by myself and others. Your reference to “religion” struck a [...]
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I had to pause this video about half way through because I could not stop crying. Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery Are we truly free?
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