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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This is a CASE study. Regardless of what you think about Facebook, it’s HUGE. If you hate it, you probably should learn to love it. That’s just reality. Even if your perception is what you really want, you should go with reality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8NdNy4wOM
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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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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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Barry Atkinson is spending time and energy on one of his passions. I’m helping him with his blog and getting that puzzle piece situated. Mostly, I’m watching the picture take shape! It will be fun to watch this story unfold. See ScoreboardEh.com for some hockey cards from Candada, eh! P.S. awesome ways to start 004
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In the past week as I’ve been using my iPhone, 3 people who are in their 60′s or older have asked me… “Can you explain text messages to me?” “Can you look up things on the Internet with that?” “What is Twitter?” The cool part is that all three people got excited about using technology [...]
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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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