Tweblog - Toby Getsch

Maybe it’s a new calling…
My heart is in Myanmar - SharePoint for Disasters
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Recently I’ve had a number of opportunities to listen to people’s stories, to people’s daily happenings, to people’s frustrations, to peoples’s pieces of their lives.  Yesterday I was particularly interested in a friend’s perspectives on some political things.  I genuinely wanted to understand and to see if his perspectives would add some different colors to [...]

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Intro
Well, it’s a Thursday.  Once again, I’m at work early.  I like the calm and quiet of the mornings.  It allows me to think clearly, feel fully and breath with ease.  I’ve been this way for a while, going back to working at the health club during college through the mid-90’s.  I had mostly early [...]

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I just added this as my Facebook status.  “Toby is quagmire laden, feeling morose, exhausted, refreshed, enlightened, verbose, confused, capable, smart, hungry, thirsty, and finally some enchanted melancholy.”

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March 20 is today’s date.  This year it’s the 80th day of the year (leap year).  There are 286 days remaining.  It’s the first day of Spring!  It’s also plenty of other things.  Three of those things, I think are really cool.
Today is World Storytelling Day!
Today is the birthday of Frederick W. Taylor - an [...]

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Sometimes we have to be really loud to make it know that we mean business.
Sometimes we have to listen to make it known that we mean business.
Sometimes we have to mute ourselves to make it know that we mean business.
Sometimes we have to encourage others.
Sometimes we have to praise others.
Sometimes we have to deflect praise.
Sometimes [...]

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I do a lot of training, educating, troubleshooting, listening, brainstorming, teaching, helping, coaching and various other sorts of communicating.  I’m constantly trying to evaluate good ways to convey messages to others and to understand their messages to me.  When I’m doing it well, I’m trying to understand their messages first, and doing that objectively.
This post [...]

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Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share
“Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive company, providing superior value to shareholders, better choice and innovation for customers and partners”

Yahoo! Board of Directors to Evaluate [...]

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I have been following a lot of information for several years now.  I do that with blogs, with RSS feeds, with alerts, with email newsletters, with a few hard copy magazine subscriptions, with some journals, and also a lot with listening in whatever way possible.
I’ve come to some conclusions.
I can change the world.
Everyone has the [...]

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Towards the Knowledge Economy
More on the Evolution towards the Knowledge Economy
UPDATE: Final Thoughts on the Evolution towards a Knowledge Economy
The Long Nose of Innovation

You may not care about those articles if:

you are not a thinker
you don’t care about how, and you just want “it” to work
you think it’s someone else’s job
you are not curious
you do [...]

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This is said so well.
“Truly talented people are ambidextrous - they can focus on the task at hand, while simultaneously scanning the skies for what might upset their chosen directions.  Listening to such talented people is one of the best ways for the top management of companies to be aware of the risks inherent in [...]

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I am in Fort Benning, GA.  This trip was a surprise.  Both Tim Getsch and I flew down today to surprise Terry.  We both could not be more proud!  Out of [UPDATE: approximately 230] 240, only 96 passed.  My youngest brother is one of them.
Terry, thank you for your service and your example.  You are [...]

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This is a repost.  It’s worth mentioning again…
 
“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop [...]

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Sir Isaac Newton once said:

I know not what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem tohave been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all [...]

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Official Google Reader Blog: “We found it!”
The Google Reader Team just improved my experience reading blogs and following various RSS feeds - again.  They did it this time by adding search.
Go figure, Google added search. 
Well, it is unique in that it lets me search through the many feeds that I already follow, not [...]

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