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My heart is in Myanmar - SharePoint for Disasters
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My favorite pic from my recent trip to DC is this one, from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.  The full set of those pictures is viewable as a set and a slideshow.

I think this one is the most interesting for a few reasons.  It’s also one of my new SuperFavs.  For me, it [...]

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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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You may have stolen my phone charger, my camera, one pair of sunglasses, a pair of gloves, the owner’s manual, and some binoculars…

…but you didn’t get the rhinestone sunglasses! And, you didn’t get me to stop smiling. So, HA!

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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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best slippery slope ever
“Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll take a shot. Say I’m working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m real happy with myself, ’cause [...]

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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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This is posted in the bottom right of this blog’s current layout.
ECG Management Consultants is my current employer.  I am their Knowledge Manager.  While that may sound like I know what I’m talking about, I am specifically stating here that everything I post on this blog represents me, my opinions and my personal perspectives.  I [...]

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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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I think they keep stuff in beta so then they can take it out of beta and have an inflated story and something else to draw attention to it.  Well, that makes three things.  It exists.  It gets used and someone comments about about it, while it’s in beta.  Then it goes out of beta, [...]

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In reply to this post, I’m reposting my comments here.

First, nice post. You made it sound like a 60 Minutes commentary by Andy Rooney.
Second, I think you missed the point. It’s remarkable. (I know you read Seth Godin.) I heard about it from a co-worker. Then I heard about it again from this post. Neither [...]

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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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