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The Wisdom of Engineers, Part 1
My dad’s an engineer. My brother’s an engineer. My spouse is an engineer. I’m surrounded by super-smart DISC profile “C” types. Ever in a situation you really don’t know how to fix/resolve? Apply one of…
Read More →How do you unplug?
Why do we feel like we have to be “on” all the time? OK, sometimes you genuinely have too much work to do in 40ish hours a week. That was the case for me at…
Read More →Not Turkey AGAIN!
When I was 5 years old, I went to a small elementary school that, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, provided a full turkey meal with all the trimmings for the students. That year, we had the…
Read More →Data, Data, Who’s Got the Data?
We all want to make better decisions, right? And the best way to do that is to base them on data, right? And the first piece of data everyone always wants is ROI, right? Let’s…
Read More →Ada Lovelace Day Post: Mary Dixon Kies
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, I’d like to recognize Mary Dixon Kies, the first woman to be awarded a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office, in May of 1809, over 100 years…
Read More →It’s Not the Tools, Yo!
It’s the management! One of the MAIN points I make in any presentation I do on SocMed is that people who want to ban b/c of “productivity issues” are focusing on the wrong thing. Big…
Read More →Visual Thinking
Still pondering the whole idea of visual thinking from Dan Roam’s keynote at the recent Great Ideas Conference. I am not a visual thinker. There are white boards all over the offices at Beaconfire, and…
Read More →Let The Members Decide!
NOT ANOTHER MEMBER SURVEY! EEEEKKK!!! Because you know what always happens – you only find out what you already knew because that was all you thought to ask about. Also, you’re terrified of including any…
Read More →Forget “Don’t Be Evil.” What about “Don’t Be Creepy”?
I got back from Tech to find an email from one of my coworkers entitled: Last night Facebook blew my mind. It was about his first encounter with FB Social Ads. For those who haven’t…
Read More →Meeting Formats: Everything Old Is New Again?
Last week, I was invited to participate in an upcoming session at ASAE on “creating provocative and edgy learning topics and formats” for the 2009 AM. Aside from some momentary uncertainty about whether I’m really…
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