January 2010
9 posts
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute...”
– - Theodore Roosevelt
(via reluctantbuddha via jackmorgan)
December 2009
8 posts
Sweet Holiday Cheer
In what can be described as Twitter’s equivalent to “Norm” (for the youngins, a boisterous alcohol-related greeting offered a character on the Boston-based TV show Cheers), I recently posted this question:
Within minutes, 10 sets of instructions appeared in my stream. @9to5to9 pointed me to the recipe her husband learned in bartender school. @mrch0mp3rs suggested adding a little...
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eLearning vs ILT stats?
I received a call this afternoon from two strangers who found my name and number on the web, who were looking for some fast stats to use in a presentation for their department about the cost of elearning development as compared to instructor led training.
Caller ID said they were Florida based, and they refered to their department as the “Impact Learning Group.” They were asking...
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Best New Year's Resolution? A Stop-Doing List
by Jim Collin, originally published in USA Today
Each time the New Year rolls around and I sit down to do my annual resolutions, I reflect back to a lesson taught me by a remarkable teacher. In my mid-20s, I took a course on creativity and innovation from Rochelle Myers and Michael Ray at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and I kept in touch with them after I graduated.
One day, Rochelle...
“If you want to know what we think is important, look at how we spend our time....”
– Galen Guengerich in “A Steadiness of Days” (PDF) All Souls Unitarian Church, New York City, June 1, 2008
Robert Hass, Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005