January 22nd, 2009
January 20th, 2009
The following is a transcript of the inaugural poem recited by Elizabeth Alexander: Praise song for the day. Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others’ eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, [Read More…]
January 18th, 2009
As a young college student, I did not know a great deal about Martin Luther King. I knew the name, I knew about the “Dream Speech”, I knew that he had been assassinated, but that was about it. And then something happened. For one of my writing assignments in an English class I was taking [Read More…]
January 16th, 2009
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. [Read More…]
January 16th, 2009
January 15th, 2009
January 14th, 2009
If you need innovation (and I think you probably do), you need diversity. For more and more organizations in more and more industries, creativity and innovation are rapidly becoming the best new opportunity for establishing competitive advantage. This is no big secret as there is a great deal of writing, talking, buzz-wording, best-practicing and shouting [Read More…]
January 8th, 2009
Knock It Off I am a fan of Patti Digh (@pattidigh), we interact on Twitter and I also visit her blog on a regular basis. She always has good things to say. She is always authentic and has an important message…and this post is no exception. Patti also wrote Life is a Verb and after [Read More…]
January 7th, 2009
One of the places that I spend some of my on-line time is Recruiting Blogs, an online community for recruiters (shocker!) and the people that love (and hate) them. I belong to about a dozen similar communities and this one is by far the most active. It has also become my favorite. It is a [Read More…]
January 6th, 2009
I came across this wonderful video on the Open Thinking and Digitital Pedagogy site…it is worth a watch. Nice message about difference, inclusion, socialization, etc. Enjoy!