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Receiving the KVIE Elmo Award.
Jun 14th
Last week I received KVIE Public Television’s highest award for volunteerism – the ELMO Award. The name is an homage to that loveable PBS character, but also an acronym for: Enthusiasm, Leadership, Motivation, and Optimism.
Heath and David pimped out in the photo booth. (I didn't even realize it was an ELMO hat until days later)
The award was delivered at the annual KVIE Volunteer Awards Dinner – an evening of good food, good wine, and this year a lot of good group fun. It’s always a fun dinner, but this year they brought in gaming tables, Rock Band – The Beatles, More >
A Sly Weekend.
Jun 13th
We are home from a delightful (but pollen filled) weekend at Sly Park Recreational Area and Campground, located on Jenkinson Lake. It’s less than an hour from Sacramento toward Lake Tahoe, and it’s a spot that we love to frequent in the early summer to just get away from the city noise.
This year was no different, except for a few things: we didn’t stay in our “usual” campsite, the pollen was unlike anything I have ever seen before, the lake was the most full I’ve ever seen it, and for the first time ever we had an epic spill.
Now when I say More >
The Strategic Pause.
Jun 9th
Today I will be discussing a linguistic tool called the Strategic Pause.
First, an illustration:
Heath: “Wow the kitchen is a mess!”
David: “And that is why I’m going to clean it!”
Heath: “Yay!”
David: “Later tonight.”
Heath: “Oh…”
The Strategic Pause is a highly effective linguistic tool that can be used in conversation for three main purposes to elaborate on the original statement with: humour, negation, or reversal.
In the above example we are first presented with a very pleasing statement that David is going to clean the kitchen. You know it’s pleasing because it’s followed by a response of “Yay!” This is followed by the strategic pause, at which More >
All My Communities.
Jun 7th
There are so many social/networking/professional tools out there, but they all have a common purpose (or should), and that is to create a community (both permanent and temporary communities even).
- Professional networking targets professional communities who have a business need to interact – many of them are based on the knowledge of a technology, software, product suite, etc. That might be an ERP community that connects SAP professionals, group affiliation like AITP (formerly DPMA), or one based on a programming language like C#/HTML5/etc. A popular site like linkedIN fits into this section.
- General networking moves a step away from the professional to create a wider set of More >
Ryan wants to connect with you.
Jun 2nd
Posted by heath in Blogging
Don’t you just love spam? Not the processed meat – I mean those delightful emails and comments you get that serve no purpose other than to lead you to a rogue website…
I was noticing on my Windows Live Messenger this little line that said “You have 11 invitations.” Invitations? Am I missing some amazing event that’s going on out there? I couldn’t wait to click the link and find out what was going on.
Turns out – they were invitations to be “friends” with people on MSN.
One of those “friends” is named “Ryan”. I put that in quotes because here’s the More >