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Somewhere, there's a kid thinking of the next big app with a valuation higher than most of us would earn in five life times. Whether you're an innovator looking to create the next big thing or you're a consumer enjoying the current state of the internet/social media, Snapchat is probably on your plate of daily consumption.
More than 100 million daily users share the highlights and downfalls of their day (especially if you're name is DJ Khaled and you're lost at sea). Regardless of how often you use the app or how much of your life you share on it, you want to get good at the social media platform that everyone is on. Not only is it sure to help your social life (with healthy usage) but will help expand your personal brand.
Snapchat is story telling and its engaging...the two components of any platform that almost every consumer wants. Humans today (literally) have the attention span of a goldfish, so how can you keep their attention on Snapchat?
1) Tell a story
Its called a Snapchat STORY for a reason. The more of a story you tell from the time you wake up to the time you hit the hay, the more people will be crawling for more - metaphorically speaking.
If people are literally crawling for your Snapchat story, reevaluate how you're using it.
On average, people spend 25-30 minutes a day on Snapchat and people can be friends with hundreds of people whose lives they're all interested in. What's going to set yours apart? The influencers who I'm most interested in are the ones who tell it all. The good (unboxing gifts from brands in the morning) to the bad (sharing a face to screen story about a struggle they're dealing with) to the neutral (taking a picture of their daily cappuccino).
2) Bring out the 'Chat' in Snapchat
This tip is more targeted towards influencers. Think of the difference of effort in calling someone instead of texting them. When you respond to someone's snap with a video/picture, it can be time consuming and tasteless if your picture of the floor has no meaning attached to it.
Using the 'chat' feature is the easiest way to engage with people. When you see them face to face, they'll know that you care somewhat about their lives because you took the time to give positive feedback as opposed to just being another name that viewed their story.
3) Provide inspiration and entertainment
The frustrating thing about social media is that it can make you feel bad about your life, body, or the 'boring' lifestyle it seems like you're living in comparison to your friends. The least we can do is lift people up on mediums where they're emotionally influenced. Record a short inspirational video, or take a picture of a great quote on a wall that'll lift someone's spirit.
This will let people know that you don't just want them to be interested in your life, you want them to be touched every time that they view your story.
What will you do to improve your Snapchat game? Let me know in the comments below and add me on Snapchat @tailormadedj
This is a sponsored post in affiliation with rue21. The sweater and shorts were gifted to me by the brand.
DJ Hargrave is a menswear blogger and founder of Tailor Made Style. HIs goal is to empower others to become the strongest version of themselves through their style and helping them be informed by what's going on in the menswear world. You can find him on Instagram and Snapchat @tailormadedj


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E-book of common & bizarre submission mistakesApr 9th, 2010 | By Bart Leib | Category: CG Blog
In conversation with various folk of the small press and magazine markets, I found that every single editor and slush reader has seen some pretty stunning mistakes in submissions. That's not a big surprise, of course (though some of the mistakes are truly astounding). But as Jaym Gates pointed out in a recent post, "…while opportunities to learn about querying agents, book publication, etc. are quite common, there seem to be fewer resources for learning the same processes about magazine submissions."
I decided a compilation of some of the most common, and the most outlandish/surprising, errors would serve two purposes: First, it would be an entertaining, with plenty of laugh and cringe-inducing examples. And second, it could be very useful for aspiring writers – cautionary tales of what not to do.
(Of course every market, and for that matter every editor, is different, so there will be some difference of opinion. No matter what, always read the guidelines thoroughly before submitting.)
So if there are any editors out there from small-market magazines or small presses who would like to share a few of their "favorite" examples of submission mistakes, please email me! cg-at-crossedgenres-dot-com. Include the following:
- A short list (up to 10) of what you consider the most common mistakes you see in submissions. If you'd like you can include short "Why you shouldn't do that" explanations.
- A short list (up to 10) of the most jaw-dropping, "I-can't-believe-they-DID-that!" things you've seen. If you'd like you can include short "Why you shouldn't do that" explanations.
Please include your name and email address, and let me know if you want to be anonymous, or if you would like to be listed as a contributor. (NOTE: I'm looking specifically for mistakes in submissions – not queries!)
This compilation will be free. I'm putting it together as a resource, and don't intend to make money off it. I'll make it into various digital formats and make them all free to distribute under a Creative Commons license.

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In Romans 16:3-16, Paul concludes his letter with a list of greetings he wishes to send along to members of the church in Rome. In those verses, Paul lists several women, including Priscilla, Mary, Tryphena, Tryphosa, Persis, and Julia, many of whom are explicitly said to have ministerial roles. However, one name stands out among these noteworthy women. In 16:7, Paul extends a special greeting to two individuals, Andronicus and Junia, and says that they are "noteworthy among the apostles." Many interpreters have taken this text to imply that Andronichus and Junia were both considered apostles in the early church. If this is the case, then Junia would be the first woman in our early Christian sources to be called an apostle.
As one can imagine, this conclusion has been met with some criticism. In particular, three contentions are commonly brought against the conclusion that a female named Junia is called an apostle in Romans 16:7:
- The name Ἰουνίαν may not be a reference to a female name but a male name instead.
- The phrase "they are noteworthy among the apostles" (οἵτινές εἰσιν ἐπίσημοι ἐν τοῖς ἀποστόλοις) is not identifying Andronicus and Junia as apostles but is rather indicating that the apostles (as a distinct group) considered them to be "noteworthy."
- Even if Junia is called an apostle in this passage, it does not mean she had authority over men or taught other men, since Paul uses the word ἀπόστολος ('apostle') to refer to different ministerial functions.
In this series of posts, I want to consider all of these objections and show why so many scholars today believe that Junia was, in fact, the first woman to be called an apostle in the early Christian literature we possess. In this post, I want to consider the first objection and show why Ἰουνίαν is almost certainly a reference to a woman named Junia. I will consider the other two objections in the remainder of the series.
Those who take Ἰουνίαν to be a reference to a masculine name do so by arguing that it is the accusative form of Ἰουνιᾶς ('Junias') or Ἰουνίας, a contracted version of a more common Latin name, Iunianus. Some contemporary translations of the Bible include this masculine rendering of the name.
"Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me." (Rom 16:7 NASB)
There are several problems with this rendering of Ἰουνίαν. First, the name 'Junias' is not well-attested in antiquity. In fact, to my knowledge, no documented instance of this name has yet been discovered in all of antiquity. Second, the gender of the noun here is going to be dermined in large part by the accent it has, and the more clearly masculine form of the name (Ἰουνιᾶς) would require a circumflex accent on the penult of the noun: Ἰουνιᾶν. However, if the word is properly accented with the acute (Ἰουνίαν), then one would need to argue for the existence of the masculine form Ἰουνίας, an argument which (to my knowledge) no one has taken up at this point. Third, the idea that 'Junias' is a contracted form of 'Junianus' seems to be somewhat problematic. Here is Eldon Epp's summary of the problem:
Symptomatic of the problem is the fact that, until the mid-1990s, there was (to my knowledge) no extended discussion (and never any detailed defense) of the masculine forms or of the contracted name theory for this specific name, Junias. Rather, interpreters, nor nearly a century now, merely repeated what two standard reference works (and their predecessors) had long suggested about the origin of the masculine name, Junias, in order to legitimate it, namely, Walter Bauer's lexicon and Friedrich Blass's grammar. These works invoked the contracted name phenomenon of the Greco-Roman world, but when they applied it to Junias they did so with caution…Numerous interpreters who followed them dropped the caution and assumed the validity of the theory.¹
In contrast to these many problems with the masculine rendering of Ἰουνίαν, there are several factors which make the feminine translation the most natural. First, while the earliest Greek manuscripts did not accent the name Ἰουνιαν (see the examples of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus (right), later manuscripts do accent the noun in the manner given above: Ἰουνίαν.
Second, the name Junia was a very common Latin female name, deriving from a family named after the Roman goddess Juno. In the Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (2nd ed.), Bruce Metzger notes that there are over 250 Greek and Latin inscriptions of this female name in Rome alone.² Thus, the more natural way to take Paul's words here would be to assume that he is indeed talking about a woman named Junia.
Additionally, our earliest manuscript of Paul's letters, P46, contains a textual variant here. Instead of giving the name Ἰουνιαν as the later uncial manuscripts do, P46 has the name Ἰουλίαν ('Julia'), a much more common female name. It is unlikely that any scribe who thought Ἰουνίαν was a man's name would change it to be a woman's name. Thus, the textual variant of P46 actually provides further evidence of a feminine name in Romans 16:7.
Finally, as we will see later in the series, the early church fathers almost unanimously agree that this name refers to a woman. We will look more closely at some of their comments next time to see whether or not they took Paul to be calling Junia an apostle.
While more evidence could be brought into the discussion at this point, hopefully it is clear by now that when Paul sends greetings to Ἀνδρόνικον καὶ Ἰουνίαν, he is greeting a man called Andronicus and a woman named Junia. Paul lavishes high praise on this pair of ministers, and we will explore what he means by that praise in Part 2.
Works Cited
¹ Eldon Epp, Junia: The First Woman Apostle (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005), 24.
² Bruce Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft and United Bible Societies, 1994), 475.


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Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer is rated as one of the best surfing games released on Xbox and published by Activision. It is a sporting game targeted at the demographic of mostly males aged 10 to 25. Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer incorporates both single and multiplayer modes and the players aim is to search the globe for the best breaks as Kelly Slater or one of eight other surfers, trying to unlock new levels, players, boards, skills, videos and much more. Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer offers excellent gameplay as the player and their choice of one of the nine professional surfers has to travel to different beach locations and complete a set number of challenges to advance to the next beach location. These challenges include beating high scores, pulling off specific tricks as they appear on the screen and pulling off combo moves as you are photographed (fig 1). Completing these challenges will unlock new features in the game including new levels, players, boards, skills, videos and much more which will enhance your game play because you are continually learning new tricks and gaining more unlockable features. ...read more.
This enhances your gaming experience because as well as good visuals you have background music from well-known artists to back that up which makes the music recognizable and more enjoyable for the player. There are sound effects that are also included such as waves breaking, players landing on the wave and players moving around on the wave. This also enhances your gaming experience because you are simulated to believe you are in a real life situation. No voiceovers are used to prevent sound pollution during the game which might irritate the player. Like in all games you can only play them to a certain extent, but Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer will keep you coming back longer than any other game. The player can finish their challenges and still compete against their opponents and still surf at the location of completed beaches. Other than that, there is no point to go back and try to complete more challenges because once they're done, they're done. There are not a lot of movie sequences during the game because it is not based on a movie or any other media body. ...read more.
The target audience for Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer are predominantly males aged between 10 and 25. This is because the males at this age are most likely to want to purchase this game because of the trends in surfing that occur around this age. The front cover of the game also targets them because it has a picture of a surfer pulling off a hard trick in the air (fig 5), which is very appealing to any audience as it grabs your attention making the player want to purchase the game and play it. In spite of this, the game can still be appealing to females aged 10 to 25 because of how good the game itself is and some females are interested in surfing. Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer is an excellent surfing game that would appeal to any type of person, but predominantly males aged between 10 and 25 as it offers excellent gameplay, graphics, audio, in-game movie sequences, real life representations and easy to follow manuals. The brilliant combination of all these will have the player glued to their seat in the wait of new challenges to come. This game is definitely worth purchasing as it will bring hours of entertainment for the player. Fig 1 Fig 2 Fig 3 Fig 4 Fig 5 Fig 6 ...read more.
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Throughout their history, Unitarians have stood for inclusivity, reason and social justice including gender equality (we've had women ministers for more than 100 years), LGBT rights (we've performed same sex blessings for more than 30 years) and the abolition of slavery.
Unitarians support equality of respect and opportunity for everyone. We totally oppose all oppression and discrimination, including on the grounds of any arbitrary or accidental factors such as race or gender, sexual orientation or religious belief.
Our Commitments
Unitarians are committed to affirming and promoting the worth and dignity of every person and the interconnectedness web of existence. We are all individuals, with a right to our own beliefs, but we are also members of society with a responsibility to help make it work. As such it is incumbent upon each of us to behave in ways that respect others and make our community, and our world, a better place for everyone.
Unitarians see human sexuality as a natural and healthy dimension of our existence. We recognise and value its role in bringing intimacy, tenderness and pleasure to loving relationships.
We affirm that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans people have the exact same rights as anyone else, including when it comes to getting married.
We have played an active and leading role in campaigning for equal marriage rights, including emphasising our support for it during a meeting with the Prime Minister at Downing Street in 2013. We are delighted that same-sex marriage legislation has now been passed in England, Wales and Scotland.
As people who place their primary religious concern on life in this world, Unitarians are interested in environmental issues. Historically, we have been deeply interested both in the scientific study of our natural environment and in seeing it as a spiritual. This remains the case today. Many Unitarians are active in environmental and conservation organisations. Unitarian worship often reflects spiritually on these subjects, and also celebrates the natural cycle of the seasons.
Unitarians regard the maintenance of a sustainable, diverse and beautiful environment – natural and human – as essential both for our survival and for our wellbeing as a species.


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Well we are now in the last month of the year and I am so incredibly far behind in my PL.. but it is OK.. ha ha .. I know I will catch up and I am hoping that I can get onto this very soon..
Sometimes life takes a turn that no one sees and sometimes it can take months to get through it,like in my case it did, but I am out of that storm on the other end and luckily for me I kept taking photos and making notes etc so catch up with PL should be easy enough..
So on that note here is my PL spread for week 20 using the gorgeous October kit from the Polly! Scrap Kits club... I LOVE this kits and love how they pull together so easily..
I managed this week again to create a layout with an extra insert ( I am always very photo heavy and can not bring myself to cull anything) .
Here is a closer look at both sides of my insert.
A close up of the left hand-side using the gorgeous letter press card that I just journalled directly onto. I also used a full 6x4 photo in the bottom left hand side and just added some journal spots directly onto the picture as I did not have the heart to cull the picture.
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Marc Beer is a healthcare pioneer and is skilled in the development and commercialization of patient therapies. He has served for companies such as Erytech Pharma,and was Vice President of Global Marketing at Genzyme. He holds a BS from Miami University and over 25 years of experience generating business success for pharmaceutical corporations through his knowledge of the specifics of pharmaceutical marketing. Marc has been crucial in the marketing of several different products used to treat complicated diseases and conditions. He is a strong leader and extremely dedicated to bringing great products to the market with extreme success. With all this experience, it is not surprising to find out that Marc is now at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovation. Sometimes the best way to perfect a company is to start your own. In August 2016 Marc co-founded Renuvia, Inc., and now serves as the CEO. Renuvia will have an impact on roughly 250 million women worldwide by developing new treatments for pelvic floor diseases. Marc successfully raised $32 million through fundraising, with another $10 million in venture capital funds.
Thanks to funding which came from the healthcare-focused investment firm The Longwood Fund, Renovia will begin testing on 4 new therapeutic and testing products. These advanced concepts will feature proprietary sensors and form factors that will allow doctors to provide the best, most accurate therapy based on an individual's specific conditions and symptoms. This will all be used within a digital health platform so patient data remains consistent, and everyone has a better knowledge and understanding of pelvic floor diseases. Doctors working together to treat a patient can better collaborate through this platform. This could ultimately lead to lower healthcare costs, since more accurate treatments could be developed the first time, rather than a patient having to come back and try different treatments.
Marc Beer has already has a very successful healthcare career, and he isn't just devoted to his own personal suucess. It is clear that Marc has a very strong sense of compassion for individuals dealing with complicated, life-altering, difficult to treat diseases. It is without a doubt that Renuvia will see the same suuccess that Marc has seen from his other ventures. Learn more : https://www.slideshare.net/MarcBeer
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Where Collaboration Meets Chess
In 12 Habits of Highly Collaborative Organizations, @Jacob Morgan draws awesome parallels between collaboration strategy and chess strategy:
Chess is virtually an infinite game yet somehow we have grand-masters who are always at the top.
How do they succeed in this infinite game? They identify patterns and look for identifiable scenarios. This same approach is applicable for collaboration.
Jacob outlines 12 strategies for successful collaboration.
These strategies are vital when you seek improvement opportunities with social process engineering.
Thinking like a chess master enables you to make a first tactical move, but do so within a framework that sets you up for success further down the line when use cases are added and new stakeholders must be convinced.
An Infinite Number of Cats on Keyboards: Ted Nelson & Computer Lib at Homebrew Computer Club Reunion
Order a perfect reprint of the original version of Computer Lib /
Ted Nelson's original 1974 edition of Computer Lib /
In 1987 Microsoft Press did a good deed by reprinting the book, but chose a standard trade paperback layout which lost much of the charm.
The 1974 edition printed by Hugo's Book Service in Chicago has two front covers (one for Computer Lib and one for Dream Machines).
Read a fine essay and authorized sample from Computer Lib /
In Nov 2013 Ted announced that you can order a perfect reprint directly from him for $100 including US postage ($108 for California residents).
See Mark Graybill's blog post on meeting Ted at the Homebrew Computer Club Reunion, 11 Nov 2013.
Here's the back of the Computer Lib flyer including payment address, terms, and email ordering address:
Ted Nelson speaks at the HomeBrew Computer Club Reunion, 11 Nov 2013 (YouTube video)
Update: On April 24, 2014 Chapman University hosted INTERTWINGLED: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson.
Update: Intertwingled, The Festschrift-- Ebook celebrating Ted Nelson Day at Chapman University, 2014 (Springer-Verlag) (via @TheTedNelson, 12 Jul 2015) A free Springer ebook edited by Douglas R.
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In 2013 Ms Mayer ranked 31 in the Forbes Magazine list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women, and the first woman listed as number one on the Fortune Magazine's annual list of the top 40 business stars under 40 years old.
Quoting from her Yahoo! biography: "During her 13 years at Google, Marissa held numerous positions, including engineer, designer, product manager, and executive, and launched more than 100 well-known features and products.
Prior to joining Google, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab in Zurich, Switzerland and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.
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The Work Graph Model: TeamPage style
Justin Rosenstein wrote an excellent option piece for Wired, The Way We Work Is Soul-Sucking, But Social Networks Are Not the Fix.
Work graph defined
The upshot of the latter data structure is having all the information we need when we need it.
Just so!
TeamPage's work graph
TeamPage watches what you do, and automatically maintains two-way links and relationships as you edit, keeping an accurate version history of everything so you can easily see what changed, when, and who did what.
TeamPage's work graph automatically connects articles, comments, status messages, tasks, milestones, projects, links, shared references, and relationships stored in TeamPage to the TeamPage profile of the person who created, edited or tagged the work, along with a time stamp for the action.
This concept of a work graph is helpful in describing what TeamPage automatically creates and maintains as you work.
But what counts is how TeamPage uses its work graph model to cut clutter, make it much easier to work with people anywhere inside or outside your organization, and make files and records already in IT systems easily accessible to get work done.
The same work graph information is organized and presented two different ways: by person, or by unit of work.
Dealing with information overload - use the work graph to add context to de-clutter activity streams, navigation and search
You can start by creating a new task directly attached to any paragraph in a TeamPage article.
No more fumbling through your own email, hoping that the person you're working with can find their own copy of the right email or file, or wasting time sending copies to people who just realized they don't have the right stuff.
You can collect a set of tasks to manage as a named Project, and use name Milestone to specify common Start or End dates for related tasks.
You can focus on any specific project or collaboration space and see its dashboard and activity stream without irrelevant noise and clutter.
You can shift your focus whenever you want.
Working with external and internal teams - use permission rules to clip what the work graph lets you see
TeamPage's work graph model includes permissioned access that automatically clips content to show just those work items, relationships, and search results each person is allowed to read.
This makes it simple to use TeamPage for work that can cross boundaries, linking customers, suppliers, partners and internal teams with different permissions to different business activities on the same TeamPage server.
TeamPages' work graph model allows you to put a private comment (or task) in a more private space where it's only visible to a smaller group.
Typically each external client has a private space (like separate clients of a law firm), and internal team members have a birds eye view across all clients and most or all internal spaces.
There's one TeamPage work graph connecting all internal, external, public and private content.
With TeamPage you don't have to stand up multiple systems and juggle posts, conversations, and tasks across multiple social software silos to work with customers, clients, partners or internal teams working on different activities with different permissions.
Extending the work graph to content on the public Web, Intranet pages, and siloed systems of record.
TeamPage's Social Enterprise Web enables you to share, tag, task or comment on any page your browser can see on the public Web or on your private intranet.
The Social Enterprise Web also lets you add a TeamPage share button (like Facebook or Google+ share buttons) or comment box (like Disqus) to any public or intranet Web page your organization controls.
As a bonus, the content of a page linked to TeamPage with the browser plug-in, share button, or comment box is automatically indexed for TeamPage search and drill down navigation.
The Social Enterprise Web makes pages on the public Web or your organization's intranet simple to see, share, find and connect to TeamPage tasks.
For example, add a TeamPage comment box to an Purchase order page in a Web based ERP system by adding a JavaScript snippet, and see something like this:
TeamPage's Attivio Plus option enables you to extend the TeamPage work graph to content stored in your organization's SharePoint, Documentum, File server or SQL Database applications.
You can then search, share, task, tag or comment on any work item in these external systems, making live external transactions part of your TeamPage work graph, including integrated TeamPage and external content analysis, search and navigation.
The Attivio Plus option scales to handle very large external content stores using Attivio's world-class AIE technology along with a simple deployment model and licensing that's both flexible and affordable.
Contextual Computing At Work:
"In the world of work, I believe it's incredibly valuable to capture and connect the natural objects of your attention and interest, including tasks, projects, work product, relevant discussion, related references even if you're standing in for Siri or Google Now.
When Mr.
The important requirement is making tasks, projects, pages, discussions and other work products first class sharable, named objects that can be connected to each other and what you're working on, discussed, tagged, tasked, and navigated as well as found using search.
The objects and connections made in the context of work are more reliable than connections that need to be inferred from your behavior - and they're available now, including the ability to connect tasks, projects, pages and discussion in TeamPage and files, discussion, email and SQL databases in your external systems of record.
TeamPage examples
How to make your ISO Auditor Smile; And Make Your Professional Life Much Easier Use TeamPage to create, edit, view work instructions from concept to shop floor, tracking every part qualification and compliance issue and notifying everyone when a significant change has occurred so they can read about and adopt the new procedure on their own.
Zoom in to focus, zoom out for awareness, bubble up items in the flow of work TeamPage shows dashboard, activity stream, and calendar views of any project, task, milestone when you want to focus on a specific action, or zoom out to get a dashboard that shows a birds eye view of all business activity (based on what each person has permission to read).
Contextual Computing At Work Peter Morrison argues that the future or work isn't mobile, it's contextual: "Always-present computers, able to sense the objective and subjective aspects of a given situation, will augment our ability to perceive and act in the moment based on where we are, who we're with, and our past experiences.
The Future of Work Platforms: Like Jazz When you watch a skilled team in action, it's like watching a great jazz group - there are themes, there is structure, and there are limits, but a team shines in individual excellence combined with coordination, improvisation, innovation, handling exceptions, and seemingly effortless awareness of where others are and where they're headed.
Extending the fabric of work, or How to Be Emergent A question found in a customer email stored in Exchange, an issue with a new drug application filed in Documentum, a fact in a legacy document stored in SharePoint or a File server S: drive, a record in an SQL database can all be discovered, discussed, tagged, and tasked for follow-up action in TeamPage without converting or importing data from its original source.
Intertwingled Work Observable work can (and should) crossing silos and systems.
A Fabric, not a Platform Apple and Google are competing to build a fabric that connects everything you own and use, working outward from the globally meshed supercomputer people now carry in their pockets.
Three primary knowledge domains: intelligence, dialog records, and knowledge products Want to talk about work graphs? Here's how Doug Engelbart dreamed up and build the first hypertext system to link work units and people with the NLS/
Original Traction Product Proposal Original proposal from October 1997, including Traction business case and references, released under Creative Commons license.
Dec 2015 | Quality Management, Signature Requirements - Adds Feedback, Non-Conformance, and Corrective Action forms and dashboards to TeamPage's standard support for authoring, sharing and tracking updates to quality and compliance documentation.
Oct 2015 | Personal Worklists, Quick Forms - Track and share what you plan to work on.
July 2015 | TeamPage Live Task Lists - Shared task lists keep everyone in synch on order of execution for tasks as well as planned start and end dates.
May 2015 | TeamPage Bookmarks, interactive filters, and Japanese search improvement - Focus on what interests you; return to any filtered or standard view with one click.
March 2015 | TeamPage 6.
Dec 2014 | TeamPage @ Mentions - Bring an article, comment, status post or other object to someone's attention by typing their name.
July 2014 | TeamPage Notifications - Inline and email notifications.
How to make your ISO Auditor Smile; And Make Your Professional Life Much Easier
Jordan had a conversation with a TeamPage customer in Sweden who agreed to document and publish a TeamPage case study, but the ISO auditor story is too good to wait.
The company is ISO/
Then the ISO auditor paid a visit:
"We had an audit last week and because we have incorporated about 90% of our procedures in TeamPage and also having the output from them in TeamPage our auditor was freakin' ecstatic.
We also use TeamPage for work instructions read/
Earlier the same day the auditor came to see us we received a customer complaint.
The auditor picked-up on this immediately when he arrived.
- Thank you Traction Software for making my professional life so much easier.
You're very welcome!
The quotes are from our Quality Manager contact (used with permission), writing in that company's space on Traction Software's TeamPage server.
See TeamPage Solutions: Quality Management
Decagon Devices: Plans, Products, Projects, Procedures and ISO 9001 Quality Management
Athens Group - Traction TeamPage for Quality Management, Training and Knowledge Base
The Future of Work Platforms: Like Jazz
Remembering Doug Engelbart, 30 January 1925 - 2 July 2013
I was very sad to learn that Doug Engelbart passed away at his home on 2 July 2013.
"Someone once called me 'just a dreamer'.
Press and public valediction
In Memoriam: Douglas Engelbart, Maestro of the Mouse and So Much More Harry McCracken, Time, 3 July 2013.
Computing pioneer and GUI inventor Doug Engelbart dies at 88 Dylan Tweeny, VentureBeat.
Chris Nuzum's fine valediction for Doug: "RIP Doug Engelbart, and thank you.
Douglas Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution Howard Rheingold, MIT Technology Review 23 July 2013.
Engelbart's First, Second and Third Order Problems.
If you truly want to understand NLS, you have to forget today. Brett Victor wrote A few words on Doug Engelbart 3 July 2013 in honor of Doug Engelbart life and passing.
"The least important question you can ask about Engelbart is, "What did he build?" By asking that question, you put yourself in a position to admire him, to stand in awe of his achievements, to worship him as a hero.
But worship isn't useful to anyone.
Doug Engelbart Resources
Douglas Engelbart Interviewed by John Markoff of the New York Times Outracing the Fire: 50 Years and Counting of Technology and Change Computer History Museum oral history interview, March 26, 2002.
Doug Engelbart Video Archive: 1968 Demo - FJCC Conference Presentation Reel Dec 9, 1968 Internet Archive, the so called Mother of All Demos.
Video Archive MIT / Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium: A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Vision, An Examination of What Has Been Accomplished, and What Remains to Be Done.
Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. by Douglas C.
By "augmenting human intellect" we mean increasing the capability of a man to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit his particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.
Man's population and gross product are increasing at a considerable rate, but the complexity of his problems grows still faster, and the urgency with which solutions must be found becomes steadily greater in response to the increased rate of activity and the increasingly global nature of that activity.
Traction Software Blog posts
Tricycles vs.
Traction Roots - Doug Engelbart Elements of Doug's work that directly inspired Traction TeamPage, what we do, and how we work.
Original Traction Product Proposal - Annotated references and appendices on the work of Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson.
Flip Test 1971 | Email versus Journal Doug Engelbart's Journal versus email - an alternate history.
And here's what Enterprise 2.
Enterprise 2.
Doug Engelbart | 85th Birthday Jan 30, 2010 Doug Engelbart's mission, goals and accomplishments, including a dialog with Alan Kay at the 50th Anniversary of As We May Think symposium.
Doug Engelbart's copy of As We May Think - with Doug's 1962 notes scribbled in the margins From the Doug Engelbart digital archive (see links).
Happy Birthday Doug Engelbart! Video highlights from Doug's talk and panels at the 50th Anniversary of As We May Think symposium, Oct 1995.
Pharma and Biotech Risk Management
Risks are the leading cause of costly delays in the process of bringing a biotech product to market.
Here's an example of a Section Table of Risks, including risk type, module, hazard, cause, severity, likelihood of occurrence, and other attributes.
Unlike a spreadsheet, you can easily expand and comment on any entry in the table.
Here's an editable view of the third Risk:
The TeamPage Risk form has fields, pulldowns and a free text description that makes it very easy to enter and edit.
Using TeamPage to manage Risks makes it easy for anyone to submit a risk, update a risk, and comment on the issues associated with it.
Working Across Boundaries
In his Jun 2, 2013 blog post, Chess Media analyst and author Jacob Morgan asks: How Open is Too Open? He asks "Would you be comfortable working in an all glass building where people can see everything you do and every move you make?" Jacob outlines the benefits of transparency: "Keep everyone on the same page; Build trust and fostering better relationships; Allow employees (and customers) to contribute ideas and value when they see the opportunity to do so.
For example, if you work for a consulting (or law) firm, your clients have a strong, natural expectation that their work with the firm will be kept private from other clients, even if client work is more broadly shared internally among members of the firm.
Jacob recognizes that a balance needs to be struck, and uses an analogy that compares a glass building vesus "a regular building that just doesn't have locked doors.
"I do believe that organizations need to be much more open and transparent but there's a balance that needs to be struck here.
I'd say "very few locked doors, where needed to get work done, particularly with external stakeholders.
In an early Three Places for People blog post, I use a similar analogy:
"Great architects of physical places know that people bring expectations and norms about the kind of behavior that's appropriate and enjoyable to any physical space.
If you walk into a conference room with a group of people you don't know talking quietly around a table - and someone closes the door behind you - you'll likely speak and act differently than if you walk into the same room with people you know laughing, eating and drinking.
What fascinates me about social software is how we're learning to create places with perceived affordances - features and user models - that seem natural for different purposes and intentions.
One Traction TeamPage customer matches the consulting firm /
Another Traction TeamPage customer provides services to customers worldwide, with over 5,000 employees operating in over 150 locations and 75 countries.
In summary, I believe there's no reason to settle for a collaboration and action tracking solution that only handles internal collaboration, or assumes that everything happens in a building with glass walls and no doors.
The Work Graph Model: TeamPage style - Working with internal and external teams
Borders, Spaces, and Places - Walks through specific examples of boundaries and boundary crossing activity
Explaining Twitter - One of Three Places for People - About the social architecture of three places: 1) a public commons (like Twitter); 2) a place for friends and family (like Facebook); 3) a place where you work (for me, Traction Software's TeamPage server).
Intertwingled Work - Working across siloed systems and boundaries set up to meet business purposes - like the consulting firm client example.
A Circle is not a Space - How Google+ circles make it possible to share individual conversations with a list of circles each individual controls (later extended to groups) versus sharing work within one or more spaces.
Open Cafe: E2.
0 Implementation and Adoption
@JeffMerrell posed a series of questions for his Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change.
Question Area: Implementation of new social technology platforms
When stepping into E2.
I think the sweet spot occurs when a particular group's collaboration can benefit an entire organization.
Question Area: Adoption of new social technology (by individual users)
Jeff asks what tells you when you've hit a tipping point.
Motivating adoption is always tricky, no matter how good the tool.
I talk about this in Emergineering which focuses on meeting the freedom required by collaboration with a simple structure that encourages it.
As for incentives, they're questionable since motivation is better when it comes from within.
Question Area: Formal and informal community management
We all wish communities would manage themselves.
One of my earliest customers was a pharmaceutical division of a Fortune 100.
There were 25 individuals which were easily identified as being involved in sharing and developing competitive and market intelligence with another easily identified set of managers.
In this case, the community managed itself by running user group meetings on a regular basis to check their progress and improve the quality of their information gathering based on surveys and reactions of key management and sales constituents.
Question Area: Measuring activity, outcomes and value in social technology platforms
Activity and value can be attacked through efficiency, adoption and any number of other metrics.
At one Pharmaceutical firm, it was evident the system was providing value when usage metrics increased after roll-out and leveled out to a consistent pattern.
At Alcoa Fastening Systems, a Deloitte study highlights a 62% reduction in time spent on compliance activities.
Question Area: Knowledge sharing to learn as well as to perform
I think the term knowledge development hits the mark closer than knowledge sharing.
Contextual Computing At Work
In Co.
Here's the rub: Our senses aren't attuned to modern life.
In the coming years, there will be a shift toward what is now known as contextual computing, defined in large part by Georgia Tech researchers Anind Dey and Gregory Abowd about a decade ago.
Peter argues that we need four graphs to make contextual computing work:
- The Social Graph - how you connect to other people and how they are connected to one another, including the nature and emotional relevance of those connections.
- Your personal graph contains (gulp) all of your beliefs - data relating to a your deepest held beliefs, core values, and personality.
- The Interest graph - what you like - is about curiosity
- Your behavior graph - sensors that record what you actually do versus what you claim you do
I agree that one great value of Peter's contextual computing is to make agents like Apple's Siri or Google Now much more effective in answering questions, making recommendations, and delivering what you want based on how you express it in your own words or gestures, taking into account your current situation, recent requests and interests.
In the world of work, I believe it's incredibly valuable to capture and connect the natural objects of your attention and interest, including tasks, projects, work product, relevant discussion, related references even if you're standing in for Siri or Google Now.
When Mr.
The important requirement is making tasks, projects, pages, discussions and other work products first class sharable, named objects that can be connected to each other and what you're working on, discussed, tagged, tasked, and navigated as well as found using search.
The objects and connections made in the context of work are more reliable than connections that need to be inferred from your behavior - and they're available now, including the ability to connect tasks, projects, pages and discussion in TeamPage and files, discussion, email and SQL databases in your external systems of record.
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Lost Roots of Project Management: Think Agile that Scales
The Manhattan Project, Atlas, and Polaris projects are cited as roots for traditional phased stage-gate Project Management, but didn't use that model.
Lost Roots : How Project Management Settled on the Phased Approach (and compromised its ability to lead change in modern enterprises)
Sylvain Lenfle and Christoph Loch, 2009/
INSTEAD Research Working Paper
Quoting from Introduction:
"Modern" Project Management is often said to have begun with the Manhattan Project (to develop the nuclear bomb in the 1940s), and PM techniques to have been developed during the ballistic missile projects (Atlas and Polaris) in the 1950s.
This characterization of the roots of PM represents a certain irony – the Manhattan Project did not even remotely correspond to the "standard practice" associated with PM today, and both the Manhattan and the first ballistic missile projects fundamentally violated the phased project life cycle: both applied a combination of trial-and-error and parallel-trials approaches in order to "stretch the envelope", that is, to achieve outcomes considered impossible at the outset.
However, the Project-Management discipline has now so deeply committed itself to a control-oriented phased approach that the thought of using trial-and-error makes professional managers feel ill at ease.
How could this happen? And does it matter? In this paper we describe how the discipline lost its roots and we argue that it matters a great deal: it has prevented the project management discipline from taking center stage in the increasingly important efforts of organizations to carry out strategic changes and innovation.
Update Feb 6, 2016: See Glen B.
The Future of Work Platforms: Like Jazz - The social dance of getting things done, dealing with exceptions, and staying aware of what's going on around you
Intertwingled Work - Working and scaling like the Web
Big Data, Meet Long Data, Meet Blog Data
Big Data Meet Long Data by Jeff Bertolucci - @jbertolucci - column appears this week in InformationWeek to reminds us that "Long Data" or historical data is vital for analysis and comprehension of trends that span years.
Bertolucci's article links to a Wired article from January 2013 titled Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to 'Long Data' where the author, Samuel Arbesman - @arbesman - says "Big data puts slices of knowledge in context.
Bringing this home to a company's context, Bertolucci quotes Benjamin Bruce (Pitney Bowes - Marketing Director) as saying "Big data is more about taking a slice in time across many different channels" and that "long data involves looking at information on a much longer timescale.
Taking a long-data trip back to May 2008 brings us to a quote from Now Everything is Fragmented by Dave Snowden - @snowded - in KMWorld where he said:
"Over the last decade as I have worked on homeland security, we have had the chance to run some experiments that show that raw field intelligence has more utility over longer periods of time than intelligence reports written at a specific time and place.
In other experiments, we have demonstrated that narrative assessment of a battlefield picks up more weak signals (those things that after the event you wished you had paid attention to) than analytical structured thinking. "
He continues with explanation: "we live in a world subject to constant change, and it's better to blend fragments at the time of need than attempt to anticipate all needs.
So when you leave data on the chopping block after completing an analysis, you are denying the next person an opportunity to go back to the raw data and run their own analysis, possibly for the same or different purposes.
I'll assert that what's needed is the thin slicing in big data concepts combined with the long data trends that allow for understanding change and gathering some picture of the future.
Bringing this back to "blog" data - thats where we can capture the vital narrative that Snowden says carries the weak signals.
Blog data in a TeamPage demo also offers a simple and easy example to explain the importance of thin slicing over long trends.
Now, when we use a date selector control, we can see it tells a very different story in 2012 vs.
|Date Selector: Year 2010
|Date Selector: Year 2011
In the example, you can see the company's attention has shifted from competitors like Nike and Vibram in 2010 to competitors like Merrell in 2011.
This sort of tag cloud view offers a pretty blunt view across a whole server or a particular space at a time.
In this search interface, Attivio also helps us extract and display tag cloud style views of any facet, including keywords, spaces, content authors, and more.
This brings us to Small Data.
A thick slice across all time isn't adequate to explain a course of events - a long view with thin slices and supporting narrative is vital.
Or, if you want to consider more thought provoking ideas about tags, other meta data and the role of time, please click over to my Tag Mush presentation linked at the bottom of Ontologies & Tagsonomies at Taxonomy Boot Camp to read more about the Information T.
This Information T model talks directly to the importance of Long Data, Big Data and context from Blog Data.
Problem and Process rather than Incentives for E2.
0 Tools
Over on Quora, Ben Lopatin @bennylope has a best-answer to a question on the best ways to incentivize people to use E2.0 knowledge management and collaboration.
- Focus on the problem for which the tools are to be employed.
Most people don't care about enterprise wikis, they care about being able to do their jobs,
- Provide people with a working demonstration of an existing business process.
- Actively help people figure out how their processes, tasks, etc, can be accomplished with the new tools
- Get people up the ladder using the new tools.
.if you want to achieve pan-organization adoption you need leadership to show that they're using it, too .
- Be careful about overestimating how easy the tools are for everyone.
And not just the interfaces, but changes in underlying concepts.
I wish I had an Blog1326: Emergineering! badge to put on this answer because it captures the essence of understanding the problem and underlying process, figuring out how to address it in a way that enhances productivity, and finally getting the organization around the new approach.
I'd also hand out the badge to Catherine Shinners @catshinners for amplifying the benefits of social process transformation.
In her notes from the E2.
There are specific benefits of a social business process:
- immediacy - better access to the information
- serendipity - enabling discovery of new information
- transparency - supporting honest and ethical behavior through openness
A business process does not become social simply because it's in a social network.
- unstructured processes – the opened ended "hey I've got a question does anyone know the answer" or easy invitational "why don't we?" kind of interactions
- semi-structured – direct queries to engage a constituency or cohort in a group conversation or comment about artifacts i.
e. , "please review or provide feedback"
- structured – business process workflow kinds of structure "approve my expenses - request time off"
Beyond simple productivity gains of moving process from email and the water cooler to E2.
PLM Gets Social, Untangles Ball of Confusion
Stan Przybylinski - @smprezbo - of CIM Data advised an audience at Social PLM 2012 on inevitable social side of product lifecycle management.
I particularly liked his slide on "How Things Actually Get Done - Can You Say Ball of Confusion?"
The essence of this is that traditional PLM offerings capture some but not all work in progress and don't support the communication loops around project communication or problem solving.
TeamPage Action Tracking can help firms manage informal tasks, track issues or risks, and manage entire projects.
E-Mail: an On-Ramp for Enterprise Social Media
Bill Ives, @billives, points to Nathan Eddy's eWeek column titled Businesses Still Reliant on Email as Social Media Use Grows.
Dennis McDonald, @ddmcd, in a comment, concurred in a comment and pointed to his post on Social Media Engagement Tips where he said "Email operates as an extended user interface for many applications.
In TeamPage, we've steadily enhanced support for email as an extended user interface with hooks for Publishing from email including the ability to post new articles, status posts, and tasks.
TeamPage SAAS /
Cloud Hosting Helps Bring Customers Closer, Improves Support
As we've put more attention to our cloud hosting (see Traction Software and Traction Software Japan) with free trials and an increasing hosted customer base, I'm seeing first hand how the customer relationship can become much closer, more interactive and more informed.
- a Global Logistics customer find a set of attachments which were removed when a page was edited 8 days ago.
- an IT /
This was possible to do asynchronously and quickly around our busy schedules because of a mutual bond of trust (so they allow me into their systems) and because their software is not buried behind a firewall.
Most customers still deploy software behind their firewall for a variety of good reasons.
Carving a Path to Productive Knowledge Management: How?
I gave the following presentation at the first ever meeting of the Boston Chapter of the Knowledge Management Association today.
After we pick apart components of knowledge and understanding how context is critical to understanding it, I offered a two step process to bring an organization to towards a KM and collaboration strategy that starts with asking How? and relies on Emergineering to work knowledge management and context into daily social processes on platforms like TeamPage.
JSB on Capturing Context not Just Content
In John Seeley Brown's KMWorld Keynote (live streamed 17 Oct 2012 at kmworld.
He goes on to say that the way to manage knowledge in today's age is about capturing context along with content.
He goes on to talk about the futility of building profiles and managing inventories of skills by bringing up a case at SAP where the average time to ask and get an answer to a question is 17 minutes.
That's why we built the Social Enterprise Web module, to make social bookmarking easy and to enable discussion and tagging right into the context of enterprise systems.
In JSB's words - this helps meet a goal he states as the need "to build social and intellectual capital" by capturing the output of emergent processes.
He calls sharing in this way as intimate legitimate peripheral participation.
Another terrific example he raises is how to cope when an ERP calls out an exception condition.
Employees have to raise, discuss and resolve the issue.
That's connected work, and why it matters.
Ada Lovelace Day | Sunita Williams, Astronaut and Captain U.
S. Navy
Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the contributions of women in science and technology.
Captain Williams graduated from the U.
On July 14 2012 Captain Williams launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome to join ISS Expedition 32 as Flight Engineer and Expedition 33 as Commander.
Ada icon by Sidney Padua: I strongly recommend that you download the thrilling adventures of Babbage & Lovelace for your iPad (free), and enjoy more of their adventures on author Sydney Padua's 2D Goggles Web page.
Previous years
Ada Lovelace Day | Betts Wald, US Naval Research Lab 2011
Ada Lovelace Day | Fran Allen, IBM Fellow and A.
Ada Lovelace Day | Professor Lee S.
Creating GWT Date /
Time Pickers That Work in Any Time Zone
We're working on new features for the next release of TeamPage that allow people to create events on a calendar.
Edit Event Dialog
It seems easy enough to implement using our own secret sauce of HTML/
I've used a bunch of different calendar applications and looked around the web for inspiration.
I'd need two fields: a date input and a time input that together specify a time, independent of timezone.
There's a nice date picker control that is part of GWT called a DateBox.
However, we noticed that it doesn't handle time zones very well, so we created the UTCDateBox.
For example, New Years Day is always Jan 1st even though it's still Dec 31st in the US when people start celebrating it in Japan.
Time however, cannot be specified independent of TimeZone.
Since 2003, TeamPage has allowed users to create and edit articles, comments, files, tasks, etc.
Here's the UTCTimeBox that I decided to build.
Even though we have two separate controls for date and time, we still store a single Long value on the server side as milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.
I spent a while on this until I realized that there just isn't enough information about TimeZones available to JavaScript.
Since we can't properly split a single Long value into date and time parts in the browser, we'll have to do it on the server.
When a user submits the form, the server, which knows the user's time zone, creates the corresponding Date value.
Now we can edit events and the value is properly stored on the server.
The final piece is creating some interaction between the start and end dates to make it easier to create and maintain proper ranges.
HTML5 date/
time inputs for iOS
HTML5 has new inputs for date, time, month, datetime, and more.
As a developer using the UTCDateBox and UTCTimeBox, you don't need to do anything special to use the HTML5 versions in iOS.
Remembering Neil Armstrong.
. .
"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.
Armstrong and Scott were scheduled for a brief question and answer session at the Pennsylvania state science museum auditorium in Harrisburg - squeezed between astronaut meet and greet events for the Governor and state legislators a few blocks away.
A state official welcomed Armstrong and Scott, invited them to tell us about the Gemini VII mission, and cautioned that they'd only have a few minutes for questions before they had to move on to the next event.
All hands went up.
The next question went to the pudgy kid with glasses and camera jumping up and down in the tenth row - me.
I got a smile and a nod from Neil.
On Saturday 25 Aug his family posted: "Neil was our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend.
They continue:
"While we mourn the loss of a very good man, we also celebrate his remarkable life and hope that it serves as an example to young people around the world to work hard to make their dreams come true, to be willing to explore and push the limits, and to selflessly serve a cause greater than themselves.
"For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request.
I hope this sky isn't cloudy, since I plan to spend some time looking at the moon.
A few links and references on the life and times of Neil Armstrong, including several that aren't so common.
The Engineered Century - Neil Armstrong, National Academy of Engineering, Spring 2000, The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering.
Neil A. Armstrong (1930 - 2012) - From the family of Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong | 1930 - 2012: Made 'Giant Leap' as First Man to Step on Moon - John Noble Witford's New York Times obituary, 25 Aug 2012
Gemini VIII Mission Summary - NASA Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
Apollo XI Mission Summary - NASA Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
Lunar Landing Guidance Equations - Part of the source code for the Lunar Module's (LM) Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), for Apollo 11.
Oral History Transcript Neil A.
Catalog of NASA Oral History Collections - NASA Headquarters and Field Centers
Monitoring and Leveraging Social Media Chatter, on the Internet and in the Enterprise
In the Pharma Chatter session at the SLA 2012 (Special Librarians Association) conference, I had the opportunity to talk about gathering and managing intelligence from social media.
On the internet front, I focused on traps to avoid when monitoring and leveraging social media on the internet.
After highlighting a set of use cases where my customers have found success, I outlined one specific case where a team and their limited community of <100 managers and executives have proven their leverage with over 84,000 reads and an average of 35 reads per page posted in a year.
Anti-Social Software
It's common to read about corporate culture as a big barrier to successful adoption and use of social software in business.
The culture of some organizations ranges from ineffectual to poisonous, and it's difficult to turn such organizations around.
The purpose of the manual was to educate people in World War II occupied countries on techniques for simple sabotage, performed by ordinary citizens with no special training or equipment.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual
OSS Field Manual No.
17 Jan 1944
17 Jan 1944
General Interference with Organizations and Production
(a) Organizations and Conferences
(1) Insist on doing everything through "channels.
(2) Make "speeches.
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration.
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
(7) Advocate "caution.
(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision - raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.
(b) Managers and Supervisors
(1) Demand written orders.
(2) "Misunderstand" orders.
(3) Do everything possible to delay the delivery of orders.
(4) Don't order new working materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown.
(5) Order high-quality materials which are hard to get.
(6) In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.
(7) Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least fiaw.
(8) Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will be sent to the wrong place in the plant.
(9) When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions.
(10) To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.
(11) Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
(12) Multiply paper work in plausible ways.
(13) Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on.
(14) Apply all regulations to the last letter.
(c) Office Workers
(1) Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders.
(2) Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.
(3) Misfile essential documents.
(4) In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying job will have to be done.
(5) Tell important callers the boss is busy or talking on another telephone.
(6) Hold up mail until the next collection.
(7) Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope.
(d) Employees
(1) Work slowly.
(2) Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can: when changing the material on which you are working, as you would on a lath or punch, take needless time to do it.
(3) Even it you understand the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.
(4) Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once.
(5) Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment.
(6) Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.
(7) Snarl up administration in every possible way.
(8) If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the management.
(9) Misroute materials.
(10) Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.
(a) Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.
(b) Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police.
(c) Act stupid.
(d) Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.
(e) Misunderstand all sorts of regulations concerning such matters as rationing, transportation, traffic regulations.
(f) Complain against ersatz materials.
(g) In public treat axis nationals or quislings coldly.
(h) Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe.
(i) Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.
(j) Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.
(k) Do not cooperate in salvage schemes.
Strategic Services Field Manual No.
17 January 1944
OSS William J.
Declassified 2 April 2008
Download the full manual (.
"All of this has led me to believe that something is terribly wrong with e-mail.
What's more, I don't believe it can be fixed. "
"All of this has led me to believe that something is terribly wrong with e-mail.
Nick continues: "Last year, Royal Pingdom, which monitors Internet usage, said that in 2010, 107 trillion e-mails were sent.
Email is OK for incoming introductions and disposible notifications, but when you try to use email for collaboration, multiple To: addresses turn it into something like the stateroom scene in the Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera.
Add the Cc: line and give up all hope! In 2008 Google engineer Kevin Marks referred to email as a "strange legacy idea" for the younger generation.
In 2003 Clay Shirky said: "All enterprises have more knowledge in their employees as a group than any one person, even (especially?) the CEO.
From my 2008 blog post Email isn't dead - It's only sleeping
See Clay Shirky, Social Software: A New Generation of Tools by Clay Shirky, Release 1.
Caroline McCarthy, The future of Web apps will see the death of e-mail, CNet.
Modern social software is now being widely adopted as an alterative to email collaboration, based on a pattern that Doug Engelbart recognized long ago, see Flip Test 1971 | Email versus Journal.
May I suggest Traction TeamPage?


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I am wife to a magnificent man and mother to five wonderful children. Three of my children were born in the Northwest and two were born thousands of miles away in Liberia, West Africa. Birthplace is no matter, all of my children were born in my heart. This is our journey.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Oh laundry, you must not like me
While Steve was working on the hammock...
and the older kids were hanging out...
the younger three were doing this.
I'm glad they had a great time. On one hand, I am all for times of creative, unstructured play.
Laundry, on the other hand, could be a challenge this week. ;-)
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NEPR Peer Review Operations System
New England Peer Review (NEPR) administers the AICPA Peer Review Program for accounting and/or auditing firms in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont in accordance with the AICPA Peer Review Standards. The goal of this non-profit is to attain the highest level of quality and integrity in work product for accounting and auditing firms in the region. Run by a volunteer Executive Committee comprised of accounting industry leaders in all four states, who hire an Executive Director to lead this organization on their behalf. Firms in need of a peer review engage Reviewers to provide these services, who coordinate with NEPR to schedule and complete peer reviews.
The process of Peer Review is a detailed one that includes the detailed study of many documents for each firm examined. While New England Peer Review had developed a rigorous and structured manner to ensure the efficiency of this process, it was one that required the printing and archiving of many documents in order to ensure standards were met. The leadership of NEPR sought to take their workflow process online and move to a near-paperless process for all Peer Reviews.
Having developed their public website in Drupal 6, they were familiar with all that the CMS platform offered and were encouraged to take their workflow online to move the organization into a more efficient and green process.


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Hopefully you've become comfortable with using Bryce objects and giving them materials via the Create and Edit palettes. So you may have an object in your scene, and ground with a material of your choice from the materials library. But what about the sky? Maybe you want a moody, brooding atmosphere, night scene or just a different coloured sky. In Bryce you can not only change the sky colour and sun colour/size but there are settings for clouds, haze, stars and more.
It's not too difficult to change some of the basic sky settings but Bryce also comes with a good range of Sky & Fog presets, i.e ready made sky settings. So as using presets is the simplest way to get started lets take a look at those in this part of the tutorial.
1. Click the little arrow/triangle next to the words Sky & Fog. Note: it doesn't matter if the Create or Edit palette is highlighted, and you don't have to click on the actual words Sky & Fog.
The sky and fog library will appear as shown in the image below.As with the object material library we have various categories at the bottom right which can be accessed by the small triangle next to the work 'Installed'. The default choice is 'Installed'.
Within this category we can see above that there are various sub-categories e.g Daytime, Nightime, Fantasy-SciFi.
3. Select a preset sky - just click on one of the images, it will be bounded in red when you do.The preview will show your selection and the name of the preset will appear.
I've chosen 'Simple Perfection' from the Daytime sub-category (3rd row down, 2nd one along):
You may notice that the Nano preview does not show the sky we've selected yet - it will when we complete the next step:
4. Click the tick at the bottom left of sky preset window - (circled in step 3 above). This activates your preset and exits the library.
5. Render your scene - click on the big green round Render button on the left of the interface:
If you don't like the preset press Ctrl+Z on your keyboard or just go back into the library and choose a different preset.
Now my image isn't very interesting as I've just used a basic cube and default ground for illustration purposes, but I'm sure you can be more creative introducing various objects from the object library, terrains, trees etc. If you have Daz Studio, which is free from DAZ 3D, you can import ready textured models directly from Daz Studio into Bryce...very useful!! Take a look at my tutorial Using Daz Studio with Bryce.
There are other ways to have more control over how the sky looks, even the preset skies: if you are ready to be more adventurous see part two: The Sky and Fog palette - part 2


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Why Do Gay People Tolerate Blatant Racism?
The openly gay UK journalist Owen Jones has penned an article on Racism in the gay community. He provides some startling statistics
According to research by FS magazine, an astonishing 80% of black men, 79% of Asian men and 75% of south Asian men have experienced racism on the gay scene.
One visible minority tells Jones
"I'm sexualised for my skin tone and never treated as a person. The community is trained to accept a white, 'masc', muscled gay man and the rest of us are not really accepted or 'one of their own'." It's not the individual he blames, but being conditioned by a community that venerates the "sexual image of a white gay man".
But on the flip side their is being objectified for your race. Says Malik
The rejection of people based on ethnicity is bad enough, he says, "but it can be just as gross when someone reduces you to your ethnicity, without consent, when dating/hooking up". His Arab heritage was objectified and stereotyped by some would-be lovers, even down to presuming his sexual role.
Jones concludes his article by writing
Being oppressed yourself does not mean you are incapable of oppressing others: far from it. LGBT people have had to struggle against bigotry and oppression for generations. It is tragic that they inflict and ignore injustice in their own ranks.
This is an excellent article. To read this in its entirely go to No Asians, no black people. Why do gay people tolerate blatant racism?


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This is exactly like all the bands we talk about on here. lol I'm looking at you in particular, ATL.
Is it just me or have those guys also slipped into relative obscurity where no one has really heard from them in ages and you honestly didn't even notice. Such is the world of disposable pop, fellas. You were so hungry for mainstream success that you alienated those fans that were actually in it for something good. You were eaten up by the top 40 market & you loved it. Well now, you've been shit out & no one could care less. Hell, the only reason I even thought about them is they came up on shuffle on my iTunes.
lol life's a bitch, isn't it?
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Sleek and spacious, the 'Spirit of Freedom' offers the best in live-aboard dive cruising to the Coral Sea and Ribbon Reefs. This tour begins every Monday from Cairns, and travels 240km along the rarely visited Ribbon Reefs, to the Cod Hole. Along the 'Ribbons' you will encounter clouds of colourful tropical fish, an incredible variety of vibrant healthy corals, giant clams, anemones, huge schools of cruising pelagic fish, and a family of giant potato cod. Within your 7 days, you will also spend 2 days at Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea. An old volcanic atoll lying 220km off the coast, Osprey Reef is renown for its spectacular walls to 1000m, its massive soft corals, shark action, and exceptional visibility. 'North Horn' at the tip of Osprey is a site where grey reef sharks, silvertips, and the occasional oceanic congregate. Here you can also experience a close encounter with the Spirit of Freedom shark attraction dive. This tour also includes an overnight stay in secluded Watson's Bay and a couple of hours ashore at Lizard Island. Return to Cairns 7 days later on the Monday morning.
Departs Cairns 12:00 noon Monday
Returns Cairns 07:30am Monday
Includes Transfers to/from your Cairns city hotel, Opportunity for up to 26 dives, En-suite cabin with daily service, Chef prepared gourmet meals – Australian style Australian wines & soft drinks with evening meals
Dive Level Recommendation Advanced type diving
Monday: The Spirit of Freedom courtesy bus will pick you up from your Cairns hotel around 11:00am to transfer you to Trinity Wharf, where you will board the vessel. You will be greeted by the Spirit of Freedom crew, who will give you an orientation of the vessel before a 12 noon departure. Enjoy lunch on board while we cruise to the outer Great Barrier Reef for an afternoon check-out dive and a twilight or night dive. After dinner we cruise north to the Ribbon Reefs.
Tuesday & Wednesday: These two days are spent diving at the most northern of the Ribbon Reefs, Number 9 & 10 Ribbon Reefs. Dive sites and sequence may vary depending on the weather conditions, but will always include at least one dive at the Cod Hole, where you encounter a family of massive and very friendly Potato Cod. Other sites may include Wonder-wall, Pixie Pinnacle, Challenger Bay, Two Towers, Lighthouse Bommie, and the Snake Pit, just to name a few. If the current is right, you may also take a drift dive at Dynamite Pass, well know as a channel for sharks to pass through. See the dive site page for site selection of some of our dive sites on the Ribbon Reefs. 4 to 5 dives will be available each day, including a night dive on the Tuesday. On Wednesday evening we overnight at Watson's Bay, Lizard Island, and enjoy a sunset BBQ dinner on the top deck.
Thursday: This morning after breakfast you will have the opportunity to go ashore at Lizard Island. A good chance to stretch you legs on land at this half way point, you can take the guided walk from Watson's Beach to Mary Watson's cottage over Chinaman's Ridge and back to the beach. Around 11.00am we will cruise back to Ribbon Reef Number 10 for two dives at a choice of sites including the Snake Pit, Cod Hole, Challenger Bay, Lighthouse Bommie, Pixie Wall, and Pixie Pinnacle. If the tide permits we may repeat a dive at the Cod Hole or visit new sites. We depart in the evening for a 10 hour crossing to Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea.
Friday & Saturday: Two days will be spent diving Osprey Reef (weather permitting). Australia's Coral Sea reefs are renown for crystal clear water with visibility ranging 30 to 100 metres. The landscape is amazing with sheer walls laced with gorgonians, sea whips, and bright yellow soft corals, rising from the ocean floor thousands of feet below. 'North Horn' is a dive site at the tip of Osprey where grey reef sharks, silvertips, and the occasional oceanic congregate, and you can experience a close encounter with the Spirit of Freedom shark attraction dive. 4 to 5 dives will be available each day, including a night dive on the Friday. See the dive site page for site selection of some of our dive sites at Osprey Reef. On Saturday night we will depart Osprey Reef for overnight travel to the Ribbon Reefs.
Sunday: At Ribbon Reefs Number 3 we will dive such sites as the sensational Steve's Bommie, Temple of Doom, and Flare Point. A second option for this day, in special weather conditions, is to head south from Opsrey to Bougainville Reef, known for its unusual underwater landscape or caverns, and its partially submerged wreck. On Sunday evening we will cruise overnight back to Cairns.
Monday: We arrive back into Cairns at 06:30am. Enjoy a light breakfast on board and a group photo opportunity before being dropped back to your Cairns hotel around 08.00am.


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A new direct bus service from Tadcaster to York is to provide the quickest bus ever to run into the city.
Following the collapse of Tadcaster Bridge, North Yorkshire County Council and Yorkshire Coastliner have announced Tadfaster will start on Monday February 15 and will take just 20 minutes into York.
The new bus route will run alongside the existing Coastliner service, which sees no change and continues to connect the town with Leeds, York and the east coast.
Alex Hornby, Chief Executive at Transdev, the company behind Yorkshire Coastliner, said: "We know it's been really tough for residents and our customers in Tadcaster, and we wanted to design a service more specific to their needs.
"Research shows that York remains the most popular destination from the town - and so the new Tadfaster route has been carefully planned to speed up journeys into York city centre, whilst restoring bus services from the bus station and the east side of Tadcaster."
"In addition to the new service, next Saturday, 20 February, we are keen to welcome as many Tadcaster residents on board by offering a one day only £1 single fare for any bus journey to or from Tadcaster on Tadfaster or Coastliner."
"We hope this will encourage residents to make the most of these big improvements; as well as encouraging more people to visit the town.
"We really want to do our bit to help and support all in Tadcaster during this time of recovery. More and better bus services will improve the town's economy and wellbeing."
Coun Don Mackenzie, Executive Member for public Transport, said: "This is a really good example of how the council is working closely with bus operators to improve commercial services throughout the county."
The new Tadfaster service runs hourly during the day, and will connect Tadcaster directly with York, non-stop along the A64, then picking up as usual between York College and the city centre.
All journeys for any customers boarding or leaving the bus at any stops within Tadcaster and Woodlands, can enjoy the £1 fare offer to or from any other location on the Coastliner and Tadfaster network. The normal range of bus passes will be accepted as usual.


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|Peace for Paris image, created by Jean Jullien
My trip to London was wonderful. I met some amazing people, enjoyed meat pie (I went to Gluten-Hell for it, but I could not resist), and made two significant visits to the British Museum, aside from learning some of the Pagan mysteries of London right under our feet. Here are a few favorite photos from the museum:
The dates for the 2016 Inner Sanctum Symposium on Infinite Possibilities have been announced: April 21-24, 2016 at Isis Oasis Sanctuary in Geyserville, California. I am accepting presentation proposals immediately, and the spaces are limited. The window for proposals closes on March 1, 2016. A Preliminary Schedule will be posted on April 1, 2016.
|Moon Phases by Keith Burns
The dates for Temple of Isis Convocation 2016 are October 7-10, 2016, and the God/Goddess of the year has been announced: Shu and Tefnut. I am also accepting proposals for those presentations as well. The window closes on August 1, 2016. A preliminary Schedule will be posted on September 1st.
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