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Enterprise Collaboration Techfest #ECTF16 My Takeaways
Posted by Michelle Ockers in Uncategorized on March 10, 2016
I attended Enterprise Collaboration Techfest in Melbourne, Australia 29 Feb – 1 March 2016. I'm hosting a follow-up blab to discuss questions, ideas and themes – on Tuesday 15 March 8.00pm AEST (Sydney time) . In advance of this blab I wanted to share my personal notes from the sessions I attended. Keep in mind that I've polished these notes a little in order to share them and help seed discussion on the blab, but they're mostly for my personal use.
Below I've listed each session I attended, my key takeaways and any potential personal actions. Click on the session title to access my session notes in Evernote. I'll update some of these notes in the coming week e.g adding images of key slides.
Today's Digital Collaboration Tools – Connecting Everything to High Value Business Outcomes, Dion Hinchcliffe – Chief Strategy Officer, Adjuvi
- Difference between coordination, cooperation and collaboration – the need to explain what collaboration is.
- Seek to put community in the centre of everything I do
- Open up the Doors to Collaboration. Don't prescribe who can participate. Don't make assumptions on who should be involved.
- Get a copy of Social Business by Design – Dions book. Management strategy guide and handbook on social business.
- Learn about blockchain
- Learn about the Internet of things
- Check out Slack – the 'one collaboration tool to rule them all'.
Fashioning New Ways of Engaging with Customers and Technology at Burberry, Robyn Randell – VP IT Asia Pacific, Burberry
My key takeaways:
- User adoption – small things make a big difference e.g. Show users 1:1 how to use things
- Give people the functionality they need to do to their job and they will not want to find more tools
- Do things WITH people, not to people
My potential follow on actions:
- Capability Community – consider introducing a 'Capability Roundup' in fortnightly catchups – stories of either Learning/Development wins or failures/opportunities from learners across business unit
Leadership in the New Era of Enterprise Collaboration – From Dictator to Collaboration, Paul Miller – CEO and Founder, Digital Workplace Group
My key takeaways:
- Power centres are moving from physical to digital workplace. If you're invisible in digital channels you will become invisible in the organisation.
- Endeavour to create functional, beautiful digital workplaces.
- For most of us if our physical workplace were designed like our virtual workplaces we would refuse to work there.
My potential follow on actions
This session was a call to action to create digital workspaces with as much care and thought as we create physical workspaces.
- Look critically at our community hubs and other digital spaces – how could we make them more beautiful and easy to use, more like a consumer experience?
Putting the Narrative to Work, Ethan McCarty – Global head of Employee Communications, Bloomberg
My key takeaways:
- Understand the reason that a collaborative culture is important to your organisation. Collaboration is not an end in itself.
- To build a culture of collaboration select people who value collaboration and encourage them to decide how to work together
- Recognise collaboration as a leadership skill.
Conversation Cafe run by James Dellow – General Manager, Ripple Effect Group
- Who should own collaboration?
- Should we worry about 'shadow' IT?
- How do you keep collaboration on the management agenda?
The Four Pillars of a Collaboration Enterprise, Silvio Damiano – CEO, Founder, About My Brain Institute
Session looked at how individual leaders could improve collaboration through their personal trust-building behaviours.
The 4 pillars at an individual level to drive collaboration are:
- Inspiration – Become the source of inspiration, not source of desperation – leave people with more energy in every encounter
- Communication – Improve the way you communicate
- Generosity – Grow your generous side
- Courage – Have courage to address the issues that need to be addressed
My potential actions
- Read biographies to study how generosity looks like in the life of others.
- Use reflection tool on quality of relationships to think about quality of some of my key relationships and how I could improve them in order to improve collaboration (tool is in image at end of my session notes)
Human Centered Digital Workplace – Creating Digital Worlds Where We Want to Work, Paul Miller – CEO and Founder, Digital Workplace Group
My key takeaways:
Our Digitial world needs to be seen as a new dimension of human experience and have characteristics of beauty. Digital workplace needs to be well architected and maintained. It should be welcoming and functional.
My potential actions:
- Improve governance of digital workplace in my organisations – Create good governance so content is accurate, reliable, timely.
- Read Good Governance Practice Guide – Digital Workplace Group eBook
Using Community to take Enterprise Collaboration to the Next Level, Dion Hinchcliffe – Chief Strategy Office, ADJUVI
My key takeaways:
- Community management is an essential skill set in organisations.
- Community management is maturing as a practice.
- Community Managers speed adoption
My potential actions:
- Update 'business case' for Community Management in my own organisation using content, research and case studies shared in this session
- Develop community playbook and roadmaps for all communities.
- Look at community success metrics which are emerging
Communications Strategy or Collaboration Strategy? Hint: Employees Demand Both, Ethan McCarty – Global Head of Employee Communications, Bloombergs
My key takeaways
Content and people were two key themes that stood out to me in this session.
- Meaningful content is important
- People->Process->Platform (in that order)
- "Killer app" is our employees – especially in connecting with external world. Encourage them to share content in days that are appropriate for them
My potential actions
- Develop content strategy for my Capability Community.
- Include content strategy in Community Playbook.
- Figure out how to access and use SharePoint data
- Investigate Design Thinking, Lean Start-Up and Agile – how can I use these in my work?
- How can I encourage Capability Community members to share content across our organisation in order to build learning culture?
Delivering a Truly Collaborative Workforce, Sean Hallahan – Managing Director, TATA Global Beverages Australia
My key takeaways:
Note – although the Tata team is small (40 employees) the leadership approaches discussed could be adopted at team level within a larger organisation.
- Focus on the "human" (team) first then allow them to choose their technology.
- Leader as host rather than leader as hero – important mindset shift
- Intangible things people want from leaders
My potential actions:
- Read Margaret Wheatley Leadership in the Age of Complexity: From Hero to Host
- View Simon Sinek Ted Talk on 'Why' again
- Consider whether my leadership delivers on the 'intangible things people want from leaders'
Enterprise Collaboration TechFest Final Panel – Delivering Digital Workplace Strategies for Competitive Advantage
My key takeaways:
- Strategies to gain executive sponsorship (see session notes for list)
- Utility is the #1 driver of adoption
My potential actions:
- Develop 30 second elevator pitch on collaboration in my organisation
- Prepare 2-3 page presentation pitching collaboration for my organisation
- Community Playbook – look at notes on ROI from panel for ideas on outcomes and metrics
- When engaging with a new team on collaboration find out what their business problem is and the metrics around it
Other Conference Resources
Summary of key ideas and sketchnotes posted by Rebecca Jackson
Post conference blab where I discuss some of the ideas and questions from#ECTF16 with Sharon O'Dea and Sarah Jones
Archive of all tweets during conference that used #ECTF16 – thanks to Bruno Winck for creating this
Community of Practice Evaluation following Work, Connect, and Learn
Posted by Michelle Ockers in Uncategorized on November 16, 2015
This post is part of a case study on the development of a Community of Practice (COP) for Maintenance and Engineering teams at Coca-Cola Amatil. A previous post outlined the COP evaluation strategy. This post summarises evaluation following completion of the five-week Work, Connect, and Learn (WCL) program.
This evaluation examines:
- Increase in networks (potential value)
- Engagement with work and Community (potential and applied value)
- Opportunities for community value creation
Data gathering methods used were:
- Pre and post program surveys sent to all 200 (approximately) Community members. 115 people responded to the pre-program survey and 78 to the post-program survey.
- Data from monitoring Community SharePoint site
Community Demographics
Community members are from nine operational sites and two head office locations in Australia and New Zealand. Job role and age distribution are shown in the tables below. The geographic and age distribution of respondents was similar between the two surveys. The percentage of trades-people who responded to the post-program survey declined compared to the pre-program survey. This is consistent with feedback about barriers to entry for this group to take part in the online community.
|% Program Respondents
|Job Role
|Tradesperson – Fitter (performs hands-on maintenance and repair of mechanical equipment)
|Tradesperson – Electrician (performs hands-on maintenance and repair of electrical equipment)
|Maintenance – Other (e.g. Coordinator, Planner, Manager – plan and manage maintenance tasks and resources)
|Engineer (production line design, project manage changes to production equipment)
|% Program Respondents
|Age Group
|< 30 years
|> 50
Increase in Networks
Completed Online Profile
By default, all employees have a brief personal profile in SharePoint and contact details in Lync (now Skype For Business). We also set up a contact directory on the Community site, organised by work location and job role. People were asked to update their profile with details such as experience, past projects, and interests. Profiles are included in SharePoint search results, so these details make it easier to find and connect with relevant people. As an entry level networking activity, updating a profile is an important step in community participation.
31% of respondents updated their SharePoint profile during the program. This increased members with complete profiles to 40%, against a target of 80%.
Interaction with People at other Locations
Unfortunately, we are unable to gather any network analysis data from SharePoint or Lync. We asked about the interaction between Community members in different locations using SharePoint and Lync. We compared the number of people respondents interacted with in the four weeks before each survey. WCL webinars were excluded from the data.
The graph below shows two key shifts:
- Approximately 20% increase from no interactions to 1-5 interactions
- Approximately 6% increase from 6-10 interactions to 11-20 interactions
We asked respondents to list up to five people they had interacted with at other sites in the previous two weeks. However, we lacked an effective tool or method to analyse this data.
Interaction across sites increased during the WCL program. Sustaining and building interaction would require effort.
Community Engagement
Site Newsfeed
The Maintenance and Engineering Community used an existing SharePoint site. General updates and transient chat could be posted on the newsfeed. However, the newsfeed was rarely used before WCL.
An early WCL activity was for everyone to follow the SharePoint site. Following a site ensures that site newsfeed posts appear in your personal newsfeed. SharePoint does not 'push' notifications of newsfeed activity outside of the newsfeed itself. This means that the only way a person will be aware of newsfeed posts is if they check their feed. The graph below shows how often respondents checked their feed. The number of respondents who never check their feed dropped from 62% to 27%. Those checking at least once a week rose from 18% to 48%. There was a slight increase in the people who check their feed daily from 9% to 13%.
Discussion Forum
Two discussion forums were added to the site: one for the WCL program, and a second for ongoing Community use. During WCL, we gradually moved activities from the program forum to the Community forum. We encouraged people to use the Community forum to share knowledge, solve problems and collaborate on improvements.
Forum posts do not appear in the SharePoint newsfeed. An alert can be set up on a forum to receive email updates of activity either immediately, daily or weekly. WCL participants were shown how to set up an alert and asked to set one up on the forum. At the end of the program only 30 people (approximately 14% of the group) had set up an alert. However, only 30% advised that they 'never' check the forum. This indicates that most are visiting the forum without being prompted by email alerts.
Activity on the Community forum was analysed. The count excluded activity on the WCL program forum and by program facilitators.We counted the number of questions, likes and replies, and the number of active individuals. There were 115 interactions from 23 individuals, representing 11% of the Community population.
Participation rates are consistent with the 1-9-90 rule which is a positive start. A small number of community champions are emerging.
Barriers to Community Engagement
The survey listed a set of activities and asked respondents who had not done at least two why they had not been more active. The table below shows frequency of different responses.
Respondents identified the key barriers to community engagement as:
- Time – finding the time to do activities
- Skills – not being sure how to use SharePoint and/or Lync
- Need – not having identified a need to engage
- Technology – Inadequate access to computer or mobile device
- Who would be interested? – Uncertainty about what they can contribute and who would be interested in their contribution
Opportunities for Community Value Creation
Two open-ended questions gathered views on how participation in the Community could add value. The questions focused on improving business results. The were also phrased so that the answers reflected personal pain points and opportunities.
Q1: What do you see as the biggest opportunity to improve work practices and maintenance results at your site?
Key themes in responses were:
- Access to information
- Communication and collaboration between production plants
- Relationship and collaboration across departments at a local level
- Improving troubleshooting and speed to resolve equipment faults
- Time / workload, improving workflow
- Standard processes, setting standards, accountability
- Maintenance planning
- Improving technical knowledge
- Innovation
Q2: How do you think the Community of Practice could help you with this opportunity?
Key themes in responses were:
- Drawing on everyone's experience
- Allowing information to be shared
- Ease of communication with others
- Having a greater number of people to 'bounce' ideas, solutions and improvements
- Use forums to ask questions and access feedback/experiences from other sites
- Learning from mistakes and successes of others
- Not reinventing the wheel
- Alignment to common goals through interaction in new ways
- Training on technical skills
I am actually writing this post seven months after the WCL program. This gives me the benefit of knowing what has happened in the intervening period. I recall being positive immediately following the WCL program. The WCL program had helped us to launch the Maintenance and Engineering Community of Practice. Participants understood how a Community of Practice could create value. The interaction between people in different locations had increased, and community engagement was growing. We could build on this with strong community facilitation. We had some barriers to address, particularly if we wanted to enable the trades-people to take part. There were also opportunities. Community Champions were emerging. The Community had identified improvement opportunities that we could build activity around.
The National Engineering and Maintenance Managers had a deeper understanding of tacit knowledge. They had a stronger appreciation of the value of networks and potential contribution of a Community of Practice. Our next step was to support them to develop a strong plan to build and sustain the community. We engaged Helen Blunden of Activate Learning Solutions to provide coaching on Community facilitation.
Reflection – The Power of 'Why'
Posted by Michelle Ockers in Uncategorized on September 1, 2015
I recently wrote a post where I applied the '5 in 5' technique for reflection. This technique uses the following three questions to quickly generate ideas for small improvements:
- What?
- So What?
- Now What?
After running a half-day performance consulting workshop last week I've realised that there is a critical question missing from this reflection formula. The purpose of the workshop was to define current performance gaps in an area, desired future state (desired behaviours), identify causes of the gap and identify potential solutions. We used the '5 Whys' technique to explore root causes of the gap – asking 'Why' a problem is occurring, then iteratively asking 'Why' again until you reach the root cause of the problem and can identify a counter-measure to prevent it recurring.
There were some obvious elements of the solution identified before we got into 5 Whys – like improving processes and tools, updating role descriptions, standardising reports and review processes, and developing knowledge and skills. However, when we started asking 'Why' the desired behaviours might still not materialise despite having great processes, tools, reports, reviews, role clarity and skills in place, we delved into underlying factors that need to be addressed. Factors such as a short term focus on operational KPIs, conflicting KPIs, 'fire-fighting' being recognised and celebrated but not investments in capability building, teamwork, communication, and engagement. 'Why' was probably the most useful question asked during the workshop, leading to deeper insights and the potential for higher impact solutions.
To access the power of 'Why' the new formula I shall try for quick reflection is:
- What? (Identifies current situation/performance)
- So What? (Identifies the impact of current performance, providing rationale and motivation for improvement)
- Why (5 times)? (Identifies root causes)
- Now What? (Potential solutions – including measures to prevent recurrence of root causes).
I shall apply this updated formula to a challenge I am having with my personal organisation that I recently reflected on using '5 in 5' and post a comparison of the identified solutions.
A #WOLWeek Experiment – SharePoint vs Flipchart
Posted by Michelle Ockers in Uncategorized on June 24, 2015
International Work Out Loud Week (#WOLWeek), 15-21 June 2015, took me a little by surprise. Realising it was happening only 3 days out I scrambled for ideas of how to use the opportunity to promote the benefits and practices of working out loud in my organisation. For context, I have been talking to people in my business unit Capability Community about WOL over the past year, and since February 2015 have included it in the Work, Connect and Learn program which we run to introduce people to skills and behaviours for building a network and participating in a Community of Practice. Of course, people have been sharing their work with others in a range of forms as a natural element of how they work for a long time before the terms 'work out loud' or 'show your work' were invented. What we see now is a movement which encourages doing this in a purposeful, open and generous way to amplify the benefits to the individual and those who see their work and engage in conversations with them.
15 June
Every Monday at 9am people who work in my business unit on the same floor of my building gather and briefly talk about one or two things they are working on that week. I enthusiastically introduced WOL Week and let everyone know that what they were doing right then was a form of WOL.
Next I got onto our Enterprise Social Network, SharePoint, and introduced WOL Week in a post on the home page where everyone in the organisation could see it. I included a link to a punchy introduction to Working Out Loud that I'd prepared using the new Microsoft Sway tool. (This is the public version – the version I shared inside the organisation included links to examples of WOL on SharePoint as well as the internet.) At the end of the post I asked the questions "What is one thing you are working on or learning at the moment? How are you doing this?" No-one replied, 1 person liked the post.
16 June
I made a fresh post sharing a link to Jane Bozarth's explanation of how (and why) to show your work which I find clear and practical. I did include the WOL Week image (always try to add an image to my posts so they are more noticeable). However, the text was a little longer and the link to the article was only revealed after clicking on 'show more', along with the question "What was something you did yesterday? What problem did you solve or what did you learn?"
I role modelled replying to my own post, sharing a model for having engaging conversations. 8 people liked the model. No one else shared or asked further questions.
17 June
Day 3 – what else could I do? I decided to run an experiment – SharePoint versus Flipchart. I kept it simple. I wrote "What Have You Learned Recently" on a flipchart and stuck it on a wall in a corridor leading to our well-frequented cafe, along with an A4 poster about WOL Week. I also took a photo of the question and posted it on SharePoint. I made one reply in each location to get the sharing started.
Bearing in mind that the number of people who passed the flipchart was in the hundreds, while the number of people with access to SharePoint is in the thousands (a ratio of 1:8 at least) – what do you think the outcome was after 3 working days, not counting my replies?
More people replied on the flipchart than on SharePoint.
What did happen on SharePoint was follow on conversation. I had posted that I had learned "In-box domination" – how to get my in-box to zero at the end of every day. Two people commented or asked questions about this. There may have been conversation generated by the flipchart, but I wasn't there to hear it. This is a key difference between the two modes – conversations are accessible by more people on SharePoint, and you get the opportunity to interact with people that you may not have physical contact with.
Another observation is that the simplest of my three International WOL Week SharePoint posts got the most responses. So, I shall keep posts brief, continue using graphics, and ask direct questions to encourage interaction.
I posted a photo of the flipchart on SharePoint, compared the number of replies and asked why people more had replied to the flipchart. The one response to this question was interesting:
The implication then is that there was not a lot of traffic on SharePoint. It's a pity I can't get data on how many people visit their SharePoint newsfeed daily – probably fewer than visit the cafe on my floor. Apart from traffic, I'm sure there are other reasons why people didn't post a reply, although not specifically which reasons were in play here. What I do know is that this number is higher than it was 6 months ago as more people are interacting with me on SharePoint. I have faith that over time it will continue to grow so long as people like myself continue to champion enterprise social within the organisation.
Refining my PKM Schedule – Time to Think
Posted by Michelle Ockers in Uncategorized on April 19, 2015
I'm limiting myself to 30 minutes to write this post. Whatever state it is in when my timer goes off is the state it gets 'shipped' (i.e. posted) in (as Seth Godin says 'real artists ship' – and I ship less in the form of blog posts than I would like). Limited myself to a shorter time period to write a post is a little ironic as this post is about the value of creating larger blocks of time for learning and Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) activities rather than cramming it into small chunks of time completed between other activities. It's just that I've had an insight that I wanted to capture in the moment, with a sense of immediacy and none of the usual hyperlinking, polishing and refining that goes into my posts.
Two week's ago I started another of Jane Hart's Modern Workplace Learning courses – this one on Modernising Training content. I'd previously read / viewed the Week 1 content during my daily commute on the bus and train, and started doing the same with the Week 2 content. There is an activity to complete each week which involves creating a piece of content. I've been so busy with work and parenting that I'd not started the Week 1 activity.
Today, a Sunday, I found myself alone for several hours and decided to go back over the content for Week 1 – on the topic of 'micro content.' I have just spent two hours of sitting at my desk looking at various examples of microcontent, bookmarking and commenting on articles and examples in Diigo, learning to use Diigo's Outliner function, and taking notes in Evernote. I've thoroughly enjoyed this block of time to concentrate and do some decent sense-making as opposed to the short grabs of time I tend to use while commuting or between evening washing up and my child's bedtime to get online and read / view content. It's important to highlight that the course is not presented as a 'micro-learning' program, although all of Jane's programs lend themselves to being able to consume content on the go on mobile platforms. Nonetheless, I thought it ironic that my experience was that a longer focussed block of time on the topic of 'micro content' was far more enjoyable and effective than the mobile, short attention span blocks I've been allocating to this activity.
I'm now reflecting on my PKM and networking routine, which I've been trying to follow this year. During my commute I'm mostly seeking through Twitter and Feedly, and doing a little sharing where I find and read a resource that I think worth an immediate share. However, due to the morning and evening routines involved with walking my dog and solo parenting for about 90% of the time I can't actually fit in the number of one hour blocks of time required for decent sense-making and high quality sharing as I have put into my planned routine. The only way I could do this is by getting less than my target 7-7.5 hours of sleep per night, which I find essential to think clearly and work productively.
I'm going to halve the number of blocks of time I try to allocate during a typical week for concentrated sense-making and network management activities. I think this will be more realistic than the current unachievable objectives I've set for myself. Giving my brain a few more breaks (e.g. more nights off, and more commutes where I simply listen to music and start out of the window) could well result in better quality thinking and higher productivity. Not to mention greater presence in the moment, especially when I'm with family.
702010 Forum Value Creation Story
Posted by Michelle Ockers in Community, Uncategorized on March 8, 2015
I came across the idea of using value creation stories to assess the value of online interactions in an article by Jane Bozarth. She used a conceptual framework from Etienne Wenger, Beverly Traynor and Maarten De Laat to write the story of how her online interactions create value. Their framework thinks about value in terms of five different cycles, which Jane summarises clearly in a diagram in her article.
As Jane urges, I have read the full text of this framework, and have used their guiding questions to write a value creation story about my participation in the 702010 Forum. This is my practice run in preparation for gathering value creation stories to evaluate communities that I am helping develop in my organisation. I've written this post by responding directly to the guiding questions relating to each cycle of value creation. However, I would document value creation stories within my organisation by writing or recording (audio or video) a more natural narrative.
The 702010 Forum is a community of practice for learning and performance professionals applying the 702010 framework. Membership is subscription based, with some resources and webinars publicly available. A toolkit contains resources to support application of 702010, and members can participate in a range of events and an online discussion forum.
1. What meaningful activities did you participate in? (Cycle 1 – Immediate Value)
I have participated in a variety of asynchronous and synchronous activities including:
– attending webinars or viewing recordings, especially case studies by members
– delivering two case studies on webinars
– attending face-to-face events
– initiating and replying to discussions in the forum – and extending this in one case to email and phone discussions on a solution shared in the forum (more below)
– participating in a pilot of the Forum's 702010 Practitioner Certification
– sharing and applying resources from the Toolkit with others in my organisation to assess status and develop improvements
2. What specific insights did you gain? What access to useful information or material? (Cycle 2 – Potential Value)
Within a few months of joining the Forum I realised that while my organisation had adopted the 702010 framework a number of years ago, we had narrowly interpreted it. We were deploying blended learning where we used activities based on learning from experience (70) and others (20) within formal structured programs. However, we were not purposefully enabling people to learn as they worked or building ongoing social learning capability. From a webinar on the changing role of the learning function I saw that the skills of our capability team needed to be broadened. I gained an understanding and language to talk to key stakeholders about the opportunity to impact organisational performance more effectively if we added performance consulting, performance support, and social learning to our toolkit.
3. How did this influence your practice? What did it enable that would not have happened otherwise? (Cycle 3 – Applied Value)
These activities and insights enabled me to have different discussions about 702010, our learning strategy, and internal Capability skills, particularly with senior managers and our Capability team. The most significant shift it enabled was an update to our Capability strategy in April 2014 to include 'Continuous Workplace Learning' as an element. This broadened the remit of our Capability team and created the space for us to get strategic with social learning.
We revamped our Governance Board by applying the "Toolkit for Establishing a Learning Governance Board." Consequently we get better value out of our quarterly meetings by focussing on alignment with our business strategy.
A specific initiative accelerated by a case study in a Forum webinar was setting up a knowledge sharing site on SharePoint. When a senior manager gave me 1 day to prepare a prototype of a community hub on SharePoint I recalled a webinar where Tonkin & Taylor demonstrated their Knowledge Shots solution. I incorporated this into our prototype, and went on to build a variant of this for my organisation. You can see what this looks like in the guided tour of a community hub now set up on SharePoint. (Big thank you to Tammy Waite and Mark Thomas from Tonkin & Taylor, Forum members, for the support they provided by email and phone.)
4a. What difference did it make to your performance? How did this contribute to your personal/professional development? (Cycle 4 – Realized Value)
As per the examples given above, application of ideas, tools and solutions from the 702010 Forum has enabled me to perform and contribute to my organisation in ways I may not otherwise have been able to.
The 702010 Forum was one of the first Learning & Development communities that I've participated in. During 2014 I got active on Twitter and started this blog. This helped me to create a Personal Learning Network (PLN) which encompasses many other communities (e.g. Third Place, OzLearn, PKMChat). Collectively my participation in a number of communities and interaction with my PLN has transformed and accelerated my professional development.
One way that the Forum has supported my development has been by increasing my confidence to work out loud publicly in order to learn and improve. In December 2013 I delivered a case study in a Forum webinar. I found the reflection and learning from delivering this webinar valuable, and saw that others could benefit from me working out loud. This was a catalyst – it gave me the motivation and confidence to continue working out loud by blogging and speaking at conferences.
4b. How did this contribute to the goal of the organisation? Qualitatively? Quantitatively? (Cycle 4 – Realized Value)
Realised value for my organisation is unfolding. It's also difficult (and unnecessary) to unravel the influence of the 702010 Forum on my organisation's performance versus that of other communities and networks I participate in. Our Capability strategy is better aligned to our overall business strategy as a result of applying ideas and tools from the 702010 Forum. We are using a broader range of Capability approaches and activities to achieve our goals. I think it will be another 6-9 months before we are clear on the outcome of these activities.
5. Has this changed your or some other stakeholder's understanding of what matters? (Cycle 5 – Reframing Value)
An emphatic YES to this question. It's shifted the perspective of two very important stakeholder groups, senior managers and the Capability community, about the importance of the 70 and 20 elements of the framework and the range of approaches we can use to build Capability. We've reframed our Capability strategy, launched communities of practice and embraced performance consulting.
Participate, Participate, Participate
I shall close by encouraging everyone reading this to reflect on the communities and networks they are part of and consider their current level of participation. The more you participate, interact with others, apply ideas from these groups and share back what happened, the more value you create for yourself, your organisation and other community members. So, what are you waiting for? Get in there and participate.
I'd love to hear about the value that others have found in participating in communities and networks – you can leave your thoughts below or pingback to your own blog posts.
Thank You PLN
Posted by Michelle Ockers in Uncategorized on December 21, 2014
Twelve months ago I didn't know how to spell PLN, let alone what the term Personal Learning Network meant. At the end of an amazing year of professional development, I'd like to thank everyone in my PLN for connecting with me, sharing expertise and resources, and encouraging me to keep learning, improving and trying out new things. At the risk of omitting someone, there are some people I'd like to specifically thank (don't read anything into the order in which they are listed below). Each of these people or groups has helped me to try new things and learn, and has been constantly generous.
Jane Hart – You have been my guide to becoming a Social Learning Practitioner. Your SLPP Program has given me a path to follow as I have taken my first steps in online social learning. This has completely changed how I approach my professional development, and helped me to build new skills to apply in my work. I will always look back fondly on our October brunch with a group of Sydney-based learning practitioners.
Harold Jarche – I enjoyed your Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) workshop at the AITD 2014 National Conference and the online PKM in 40 days program. Your Seek-Sense-Share framework has helped me to build regular practices that give me confidence that I can manage my knowledge amidst the deluge of online content. From you I also learned to trust in serendipity to connect me with the people and ideas that make a difference as I need them.
John Stepper – Thank you for the opportunity to review Working Out Loud and your encouragement to set up a WOL Circle. Above all, thank you for role modelling the openness and generosity which you prescribe as essential to build an impactful network.
Charles Jennings – You introduced me to the 702010 framework several years ago, and I have continued to learn from the resources you publish. These resources have also helped me to broaden my organisation's understanding of 702010 and willingness to try new things to improve workplace learning.
702010 Forum – Thank you Heather Rutherford, Andrew Gerkens, and the Forum team for your ongoing work building the 702010 Forum. Your resources have accelerated improvement of learning in my business. To those forum members who have participated in community activities and webinars, keep it up as it is through those interactions that we learn more. I'm looking forward to the certification program being launched early in 2015.
Jane Bozarth – Show Your Work is a delicious book – so much so that I bought it twice (had to replace it as someone Stole Your Work from my desk!). You were one of the first people to open my eyes to the value of social media for learning when I saw you speak at an AITD Conference several years ago. Thank you for every time you have responded to a mention in my tweets. I look forward to helping out with #lrnbook next year.
Helen Blunden – You inspire me. You role model many things for me – independent learning, collaboration, community-building. Your energy, passion and positive outlook are infectious. I am excited about the work we are doing together on CCA's Work, Connect and Learn program and look forward to continuing our partnership. Thank you also for founding Third Place – the Meet Ups have been invaluable for me to deepen relationships with Australian learning professionals.
My Ozlearn buddies – Thank you Con Sotidis for founding OzLearn. The monthly Twitter chats have attracted some top global learning leaders. There is a big overlap with the Third Place network and many people I have most contact with online participate in both groups – Ryan Tracey who is always quietly supportive; Tanya Lau who ensures everyone feels welcome, and is authentic and curious; Matt Guyan who works out loud with generosity; and Vanessa North who challenges, extends and amuses me.
Elizabeth Robinson and the AITD team – I appreciated the opportunity to speak and write for the Australian Institute of Training & Development this year. Than you for the good work you are doing to enhance the AITD's services and events.
Anne Bartlett-Bragg – When I think of innovation I think of you. Thank you for your generosity when I was seeking input on a SharePoint design question earlier in the year. It was the first time I went to my Twitter network with a specific request for help and you responded.
Mark Britz – Gosh I enjoy our little conversations on Twitter. I feel like a kindred spirit, trying to make a difference to performance via social on opposite sides of the globe. I always enjoy reading your blog posts – they are thought-provoking and well-written. You encourage me to keep it real, although your Halloween avatar was a little freaky.
Rachel Burnham – My PKM in 40 days buddy. You are another prodigious sharer, and encourage me to keep reading, learning and tending to my veggie patch. I loved your Seek-Sense-Share drawing.
Rachel Burnham's diagram of Harold Jarche' Seek-Sense-Share PKM Model
Sacha Chua – I dip in and out of your blog, always curious about your semi-retirement experiment. Your example of living consciously and creatively inspire me. I love your Sketchnotes and aim to develop the skill to create my own sketch notes in 2015, although I shall give EMACS a miss.
Lynette Curtis and Justine Jardine – You made me feel less like a lone voice in the wilderness within our organisation and encouraged me to keep going. Thank you.
Jeff Maguire – Thank you for your unwavering trust and support as I brought new ideas and approaches to our organisation this year. I appreciate the autonomy, the space to experiment and learn by trying things out, and your confidence in me.
Supporting Narration – from Role Modelling to Guided Learning
Posted by Michelle Ockers in Uncategorized on November 3, 2014
For a number of months I have been using a strategy of role modelling, encouragement and positive reinforcement to support others in my work team to narrate their work. I have written previously about the Working Out Loud 3 Habits experiment that I tried. This strategy has had mixed results. Three of the ten group members are posting on our ESN at least once a week. On one hand, a 30% online community participation rate is relatively good. However, we are aiming to build online communities and encourage people across the business unit to share their expertise via narrating their work. As the Capability Community are key learning change agents, it's important to increase their online narration as part of shifting their mindset and skills to enable them to lead and support others.
Recently I've been working with support of an external consultant, Helen Blunden of Activate Learning, on analysis and planning of a Community of Practice (COP) for our maintenance and engineering teams. During discussions with team members we have asked them about their view of narrating their work. Their responses have been similar to feedback from the Capability Community.
People don't necessarily see the point of narrating their work. They're unsure of the benefit to themselves or others. They can't see how to fit it into their work flow when they are busy and it just feels like another task to do. They don't know how to do it – either how to use the online tools or how to talk about their work. There are also psychological barriers – concerns about what others will think of them and read into their motives.
After discovering John Stepper's Working Out Loud blog I have been thinking that a guided mastery approach could help to address these common barriers. Last week in her Learning@Work keynote address on learning in a social workplace, Jane Hart provided the term I have been looking for to describe the approach that we shall adopt – Guided Social learning. This semi-structured approach 'scaffolds' an online social learning process for participants providing them with some content/guidance and activities to get them started connecting with others and narrating their work. The intent is to enable them to transition to continuous, autonomous online social learning either as a team or individuals.
We shall be designing and developing our Guided Social Learning program which we will launch internally in early 2015. Although the program will include curated resources from the internet, it will be customised to our organisation – our tools, people and context. I'm looking forward to working on this as I complete the Guided Social Learning Experience Design Program offered by the Modern Workplace Learning Centre this month.


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No! No! No! Life interfered. Skills had to be developed. Tools had to be bought. Shop had to be built. etc.
The truth is that I have had the parts to the walnut chair for over 50 years. My grandmother's brother rough cut the parts. When he died his wife gave the parts to me. There I was a 10 year old with a wooden apple crate full of partially shaped parts.
The only woodworking tool I had was a scroll saw. It is a wonder that I still had the box. Now that I have a shop and tools, it is time to put this project behind me. I added a lot of new skill set to my knowledge building this project. Turning, Penning, Routing matching parts, upholstery and etc.. A lot of these skills I learned on LJ. Thanks for the inspiration. Special thanks to Tom Criswell for the turning class and LJ GaryK for the blog on pattern routing.
Looking back it was probably this project that got me so deep into woodworking. Thanks Uncle Gip and Aunt Bill. You started me on a path of enjoyment.
-- Make every day the best day of your life. Chips, Mississippi
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#1 posted 06-10-2012 06:08 PM
A. I love projects with a story. Makes them more special.
-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.
#2 posted 06-10-2012 06:15 PM
Those are beautiful and such a neat idea. Do you have a plan for them?
-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!
#3 posted 06-10-2012 08:16 PM
You can sure be proud of those rocking chairs they are beautiful.
-- Lee - Northern idaho~"If the women don't find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy"~ Red Green
#4 posted 06-10-2012 08:47 PM
They sure turned out beautiful, so you have learned your lessons well! These are sure to be heirloom chairs and I guess they already are in fact. They are the first folding rockers that I can remember seeing.
-- Mike, an American living in Norway.
#5 posted 06-10-2012 09:07 PM
They turned out great after all those years ;-)
-- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence
#6 posted 06-10-2012 10:47 PM
great things take time,,,excellent job
-- ElmoSr,Ga. Life is Hard by the Yard,,,But a Cinch by the Inch
#7 posted 06-11-2012 01:26 AM
awesome! I've never seen folding rocking chairs.
#8 posted 06-11-2012 03:05 AM
Well worth the wait! A great story.
-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive
#9 posted 06-11-2012 06:00 AM
Nice, very nice. I've seen this type of rocking chair before but they were nowhere near as good looking as yours. I'm also looking to build some folding rocking chairs but the one I want to copy is more for the campsite. No rockers, the motion is achieved by geometry. So you can rock and fish at the same time. I'll send you a photo of it if you like John.
-- Darrell, making more sawdust than I know what to do with
#10 posted 06-11-2012 08:55 AM
Magnificent job. Memories created and remembered by projects are such a blessing!
-- Rod ~ There's never enough time to finish a project, but there's always time to start another one.
#11 posted 06-11-2012 10:52 AM
Beautiful work! I too enjoy a good story that often accompanies a project. Congrats!
#12 posted 06-11-2012 10:53 AM
ps, congrats on the Top 3!
#13 posted 06-11-2012 06:32 PM
Sorry no plans are available. I made a sketchup drawing but durring assembly I had to relocate a bunch of holes and shorten the rocker. So it is not a workable drawing.
Thanks for all the intrest. I learn from you. Thanks John
-- Make every day the best day of your life. Chips, Mississippi
#14 posted 06-11-2012 10:38 PM
These are Beautiful,
-- Nick, Virginia, http://www.etsy.com/shop/NONICKSWOOD
#15 posted 06-12-2012 04:45 PM
These are even nicer now than when I seen them Chips. The fabric really makes them stand out.
I apologize I didn't get out to your place this past week. Last week turned out to be much worse (health wise) than I had anticipated. Please let me know next time so I can try again.
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It's nice to have herbal vinegars on hand to boost the flavor of our favorite dishes, and since our growing season is just getting started, it's a good time to make some.
It's simple to make and can add a wonderful shot of summertime flavor to salad dressings, marinades, gravies, and sauces.
I also like to stock up on herbal vinegars in fall, just to preserve some of that summertime flavor for use in winter dishes.
Herbs To Try:
Herbs that make good vinegar include basil, bay, dill, fennel, garlic, lemon balm, marjoram, mint, rosemary, sage, savory, tarragon, and thyme.
Flowers To Try:
Flowers can also be used to make vinegar; and varieties to try include carnation, clover, elder flowers, lavender, nasturtium, primrose, rose, rosemary flowers, thyme flowers, and sweet violets.
To make herbal vinegar, cut fresh, perfect looking herbs; and lightly bruise before loosely packing into clean bottles (I save interesting looking bottles with nice caps for this purpose).
Pour warmed (not hot) cider or wine vinegar (30 – 40 seconds works in our microwave) over the herbs to fill and cap the bottle. Set the vinegar in a sunny window and shake daily for two weeks, then taste for flavor. If a stronger flavor is desired, strain the vinegar and repeat the above steps with fresh herbs.
Once the desired strength has been achieved, store as is or strain through cheesecloth and rebottle. Add a fresh sprig of herb for identification and visual appeal. Dressed up with a nice ribbon and tag, herbal vinegar makes a nice hostess gift. The ones shown above are in process and are (from right to left) mint, lavender, basil, thyme, dill, and sage.


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Hands-Only CPR In Schools Bill Moves Out Of Senate Rules Committee [UPDATE]
A bill that would teach hands-only CPR and the basics of how to use an AED in schools is now out of the rules committee in the State Senate.
American Heart Association volunteers are optimistic that the Senate will pass the bill today.
17 other states have already passed similar bills, and proponents say students can be taught in as little as one class period at little cost to schools.
Having CPR performed doubles or triples the chances of survival of cardiac arrest.
UPDATE 4:40 p.m.- In a unanimous vote, the state Senate has passed the CPR in Schools bill.
The American Heart Association is applauding the Senate passage.
The CPR in Schools bill is in the Assembly Rules Committee.
From there it goes to a vote in the full Assembly.


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Remember when Shortstops were known primarily for their defensive prowess? Me either. In recent years, SS has become a power position, with strapping gents like Alex Rodriguez, Miguel Tejada, and Hanley Ramirez changing the look of the infield.
Colorado, with all that thin air, wanted in on that action, so in 2005 they drafted a Long Beach State phenom named Troy Tulowitzki. The kid goes about 6'3″ and 205 lbs., and the Rockies made him the 7th overall pick that year.
Let's face it, T3 (his full name is Troy Trever Tulowitzki) lit it up in the minors. He played a short season of A ball in '05, then set the Texas League on fire with the AA Tulsa Drillers. Desparate to get out of Oklahoma, he knocked 34 doubles, plated 75 runs, and 61 RBIs in just 104 games. For good measure, he threw in six stolen bases, and played stellar defense. That earned him a call up to the big leagues for 25 late-season games to close out 2006.
Tulo started 2007 as the Rockies' full-time shortstop, and he has not disappointed. He has a .978 fielding percentage, and has helped turn 36 double plays in 43 games. He got his name in the national conversation after turning just the 13th unassisted triple play in MLB history, and was given a painting to commemorate the moment. He also has a cannon in place of his right arm.
The aforementioned triple play. Way to keep your head in the game, Rook!
T3 brings a cool head to the plate, and swagger on the base paths, giving the faceless Rockies a bit of attitude. Not bad for a guy who looks just a trifle stoned in his official team photo. The Rockies' official MLB site, which uses Similarity Scores in their proper context, gives his closest likeness as a certain A. Rod, whoever that is. But Triple T isn't sporting purple lipstick (it would match his hat, how gauche) just yet.
Nonetheless, he's one hell of a player, and you can see he's doing well on the Smells Like Pujols leaderboard to the right side of the page. Could he be the new face of the Rox? Perhaps. He's certainly more interesting than Todd Helton.
Perhaps the finest accolade I can give him is this. If I see another game in Coors Field in the near future, I'd buy the kid's replica jersey, no problem.


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Monday, June 29, 2009
The Suit: Part 2
As soon as I was out the door, I felt chilled. I'm heading in for a short-sleeved jersey -- back in a minute. I knew Wheel was ready to get rolling so I didn't have ding-around time. The shoes, helmet and gloves needed to stay on while I whipped the jersey off.
I threw open my drawer. Just grab any jersey. Which one? the red one, the neon yellow one, the white one...GRAB ANY JERSEY! I grabbed. The cute green and white one that fits like a glove. Very girly.
I threw it on and repacked my pockets. I turned and took a step...looked down at my socks. Gnarly blue and black sharks.
all you need to do is yank off the shoes and peel off the shark socks...half a minute, tops, the matching greens are right there in the drawer
Wheel was getting my bicycle down so it would be ready when I peeled out the door. I didn't have time to mess around...
your kit doesn't match
I ignored the voices and headed down the stairs...
but the suit!
...locked the door...
you're not wearing the suit
...headed out to the garage....
blue and black sharks aren't part of the green suit
It was a beautiful 30-mile ride through the streets and woods, over the river and next to the creek. There were coffee smells and bakery scents...
...except everyone was pointing and laughing at my kit.
- TOB is there a twelve-step program??
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Suit: Part 1
It started way back in my racing days when my jersey matched the shorts, which matched the socks and gloves. Through the kit we wore, we advertised and represented our shop, our sponsors and our team. For all of them, we had to look good. Since it was the only cycling gear in my drawer, I could reach in knowing that whatever came up in my hand went with anything else that might surface.
I've slowly shaken off many of my racing habits, but the old mantra sticks: you've gotta look good. It's like dressing the part in the corporate world: if you want to move up, wear the suit.
So for me the suit, or matching "kit," is still a must. It's a bit more complicated now, though. My helmet and shades and shoes are a neutral silver, but I can't just grab things from the drawer and come up with a sure match.
I've got red and neon and leopard-print jerseys, and I have cow socks and paisley socks and some with flames; and the brown puppy socks just don't go with the orange sleeveless.
I'm working hard to keep the hyperventilating to a minimum.
- OB count to ten....
Friday, June 26, 2009
Rant to Castelli
three of 'em!
- The CRANKY Old Bag what do they expect me to carry in mini pockets? or two pockets? or ONE pocket? We're cyclists, here, not lipstick-carrying credit card girls!
Things that Make You Go...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Wednesday @ 5:47 pm
- OB wahoo!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Back to Church
- Bag ...have you communed?
Monday, June 22, 2009
Mid-Afternoon Commute
new tar on roadway
smooth as baby's bottom, hot
as steaming diaper
~ it's hot ~
- THe Old Bag ...s l o w l y wilting....
Saturday, June 20, 2009
|I love
warm weather
no plans
cleaning house
rearranging furniture
s i t t i n g
not riding
weekend plans
coming home
phone calls
fluffy things
red sunglasses
hearts actually, I hate hearts
|I hate
gray skies
dirty snow
feeling trapped
dust and pet hair
not riding
not riding
office coffee
bare trees
%#@$!! schedules
packing for the weekend
leaving home
phone calls
wilted veggies
boxelder bugs
#@! fluffy things
no sunglasses
hearts I detest hearts
- The currently waaay satisfied Bag
Friday, June 19, 2009
New Brew
- The and in this humidity, I'm definitely glowing Bag
Thursday, June 18, 2009
In spite of inheriting my mother's lanky proportions, I've inherited high cholesterol tendencies from both sides of my gene pool.
Thanks, Mom and Dad.
It hit me in my mid-30s. I'd been steadily surfing along for years with cholesterol levels somewhere in the 170s (I don't recall breakdowns being important then), until one summer my total weighed-in at 195. It wasn't too alarming considering the test had been done the day after I'd spent 8 hours at the Great Minnesota Get Together* noshing everything from deep-fried cheese curds to pork chops on a stick. It would be back to normal the following summer.
Except it wasn't. 206 that time.
Then 219.
It climbed steadily. Somewhere in the midst of the 230s, my doctor at the time asked could you exercise more? My life at the time included somewhere around 200 racing and training miles per week.
Could I exercise more?!? I looked at her squarely what! you a crazy woman?!? we'd just had the discussion about my "needing to maintain a healthy body weight" in the midst of my telling her I was eating everything under the sun because my life at the time included somewhere around 200 racing and training miles per week. I couldn't keep weight on. My grocery bills had doubled. My life was cycling, driving to cycling events, and logging my cycling.
Could you exercise more?
I tried hard not to give her my exasperated ER-DUH look.
NO. I can't. It's still my most satisfying answer to any question I've ever been asked.
Three years ago with life well back to normal, my cholesterol total topped out at 247. My current doctor wasn't worried, however. Taking into account my lifestyle and that my HDL was somewhere off the charts in the 80s, she explained ratios: ratio of HDL to LDL, ratio of HDL to total cholesterol. My ratios were low, a good thing, but it's still something I watch.
I was amused by test results the following summer, done three days after returning from a week-long bicycle tour along the coast of Michigan. 70-80 miles a day for six days returned a total cholesterol level of 217. It was an interesting aha: all I had to do was ride 450 miles a week.
That's a relief.
Somehow I missed last year's test...probably had breakfast before heading to the doctor and forgot to schedule a follow-up lab test. This morning, however, I got the results of my latest: 176. All my numbers are within acceptable ranges.
Clean livin'.
Well, or they got my results confused with someone else's.
- The skeptical Old Bag after all, it was a busy morning at the doctor's office....
*Minnesotans love their state fair...it's an odd thing
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Is it a Commute?
to get some work done
but you're not getting paid
because you don't work in the summers
but you're taking care of stuff
and you rode
but it's not like it's a ride
because if it were a ride, "going-in" would mean into a coffee shop for some joe and a scone
because you went in
to the place you work
but you didn't have to
yet you kinda did
so is that a commute?
- OB I thought I had the summer off....
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Participating in the Giro
Friday, June 12, 2009
- OB go that way!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I was Kinda Hopin'
Sunday, June 07, 2009
It's Time
Three more days
until my first
real summer
in three years
Alice and I
will be having beer
to celebrate
the occurrence
-TOB beer me
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Fat Lad's Meme
dies whichmaynotbeabadthing.
The responsibility.
From somewhere west of Huddersfield in the UK, the call came out. It went like this:
When I was a young lad, we used to play a word and memory game called: "My old mother went to market" it went a little something like this:
Little Bobby: "My old mother went to market and all she bought was: Tomatoes"
Little Jimmy: "My old mother went to market and all she bought was tomatoes… and some potatoes" until it had traversed the circle of children to me:
Little Fat Lad: "My old mother went to market and all she bought was tomatoes and some potatoes and some carrots and some lettuce and … " already the witty one " a rocket powered cyber ninja weasel"
So the meme proceeds as follows:
You nominate a blogger who you know will respond and ask them to add to the list of things they have bought only in June that are cycling related. Come the end of June Fat Lad is going to try and track it's course and see what we've all purchased in June
1. Fat Lad went to the bike shop in June and all he bought was: A new PC971 Sram Chain and a Cassete Spanner and a chain wear tool.Hey Mike J, in honor of your soon FIRST blogiversary -- you get to carry the meme forward.
2. TOB went to the bike shop in June and all she bought was: a new pair of ruby red Sidis and some X-Series Cleats (but it's only the 4th!).
Blame Fat Lad.
- Baggie
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Church of the Middle Ring
It was a perfect spring day: sunny, breezy, 70 degrees.
-OB we stopped for a Frosty on the way home
Monday, June 01, 2009
Ruby Slippers
...but they're
- Bag still deciding if there's no place like home


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Panel 1: Collaboration and Community
This panel will take place in JRL 122, Joseph Regenstein Library (1100 E 57th St).
12:30-1:10 Itō Hiromi & Jeffrey Angles
1:30-2:10 Ye Mimi, Steve Bradbury & Silvia Marijnissen
|"Translating Ye Mimi"
In a lively and informal exchange, Taiwanese poet Ye Mimi and her American translator Steve Bradbury will talk about the peculiarities of her poetry and the challenges that presents to the English translator, who will demonstrate his equally peculiar approach to rendering her work in English with specific examples from their chapbook, 'His Days Go by the Way Her Years'.
Focusing on a few examples, Dutch translator, Silvia Marijnissen will explain why it's so much fun to translate Ye Mimi's work into Dutch.
Panel 2: On the Outside Looking In
This panel will take place in JRL 122, Joseph Regenstein Library (1100 E 57th St).
2:40-3:20 Peter Robinson
|"An Attempt to Translate 'Daigaku wo deta okusan' by Ibaragi Noriko"
It is doubtless Quixotic to attempt translations of poems in languages that you do not understand – though not necessarily like the great Spanish hidalgo, perhaps, for it is also perfectly possible to act clear-sightedly in relation to a text in such a language, by acknowledging from the start how little you know, and approaching it with more caution than a tilter at windmills. To be tempted to do such a thing might also be no more than a limit case for what engages a poet translating from a language in which he or she has more competence. After all, the urge to translate a poem almost always involves the experience of not fully understanding how it performs its sound-sense amalgam, a combination of sonic and semantic possibilities only achieved once and in that language by that poet at that time. To give a sense of outsider-hood, and tune in to the theme of this panel, I explore an attempt made, finding myself unexpectedly in Japan almost thirty years ago, to translated some poems by the classic post-war poet Ibaragi Noriko (1926-2006), helped by a student at Kyoto University called Fumiko Horikawa. The presentation includes evidence of a distant approach to the Japanese original, to sensing its nature and structure, and finding an idiom that negotiates conflicted fidelities to both departure and arrival languages. The paper is contextualized in the lives of the English poet and native-speaker collaborator, and illustrates how these translations came to be published in a now unavailable small press edition in 1992.
3:20-4:00 Brother Anthony & Eun-Gwi Chung
|"The Troublesome Case of the Korean Voice or: Can there be translation without cultural appropriation?"
All Korean poets share a common cultural identity, which can be termed "Korean-ness." Yet it seems difficult to defines it, and equally difficult to translate it. In this presentation, an attempt will be made to explore the extent to which expressions of a specific national identity in that culture's language can survive translation into another, very different, international language. Korea has undergone a great variety of dramatic changes in its national and cultural identity in the course of its recent history. Using quotations from a small number of poems the presentation aims to explore the extent to which qualities of "Korean-ness" can survive the process of translation.
Panel 3: Contemporary Interventions
This panel will take place in Classics 110 (1010 E 59th St).
9:00-9:40 Young-mee Yu Cho
|"Language Unleashed in K Hip-Hop: A New Poetic Intervention"
With the advent of "the online era" in the late 1990s, the texture and the sound of contemporary Korean language have undergone an irreversible change. Korean Hip-Hop was born from one such linguistic revolution. We will explore how Korean rap artists have been able to build a creative space to experiment with this new American import and to find ways to subvert censorship and finally to give birth to Korean rap. Whether underground or mainstream, there were hardly any non-accidental rhymes until 1997 (Seotaji & Boys (1992-1996), GOD), due to the unique challenges of adapting Korean syntax and prosody to a typical 4-beat hip-hop track. After two decades of negotiating linguistic and cultural tensions, successful rappers have seamlessly created internal and multi-word rhymes, flow and storytelling that flaunt an identity of "self-conscious" artists in the world of musical sell-outs (Cho PD, Verbal Jint, p-Type, Rhyme-A- , DJ DOC, MINO, GAEKO, etc.) In the presentation, we will examine DJ DOC's 2016 "Suchwiin Pulmyŏng" ("Recipient Unknown") as a protest poem par excellence in the contemporary South Korean political scene.
9:40-10:20 Jennifer Feeley
|"Translating Musicality and Wordplay in Xi Xi's Poetry"
This presentation explores the challenges and possibilities in translating musicality and wordplay in the poetry of contemporary Hong Kong author Xi Xi 西西, focusing on her poems "Ichirō" and "Crab Canon." "Ichirō" is a macaronic poem that plays with the relationship between Japanese kanji and Chinese hanzi and incorporates Japanese syntax and transliterations into what otherwise primarily is a "Chinese" poem where certain lines only rhyme if they are read in Japanese. Meanwhile, based on the musical arrangement that is made up of two complementary, reversed musical lines, "Crab Canon" is a palindrome line poem that can be read both forward and backward and is rich in rhymes and language games. I discuss strategies used to recreate the rhymes, rhythm, and puns in translating these poems, detailing how I take advantage of English's polysemy, homonymy, and various sound devices to render Xi Xi's wordplay and musicality.
10:20-11:00 Marianne Tarcov
|"Abdicating Idols: Singing the End of the Heisei Era with SMAP and Shiina Ringo"
The dissolution of the Japanese male idol pop group SMAP, a long, controversial breakup that began with a public apology by the group in January 2016 and drew out until their official breakup on December 31, 2017, prompted such an outpouring of national mourning that many compared it to the emperor's recently expressed desire to abdicate the throne. Like the emperor's abdication, the end of SMAP has caused a period of introspection with regard to the end of the Heisei era as it draws to a close.
Once untouchable national institutions, such as SMAP itself and the once-hegemonic Japanese idol system to which the group belonged, now seem to be thrown into question, as their decline is poised to become a reality. This paper explores the song "Seishun no Mabataki," ("Flicker of Youth"), the last song SMAP performed together on their variety show, in a collaboration with fellow '90s megastar, the pop songstress Shiina Ringo. Even as this performance offers a mournful goodbye to the Heisei era, it also acts to shore up notions of Japanese uniqueness and cool-ness, offering a critique of a shifting cultural landscape, and a gesture of consolation or reassurance that existing institutions will prevail.


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|"Guiding Light To The Stars" ~ © Mark Gee
The winner of the Earth and Space category and the
Overall Winner in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013
Wholly self-taught, Mark's style of photography is influenced by his many years of experience in the feature film business. Since he began to seriously focus on developing his photography skills over a decade ago, Mark has continuously worked on improving his craft, thriving on setting the bar ever higher and challenging himself to do better yet every time he sets out to shoot.
You can see more of Mark's images at his website.
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We have been concerned for a long time that many organisations use ISLPR without regard for intellectual property, the registered trade mark or quality assurance. Some time ago, the IGAA was established to accredit testing centres, testers and test results. It is in the interest of candidates, testers and end-users of test results to ensure that any results received for university entry purposes, vocational (including teacher) registration or any other purpose have been quality assured. Quality assurance is built into all major international tests; ISLPR® should be no different and now ISLPR® tests are also subject to strict quality assurance. Test results that have been quality assured and accredited by IGAA will carry the statement:
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Product options help you list your merchandise more precisely. By adding options, you can specify size, color, and other product attributes.
Add options to your products to include several variants like color or size.
In this article:
See our video on how to add product options:
Creating options
To add options like size and color to your products, do the following:
- Go to Ecwid Control Panel → Catalog → Products.
- Open the product page you want to edit.
- Go to the Options tab:
- Click +Add New Option to add an option and its parameters.
- Add the name of the option, for example, "Size".
The app allows to show an attractive size chart and other graphics, detailed characteristics that doesn't fit into the option title and any other useful information about product options.
- Select the input type, for the "Size" option Radio Buttons work the best:
- Click +Add New Selection and add values of the option. Add as many new selections as you need:
- Choose the selection that will be preselected by default:
- Add more options (like color), if needed.
- Save the changes.
Here is how the options look in the storefront:
Option types
Option types provide different ways for your customers to select the product they desire.
- Drop-down list — drop-down menu with option values
- Radio-buttons — selection buttons with option values
- Date Picker — the input box with the popup calendar to select date
- Text Field and Text Area — an input text field to type in any text by your customers
- Upload file — allows customers to attach files to their purchases.
- Checkboxes — checkboxes with option values. This type should be used when you want to allow your customers select several options at a time. For example, they can select several ingredients for one pizza.
Required options
You can use Required options to ensure customers select an option before purchase.
When Require Customer Selection is checked, a customer cannot add a product to cart without selecting an option.
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Controlling stock of products with options
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2008-05-24 33 -84
From Geo Hashing
Sat 24 May 2008 in 33,-84:
Andy programmed the GPS.
The real proof that we were in the bible belt was the prayer booth.
There were signs along the way...
Such as the one for the road to the access road.
There was a GPS mishap, so we left a handy note in case anyone else made the same detour we did.
Google maps reigns supreme: what looked like logging trails were indeed logging trails!
We fortunately did not encounter any shotguns. Though we did encounter a place for shooting things.
We're getting awfully close...is that a crop circle?


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Davis Theatre Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get to the theatre and where can I park?
There are several parking options in the downtown area, visit our directions page for a map and detailed information.
What time should I arrive for the performance?
Our building opens one hour prior to curtain. During this time, you can enjoy The Galleries and visit with your friends. Make sure to arrive with enough time to park, pick up tickets, get refreshments and find your seat. Theatre doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain.
What happens if I arrive late?
In consideration of the performers and other audience members, you will be asked to wait for an appropriate pause in the program before you will be seated. Please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to curtain.
What should I do if I can't use my tickets?
If you are unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible. Our intimate theatre seats 227 guests and we want to be sure that each seat is filled. If your tickets are held at will-call and you would like to give your tickets away to a friend, simply call the box office before 4:00 pm with the new guest information.Otherwise, please call the box office immediately so that we may allow someone to sit in that spot. As indicated on your ticket, there are no refunds or exchanges. You may consider it a TAX-DEDUCTIBLE donation. When requested, a letter will be sent acknowledging your contribution of the price of the tickets.
What should I wear?
There is no dress code, but in the spirit of a fun and special evening out, many people choose to dress up when attending Davis Theatre events.
May I bring my phone with me?
All electronic devices, including cell phones, pagers, and watch alarms should be turned off before entering the theatre.
May I take pictures during the performance?
No photography of any kind is allowed during performances or in The Galleries.
What types of concessions are available?
Wine, beer, soft drinks, water, candy and snacks are available for purchase before each show and during intermission. Come early to enjoy a glass of wine with friends.
May I bring my child?
Davis Theatre performances are selected with adult audiences in mind. Parents are asked to use discretion and to be respectful of other audience members.
What happens if there is bad weather?
Performances will be cancelled only in the following situations:
Performers are unable to travel to the theatre.
Overriding action taken by civil authorities, such as the imposition of a curfew or an enforced travel ban.
Interruption of utility services to the building.
Tickets will not be refunded for those who choose not to attend a performance.
In the rare instance of a show cancellation:
The Cabarrus Arts Council will post the cancellation on our website Home Page and Davis Theatre page.
We will send an email to ticket purchasers to inform them of the cancellation.
We will make every effort to reschedule the performance and will honor the tickets to the cancelled show.
Our hope is that patrons will consider the ticket price a donation to the Cabarrus Arts Council if the show cannot be rescheduled.


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Have been going through quite a time with flashbacks and body memories and strange internal messages and being led to new information online since about July 1. I see my last entry was exactly one month ago...if that means anything.
Here is the evolution of Floating Grace through art:
Untitled by grace2244 (missing polytime) featuring Tarina Tarantino jewelry
Interesting how the cartoonish item had the black and white. Dots seemed to go with her before the child image was found. And the TOP SECRET and CLASSIFIED font is black and white. I think Floating Grace knows things I may not ever really know for safety reasons. But I am able to connect her dots through researching clues on the internet.


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First Baptist Church of Coolidge
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
He Came--We Go!
A Personal Testimony
A Personal Word of Testimony from a Member of FBC Coolidge
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|Photo by Lilia Tombs
You've heard the saying 'a way to a man's heart is through his stomach' and it turns out that just might be more true than anyone realised. Well, perhaps it's not the way to his heart, but according to Dr. Alan Hirsch from the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Center in Chicago, the scent of pumpkin pie mixed with lavender does cause a significant level of arousal in men. The center's research showed that the aroma of pumpkin pie caused a 40% increase in penile bloodflow, compared with things such as cranberry sauce that only increased it by a mere 2%. Pah!
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A school is set to be transformed in a multi-million pound project which will see several of its ageing buildings razed to the ground.
In a statement released by the government's Education Funding Agency earlier this month, Tring School on Mortimer Hill was one of 15 in Hertfordshire to be chosen as a beneficiary from the second phase of the Priority School Building Programme grant.
The school relocated to its present site from the town centre in 1956 but the crumbling buildings have seen better days and though no official figures have been released, it is believed the work will cost upwards of £10million to complete.
The school – which with 1,500 pupils on roll is the second largest secondary school in Herts behind Queens' School in Bushey – was declared 'good with outstanding features' after its last Ofsted inspection in January 2014 but was told without major investment, it could never attain the longed-for 'outstanding' rating due to its deteriorating facilities.
Currently, the school buildings are either one or two storeys high but the new plans show these replaced with three-storey buildings which will free up space on site for landscaped garden areas, and the new addition of covered walkways will mean pupils remain dry while walking to and from lessons.
The iconic white sports hall 'dome' – which was first opened in 1983 as a temporary structure – and its adjoining changing rooms will be rebuilt to include a high-spec public gym which is hoped could rival Berkhamsted Sports Centre and Aylesbury's Aqua Vale, along with much-needed extra parking spaces.
The swimming pool is not owned by the school and therefore not part of the redevelopment at this stage, as it is operated by Sportspace on behalf of Dacorum Borough Council and is the subject of separate discussions.
But the Beloe block which houses music and drama and the adjoining Desborough Hall – named after long-standing geography teacher Ray Desborough – will remain untouched as the newest part of the school.
Headteacher Sue Collings said: "This is a fantastic moment in the history of Tring School.
"The learning and teaching are well on the way to being outstanding but we have been held back by some of our facilities which are decaying and no longer fit for purpose.
"This timely re-building of so much of the school is going to be absolutely wonderful for all of our students for years and years to come.
"We can't wait to get into the detail of planning every building and every space so that the students and staff at last have the facilities that they deserve."
In order to keep the school open and fully operational, the building work will happen in a series of phases over the next five years but the school's business director Rod Gibberd assured parents the ongoing project would not impact on their children's learning.
Mr Gibberd said: "At this point in time, we only know for certain which parts of the school will be demolished or radically redeveloped.
"We have created a "masterplan" of the school which shows how we believe it should be designed, but we don't yet know if the government will agree with us.
"The masterplan places emphasis on the cohesion of the whole site with buildings placed logically and in such a way to create open spaces which are themselves a destination for the students.
"The sequence in which the buildings are demolished and rebuilt is absolutely critical.
"The logical places to start are the sports hall, which is largely stand alone, and the building of a new art, design and technology block to enable the demolition of the existing Thomas block.
"We have been holding our breath for months waiting for this decision and it is the most fabulous news for Tring School, the town and all of the current and future students."
Mayor of Tring Stephen Hearn said the news was 'an exceptional result' and a 'major achievement' for the town.
He said: "It's very exciting and this is going to allow for progress at the school for some time in the future.
"There are quite a collection of buildings on site and some of them aren't in the best condition. This grant is going to provide the first rate facilities for education that the children of Tring deserve.
"The timing of it means it will happen alongside the development of LA5 to the west of the town. Tring is a growing community and this is another part of the required infastructure that has to go with a growing population."
The national five-year programme is expected to be completed by 2021 and Education Funding Agency officials will be visiting the chosen schools to discuss funding over the coming months.


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The New Orleans Saints won't be playing in the Super Bowl, which gives them more time to plan for the 2011 season. (That's the best possible spin any team can put on not playing for the Lombardi Trophy.)
Part of the planning involves two key players: quarterback Drew Brees and running back Reggie Bush.
G.M. Mickey Loomis told Alex Marvez and Jim Miller of Sirius NFL Radio that getting a contract extension finalized for Brees remains a major priority.
"It's pretty clear that we're going to want to have Drew under contract for the long term," Loomis said. "I know that will happen at some point. He knows that will happen at some point."
Brees signed a six-year, $60 million deal in 2006. He's entering the final year of the contract, which will pay him a below-market base salary of $7.4 million.
As to Bush, who's due to earn a base salary of $11.8 million in the final year of the six-year contract he also inked in '06, Loomis was pragmatic.
"We've talked a lot about the position because we had a lot of injuries," Loomis said. "It's pretty difficult to prognosticate injuries. I've got to be a little careful about just because a guy was hurt one year assuming he's going to get hurt the next. We're going through that evaluation process right now."
In other words, Loomis realizes that the Saints didn't get much of a return on the $8 million base-salary investment in Bush last year, given that Bush was gone for the majority of the season with a fractured fibula. Though Bush is willing to cut his pay to stay in New Orleans, the real question is whether even at a reduced price the Saints will be willing to devote that much money to him.
A year ago, an obvious alternative existed in Seattle, where former USC coach Pete Carroll had just been hired. The relationship between Carroll and Bush likely has become strained in the past year, however, with Carroll not providing Bush the kind of support that the player likely expected once the NCAA pounced on USC and pointed a crooked finger at the 2005 Heisman winner who ultimately became the 2005 Heisman loser.


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#BehindTheScenes Harry J Bartlett x Rhian Israel
Photography: Rhian Israel Model: Harry J Bartlett Stylist: Emmanuel Robert MUA: Joshua Mitchell-Fowle Assistants: Khuram Choudri & Alina Raducea I thought i'd upload a quick 'behind the scenes' snap of my shoot with Rhian the other day. As always, it is such a pleasure to be photographed by this woman and (though this is just a backstage shot), she really knows how to capture an image. I can't wait to see the full editorial! Keep posted HJB


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Jerry Cecco
- Career Highlights
- Trumpet, flugelhorn, alto flute, and flute player
- Prolific arranger of music ranging from classical to pop and jazz
- Vocalist for small and large ensembles
- Performances with the Ryles Jazz Orchestra at the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, with the Pops Orchestra in Xalapa, Mexico as guest conductor, and with the Thayer Symphony as featured soloist
- Appearances on the Bryant Gumble Show with Little Anthony, the Imperials with Regis Philbin, and Susan Lucci at Boston's Symphony Hall
- Regular guest artist with the Paradise Big Band in Key West, FL
- Performances with Aretha Franklin, Rosemary Clooney, Al Martino, Trini Lopez, Neil Sedaka, Della Reese, Leslie Gore, Wayne Newton, Gordon McRae, Lou Christie, Arturo Sandoval, Slide Hampton, Chick Corea, Jon Faddis, Gary Burton, Richie Cole, Buddy Morrow, Mark Levine, Jacki Byard, and Bobby Shew
In Their Own Words
"Berklee's education is more diversified. It is an education to be a working musician. I've been at Berklee forever, and I can see the difference with friends that I play with who went to more conventional, classical colleges, and they're very limited in what they can do. Jazz theory and arranging and all that, other places just don't have it."
"I constantly tell students to improve their reading skills because that's a big thing in the music business. A lot of my performances are reading music. I do others, too, where I don't read, where I play memorized stuff, but the big things I do are reading. And I just try to encourage the students. You know, I worked with Aretha Franklin, and you don't get to play with Aretha unless you can really read music."


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Commercial Hot Plate
As a chef or restaurant owner, you may sometimes find yourself in need of extra cooking space to boil another pot or keep a saucepan warm during the busiest times of the day. A commercial hot plate can provide an extra burner to as many as eight to complement your range and provide extra capacity when you need it. Choosing the right one comes down to selecting a fuel source, construction material, and BTU rating. More


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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Jazz at the Opera
The Jazz v Opeře / Jazz at the Opera series continues in June, with Freddy Cole playing at the prestigious National Theatre. More details, including the link to buy tickets, can be found at http://www.jazzvopere.cz/
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- break in Prague said...
Thanks for the info Tony. I pam laning a June break in Prague and a trip to see some jazz would be perfect. I have heard tha the National Theatre has fantastic acoustics.
- May 18, 2012 at 9:25 PM
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I've realized and earned the truth about positive and negative in my life. For someone just wanting peace and to be loved you would figure not much must happen often.
You're wrong!
Wanting to be love makes you anxious to find love. I can't say I was looking or wanting love when I met Derryck, only thing I knew was I fell for him, and I fell hard.
Of course that means the welcoming of both families, and the fact you now share a life. What's yours is mine, and what mine is yours.
It was definitely a feeling I never had before. But the fights began to start, and sadly every fight meant he would go and me being the idiot I was crying at home waiting to hear from him.
Can you guess what ended up happening?…
He cheats, a woman who had dandruff, and looked so dirty, I've seen turds prettier! She had two kids and sadly she was one of my friends cousins… GREAT.
I caught you on snapchat the butch sent you this " I think your girlfriends trying to request me", BITCH I will slice your neck!, Just wait, I promise you!
I just remember throwing his phone at him, I started running out the front door, you grab my waist you beg for me not to leave, get out of my way!!! LEAVE ME ALONE! Why?,why!?
Why did you do this to me!
Why do I forgive you? Why am I so sweet a few months I go without you, and already I want you back, I feel sick, I must have a diseased mind.
Why can't I change who I am.
I just don't want the pain…. And loving you is killing me slowly.


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