
You just wrapped up your first week of Twitter, said hello to the world, quietly squeaking inside over your very first follower, discovered the joys of that reply button, and publicly thanked each and every new follow and @mention you received. As the week progressed, you discovered the naughty Follow Bots and how to block [...]

We’ve been awaiting (or dreading) their arrival, and now they are finally here. I’m not talking about the Beiber-Kardashian babies – no, I’m going to take a little bit of time to discuss the Lists feature on Twitter and how you might want to think about using (and when not to use) it. When I [...]

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato “Want to play tag with us?” Today is National Tag Day. Tag is the first, most basic, and most popular of all early playground games. At its bare essence, Tag requires no equipment, only the desire [...]
Oct 8 2010 | Posted in
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nov-el-ty (nŏv’Əl-tē) n., pl. –ties. 1. The quality of being novel : newness. 2. Something new or unusual. 3. novelties. Small inexpensively produced items, as souvenirs or toys. – Websters novelty – the state of being new or novel; newness; a new product; an innovation; a small mass-produced trinket; in [...]
Sep 24 2010 | Posted in
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“In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind too,) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin In 2006 Susan Neri-Friedwalk of the New Behavior Institute declared this day to be Dear Diary Day, in the hopes that individuals would learn the healing value of journaling their thoughts. Susan [...]
Sep 22 2010 | Posted in
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“The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys.” – Barry C. Forbes Sept 10th is Swap Ideas Day, a day to be set aside to share important ideas with colleagues, friends and family. I suppose this is to be an emotional restart to the relationships we [...]
Sep 10 2010 | Posted in
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I originally wrote this post just after the tragedy in Haiti. Since then we faced the death toll and incredible destruction in Concepcion, Chile and surrounding cities, and many disasters since, including the flooding in Pakistan, and a volcano in Sumatra about to erupt, as residents nearby flee. Today is the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, [...]
Aug 29 2010 | Posted in
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