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[…] I’ve put my full schedule for Boston on the E-Democracy.Org blog. A real highlight looks to be the Beyond Broadcast conference on Saturday. This is one of the best examples of a conference using a wiki to organized itself from working groups to birds of a feather dinner parties. They are also using del.icio.us to share links and Flickr to share photos all simply be encouraging folks to use the unique tag ‘beyondbroadcast.” This same concept worked with the “mnpolitics” Voter Voices effort and I think it could work in the U.S. presidential election to create a number of more visable “content streams” of voter driven content. During the conference they’ll have an active IRC chat space and it looks like a place on Second Life. I wish more conferences used such interactive tools to their fullest … of course the audience for this conference is made up of folks who get and use these many tools almost everyday. […]
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Or even better than carbon paper, to make a good decision to use "reply" or "reply all"? If someone is foolish enough to send a message to 20+ people and then make a mistake, reply directly to them to let them know. They will appreciate you more for this step than if you had done a "reply all" to let them and all the "world know"." ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
Or even better than carbon paper, to make a good decision to use "reply" or "reply all"? If someone is foolish enough to send a message to 20+ people and then make a mistake, reply directly to them to let them know. They will appreciate you more for this step than if you had done a "reply all" to let them and all the "world know"." ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
Well, to answer my own question (and continue on to answer yours), it really depends on the nature of the fictional text. Sitting here, in my book case filled study, dozens of books come to mind as sources of learning: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by JRR Tolkien; and His Dark Materials trilogy, by Phillip Pullman; to name just a couple.
These tend to deal with the universal themes of love, trust, relationships, power, good vs. evil. One can go a long way enjoying the summer (or any season for that matter) and still doing a good deal of learning.
As I have a trio of books already under consideration for ALAWB, I think you have just expanded my search. Maybe there is one I can use to further develop this theme of fiction based learning!" ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
I have always read fiction to escape, not from life, but into my own mind, my own world, my own words, dreams and fantasies... and if that\'s not learning, what is?
Characters teach us something. Don\'t you ever find yourself thinking about how a book or film character would have dealt with a situation? What does it matter if it\'s not \'true\', it cannot speak to us, it cannot ring true unless it\'s come to us from a place of emotional truth. That\'s how the words make the connection.
Words teach us too (and tease, caress, inspire, make us laugh, weep, howl). They\'re all inside us somewhere. Like you say, we probably just get the learning when we\'re ready.
Joanna
By the way I don\'t want you to turn your fiction reading into \'work\' but wouldn\'t it be a great idea to produce a book or a course on relationship lessons from fiction? :-)" ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
when the snowball melts, all get wet." ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
Your review here also highlights a related argument. This was book written 40 years ago, is still valid, but required some tweaking to bring it up to date.
Thanks for sharing Carolyn!" ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
As far as all of the good books having been written 400 years ago, I\'d challange that. What about Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Vonnegut? What about Sherlock or Manning? :)" ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
I was thrilled when you chose this book for your review, for I too am an unofficial champion of the Gallup Organization and the strengths revolution – may both thrive and flourish in the good they bring to human dignity, where strengths are capitalized on, and weaknesses are continually made irrelevant! Strengths management and Managing with Aloha go together like bees and honey, for both celebrate the abundance within us, where we discover just how much we are capable of.
In the coaching I do, I have also found that teaching managers how to identify strengths in their staff opens their minds to more of the joy associated with management; they begin to see beyond the “hard work!” to the rewards they reap when they mentor emerging stars by way of building their strengths.
I did my StrengthsFinder Assessment awhile back (with the first release of Now, Discover Your Strengths) and I can’t wait to take the new assessment to see if my top 5 have changed or line up differently in light of my work on them since; they say your strengths remain your strengths always, but I do wonder how you can effect change. My top 5 were Deliberative, Focus, Maximizer, Responsibility, and Achiever … will let you know if the new assessment lines them up differently!
I know we have other Gallup fans in our JJL Community; anyone else want to share? Let us help you put YOUR strengths to work!" ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
Any surprises there?
Looking through the details again, I find it amazing how well it fits. Even when I did my value add statement, a separate effort to condense to 7 words or less, it lines up with this. I need to keep listening to the real voice inside.
Thanks for sharing this review David.
Thanks for sharing your five Rosa. It is no wonder that we find each other well aligned, we share responsibility!" ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
I like the shape of these responses. It is a good step to list our strengths and now... to live them.
I will think about how to use my first strength Maximizer to make a greater contribution to the community.
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"By looking at the information from many different perspectives, by asking many questions about it, forming powerful mental images, and talking and writing about it often."
I sometimes think that a blog topic has to be new; that repetition is a bad thing. This sentences suggests that writing about the same subject matter (repetition), is valuable because it allows us to keep revisiting and learning about the topic. Great stuff.
P.S. Come on... just a hint about those other 11 core actions! :-)" ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "
Rosa, let me know what you think of the book.
Blaine, I\'ll take you up on revealing one of the 11 - "find common meaning with and negotiate with opposers". I found this section very helpful in getting tips in getting everyone "on the bus", so to speak.
Steve, see my note to Blaine - you won\'t be disappointed with the other 10!
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My full review is available on my own blog: http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/2007/01/review-trinity-rep-our-town.html
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January 25th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Very interesting John. I too am a morning person, so I should probably give this a shot. Thanks for sharing!" ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "