Mentors play such an important part in our lives. Today I was blessed to hear that someone who I’ve been working alongside for several years now has been describing me to her friends as her mentor. I trust it is no coincidence I just heard from one of my mentors — Roy Sheppard, World Class [...]
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I’ve been using Dropbox to sync my PersonalBrain between multiple computers for a few weeks now. Dropbox copies files via the internet. As long as you follow the rule of ensuring you’re not running two copies of PB simultaneously — in other words, let the sync finish before firing up PersonalBrain— it’s robust. Keep up [...]
Google, you can have the lot. And I give it willingly. First you helped me with a simple and fast search engine. This was followed up by the wonder of Google Earth and then Google Maps. Some other bits and pieces with Feedburner and Webmaster tools, then Google Reader last week took over from Feeddemon. [...]
Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There Richard Fenton. Courage Crafters 2007, Paperback, 80 pages, $10.99 It turns out that you can judge a book by its cover. In this case, Go for No! in which the premise of the book is summarised in the title. If you want [...]
This morning I listened to an engaging talk on storytelling by Shawn Callahan of Anecdote. I’ve known of Shawn’s work for a while and this is a great opportunity to see and hear his ideas on how stories are a powerful, yet often misunderstood element of our workplaces. Storytelling for Community Engagement View more presentations [...]
When you start mapping out the people you know and their relationships to you, and one another, interesting things happen. The Brain Blog’s article Everyone Is Connected. It’s Time to See the Links. which describes adding people and mind mapping social networks has several examples of the ways in which you can use PersonalBrain as [...]
Jack Vinson has a good article on finding your experts using expert locator systems as part of your knowledge management strategy. The Question. If you are going down the path of expertise locators, be sure to check with yourself about why you need such a thing in your organization. Are people having trouble finding people [...]
The Coaching Forums have been created as a public space for coaches to develop the coaching profession. If you are a coach, are interested in becoming a coach, or even want to share your experiences as a past client of a coach, then The Coaching Forums are the place to do it. I post there [...]
What do you do when email is down or it fails to get your point across? I bet you pick up the phone just like I do. Robert Gerrish of Flying Solo makes a great point about conversation and relationships in his latest newsletter. Just imagine if email were taken away from you. What would [...]
My laptop has been in a dive. If it wasn’t rented I would probably have kicked it before now. Everything would be fine after a reboot but within a couple of hours things would stop working properly. Most annoying was email, and an intermittent loss of network connectivity. Having to reboot each time you want [...]
