Song from Alison David: …Pure and clear I feel warmth whenever you�re near me You�re my family and you�ll always be Brothers and sisters coming together as one All the things you do Keep me loving you Just the way you are Keep shining like a star… mp3: Allison David – Keep Shining Like A Star
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More on the simple rules of community forming… Here is Shawn’s current thinking on community formation: Simple rule 1: Participating in a community must be easy. Hold meetings on a regular basis�say the first Tuesday of the month. Make the technology dead simple. Avoid technology until you need it. Simple rule 2: Someone �who matters� must care about what you are doing. In the early stages it might be quite unclear how your community�s activities delivers business value. Consequently, the �people that matter� must initially believe in the concept of a community of practice. More importantly, the core team and …
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Nice song in the style of an old American murder ballad. mp3: Woods Afire – Get Behind Me
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Lots of conversations back and forth and here is the latest iteration of the youth suicide prevention summit. I’ll be discussing this with the working group tomorrow and reflecting on further changes then. Word document: Summit design ideas
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On the day after the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment is released I stumble across this quote in an intersting passion play about Terry Sciavo: “When you narrow down your epistemology and act on the premise ‘What interests me is me, or my organization, or my species,’ you chop off consideration of other loops [of the ecosystem]. You decide that you want to get rid of the by-products of human life and that Lake Erie will be a good place to put them. You forget that the eco-mental system called Lake Erie is part of your eco-mental system — and that if …