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Question for today? What animal are you? This has been going around for centuries. Horoscopes, Tarot Card Reading, Crystal Balls, Predictions, and Forecasts. Though valid in their own right, when incorporated to a business practice, it may turn off some people. If forecasting was likened to picking up a lunar chart and matching every employee's personality with their animal counterparts, does it align with asking everyone to take a Jung-like personality assessment and basing all relationships with that person on the results? Doesn't this remove unique and distinct personalities in the workplace? Do tell us.

Gung Hay Fat Choi!

Nothing beats food as a familial bond to friendship building. Thus started our kick off dinner at the Nothern Voice conference. Met Saachi and Lee LeFever - whose slideshow on their year long travel around the globe was definitely engaging, Aidan, Will, Eric, Darren, and more. Talk of blogging, bonding, and immediate friendship was the natural order of the night's course. Food was sponsored by Peer 1 . And not one but two types of cakes was served! Lemon or Chocolate! Perfect for the weary day long traveler from the East.

Robin reports from the Northern Voice's Moosecamp 2007 conference ~

Our Day 1 started with a new approach I've not experienced in a pre-conference session - an editable conference scheduling activity! Maybe not new for the regulars at Nothern Voice but since this was my first Moosecamp, it was a great idea. Topics were pitched and a blank grid was filled in minutes with hot topic sessions. Isn't this what we do when we teach? We need to be flexible and be able to pattern our classes to our current classroom's landscape so that its fluid enough to determine which works best. This constantly refitting, for most experienced stand-up speakers, is an unconscious activity so as to ensure viability, creativity, and vitality to the classroom.

Back to the conference in Vancouver - Roland Tanglao's session on cultural diaspora was very engaging especially since we're kababayans, I enjoyed Lee LeFever and Nancy White's community session, learned a lot about Mac widgets, plugins, nifty tools that I can't use since my XPs would cough 'em up, Tod Maffin's open forum with the new CBC website look [a CBC insider in the room whispered about Zed's reincarnation so I am looking forward to that], met and seen interesting people (dragons, interesting hat person, and jugglers included), enjoyed Vancouver weather and BC's very accommodating and lovely people.

Anil Dash kicked off our Day 2 Northern Voice 2007 conference. Two words - persistence and awareness - were his main message of developing relationships using online tools. I attended sessions by Nancy White, Kris Krug, Brian Lamb, and Stewart Mader. Discussions on use of edublogs, edu-wiki's, and overall edu-connections proved to be thought provoking and left me with questions on usage, continuous viability, and choices that I'd need to further process in the coming days.