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January 27, 2007

Welcome to Yap 3.0

Whenever I'm writing anything - from my dissertation to speeches to journal articles - my mind interconnects other streams of ideas as I'm developing the writing task at hand. From ideas for another article to business and learning models and games to realizations and cohesions of sometimes totally disparate apercus. Through constant Zierganik effect this requires me to put synapses on paper; thus this blog. Muse with pleonasm in your comments... entre nous!

January 31, 2007

Come in and say hello ~ I'm speaking at a Toronto CSTD event

cstd_logo.gifWant to have a chat with me after my talk at the CSTD Toronto Chapter event on March 1? Register, participate, enjoy and you get to have freebie consulting with me afterwards. Maybe I can even talk you into discussing about your certification programmes and how my firm, Phronetic International, can assist in enabling you to have consistently high performing stellar employees. What will I be talking about? The implementation of next generation organisational certification programmes. It'll be interactive, you have to stand up, move around, participate. No sitting by the corner.
Hope to see you there.

February 8, 2007

370,909 letters written to the future and counting...

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What will you say to your future you? colleague? friend? family? partner? The idea of FutureMe is to write that email to your future you (or another person). Schools have used it in many ways - defining a better future for the world using today's ideals and visions; writing poignant life stories to oneself; letters you'd find in a time capsule; providing insights to one's thinking now and see if one's future decisions have been affected by this one course of action....

Sifting through the public emails, one would read about love, life, health, career, and milestones as the user determines which date the email will be sent back to that person. I saw this posting that was particularly touching ~ a letter from a student to a teacher after an erring act in class. For those teachers, like myself, who have been in the business for a long time (2 decades for me), sometimes you'd want to see whatever happened to those students who have hurt you or taunt you or were unkind in your classes - have they learned from their issues after all? have they become positive, creative, engaging individuals you've hoped them to be? whatever happened to them? I enjoy seeing students years after we've been in class because I find joy in knowing that somehow I hope I was part of how they've gotten to where they are. Do you feel this way too?

Looking at this website, I find myself figuring out what to write not only to myself but to my spouse, my family, and my friends years from today. I need a moment to think about that...

What will you say to your family?

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