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  May 27, 2007


still life
Photo: My own, taken last night while sitting out on the patio.

What I'm thinking about, and planning on writing (and podcasting) about soon:

Vignettes:
Did two this past week, and I have more to come.

Improv: What are the ways we practice improvisation? Spontaneous conversations. Spontaneous flirtations. Spontaneous artistic expression. Unplanned brainstorming, collaboration, innovation, creation. Is there a danger that doing these things badly actually makes us worse at it instead of better?

Natural Enterprise: Time to update some of my earlier articles on a better, more joyful, responsible and sustainable way to make a living.

Good Working Models of Social Networking: When it comes to good working models of wikis and blogs in organizations, I've found very few good success stories, and some of the ones I've investigated are suspect. Is social networking unable to make its case in big companies, or are the managers of big companies just not listening? Or is this another case of 'we do what we must', and social networking is merely nice to have, not must-have, not urgent?

Blog-Hosted Conversations: Plan is for 30-minute conversations, once a week, on the subject of identifying and acquiring the essential skills and relationships we need to be models of a better way to live, and what those models might look like. The first few will be practice podcasts, and may not make it to the blog.

What are the skills you've been trying to develop, the changes you've been trying to bring about in yourself, the important conversations you've had recently?

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