My Ramblings
Carpe Diem
Occasionally I bump into someone, a group or organization, who is looking to start up a new program that sounds eerily familiar - identical with programs I've known in the past. More specifically, things like Board Development and Volunteer Management training, the...
(Grand)mother’s Day!
The ‘Added Value’ of Culture in Communities
In a recent posting to Facebook, the father of a friend of mine had this to say (I have not included the name of the city to protect the innocent - and it's a pretty common story anyway): I'm not easily disappointed, but as I study the platforms of candidates for...
Applied Design Thinking: Finding a Job?
Here's another posting made from a comment I made in response to a question on LinkedIn that got me going.... How would you apply Design Thinking to the process of "finding a job"? My response: Design thinking is a mindset and point of view, with sets of tools to...
Birthday Greetings
I've never been one to deny my age or waffle about it, while maintaining the details of actual date and time as a security precaution online. But I do love that LinkedIn makes it easy for the nearly 1000 people in my network there to send greetings on the date. My...
The Distraction of Branding
Help Me Overcome Over-Analysis Paralysis and Choose a Website Idea From This List of 3 Richard: this first bit is for everyone who reads this - Secure the domain name that is your own name. Even if you never use it visibly, when you DO become a famous sought-after...
BC’s Skills and Jobs Plan – workforce as a commodity
Reading The Plan, I cannot help but think that our provincial government's 'core review' of the public post-secondary institutions, a process that is not yet over, was only a ruse. It occurs to me that this kind of directive, backed by the clout of financial...
Meaning of ‘Entrepreneur’?
The word #Entreprendre is a French one. Entre = enter, prendre = take. So an entrepreneur is a "go getter" #ForumBr — Nnenna (@nnenna) April 25, 2014 Obviously I've been following events at the NETMundial conference in Brazil this week, and this tweet from keynote...
My friend Nnenna and the Open Web
I met Nnenna a few years ago when I was part of a global cooperative of social entrepreneurs called 'Dreamfish' (established by Tiffany van Emmel). The experiment took a while to find its feet, and in the end many great connections were made and it is no surprise...