PRODUCTIVITY: common vocabulary

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

http://www.emailjoke.com/page52.html

TOP1050. Two Priests…

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Two priests died at the same time and met Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter said, “I’d like to get you guys in now, but our computer’s down. You’ll have to go back to Earth for about a week, but you can’t go back as priests. What’ll it be?”

The first priest says, “I’ve always wanted to be an eagle, soaring above the Rocky mountains.”

“So be it,” says St. Peter, and off flies the first priest.

The second priest mulls this over for a moment and asks, “Will any of this week ‘count’, St. Peter?”

“No, I told you the computer’s down. There’s no way we can keep track of what you’re doing.”

“In that case,” says the second priest, “I’ve always wanted to be a stud.”

“So be it” says St. Peter, and the second priest disappears.

A week goes by, the computer is fixed, and the Lord tells St. Peter to recall the two priests. “Will you have any trouble locating them?” He asks.

“The first one should be easy,” says St. Peter. “He’s somewhere over the Rockies, flying with the eagles. But the second one could prove to be more difficult.”

“Why?” asketh the Lord.

“He’s on a snow tire, somewhere in North Dakota.”

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Here’s a funny reminder to get agreement on a common vocabulary. More mismatches occur than you can believe. It’s a common human failing.

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JOBSEARCH: the 10th Anniversary of Personal Branding … whatever that is!

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

http://www.personalbrandingsummit.com

Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Personal Branding

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To mark the 10th Anniversary of personal branding, on November 8th we are providing 24 free teleseminars with experts in the field of personal branding. Anyone in the world with a telephone will be able to participate in this live event.
This event has content streams for career success, entrepreneurial success and talent management. So, whether you are a corporate professional, an entrepreneur, or a HR manager challenged with the need to attract and retain great people, you will take away actionable knowledge from attending.

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While I am not sure that I believe in “Personal Branding”, I do believe in “free” education. So, if you have some attention cycles and clock minutes, you might be interested. (That’s why I put quotes around “free”.) I think that of time, money, and attention; attention is the critical resource. What you focus on, you get. So be careful where you look.

FWIW.

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LINKEDIN: Reaching out to your LinkedIn contacts

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

FROM A LINKEDIN QUESTION, MY ANSWER:

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I recently started a new job. How can I send an update message in to all of my LinkedIn connections letting them know?

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I’d suggest going the extra mile and send each person a personalized email.

It can be identical in content but you’ll find that individual messages get through spam filter easier.

Also, if by chance a email address is out of date — not likely that would ever happen with LinkedIn-ites — my current number of bum address is 7% — you’ll have some personalized text to resolve it. Sometimes bounces don’t really give you enough to go on.

You can even repay the Universe for your good fortune by asking if they need you help.

If you use Microsoft Word, Exce, and Outlook, it’s pretty easy to do a merge. I download LinkedIn contacts into an XLS sheet. Spruce up the name field. Create a message in Word. Then run a merge. It’ll stuff them in your Outlook email outbox and they ship out on the next send receive.

All pretty easy to do.

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LIBERTY: refused to keep her court open for 20 minutes

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Weds 31 October 2007 Volume 24 : Issue 88
ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks)
Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
This issue is archived at <http://www.risks.org> as <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.88.html>

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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:54:11 +0100
From: Martyn Thomas
Subject: A computer-related fatality

A Texas judge, Sharon Keller, refused to keep her court open for 20 minutes to receive an appeal from the lawyers representing Michael Richard. He was executed later the same night.

His lawyers had suffered a computer breakdown and said they were unable to file the appeal within regular working hours. They had begged Judge Keller for more time and she refused.

Her decision might have gone unnoticed had the supreme court not announced, on September 25, that it was reviewing a challenge to the legality of lethal injection.

The announcement set off a flurry of appeals from death-row inmates and it is believed Richard’s execution most likely would have been halted, to await the supreme court decision, had he been granted a hearing. Two days after Richard was executed, the supreme court blocked a lethal injection in Texas. Judges in Alabama and Kentucky have also stayed executions, bringing in an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2199596,00.html

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This is disgusting! That judge should be impeached.

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TECH SERVICE: TinyLoad – a file upload service

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

http://tinyload.com/

 

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TinyLoad – a file upload service started in Columbus, OH by a student of The Ohio State University – offers a solution to the overwhelming mayhem. The service allows users to upload a file once and distribute to various storage platforms depending on size or other requirements. TinyLoad does not currently account for the 80+ sites listed on Mashable, but includes more popular services like RapidShare, Amazon S3, FileSend, EasyShare, DivShare, and five others.

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Interesting. Store “important” files in multiple free places. Can you spell “encryption”? But an interesting concept for disaster recovery purposes.

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LINKEDIN: Getting a subtotal by first letter of last name

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

You can subdivided you contacts into “panels” by the first letter of their last name. (It’s useful for may things. Days Outstanding measurement. Balancing what LinkedIn thinks you have versus what you have in Outlook.)

I have a little trick for finding out how many of a certain letter LinkedIn has. If you go to the “contacts” screen in LinkedIn and tap on the letter in the index, then up at the top is “showing xxx of yyyy connections”. And there is your check total. It’s better than trying to count, or print to count.

fwiw

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