ACP (Associated Collegiate Press) Conference 2023: Developing Careers
For those of us completely immersed in our (third or fourth or fifth) careers, it’s eye-opening to sit through a session on what employers are […]
Presentation Essentials: When You Need More Salt
There’s a stunningly inspirational story told in Anne Bruce and Sardék Love’s Presentation Essentials: The Tools You Need to Captivate Your Audience, Deliver Your Story, […]
CLA Conference 2022: Thanks for the Gifts
For three hours yesterday, I was shoulder to shoulder with a wonderful group of colleagues facilitating a highly-interactive advocacy workshop for people working with libraries […]
Because of a Teacher: Learning With Stories
Our greatest teacher-trainer-learners often turn out to be wonderful storytellers. Through their stories, they provide a context for our own learning. They engage us and […]
Fostering Creative Collaborations: CoSN and ShapingEDU
Participating in two recent highly-interactive and engaging CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) online summits woke me up a bit to the latest fruit coming […]
Resilience
I’m exploring and practicing resilience this afternoon. Which is not a particularly difficult undertaking since I was scheduled to facilitate a conversation on the topic […]
Giving Thanks 2021: ShapingEDU, Saying “Yes,” and Documenting Pandemic Lessons Learned
One of the words that leaves me feeling happiest is “yes.” The power of the word “yes” first became obvious to me when I was […]
Giving Thanks 2021: Shola Richards, Community, and Ubuntu (“I Am, Because We Are”)
“Community” and “collaboration” have been at the heart of what I have loved and what I have been doing for many years. Combined, they give […]
Giving Thanks 2021: ShapingEDU Promoting Internet Access
When a few of us involved as volunteer community leaders in the ShapingEDU project (under the auspices of the University Technology Office at Arizona State […]
Giving Thanks 2021: ShapingEDU and the Art of Gathering During (and After) the Pandemic Era
Writing about ShapingEDU and Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering recently as part of this continuing series of blog posts has made me more grateful […]
Giving Thanks 2021: Howard Prager and the Commitment to Make Someone’s Day
We all know plenty of people who spend lots of time talking about what we (rather than they) can do to change the world in […]
Giving Thanks 2021: Stephen Hurley and voicEd Radio
As the coronavirus pandemic started shutting things down here in the United States in March 2020, many of us were scrambling to find ways to […]
