The other week, or actually it was the other month, I joined Refresh Savannah, a monthly gathering of people who are interested in positive change. Their guest of the day was Christian Kruse, the director responsible for Savannah’s Public Library, as well as the county library system. I love libraries. They are great resources and gathering places for local communities. …
KAHNx Academy Please
Just learned that Sal Kahn the amazing force behind the Kahn Academy is visiting SAP Labs in Palo Alto soon. Check out his TED talk. His winning formula has the potential to fundamentally change the way we educate our children as well as ourselves. This is one of the few moments, where I would love to be back in the …
Don’t Teach Them To Fish. Teach Them To Dig Their Own Pond!
Happy Labor Day. A good time to take a step back and check out Douglas Rushkoff”s Life Inc. The Movie. @pixelbase (Michael) and @johnrobb #TheAmericanWay 6 hours ago The American Way? Unfortunately the American way of people with money who are calling the shots. Our way out of this will be via Resilient Communities, Meta Currencies, Transition Town Movements … In a comment to the …
Cracking Poached Egg Gromit
Cracked an egg that I thought was hard boiled. It wasn’t. So I quickly poached it in the microwave. It is really easy: To quickly make a poached egg in the microwave oven, you crack the egg into a small bowl that stands in a larger bowl that has some water in it. Put the two bowls into the …
Fool Me Once
Today I got a message from Sara El-Amine. She writes: I’m the national training director at Obama for America. My job is to develop the programs and resources our staff and volunteers use to teach others how to grow this campaign in their communities. I’m writing because you or someone you know might want to be among a group of people …
No horse was harmed playing this kind of Polo
Scootering around in the outskirts of Savannah’s historic district Nina and I stumbled upon these 6 guys playing bicycle polo. Just loved it and stayed for a while to watch them. The sticks are mostly created out of old ski polls with a PVC pipe screwed to the end of it. Some of the bikes have plastic in their wheels …
Google+ Ecosystem Advantage
First thing I looked for when I tipped my toe into Google+ was how I can repost my Tweets. Back in the day I did that with Buzz and some rightfully say that is what killed Google Buzz, as people didn’t check back to see what is going on. I didn’t. Mmmh, what if I send my Tweets to Facebook, …
What Event Organizers can learn from Jerry’s Retreat
Adapted from my SAP Community Network Post: What SAP Inside Track Organizers can learn from Jerry’s Retreat Jerry Michalski has held his retreats where he invites eclectic people that want to make the world a better place to come together for an extended weekend with no fixed agenda for 14 years. That makes it one of the oldest and longest …
My Tweets from Jerry’s Retreat Second Day
Let me know whether the collection of my tweets from the Second Day of Jerry’s Retreat has value. I like to have them at one spot. The consensus in the room at the first evening was that people want to be asked first before they be quoted, which is too much effort and therefor doesn’t happen. I mostly tweeted around book/site …
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Notes from the Mother of all Unconferences Jerry’s Retreat
I am fortunate to be at Jerry Michalski’s invitation only retreat in Asheville this weekend. Jerry has organized these for 14 years and I would venture are the mother of all unconferences where the audience once arrived is mostly driving the agenda. One of the roots of it are Quaker meetings. He developed the format after being frustrated with the over …