It’s Decorative Gourd Email Disclaimer Season

You know how some people have, as part of their email signature, a little green tree/river graphic with the words “Please consider the environment before printing this email?”   Well, we’re officially at peak Decorative Gourd Season, so I think I’m going to start inserting random decorative gourds at the bottom of my work emails.  Things like this… [...]

Time Management Musings, Thumbed on a Miscellaneous Mobile Device

Flight out of La Guardia delayed, laptop battery drained, nobody to talk to on the phone,  mobile device experiencing synchronization issues, blood-caffeine levels way high off the charts, Hudson News filled with inane useless magazines and books, oh wait, here’s a carousel of attractive, premium-priced snackable-tidbit-filled paperbacks courtesy of the Harvard Business School Publishing Empire. What [...]

Nine Variations on a Statement of Praise

1 ) The work on this project is excellent. You should be proud of it. 2 ) The work you did on that project was excellent. You must feel very proud. 3 ) You did excellent work on that project, and must be very proud. 4 ) I think you did excellent work on that [...]

Risk Management Quote du Jour

“It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one.”  – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

E-Learning Instructional Design Quote du Jour

“It’s about design, not software.”   – Jane Bozarth, Better than Bullet Points

A Quiet Blogger

A quiet blogger is NOT a thinking blogger.  A quiet blogger is either (a) a lapsed blogger, or (b) a blogger engaged in lots of other writing, outside the blog.   In this case, my excuse is graduate school.   Good news:  I’m about half-way towards having some letters to hide…  M.Ed INSDSG  (Master in Education, Instructional Design) Better [...]

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