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#WhatsappEtiquette 1. Just add me. Don't ask if I want to be added. I know where the Exit Group button is. 2. Anonymity is out. Everyone must supply their full name. We're on the group to make contact and share views, make decisions, meetup IRL. If it's anonymous, random names, random numbers, talking is difficult to follow. What is the purpose of group? Networking? As soon as you're added, tell your full name and what you do that is relevant to the group. 3. Harassment. If girls on the group are harassed, what kind of group is it, what kind of men belong? She should Exit Group. 4. No spamming. If admins let spam through, Exit Group. 5. Private conversations in-group are out. If it's not for everyone, take it outside the group. 6. Be succinct and purposeful. Don't use extraneous words. Get to the point. Don't cause more than two dings. 7. Don't expect immediate responses. If I am meeting you, let's meet at your house so you're not ...

The first thing I want to do is say thank you to all of you. The second thing I want to do is introduce my co-author and dear friend and co-teacher. Ken and I have been working together for almost 40 years. That's Ken Sharpe over there. (Applause) So there is among many people -- certainly me and most of the people I talk to -- a kind of collective dissatisfaction with the way things are working, with the way our institutions run. Our kids' teachers seem to be failing them. Our doctors don't know who the hell we are, and they don't have enough time for us. We certainly can't trust the bankers, and we certainly can't trust the brokers. They almost brought the entire financial system down. And even as we do our own work, all too often, we find ourselves having to choose between doing what we think is the right thing and doing the expected thing, or the required thing, or the profitable thing. So everywhere we look, pretty much across the board, we worry that t...

Systems have certain skills mechanisms to find problems mechanisms to solve problems checklists, with pause points, reminder of the key things that get forgotten the ability to implement - the part where you get people to adopt the method, difficult because it forces a confrontation with our issues we must accept that we are all part of pit-crews

The normal list-making that I do goes like this. TASKS IN INBOX • think of something • get out iPhone and send myself an email • first word of subject - Task. e.g. Task. Get tickets at Computicket for Pandora OPTIONAL I filter my emails that 'Task' gets a favorite star and a Tag (label) called Task. I can then easily see what the tasks are. I can also search for Task and it will show me all my emails that begin with the word Task, and I sort that list by date. As soon as I have done the Task, I simply take off the favorite star and Archive and it archives to the folder Task. Then I can even look and see what I have already done. That feels good! CRITICAL AMOUNTS OF TASKS This way I can see how many Tasks I have on hand. I can see that there are 29 Tasks in my inbox - 30 is my limit. When I hit 30, I take two hours each day and kill them. Thwack! LONG-TERM TASKS TREATED SEPARATELY Then there are the long-term tasks, e.g. LT Task. Website idea for jobless people. ...

Martin Luther King - I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be Mother Theresa - The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of the family to small We give too much voice to the most divisive amongst us Book titles reflect this - Pinheads and patriots; Arguing with idiots Negative otherizing morphs into violent extremism Counteracting otherizing A strategy: Take the other to lunch Agree on some ground rules - ahead of time Be conversational, don't persuade, interrupt, be curious, listen, be real, don't try to change the other side, acknowledge that it's a first step What issues concern you, what have you always wanted to ask someone from the other side Two people dropping the pretence of being know it alls Two people practicing ubuntu

eHow: How to get rid of the Hi5 virus: http://www.ehow.com/how_6888586_rid-hi5-virus.html Easy Tweaks: How to delete your Hi5 account http://www.easytweaks.com/2007/11/02/how-do-i-delete-my-hi5-account/ Neither of these things worked, so I put a filter on my email address on serverside to prevent the email from being sent to my machine.

Spend money on your blog. Spend it on domain name and hosting, the rest is ornamentation. Be yourself. Purple cows are more noticeable than little grey men. Don't guest post. It diverts your energy from your blog with little reward (I don't agree with this point). Post quality not quantity. Be sustainable. Blog about your passion. Even if there's competition for keywords, if you know your stuff you are in (similar to the anti-copyright argument, that copyright is there to protect the mediocre - then the mediocre can at least sell their (book) to 100 people, instead of relying on vitalness). And remember, advice is not 'law of the universe'. Source: Rob Cubbon

when a daycare centre introduced a fine for late pickups, the late pickups increased three fold. You have to figure out what the financial value vs the civic value, social value is of any action

D ~ Describe the situation E ~ Express how you feel S ~ State what you want K ~ Know the possible outcomes

(This is a much-shortened version of the original article.)   August 5, 2010 , By Jason   1. Know what you’re getting into Facebook is a business. Facebook will always be free . But there is a cost. Facebook’s Privacy Policy - a short version: everything you post, every person you friend, every group you join will be made public to your “friends”, “friends of your friends” or “everyone”—depending on your privacy settings. 2. Secure your PC What does 500,000,000 people on one website look like? To cybercriminals, it looks like a gigantic, unsecured goldmine. Updated Internet security is a must. 3. Use a unique, strong password Create a complex password. Here’s a simple password system we recommend . You should also use different passwords for your all of your various accounts. Never let browser remember your password. Lock your PC when you step away from it. 4. Filter your friends So ask yourself this: Does everyone you email need to be your Facebook frie...

• If someone raises an issue, ask them a question about what they have raised so they know you have heard and are listening. • Set a time for private discussion. • Don't second guess the other person • Don't reinterpret what they are saying, let them have their own point. • If it's confrontational tell them you need time to digest the information. • Standing up to a bully. In a public space say, Why are you bullying me? Why does it give you satisfaction to keep bullying me? Please leave me in peace. If it carries on the teacher must confront the bully in front of the class, and the class must discuss it. • You need to learn how to do something other than counter-attack.

Notes courtesy of a friend, who may want to be credited, but she should let me know. :) need alkaline not acid.  lemon alkaline and apples, all fruit and veg alkaline. Eat peel. Wash fruit and veg with warm water.  use salt in hot water also for cauliflower and broccoli. Not that high. 4-12 alk sweet potato 9.8, 9 orange, asparagus grapes cauliflower broccoli carrot potato egg plant 4.6, egg white 4.8...below 4 tomato celery seaweed, high iodine fix thyroid and thick blood problems. Diabetics. Breast cancer. Prevent cardiovascular probs and high blood pressure. acid: all meat, incl chicken and fish 2 portion acid: 3 portion alk kumquats for colon cancer and grapes mango for colon, not if you have skin probs papaya stomach and lymph, yeast for digest strawberry good colon watermelon great all cancer peach high in iron pear good for lungs, liver dry nose throat gout cough cook tomato for more vitamins banana very ripe more vitamins, good for hear...

Crazy PCness Crazy lawsuits People are too scared to act on their own best judgment Hindsight bias is always perfect so you can always say that person did something wrong Risk would be no more (fantastical nonsense) Defensive medicine - terrified doctors order up to 200 billion dollars worth of unnecessary tests, fear makes them paralysed and they are afraid to act, contents are hot labels on coffee, fishing lure packet says harmful if swallowed Education - 60 steps to suspend a child, teachers spend 43% of their time trying to maintain order, lawsuits by students if they do maintain order, corrosion of authority, banned running during breaks Government - no pebble left unturned to get projects going, and decades of lawsuits by people who don't agree Law - is not trusted, inconsistent, overdetailed Playground - there will be no seesaws because Values - in our attempt to eliminate bad values, we created a world where people can't have good values. Accountability - you...

Network, establish relationships Take time to make sure you are contacting the exact right person to give your CV to Update your CV Make sure your CV is professionally made up Make sure the language is perfect Write down your career goals and desired career path and keep it in your pocket at all times  Make sure all the names of the titles of the job you are looking for into job search engines Don't badmouth your previous employer, at most say... and then Redi said this is beyond the scope of the interview... oi... so go see more at the brilliantly set up and thought out Careersadvice.co.uk (*cough* I wish the South African government website would have job advice up!) If you left the previous company acrimoniously don't take them off your CV, but keep them on your worklist and take them out your reference list The one who needs help (jobseeker) must initiate the solution, must do the work, the research Reference letters How you come across in an interview Don'...

Doing anything remotely interesting will bring criticism. Attempting to do anything large-scale and interesting will bring armies of detractors and saboteurs. This is fine – if you are willing to take the heat. There are good reasons to be willing, even eager. Colin Powell makes the case: pissing people off is both inevitable and necessary. This doesn’t mean that the goal is pissing people off. Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off. Understand the difference. Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group, which means that some people will get angry at your actions and decisions. It’s inevitable, if you’re honorable. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity: you’ll avoid the tough decisions, you’ll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted, and you’ll avoid offering differential rew...

I know... from now on when people say give it a bash, and I give it a bash and I can't figure out why, then I have to work on it again and again until I figure it out. This is my lesson to learn. You MUST read this Time article by Steven Johnson - How Twitter will change the way we live . Now don't be lazy. Focus on what he says about that conference, and pretend that we, you me and our groepie are a conference, let's call our conference 'Facebook', or 'South Africa', or other things we have in common. Why do you read my status updates? Same reason you should read my tweets. In fact, Facebook and Twitter and Google have all got their eye on the statuses. You can be patient and wait, they will probably become one. But Twitter is for those statuses that want to stream out into the world, that don't want to be confined. That want to be Clouded, Tagged and Aggregated. So that people can see patterns in what we are talking about.   Come play. It's n...

Prepare . I don’t write out a talk word-for-word, but I use a lot of notes, and I practice it word for word, many times. That works for me. Some people do better with a more ad-lib approach. But either way, the more prepared you feel, the more relaxed you’ll feel.  Mental practice . It sounds odd, but mentally rehearsing and imagining yourelf giving a relaxed, accomplished performance really does help prepare you. In order to make that mental rehearsal as close to the real situation as possible… rehearse - avoid memorising your presentation. Never learn by rote rather visualise pictures that represent various items in your content, and then create a memory stack. Try to visit the scene . Checking out the room where you’ll be presenting will make you feel far more comfortable. Pay special attention to amplification devices: will you be wired up? use a stationary mike attached to a podium? Hold a wireless mike? Earlier that day: Don’t do anything unusual . Don’t take a nap if you...

don't use You statements, use I statements - "You never kiss me!"; "I like it when you kiss me." apply tolerance before you speak, remember things are not right or wrong accept differences, even if they are fundamental be specific about what is a End Type Issue, with yourself use the word feedback (bletch! I can translate people!) don't attack during times of stress, wait for the right moment if someone criticizes you, say "Let me think about that, I will come back to you about that." oversensitive people may be hiding from their weaknesses, confident people are more likely to take criticism in their stride treat criticism like an opportunity the criticiser has to put effort into How they criticize engage the help of the criticizer Source: 702

start with a bang pose a bullet list of the topics you will cover that expose the overview of your argument don't pose alternatives - present them as possibilities repeat the conclusion at the beginning of every section of your talk, explain your bullet points establish the relevance, what is the audience thinking about the topic - faith, reason, problem, solution multimedia - draw examples from movies, tv, newspapers, books define important terms what are the broad streams of thought about the topic strangers are in two separate worlds - how, why, mechanism, meaning, science Powerpoint slides - don't read of the slides, but if you are going to read quotes have them on the side; have phrases from your point on the side of the slide concerning the point; names of people you are quoting write in full on screen. real world examples of your hypothesis, your point, your exposition be within your allotted time invite questions and then try to draw their points inclusivel...

Be like water. Powerful. Gentle. Adaptable. Ever-changing. Being static in a dynamic world – like the one you and I inhabit – is a recipe for disaster. If you can’t adapt, you can’t succeed. Our practical, three dimensional reality, and everything in it, is in a constant state of transition, while some of us are in a constant state of “same”. Statues don’t succeed, they just get crapped on. Watch out for the pigeons. Source: Lifehack