| Ask an Honest Question, Expect an Honest Answer 10 days ago by forget_the_fall She tells me we should hang, like one night at the bowling alley, with her friends "or are you too much of a big busy college student for us?" And I laugh and tell her that weekends I spend with my girl, and it would feel wrong to spend time with my ex, when I could spend time with her. She tries to ... I am not who I once was - forget-the-fall.livejournal.com | | Focus Groups vs Communities of Purpose 10 days ago by David Cushman The focus group is a much relied on tool in marketing, PR, politics - behaviour changing activity of all kinds. But its role is disrupted and a layer of professionalism disintermediated by Communities of Purpose. This morning I found (via twitter) Robert Scoble bigging up the response he got to a tw ... Faster Future: Publishing ... - fasterfuture.blogspot.com · Rank: 8,681 · 97 references | | World Café in Valdez, Alaska 11 days ago by Amy Lenzo New World Café host Victoria Throop did an incredible job reporting on the first of two community-wide World Cafés she organized in the exquisitely beautiful and unusually remote town of Valdez, Alaska. She's sent us detailed statistics and post-event surveys with the participants, as well as a numb ... World Cafe Community - conversationsthatmatter.typepad.com/world_cafe_community · 11 references | | robLog, episode 1: Critical Thinking and the Chainsaw Gun of Gore 11 days ago by Rob LeFebvre I’ve been trying for a month now to wrap my head around some unifying structure that I can put my thoughts about video gaming into. I’ve wanted to contribute to an Editor’s blog here on Games Are Evil, but just couldn’t find any theme or rationale for doing so. I want to thank the Brainy Gamer, firs ... Games Are Evil - gamesareevil.com · Rank: 105,318 · 19 references | | Awkward conversations (and a wacky exercise) 11 days ago by Havi Brooks Let’s pretend that you have to have an awkward, uncomfortable conversation or confrontation or something else that begins with “ con” coming up. And I’ll just go ahead and assume that you’re totally not looking forward to it. Anyway, even if that’s not what’s going on for you right now, it will be t ... The Fluent Self - fluentself.com · Rank: 7,853 · 70 references | | the things we say 11 days ago by delilah Dr. Crog and I have such intriguing conversations. (The set up: we're leaving Barnes and Noble at 11am on a Sunday morning. I spot an obese man holding a guitar case outside the Chili's restaurant. Go!) Me: Oh, no. *Please* tell me they don't have live music at Chili's on Sunday! That's just adding ... delilahpaints (and writes, ... - delilahpaints.blogspot.com · 5 references | | Sebastian Gabriel from Windsor, Ontario 11 days ago by Michelle Sebastian Gabriel lives in Windsor, Ontario, but has lived in Miami, Florida, was born in Spain & lived & worked in several Latin American countries (or so he says). alphaicarus@hotmail.com sebastmc@gmail.com Despite all the signs that him & I weren’t compatible, I am trying really hard to give peop ... Michelle's Very Personal Blog - michellespersonalblog.com | | Interactive Advertising - The first step to a new conversation 11 days ago by Alexandre Hénault So I was thinking… we have been been thinking, talking, reading, writing about conversation for a while now. But, can we have a conversation through advertising? The more I read about it, the least I see it happening. This is pretty disturbing when your; my business ( h2hinteractif.com) depends on a ... Conversation Mayhem - alex.h2hinteractif.com | | Justification. (A Conversation with myself) 11 days ago by otakudad ME: So, why start a blog? ME: Why not? I read blogs. I like reading blogs. I think I have something to say. ME: Like what? ME: I dunno…perhaps gaming stuff? ME: That’s cool. But you don’t have money to buy new games. So you wouldn’t exacly be current or something… ME: Good point. Well, what else do ... OtakuDad - otakudad.wordpress.com | | Bon Jovi to the Rescue 12 days ago by Michelle Tension was high. Talking about finances will do that to ya. We decide to hug and make up. In the midst of a long embrace, Tim says: I'm sure you can come up with a good 80's song to sing right now. You know, one that says we are gong to make it through this season. Me: I sure can... (Then Living on ... The Not-So-Daily-Chronicles - notsodailychronicles.blogspot.com · Rank: 116,276 · 4 references | |