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interesting discussion of trim tab and rudders by Lawrence Wilson, an MD. He quotes Richard Buckminster Fuller who said that for one person to change the entire world, they need "to act like the rudder and trim tab of a ship."

From Entrepreneur.com: some fun and useful exercises to get in touch with what you are passionate about. All of them are active - none are text oriented.

interesting post by Louise Pasterfield on supporting, not implementing, social learning, with Slack tool assist at Sponge UK

nice blog post by Jane Hart on working with organizations and individuals to build learning mindset and behavior

John Hagel is a co-chair of Deloitte Center for the Edge. Here he talks about influence points and positioning oneself among influence points through our technology enabled connections. Power laws still concentrate an extraordinary # of connections around a few nodes. But having access to knowledge flows, one will be able to anticipate what's going to happen before others do, one could perhaps shape the flows and more rapid learning may occur because of access to a growing and diverse set of information or knowledge flows. Learning faster than anyone else will enable a company or person to "have a significant advantage relative to those who are scrambling to catch up." Uses the PC microprocessor and operating system components to concretize influence points.

nice blog post by Mark Athitakis, 8.3.15, quoting a new book by Anna Caraveli on leading through change.

blog post by Gayle Bennett, 8.3.15 on finding and asking the right questions to hire the best people for associations

Great article by Jessi Hempel on turning off social media for a month and Wired readers who did the same and the impact it had on their lives. Wired, 8.5.15

blog post by Ernie Smith, May 27, 2014. The inventor of passwords has given up on passwords calling them a nightmare to maintain. "Unfortunately it's become kind of a nightmare with the World Wide Web," he told the Wall Street Journal. "I don't think anybody can possibly remember all the passwords that are issued or set up. That leaves people with two choices. Either you maintain a crib sheet, a mild no-no, or you use some sort of program as a password manager."

Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, on reframing the term bossy for not just girls and women, but everyone to be based on competence and caring. Others look up to those who are, and see them as leaders, not bossy people.

""students will spend three hours every Wednesday Gchatting, tweeting selfies, and commenting onDaily Intelligencer. Then, they have to somehow take all of that cr*p and turn it into a piece of 'compelling and emotional work of literature.' Ivy League degrees seem totally worth it.""

blog post by Anita Campbell at Inc.com on using images on social media--some good tips

blog by Eric Barker on greater productivity, June 1, 2014 1) Manage your mood--If you start the day calm it's easy to get the right things done and focus. "2) Don't Check Email In The Morning" Research shows email: Stresses you out. Can turn you into a jerk. Can be more addictive than alcohol and tobacco. And checking email frequently is the equivalent of dropping your IQ 10 points. 3) Ask whether it should be done at all 4) Focus is nothing more than eliminating all the distractions 5) Have a personal system 6) Define your goals the night before

blog post by Justin Rosenstein, cofounder, Asana, a "team brain" to put information instead of decentralized emails floating here and there. Bloomberg Businessweek. McKinsey study: 30 percent of people's time is spent literally just on e-mail and reading and writing e-mail. Another 20 percent of people's time is spent on trying to get pieces of information that their co-workers already know. E-mail becomes this completely unmanaged to-do list that someone else created for you.

article by Stephanie Vozza, Fast company, LinkedIn Seven habits 1. Organized people seek out tools 2. Organized people set priorities MITs 3. Organized people have less stuff 4. Organized people choose simple solutions 5. Organized people practice maintenance 6. Organized people regularly purge 7. Organized people project themselves into the future

By Will Blunt, February 9, 2015, Hubspot. Very useful tips on collecting research for writing blog posts. Tracy linked to this in LinkedIn. HT to Tracy.

Lorenzo Grandi is founder of Startupbootcamp Amerstam. He outlines what makes a successful crowdfunding campaign. Ask: what do you or can you offer? Who is your competition? What has worked well for them? Feature a video - more likely to get funded if you have one. Although this is geared toward business, it has a lot of good tips and links to other blogs and sites (including Kickstarter and their help area), and is easy to understand and practical.

blog post by Clive Andrews at NixonMcInnes, creating meaning in business. 9/26/2013 on using immediacy of messages being shared on social media to make operational choices.

nice blog post by Anna Carlson, NixonMcInnes, social media firm in the UK, 1.17.13 on hierarchical vs. networked learning

Great primer on using images online