YES, the mike will be open again tonight so start collecting your thoughts. Remember the mike is open there is no post you get to bring what you want to talk about. The rules are even shorter this time — no mean talk.
We got things going fast and furious last week. So, if you missed it, stop on by and check it out. It lasted into the wee hours of the night and the best parts happened long after I was gone.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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In keeping with the Link Leaking Blog Rally car theme, I’m thinking it would be cool to have a Blog-to Show this coming Saturday and Sunday. Here’s what you do. Write up a sentence or two about what make your blog worth visiting and some advice or a short bloggy quote that you think other bloggers would like to know. I’ll feature both in a Blog-to Showcase on Saturday with a link to your amazing blog.
It’s FREE PROMOTION for you, your blog, your business, and your brand.
If you have questions, leave them in the comments section. I have a meeting this morning, but I’ll answer them as soon as I can.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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. . . cleaning the refrigerator takes on a new and miraculous sense of urgency with a heavenly glow.
Go ahead give in and do it, but don’t lose to procrastination. Turn that refrigerator chore into an exploration for ideas. Here are three things you might think about.
Procrastination just became an idea session, and on top of that you’ve cleaned your refrigerator! That’s productivity where you could have been doing what I’ve done — standing in front of an open refrigerator door thinking about how the light goes on and off.
Bet you can think of more ideas to find inside of that Big Box. How about sharing some with us?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.
This day is without food blogs
But access to the Internet is not exactly equal now, is it? People pay for varying speed of connection to the Internet, dial-up, DSL, T1, etc. Those with more money can access the Internet at much faster speed than those with less. That’s what you think, yes?
That is something different though. Currently, consumers can pay for different speed of connection, but once they are connected to the Internet, there is no difference between accessing the massive Yahoo.com or the little chezpim.com. But when the new law is passed the service providers will be allowed to dole out different websites or services at different speed.
Thereââ¬â¢s been some debate lately about whether or not to run the ads from the telecom companies Astroturf campaign ââ¬ÅDonââ¬â¢t Regulate the Internet.”
Those who think blogs should run them tend to believe that one shouldnââ¬â¢t stifle free speech ââ¬â and hey, why not take their money and then write against them?
For me, the issue is simpler ââ¬â theyââ¬â¢re liars. Theyââ¬â¢re advertising a fundamentally dishonest idea ââ¬â that the Internet has never been regulated, and that we shouldnââ¬â¢t start now.
The Internet has always been regulated. It started off as a government network designed to survive nuclear attacks (which, as everyone notes, is why itââ¬â¢s so good at routing around damage, including censorship) and along with government research labs its initial backbone was universities.
All through that time, and indeed through the 90ââ¬â¢s and almost up to the current day, there was a simple rule – you couldnââ¬â¢t discriminate against traffic. You couldnââ¬â¢t give some packets priority over other packets.
That was the rule. It was the regulation.
The FCC recently got rid of that rule. However they can put it back any time. . . .
If it’s not neutral it’s not Internet [via Jeff Pulver]
The customers of AT&T and Verizon did not ask to get cut off from the Internet. . . . There exist no examples of success with the “walled garden” approach, because the nothing can match the breadth of content and innovation of capacity of the public Internet. The decoupling of connectivity from use and user associated with neutrality makes this breadth of content and innovation possible.
The opposition to net neutrality arises like all regulatory debates as themeans to raise prices, but people in the US already pay more for lessbandwidth than citizens of Europe and Asia.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this Blogging Question. It’s NOT AT ALL Hypothetical, but I’ll phrase it that way.
New Bloggers, you might listen in carefully on this one. . . .
Suppose you are me. Suppose you are looking at your stats one day recently, and you see someone from one IP has accessed over 25 pages. Suppose that someone has accessed those 25 pages in under 40 minutes.
Now, suppose the IP is a Company IP with a company name. Suppose you can pinpoint the exact city in which the server is located. Suppose you know how to reach the Director of HR and the Director of IT.
What would your response to this situation be?
I’m thinking this person is quite fortunate that I am the nice one. What are you thinking?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Use this worksheet to gather information when you’re designing a complex process as described in Critical Skill 4: Part 2-Designing a Complex Process and Critical Skill 4: Part 3-A Virtual Process.
Fill in as much information as you can before you begin the process design. Then use the worksheet throughout the process to guide you. You can use this form even when you delegate process design to a team that reports to you.
1. The Leader of the Process Design Team will be ____________________________
2. Assign the Visionaries and Explorers. Who are the big picture, global thinkers who will help decide on the work flow? Which stages of the process will each of these team members represent?
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
3. What steps will the work follow? Note: This discussion should include the big picture thinkers listed above only at this point. The detail people should not be present. (Take notes on the big picture process discussion using separate pages. Summarize or draw a flow chart to summarize the process the above team designs in the space below.)
The Proposed Process
4. Assign the King’s Guards and Risk Managers. Who are the detail thinkers who will challenge the proposed process design? Which stages of the process will each of these team members represent?
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
Name: ______________________ Stage(s): __________________________________
5. When the process is defined, the big picture people share the summary/flow chart with the detail folks before a meeting occurs with all team members. Any member of the team can list questions and concerns here.
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6. The Explorers and Visionaries present the process design in detail to the King’s Guards and Risk Managers under the moderation of the leader. Now is the time to find the holes in the thinking — to validate the process and the plan.
When that discussion is complete, the process will stand as a working plan. The entire group should agree that this is the process, until the process doesn’t work, at which time, any member of the group can ask the team leader to call a meeting to adjust the plan.
Process isn’t hard if you take charge of it, instead of letting it drag you along.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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