Ack, I’ve been attacked by the latest “eight things you may not know about me” meme (thanks, Kevin–and I will make you sorry you asked!). OK, here goes:
1. This fall, I learned how to knit, and before I knew it I became a total knit-wit. I’ve become a regular ...
This summer I fell in love with Alaska, so when I found great nonstops from Boston to Seattle and back on Alaska Air, I had to give it a try. (Plus, I loved their spoof site, though it looks like they’ve taken it down since the last time I was ...
Work is what you do, not where you go. That's just one of 13 commandments of ROWE, the radical Results-Only-Work-Environment crafted by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson at Best Buy that resulted in a 35% up-tick in productivity and a...
I just found a new friend.
Last night I went to dinner with a woman I met through volunteering.
We’ve spent a few hours together doing a variety of things for our chapter and decided to grab dinner to get to know each other better.
I don’t know about you, but for ...
ASAE is running a pilot of the NonProfit Finance Game that I had a chance to play at the Hats You Wear: Membership, Finance and Law conference back in November. I thought it was truly awesome and blogged about it
here.The pilot ...
Tagged. Thanks,
Mickie. This blog needed a new post. 1. I'm originally from
Muskegon, Michigan (
where the snowboard was invented).2. I've always been a decent artist. When I won a regional prize for my art in elementary school, I wore a bow ...
As a native Chicagoan and a journalism major, I was delighted when real estate icon Sam Zell bought the Tribune Company last year. While at ULI, I always appreciated Sam's outspoken nature, clarity, and insight to how he approached his...
This week's cover story in New Scientist reviews the science behind the "brain training" craze, the new workout for those over 50. "Commercial brain training has been around for at least a decade, but has only really caught on in...
One of the steps during the database implementation process is data conversion. Part of the data conversion process is identifying which data sets you want to convert (e.g., membership types) and which you don't (e.g., payment details for events from four years ago).
One of my simple rules of thumb for data ...