As I've referenced in a few earlier posts, both ASTM International and The National Organization for Competency Assurance (NOCA) were discussing collaboration on a standard for certificate programs. Collaboration is now off the table and both groups are proceeding independently. This has presented me with a professional and personal dilemma. ...
Interesting: “Perhaps the report’s most surprising finding — at least to parents who can barely peel their college-age children away from their Facebook or MySpace pages — was that only one-third of students said they were comfortable reading textbooks on a computer screen. Three-fourths said they would prefer a print ...
Organizers of the Democratic National Convention going on in Denver this week were good at letting the media know about what they were doing to green the convention (and despite the rumors, those wooden keycards are working). What I hadn’t heard so much about until now is all the tech ...
There was a discussion on a users group listserver a few days ago about the pros and cons of centralized vs. decentralized data entry. The question was, should all staff be able to enter and correct data in the database, or should that function be restricted to just a few? ...
If you want to get a glimpse of what you missed if you didn’t get to ASAE and The Center’s annual meeting, or just want to hear a bit more from some of the speakers, check out the video clips available here. I’m guessing there’s more to come, since I ...
All the warning signs were there.
Tonight, we had quite the adventure with Raindrop.
The first sign something was off - she wanted to sleep near my head.
Usually Raindrop sleeps at the foot of our bed.
Tonight, she insisted on being higher up.
Maybe she was still getting over my week on the ...
I can honestly say that I love working for a small upstart business…there is never a shortage of challenges or things to get done. #
I can tell summer is coming to an end. Monday morning traffic volume is up from past weeks. Will have to adjust my schedule to compensate. ...