Archive for May, 2005
May 17, 2005
Coaching
I like this definition of the purpose of coaching from the Management Craft blog.
Coaching in a business setting has four purposes:
- Coaching should improve client coachability.
- Coaching should help the client get unstuck and moving toward his or her goals again.
- Coaching should enhance client self-awareness.
- Coaching should facilitate breakthroughs.
That last one seems to be the real purpose in my mind. If not that, why do it?
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May 17, 2005
Unintended Consequences of the Google Web Accelerator
If you have been getting weird bug reports lately about and your site uses GET links to make changes to data (rather than posting via a form), you should read this: Google Web Accelerator considered overzealous. This is old news in blog time but I’m not sure it has gotten much play in the association world yet.
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May 16, 2005
Big Blog
IBM is now encouraging their 300k+ employees to blog if they want and has posted a policy to set their expectations for employees who do blog:
Guidelines for IBM Bloggers: Executive Summary
- Know and follow IBM’s Business Conduct Guidelines.
- Blogs, wikis and other forms of online discourse are individual interactions, not corporate communications. IBMers are personally responsible for their posts. Be mindful that what you write will be public for a long time — protect your privacy.
- Identify yourself — name and, when relevant, role at IBM — when you blog about IBM or IBM-related matters. And write in the first person. You must make it clear that you are speaking for yourself and not on behalf of IBM.
- If you publish a blog or post to a blog and it has something to do with work you do or subjects associated with IBM, use a disclaimer such as this: “The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.”
- Respect copyright, fair use and financial disclosure laws.
- Don’t provide IBM’s or another’s confidential or other proprietary information.
- Don’t cite or reference clients, partners or suppliers without their approval.
- Respect your audience. Don’t use ethnic slurs, personal insults, obscenity, etc., and show proper consideration for others’ privacy and for topics that may be considered objectionable or inflammatory — such as politics and religion.
- Find out who else is blogging on the topic, and cite them.
- Don’t pick fights, be the first to correct your own mistakes, and don’t alter previous posts without indicating that you have done so.
- Try to add value. Provide worthwhile information and perspective.
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May 13, 2005
Vermont Nonprofit CommunIT Blog
I’ve been reading Sonny Cloward’s Vermont Nonprofit CommunIT blog lately. Lots of good stuff on IT for NPOs, including several pieces on low/no direct cost CRM applications for the non profit sector. He wrote his own review of Salesforce.com and more recently provided a link to another: At Play in the Fields of…Salesforce? Check it out.
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May 12, 2005
Cheat Sheets
Spotted via Joe Gregorio:
Dave Child does cheat sheets. He does them very well. So far he has ones for PHP, CSS and mod_rewrite. Warm up the laminator, baby.
Very nice!
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May 5, 2005
Association BloggerCon in Nashville
Ben Martin has taken the initiative to organize an association blogger meeting at ASAE’s Annual Meeting in Nashville this August: Y’all meet me in Nashville
This is an all-call to association bloggers attending the ASAE Annual Meeting in Nashville. You’re invited to a meet-up of association bloggers. Time, date and exact location are to be determined. Leave a comment or email me to begin the discussion about when, where and what to discuss when we meet.
Be sure to post a comment to Ben’s blog if you want to attend. I’m looking forward to it!
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May 4, 2005
World Changing: The NPO
World Changing is a fantastic blog about how our world is, uh, changing. :) They are forming an NPO organization with which to manage and grow their operations. And they are staffing up! Check out the job announcement if the following applies to you:
If herding a growing gang of super-smart, passionate, global cats into a finely-tuned anarchist marching band sounds like fun to you, boy do we have your dream job.
I am familiar with a couple of the folks who write for World Changing via The Well. Should be a fascinating and demanding job.
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May 4, 2005
Password Generator
Nic Wolff has posted a really cool tool: Password generator
So, this is a little Javascript program that will concatenate two fields and MD5 them. The idea is that you choose one master password to secure all your others, and then generate passwords for each site, server, router, &c. by putting a completely obvious name for that resource in the “Site name” field.
Half the web seems to be linking to this but I thought I would get in on it too. Looks like a great way for simplifying your personal logins while still being very secure.
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May 2, 2005
Who Should Have Online Communication Skills?
Nancy White posted on her blog about Target adding blogging skills to the job requirements for a media relations position: Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: Target requires blogging skills for media relations people
Not only are blogging skills going to be prerequisites, but more generally good online communications skills. Last week I got the chance to have a conversation with David Millen from IBM. I was blathering that I thought everyone will need online facilitation skills and he gently and accurately got me to sharpen my message. Not everyone has a job that requires negotiating meaning and roles in groups. ;-) Not everyone is going to need to be an online facilitator and those specific skills, just like the skills of a great blogger, my be more sharply defined in some roles more than others. But I’d venture a guess that many working in business will need to be skillful online communicators at some base level.
Nancy makes a really good point about the general need for online communication skills across the company. With more and more interaction being computer mediated, organizations that are generally savvy about online communication (oncomm?) will have a great advantage over those that don’t.
For example, when PR people do blogs without authentic online communication skills and experience you end up with stuff like fake blogs.
Great post by Nancy. Read the whole thing.
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