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Re: Transitioning out of a job

Shelley — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:34:18 -0000

Go "big picture" and generate some documents (graphics?) that illustrate the arc of your year, as well as the approximate percentage of your time you were dedicating to varying components of your work in different "seasons."

How about a list of local lunch options, with a recommendation for some people for your successor to share a meal with in the first couple of months?

I like Ron's debrief idea as well...

Re: BIG News! I’m leaving Butler University.

Shelley — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:14:35 -0000

Sounds great, Brad... will look forward to hearing about this next chapter in your work life!

Re: There’s something going down on Facebook. Pay attention.

Shelley — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:58:12 -0000

Creepy? Or to be expected? Outrageous? Or no big deal?

I've got a post up w/ some thoughts about how this might play out going forward...

Thank you to Brad and his ad hoc working group for doing some digging and getting this conversation started.

Re: The Good Project Graveyard [Part 2]

Shelley — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:35:03 -0000

Dear Brad,

Thanks for sharing the video as well as the "behind the scenes" info (although since the video is already of the "behind the scenes" genre, maybe your explanation is "behind behind?") :-)

Please tell Megan that she's a natural!

I've added the video to the College Lists wiki "From the File Room" page (http://collegelists.pbwiki.com/Photos+from+the+...), as I think it's not just current Butler applicants who would be interested.

Re: 30 Essential Twitter Tutorials for Newbies and Experts

Shelley — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:38:28 -0000

Hey, do you know @happyseaurchin on Twitter? Seems like y'all would get along (see profile pic to know why I think so).

Re: 30 Essential Twitter Tutorials for Newbies and Experts

Shelley — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:36:39 -0000

Great stuff... am adding this to my Twitter Newbie FAQ: http://butwait.pbworks.com/Twitter-Newbies-FAQ

Thank you!

Re: Twitter – A Teaching and Learning Tool

Shelley — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:34:20 -0000

Tom, thank you so much for the time and thought that went into this post. I find that I am sometimes not as articulate in my Twitter evangelism as I would like to be, and have started tossing other folks' more eloquent work into my wiki's new Twitter Newbies FAQ (http://butwait.pbwiki.com/Twitter-Newbies-FAQ).

The permalink to this post is SO going there, man!

Thank you again,
Shelley (aka "butwait")

Re: Connectivism: Theory and Application

Shelley — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:11:33 -0000

Hi Mike, and thanks for transparently sharing your taking in of these ideas.

What kinds of social network connections can/will we make within this course context?

How will we self-identify, and how will we recognize other members of our tribe(s)?

I feel like I'll be reaching out on all kinds of levels, and I liked what you said earlier about the ways in which establishing personal goals can help with the process of figuring out who you might need in your personal learning network. Then there's the serendipity factor...

in peace,
Shelley

Re: biggest payday loan ever

Shelley — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:20:05 -0000

Hang in there, man. And thanks for sharing this.

Re: Energy Research: Ray Kopp

Shelley — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:43:32 -0000

How about geo-thermal?

Re: 10 Ways to Find People on Twitter

Shelley — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:30:09 -0000

Great list! Here are some Twitter directories specific to teachers and other learning professionals: http://bit.ly/k12twits

Hope that helps!
Shelley, aka @butwait on Twitter

Re: Free eBook Manifesto - Trust Economies

Shelley — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:31:32 -0000

Yay, Chris, so pleased for you that your blog is back up! Will try to take a look at the manifesto sometime this coming week.

And companies that don't blog probably don't because 1) they don't "get it" and/or 2) they lack the culture of openness and trust that is implied in such a non-hierarchical kind of communication. Who will post, who will approve the posts, what if we say something we shouldn't have, what if we don't have anything to say, blah blah blah. Also, inertia and denial of change. ("We never needed a blog before, why do we need one now?")

Re: The Community Ecosystem

Shelley — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:32:38 -0000

My current little contribution to my slice of the working world is http://collegelist.pbwiki.com.

No time to say more just now because I'm busy contributing to my kid's Easter memories.

But thanks for YOUR work, and I'll be seeing you in my RSS feed and Twitter stream.

Re: The Community Ecosystem

Shelley — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:55:17 -0000

Okay, except it's actually http://collegelists.pbwiki.com

I just shouldn't try to type this early in the morning!

College counselors all over the country compile "specialty" lists of colleges (colleges with observatories, colleges with summer programs in architecture, etc. etc.) and a friend of mine and I compiled a bunch of them here.

Re: Saying No

Shelley — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:24:00 -0000

Now I see why it was difficult to write... because it's difficult to do!

But good on you, Chris... both for sharing your thought-process and for showing the way in which stepping back can simultaneously be a move which honors others' voices.

Thank you for continuing to live into your gifts, and for doing so in such a helpfully public way.

Re: Customer Service Hoops

Shelley — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:54:45 -0000

@Katybeth True that! When my luggage went AWOL on a trip home last year, the auto-message at the MISSING BAGGAGE DEPARTMENT said "thank you for your call," and I was constantly tempted to yell "I don't have a CHOICE!"

@Bill that sounds like it's headed in the right direction... yay!

And Chris, as we say in Quaker Meeting sometimes, "That Friend speaks my mind."

Re: Template for Building a Small Powerful Network

Shelley — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:03:58 -0000

Oh, YES, this was just the nudge I needed to start putting together a directory of folks in my field (academic matchmaking, okay, college counseling) who are active in a social media kind of way.

Yet ANOTHER project that will keep my fingers on the keyboard over the upcoming "break."

But too great NOT to do.

Thanks as always for your positive, "you can do this" attitude, as well as your nuts and bolts "howto" tips.

Re: Life in the Labs

Shelley — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:24:23 -0000

So great! I love that watching you work (with running commentary like this) sometimes helps me understand why I'm doing some of what I'm doing. Just wild.

"Ultimately, the more I give away for free, the more time I have to do the more complex work that I really want to do with you. "

Indeed.

The way I figured this out for myself was through thinking about my "backstage" rather than my "lab," but it feels like the two are related. My backstage is here; I think it's unlikely that anyone would ever be all that interested. But I have learned so much from others' sharings (and not always what they thought they were teaching), so I have this sneaking suspicion that SOMEBODY might be interested, someday. And I don't have any reason to post a security detail at the stage door, so...

Re: When Search Becomes Paramount

Shelley — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:50:10 -0000

Loved the guest post over on Liz' site... thank you!

Here's my addition to a possible search curriculum:

Assume that someone has looked for this information before. Think about who they are. Go find them. (In other words, sometimes it's better to find a master than to try to be one.)