Tammy Green » Archive for April 2007
Friends Survey
Janine sent this via e-mail, but I refuse to fill inboxes with this stuff. But the blogosphere? Oh, yeah! What time is it? 12:47pm What are you most afraid of? Republicans What is the most recent movie that you have seen in a theater? “The Queen” Where were you born? Hannibal, MO What’s your favorite food? I hate playing favorites, but I’m going with popcorn. What’s your natural hair color? Red. Ever been to Alaska? No, it’s too … Read entire article »
Filed under: Odds & Ends
War Stories
I just returned from an internal conference filled with outside speakers, panel sessions and smaller group presentations. Sessions were live-blogged, table topics at lunch were encouraged, and evening activies were planned. Did all of this produce engagement and knowledge exchange? I’m not sure. I think some of it resonated with people, and it seemed to be an improvement over past conferences. Still, people just didn’t seem to open up and talk about … Read entire article »
Filed under: Offline Life
R2D2 Mailbox
No robots were harmed in the making of this blog entry. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Odds & Ends
Spam or not?
I returned from my business trip this week to find my inbox filled with entries from a discussion group I did not join. The e-mails were forwarded from an account that I use for a single purpose and haven’t publish anywhere, so I was confused. I wrote to the list administrator to find out where she’d gotten the e-mail address and to point out that adding people to a mailing list without their permission is spam. E-mail spam defined as the following on Wikipedia: Spam is e-mail that is both unsolicited by the recipient and sent in substantively identical form to many recipients. Thus, a common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Some definitions of spam specifically include the aspects of email that is unsolicited and sent in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life
Cubs over Cards, 6-0
There was no way for me to not enjoy this game – either my home town team or my adopted home town team was going to win, the weather was perfect and the view was (mostly) unobstructed. If anybody has extra tickets to go see another Cubs & Cardinals match-up, I am seriously available to attend! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Offline Life