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Carol H Tucker
Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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Today is 6th day of the 39th week, the 30th day of the 9th month, the last day of the 3rd quarter, the 274th day of 2016 [with only 85 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Ask A Stupid Question Day ((always the last school day of the month))
- Blasphemy Day
- Chewing Gum Day
- Hug a Vegetarian Day
- International Translation Day
- National Mud Pack Day
- National Mulled Cider Day
- Save the Koala Day
- Support Purple for Platelets Day
- The Time for Yoga
- Vegan Baking Day
The black moon [a rare second new moon in a month] rises at 8:11PM EDT – given the stresses and worries the world faces at the moment, it is tempting to see it as a sign, neh?
On this day in 489 the Ostrogoths under king Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy). In 1791 the first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria. In 1882 Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. In 1927 Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season. In 1979 the Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (AKA Kwun Tong Line). In 1980 ethernet specifications were published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation. In 2016, Rosetta joins Philae on the surface of their comet.
Yesterday someone who’s opinion I respect shared an article about what you should consider before you post in social media, adding a fourth precept of things to consider before you post: “Does it improve upon the silence?”
Well now, that brought me up short. You see, I share a LOT of things that I am interested in – today my feed is full of the end of the Rosetta mission – and that has been my role in my online life from the get go. In the asynchronous communities I participated in actively [eg. The Knowledge Ecology Network and Brainstorms] I had a thread that was nothing more than “stuff” with the caveat that these were things I found interesting and thought others would too. Because folks didn’t go and read it unless they wanted too, even if I was in fire hose mode, I didn’t worry about it. But Twitter and Facebook are a little along the lines of “push” tech and when I post about stuff, it populates all my friends’ feeds. For a time, I stopped posting in social media and only shared via this blog, but slowly switched back to the “like and share” activity. I tried to go through my tweets to see if there is a pattern – but it really is an eclectic mix. Personal information: lots of #theviewfromthebalcony, sharing of my blog posts, snapshots and status updates. General info: lots of space, comments about income inequity, stories about banking [especially community banking], Bitcoin, virtual reality, technology, Star Trek and Star wars along with any other science fiction, fantasy and role play, games, Project Runway, gripes about customer service issues, and… and…. well, STUFF.
Is having so much to share an improvement on silence? I’ll have to think about that …..
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