Posts with the tag "communication"

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Staff evaluations: giving feedback, building strong teams


A lot of my time in the last few weeks has been consumed by working on staff evaluations at Summersault. It's at times tedious and exhausting, but really rewarding in the end, I think. I just posted some more about how we do it on the Summersault Blog:
"If you read my previous post [...]

Too many community builders in one town?


One of the recurring themes in my writing in speaking about how to make our communities more self-reliant is that we can't necessarily depend on entities and organizations that aren't locally rooted to address the issues that are of local concern. The natural corollary to this is that, in addition to individual citizens taking [...]

6 tips for good email message subject lines


Writing good subject lines in your email messages is important. As email continues to serve as a primary communication tool for many people, and as our inboxes are filled up with ridiculous amounts of stuff that we may or may not need to actually act on, we will all benefit from writing good subject [...]

What are you wearing?


This is just a cautionary tale for those who perhaps trust the world of digital communications a little too much.
Anna Lisa was traveling in the northwest to visit some friends, and we'd had sporadic contact via cell phone, e-mail and text message.  One day when I hadn't heard from her in a while and was [...]

E-mail messages I delete without reading


Life's too short. E-mail messages I tend to delete without reading (other than obvious spam):

Messages with a blank subject line
Messages with a blank body, with only a mysterious attachment that's supposed to explain everything when I open it
Pretty much anything from Network Solutions / Verisign
Anything that asks me to forward it to 11 of [...]

Total Information Awareness


People sometimes ask me how much I think "The Government" is really listening in on our phone calls, e-mail messages, web browsing, text messages, and other forms of communication. I still apparently surprise people with my answer: for the purposes of my day-to-day life, I assume that every communication I send or receive using [...]

To challenge and be challenged in conversation


I attended a presentation recently where the person speaking was talking about when it is and is not appropriate to challenge your host's views, perhaps at a dinner party or other social event. He noted that in some cultures, it's perfectly appropriate and expected to have a heated discussion about the topic at hand, [...]

Why I Am Quiet


A lot of people notice that in many settings, I'm a pretty quiet person. I don't mind telling them that I generally have an withdrawn personality, and that I tend to do better in conversations that are one-on-one or with small groups of people who I know, as opposed to large groups or gatherings [...]

Past Mistakes, Present Opportunities


When we encounter new people in our lives and consider what they might have to bring to us and what we might have to bring to them, we have to decide how we're going to evaluate who they really are - do we look at their current statements and actions and opinions, or do we [...]

Tired of social networking sites


At lunch today we were talking about all the social networking sites that have popped up on the Intertubes over the recent years. Mark and I sounded a little curmudgeonly about it, noting that we've long since been ignoring invitations to join the latest fad in making virtual connections to the rest of the [...]

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