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- Albright on "Communication, Information and Negotiation"
[notes from article in CIO magazine, January 15, 2005] Remember two things when negotiating: You have to know what it is you want. "You can't go into a negotiation without clarity about what your objective is." You must understand what the other person wants. You must try "to get into the other person's shoes." "If you don't understand what they have to get out of it, you can't figure out what steps they can take to give you what you want." Go into any negotiation as well-prepared as possible. If for some reason you don't have enough information, make sure you listen first to understand the other person's position. If you have to deliver bad news, "deliver it straight". Don't allow any equivocation into your delivery and make sure your position is understood. There are times when it is useful to have someone else present an idea that you both espouse. Give credit when credit is due. When in a potentially unfriendly environment (e.g. a woman in a man's world), don't set yourself up as a victim. "If you set yourself up as a victim, you become a victim." Remember who you are representing and develop a support network. Sometimes you need to take the data that is given to you from multiple sources and "triangulate"--figure out where the meat is through a comparison of perspectives. Competing sources that disagree on the meaning of data are not a bad thing in and of themselves. There is potential good to be had from the competition. - Adding to Remind via Quicksilver
After reading about Remind and its various related apps on the 43folders site, I thought it was a natural fit for Marlin's earlier tips about appending text with QuickSilver. When I tried to do this, however, I found that Quicksilver doesn't display hidden files by default. I'm sure they are as ugly as ugly can be, but here are a couple of ways I hacked together to make it work: (you'll need to read the above-mentioned links for the context of this comment) 1- Invoke Quicksilver and type in the line of text to send to Remind. (Typing a period after invoking brings up the text entry mode). 2- Hit tab and type APP to bring up the "Append to text" command. 3- Hit tab again, then to navigate to a hidden file, type the parent directory (in this case, your home directory, which is represented by the ~ character) then hold down the option key while pressing the right arrow (or /). This will list all of the contents of that directory. Since we're after the .reminders file, you can type REM to select the file (if you type a period, you'll go to text entry mode again) or navigate to the file with your arrow keys or [QS junkie shudder] using your mouse. 4- Hit enter and you're done. ALTERNATIVELY: 1- Navigate to your home folder in the terminal. 2- Create a link (alias) to the .reminders file by typing ln .reminders reminders.txt This will create a visible file called reminders.txt that points to the invisible .reminders file used by Remind (somebody please yell at me if I've broken something by doing this...) - I heart Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ I've known about Thunderbird for a while now, but I never felt the urge to try it out until today. I'm glad I finally did. I love the integration of email accounts and RSS feeds, and it handles message features such as return receipts and html messages more elegantly than Apple Mail or Entourage did. I'm hooked. - The virus of comment spam
While there are many reasons for my recent lack of posts, it occurred to me while discussing my on-campus weblog with a colleague that it was only after I disabled comments (due to overwhelming amounts of comment spam) that my posts dwindled down to near non-existence. I believe that for some people posting to a weblog is a one-way endeavor--a place to hold their thoughts/notes/links. While I used to use my weblog as a place to keep track of URLs that I wanted to research later, I now use Furl and del.icio.us for that purpose, so those links no longer show up on my weblogs. I've recently switched platforms and am now using b2evolution. The interface is too busy for my taste, but I'm trying to get used to it. One of the most important things we're trying to accomplish is a weblog platform that will scale enough to allow campus wide use by students and faculty. I'll post thoughts about the pros and cons of this experiment here as they occur to me. - Coming up for air
I'll soon be migrating to another weblog platform (likely b2e) that will hopefully allow more control over the comment and trackback spam that has been the downfall of this environment (for me). Without the ability to comment, weblogs become a much narrower communication channel. I don't have time to clean up the garbage, so I ultimately just turned commenting off. It wasn't long after that that my posting became even more infrequent than it was before. Anyway, I'll try to manage the migration as well as I can. I'll post my notes here as I go.
