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"It's an emergency. We're not prepared."

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Safety, Risk Management on May 18, 2008

Following up on the blog I wrote this weekend was this superb article from the 18 May, 2008 Washington Post.  Read it and then sit down and prepare - for yourself, for your homelife, for your community and for your meetings and facilities.

We're far from prepared and I'm gonna beat this drum until we are.

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"I've got the watch."

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Safety, Risk Management on May 17, 2008

This morning, on "Weekend Edition Sunday" on NPR,  we listened to a wonderful storyteller, Captain 'Fatty' Goodlander,  a person who has lived on boats his entire life, tell about his current circumnavigation of the globe.  From the seas off Borneo, he talked about his life with his wife as they live life on the high seas. 

What struck me as much as his wonderful ability to tell stories (which

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12 step program for learners?

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Learning, Education, CMM, Certified Meeting Professional CMP on May 10, 2008

Said somewhat tongue in cheek, I sometimes worry that I am 'addicted to learning' - that I can't turn it off and I do get 'high' from new concepts and ideas.

I do admit it .. I am a learner - an avid learner and reader.  Not the formal kind of learner who does well in school - my learning happens at different times and in different places.

Guy Kawasaki, one of the most brilliant (and decent) people

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Trading spaces

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Untagged  on May 08, 2008

Sometimes a change of scenery does a person good - getting out of one's routine and space.

The last two days, I was in Indiana - surprisingly not there to canvas for my Presidential candidiate of choice for the primary in that state today, 6 May. Spending my early life in southwest Ohio, we went to southern Indiana to see family and friends. It had been years since I'd been back. How beautiful the ride from Indianapolis to French Lick, Indiana - the farm land, the small towns, the beauty of open space.

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When diverse people come together

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Social Responsibility, Industry Associations, CSR Corp. Social Responsibility on Apr 30, 2008

with a mission of social responsibility, remarkable things happen.

Day 2 of the ASAE/Center Global Summit on Social Responsibility is done.  We did so much good work today to move us to our conclusion on Friday.  We took the work of Wednesday,  using our dreams and our thoughts about SR in the association community for 2020 and got into how we'd do it.

My random thoughts are below, somewhat edited

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