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Ignoring The Grind: The Stories We Tell About Each Other’s Work
Low Hanging Fruit by Luis Fernando Franco Jiménez on Flickr I walked into the meeting room and sat down at the conference table. I was invited as an attendee. There were 15 other people in the room. At the beginning…
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Epic Fails and Small Wins: What I’ve Learned So Far From My Career in Tech
By Publication of the original photo attributed to Levy & fils per [2] [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In tech, the concept of agile development is a bit of a no brainer. Venture capitalists and start-up gurus…
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Workshop Design: 3 Tips to Turn Facilitation Into Enablement
It’s gonna get messy!(Credit: spydergrrl) As a business analyst, a good portion of my work is to facilitate working sessions with groups of people. They might be a team (even my team) or they might be a disjointed random group…
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Storytelling: Building Compelling Stories for Any Audience (Presentation Materials)
Source: Despicable Me Nothing irks me more than hearing someone say that they “have to build a deck” or “write a report” before they even mention the actual, you know, content of said deliverable. Especially since it’s pretty easy to…
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Thing I Want: Better (Any?) Voice Commands on All My Apps
Podcast Addict app (Credit: spydergrrl) Yesterday, I went out for my first trail run of the season. As I ran, I listened to a CBC Spark podcast which, as usual, was full of random and interesting stories about how tech…
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Cyber Security and the Opportunity for User-Centered Design
Credit: Perspecsys on Flickr I am curious. I like to play: with toys, with ideas, with tech. And I used to be very scared of hardware until the cloud came along and I started using all of my tech as…
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Innovation: IDTIMWYTIM
By LPS.1 (own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons I’m going to join a new sports team: The Stanley Cups. Our mission will be to Stanley Cup. We’ll have a Stanley Cup hub, we’ll hire the best Stanley Cup leaders and…
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Conversations With Normals: When No One Understands Your Job
(Credit: Leovalente on PixaBay) Have you ever had a moment when your absolute immersion in something is presented to you on a silver platter as entirely not the norm? When you are suddenly the absolute nerdiest person in a room…
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Introvert Thoughts: My Love-Hate Relationship with Social Media
By Doesn’t say [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons Confession: Sometimes I question why I’m on social media. This usually happens when I’m having particularly introverted moments. Which of late, seem to be pretty often. And in those moments I silently debate…
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Download This: IA Summit Visual Notes (PDF)
A few weeks ago, I made the trek to Minneapolis for the IA Summit. It was my first time and I was pretty excited to have been able to make the trip. The speaker lineup was fantastic, the planned and…
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