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Johnny’s take on the CASE/NAIS 2010 Conference.

What was Johnny doing at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the National Association of Independent Schools conference (CASE/NAIS… damn that was a mouth full) last week? Well, when you have to be in a position to support database systems throughout an organization it helps to understand the reasons people want to [ READ MORE ]

Quick note on WordCamp Boston

I am attending my second WordCamp in Boston today and have to say that I love these. Yeah there are times and sessions that aren’t great, but there is always something I manage to get out of each session. The first one I went to was in NYC back in November (2009) at Baruch College [ READ MORE ]

Hysterical, Just Plain Wrong … or … BOTH?

OK, so we’ve all seen quirky sites like “hotornot” and the like — but we now have an interesting twist on the theme at www.siblingsordating. I stumbled across this from a tweet by SE Cupp (who you really should be following — if you’re not already). The site simply provides pictures of couples and asks [ READ MORE ]

A little effort goes a long way.

So I have been playing with SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net) to post some of my presentations from the past few months. Most recently I presented to a large group of Educational Technology Coordinators, Directors of Technology and vendors and used SlideShare not only as a tool to post my presentation so that the people there could download [ READ MORE ]

Is It A Tsunami?

Hey, Stryker … BIG day in Massachusetts tomorrow. Scott Brown has the potential to make history and change the entire political game in the United States. This election is a referendum on the Obama Administration — especially on health care. As Mr. Brown has surged, and Coakley has looked like an amateur on a bad [ READ MORE ]

Excellent video on Social Media: Social Media Revolution

There are certain topics I spend a lot of time talking about.  Most of the conversations center around  trying to get people understand or buy-in to a new idea or concept. This is an AMAZING video if you need to talk to people about the significance of social media[ READ MORE ]

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