almost every day, I have at least one song 'stuck' in my head. I think I'm going to start blogging it here, so that I have a record. Definitely don't want to put it on FB and bog everyone down with it!
today: Rearview Mirror - Pearl Jam
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
I sit here in my living room having the kind of Sunday I really love: watching good tv and sports, watching the snow fall outside, and kicking back with a Dogfishead 90 minute ale.
On one hand, it makes me miss living in the northeast (getting 'homebound' by snow is rare here in the Southeast), but it allows me to remember what I work for every day. Sad to say, but it's not world peace or anything so noble (though I wish I felt like I could make a difference there) but just the ability to earn an honest living doing something I like, and have Sundays off like this to just vegitate and relax with the S.O. The snow puts everything in a different perspective, because even if you wanted to go out and hike somewhere, as an urbanite, it kind of makes no sense to brave the bad roads to get to your hike; so the things you can do for the day are limited, clearing your options and decision making down to just a few things. It gives me a strange peace.
On one hand, it makes me miss living in the northeast (getting 'homebound' by snow is rare here in the Southeast), but it allows me to remember what I work for every day. Sad to say, but it's not world peace or anything so noble (though I wish I felt like I could make a difference there) but just the ability to earn an honest living doing something I like, and have Sundays off like this to just vegitate and relax with the S.O. The snow puts everything in a different perspective, because even if you wanted to go out and hike somewhere, as an urbanite, it kind of makes no sense to brave the bad roads to get to your hike; so the things you can do for the day are limited, clearing your options and decision making down to just a few things. It gives me a strange peace.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Disappointing Night at The Tabernacle
OK - I'm a bad blogger, but I had a rough night last night so I feel the need to pollute cyberspace with my thoughts.
My spouse and I went out to dinner and then to a concert at the local small venue in Atlanta. It's usually a great place to see a show and I was really excited to see Ben Folds. This venue happens to be all general admission, which is usually not an issue, but last night was absolutely awful. There were lots of people talking as if they were at a cocktail party or something, and to add to that, the sound system didn't seem to be working properly, so not much sound past right in front of the stage, and no sound piped into the downstairs area. I couldn't even hear the show! Lots in the crowd were trying to get the talkers to quiet down, but to no avail. It was so frustrating...is this what our culture has come to? People are so self-involved that they pay 65$ + to go to concerts and then talk through the whole thing? If they want to miss the music, that's fine, but don't prevent those of us who want to hear it from doing so. I am so confused about this. We ended up leaving after about 8 or 10 songs, and I'm still thoroughly disappointed by the whole experience. I think that was not only my last general admission show, but maybe my last at the Tabernacle, and I'm not thrilled by that.
OK - I'm a bad blogger, but I had a rough night last night so I feel the need to pollute cyberspace with my thoughts.
My spouse and I went out to dinner and then to a concert at the local small venue in Atlanta. It's usually a great place to see a show and I was really excited to see Ben Folds. This venue happens to be all general admission, which is usually not an issue, but last night was absolutely awful. There were lots of people talking as if they were at a cocktail party or something, and to add to that, the sound system didn't seem to be working properly, so not much sound past right in front of the stage, and no sound piped into the downstairs area. I couldn't even hear the show! Lots in the crowd were trying to get the talkers to quiet down, but to no avail. It was so frustrating...is this what our culture has come to? People are so self-involved that they pay 65$ + to go to concerts and then talk through the whole thing? If they want to miss the music, that's fine, but don't prevent those of us who want to hear it from doing so. I am so confused about this. We ended up leaving after about 8 or 10 songs, and I'm still thoroughly disappointed by the whole experience. I think that was not only my last general admission show, but maybe my last at the Tabernacle, and I'm not thrilled by that.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Well – I was headed to a roundtable on Marketing your RIM program, but I got there and no one was there yet…plus, I started thinking that I wouldn’t have more input. I would like to be more of a sponge right now. So later on in the week there is a marketing session that I will go to.My second choice was this session on RM Continuing Ed, which now seemed like a much better choice than the first. On my way I ran into Dr. Langemo and we chatted briefly about Jesse’s last session. He thought it was great, too. But it reaffirmed his belief that the state of email is still pretty much nowhere. He said he now thinks he needs to stress this issue more in his seminars. One more big question mark with no “right answers” in the RIM world!
ARMA 2007: Continuing Education: building a career path in RIM
Raymond Cunningham, CRM, CA, CDIA+, CIP, ERM-m – University of Illinois Foundation
Sunday 10/07/07 3:30 pm
Raymond is a self avowed “certification junkie”; he is on the listserv!
I love these quotes he gave us: “Careers are built – they don’t happen by luck”, and “You must be proactive in your career”; because it tells me I am in the right session.
He told us about the ARMA Core Competencies document which will be released. There will also be a skills assessment with it, which sounds really useful. Raymond also went over all the major certifications and it was really useful to me- I guess I‘ll know more about the AIIM certs if the Listserv members ever agree on how valuable they are! Raymond gave us a lot of good advice I think, and the best was that everyone’s situation is different, so we need to keep open minds and get motivated no matter what we are doing now.
He suggested Google-ing yourself: you need a big footprint to impress prospective employers! Who knew!? LinkedIn, FaceBook, YouTube, Jobsites…and checking stuff like indeed.com
I do know I want to get ahold of “Jobs vs. Careers in Records Management”, July 1997 – Pemberton, he seems to really like what mr. pemberton has to say.
I need to take an inventory of where my career is, as he suggested, and get moving. And after listening to him, I feel I do need to talk to him or Jesse about prepping for my CDIA+ exam – Raymond thinks going in cold isn’t a great idea.
I think I’m glad I ended up in this session rather than the roundtable today : )
Next stop, the welcome party!
Tomorrow bright and early is the keynote by Michael Oxley. Should be great. I wonder if they will have a motivational marching band like they did last year to kick it off in San Antonio...
ARMA 2007: Identifying and Classifying E-Messages as Records
Jesse Wilkins - Access Sciences Corp
Sunday 10/07/07 1:30 pm
It was Jesse Wilkins who suggested on the ARMA Listserv that some people try to liveblog the conference, so I’m hoping if he reads this he will take into consideration that this is my first attempt.
There is a big crowd in this large room, so it looks (not surprisingly) like a topic lots of ARMA members are interested in.
The director of ARMA Education introduced him and explained that this presentation is a presentation of his research and that Jesse’s paper will be available on the website for the benefit of all ARMA members – pretty cool, I think! She explained that they get their research funding from chapters – two chapters contributed to this research, and she presented those chapters: Houston and Denver Mile High. Believe she also said that Jesse is donating the money back to the ARMA education fund – very cool!
Key Points/Highlights of the session:
The objectives of his presentation were summed up as identifying current practices, identifying available technological solutions, and how to develop an action plan to handle E-message classification.
He recommended a YouTube video on “How not to do PowerPoint” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORxFwBR4smE)– this is really a note to myself for a funny look!
Jesse talked about how he gathered his data through literature review, survey, and interviews. He did a pilot with a small group first and used Surveymonkey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/) to publish his survey.
I have to say that out of his key findings about how email was used and controlled, the thing I found most interesting was that 30% of those surveyed forward business messages to personal accounts. He attributed this to limits on message size and the like, and I can totally see this, but I wouldn’t have guessed it without seeing it here.
In his survey responses, I guess one of the things I was surprised about was that 60% of respondents archiving emails captured metadata. Jesse did not seem to be. The fact that they capture To, From, Subject, Attachment name, and Date and time did not impress me as “being captured”…that is stuff that is already there. When I’m thinking metadata, I’m thinking something that has to be added. Usually manually. He did admit in those cases there was not much added because no one wants to do that.
When he rolled out the options for strategy, he gave a great example to illustrate the option of declaring and managing messages as records: If you get 200 emails per day, and 10% of them (20) are records, then you spend 30 seconds apiece identifying , 30 seconds deciding it is a record, 30 seconds classifying, 30 seconds moving, etc., that’s about an hour per day just to classify email – which translates into about 6 weeks each year! Can anyone imagine trying to implement that strategy at their organization?! No way.
Basically, with all the solutions available, there still is no one “right” solution for everyone. However he did have some bullet points on what you need to think about and produce to get a program rolling.
Jesse Wilkins - Access Sciences Corp
Sunday 10/07/07 1:30 pm
It was Jesse Wilkins who suggested on the ARMA Listserv that some people try to liveblog the conference, so I’m hoping if he reads this he will take into consideration that this is my first attempt.
There is a big crowd in this large room, so it looks (not surprisingly) like a topic lots of ARMA members are interested in.
The director of ARMA Education introduced him and explained that this presentation is a presentation of his research and that Jesse’s paper will be available on the website for the benefit of all ARMA members – pretty cool, I think! She explained that they get their research funding from chapters – two chapters contributed to this research, and she presented those chapters: Houston and Denver Mile High. Believe she also said that Jesse is donating the money back to the ARMA education fund – very cool!
Key Points/Highlights of the session:
The objectives of his presentation were summed up as identifying current practices, identifying available technological solutions, and how to develop an action plan to handle E-message classification.
He recommended a YouTube video on “How not to do PowerPoint” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORxFwBR4smE)– this is really a note to myself for a funny look!
Jesse talked about how he gathered his data through literature review, survey, and interviews. He did a pilot with a small group first and used Surveymonkey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/) to publish his survey.
I have to say that out of his key findings about how email was used and controlled, the thing I found most interesting was that 30% of those surveyed forward business messages to personal accounts. He attributed this to limits on message size and the like, and I can totally see this, but I wouldn’t have guessed it without seeing it here.
In his survey responses, I guess one of the things I was surprised about was that 60% of respondents archiving emails captured metadata. Jesse did not seem to be. The fact that they capture To, From, Subject, Attachment name, and Date and time did not impress me as “being captured”…that is stuff that is already there. When I’m thinking metadata, I’m thinking something that has to be added. Usually manually. He did admit in those cases there was not much added because no one wants to do that.
When he rolled out the options for strategy, he gave a great example to illustrate the option of declaring and managing messages as records: If you get 200 emails per day, and 10% of them (20) are records, then you spend 30 seconds apiece identifying , 30 seconds deciding it is a record, 30 seconds classifying, 30 seconds moving, etc., that’s about an hour per day just to classify email – which translates into about 6 weeks each year! Can anyone imagine trying to implement that strategy at their organization?! No way.
Basically, with all the solutions available, there still is no one “right” solution for everyone. However he did have some bullet points on what you need to think about and produce to get a program rolling.
Lot of questions after the session - about very specific about RM theory in this area. Not to helpful for those who have already done a lot of reading on this topic!
Off to my next session....
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