“I see many professionals acting like they will be at their organizations forever…The impact is that they will neglect their network and/or design their careers solely based on the company organization chart.”. Patti Johnson, quoted in “Independent Workers Are Here to Stay. Never stop networking. Never stop thinking for yourself. Always be creating. Via VitaminT ). Life Lessons Quotes Work MORE >>

Why Games Won’t Cure the Common Cold, but They Will Solve a Lot of Other Problems. by Rich Mesch. Welcome to the next stop on the blog tour for Karl Kapp’s new book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction ! Hop off that blog bus and shake the dust off. When reading Karl Kapp’s new book, I was pleased to see reference to Jesse Schell, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. remember seeing Jesse deliver the keynote at last year’s Learning 3.0 conference where he, too, discussed gaming and learning. You can see Jesse’s presentation from Learning 3.0 MORE >>

For me, last month was a real interesting step back in time. became fascinated and intrigued by all the Titanic hype. Yes I admit that it was I that arranged a girls' night out to go and re-watch the movie (again) in 3D. Which, if you don't mind 3D effects did add some extra (pardon the pun) depth to the movie. More so I got wrapped up in watching numerous documentaries about not only the voyage, but also the possible climate implications, at the time of the voyage, that led up to and perhaps sealed the fate of the ship. It covered many of the characters that we have come to know. exactly.". MORE >>

“It’s your right to listen to your gut, it ain’t nobody’s right to say no after you earned the right to be what you wanna be and do what you wanna do.” ” “Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you.” ” - Rocky Balboa. I’ve been complaining too much. Be Good Simplify Work improvement job life MORE >>

In our first post on agile development from January ([link] we discussed the basics of the Agile software development process and why it is good for software vendors and their customers. This article looks at what makes a good User Story – the core of defining requirements. What exactly is a User Story? User Stories are simply requirements. But, as with everything in Agile, we both simplify and specify the process. Short – typically limited to one page. Simple –  Describes one or more “atomic” (small) pieces of functionality. We want to identify simple, clear, small pieces of functionality. MORE >>