Hello all - long-time googler, first time blogger

Just to let you know that MLP gets a mention in today's Fin review. I'm preparing a report for the next GDF Trustees meeting and will let send on any feedback.

Fingers crossed and posting

Aileen

ps. I've also got to get my spelling/typing under control. Can you spellcheck on these?

Hi everybody!

and thank you mal for following up and getting us all connected. being a virgin blogger it may take some time to get the hang of this - but I'm looking forward to trying...gotta keep that growth mindset thing going!

Jeanne

Enterprise 2.0

Meet Charlie - what is Enterprise2.0?

From: slgavin, 3 months ago





A visual and entertaining example of web2.0 within the corporation.

Visually inspired by the brilliant Meet Henry by Cheree Moore of Ethos3 Communications! Check it out: http://www.slideshare.net/chereemoore/meet-henry

Extending the network

Hi again. Anyone have any suggestions or strong feelings about how and when to extend this network to all former MLP graduates?

Authenticity notes - for comment

I have a spare 10 mins, so thought I'd offer this up. Firstly I am interested and secondly it may prompt others to follow or do something different. There are no rules (yet . . .) so please just have a go and we can sort out our approach to this means of networking as we go.
As I said, the discussion about 'authenticity' interested me, but I wasn't really sure where it came from, apart from the conversation between Anna and Jeanne and what we could apply it to (apart from strategy). I'm not sure that I captured this too well:

Jeanne offered us four qualities of authenticity that an American academic had proposed recently. I think this had something to do with an architecture of reality or the creation of something that feels real or genuine?

• PRESENCE

It commands attention. It may not be true but it interests us. Perhaps a combination of familiarity and novelty?

• SIGNIFICANCE

This is the 'hook'; it means something. And it is personal (to us)?

• MATERIALITY

It is what it says it is, or it is made of the stuff it purports to be. Jeanne said that the opposite of belief is doubt, so that needs to be dispelled if you want someone to think something is real. It offers a reason to believe in it.

• THE QUALITY OF EMPTINESS

'The finished is still-born.' It offers the excitement of engaging with an unfinished (less than perfect?) work-in-progress. There is space to finish your piece of it.

Jeanne went on to discuss the difference between strategies that are either 'ducks' (symbolic) or 'sheds' (practical and authentic).

Thanks Mal

OK...I'm in. I am a newbie to blogging so I'll have to learn the "conventions" as I go.

Thanks, Mal, for the efforts so far in setting up an appropriate platform for us to stay connected. I'm keen to see if we can make it happen.

Great to catch up with everyone last week.

Cheers,

John

Simon's notes & invitations to author blog posts

Simon phoned me from the NGA yesterday and he has a lot on, so his own notes won't appear for a couple of weeks. If you have something that you'd like to start discussing or some notes that you already have written up, please share them when you can. It may save Simon a bit of work.
I just sent out the first batch of invitations too all of the 2007 Refreshees, so hopefully we can figure out what the next step is here at the AWM and I'll then post some further destructions about how you get started. You've all been invited as 'authors' so I imagine that all you need to do is accept, then register on the blog and set up a password. After that you just log in in order to create or edit a post and away you go. There should be someone in your workplace (or at home) who can assist you with blogging conventions. The whole Western world won't collapse if you make a mistake, so just jump in and start learning.
You can either post queries (so that everyone can learn) or email me anything about blogging that you don't understand.
This should actually be easier to learn and use than the Facebook group.
Mal

Getting started

This blog is not exposed to search engines. It is open only to users we invite to subscribe to it.
At this stage I don't know whether the number of invites is limited (like it is on Wordpress). I suggest that we give this a go and see whether it meets our basic needs before heading down that path. I think we can regulate subscribers and allocate only certain privileges (like posting and commenting) to our subscribers and members.
Links in and out of the blog itself may lead to increased exposure, so I have established a del.icio.us site that you can find here for us to share and describe useful websites and other blogs. The account name is MLP_Aust and to post a new link you will need to log in using the password jeanne1. From there you can post new URLs to your heart’s content, but you must be willing to describe the site and add a few tags. Have a go. Once we have a few up there you will see that others have saved the same URLs and they may have other URLs of interest to us.
Mal