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Throughout Dance in the Street\, Jeb Puryear and Tara Nevins\, the band’s co-founders\, share songs of social commentary and self empowerment. “We feel the album provides an enjoyable ride between the general and the personal\, from both male and female perspectives\,” says Puryear. Puryear took it upon himself to write a topical song after a friend slyly commented\, “We could use some songs like you used to write.” That off-handed remark led directly to “Dance in the Street\,” which falls somewhere between Bob Dylan and Bob Marley\, with lyrics: \nFor change of rule\, we had better stand\, \nBefore there’s nowhere left to land\, \nDoomed to histories repeat\, \nIt’s time to dance in the street. \nNevins adapted the imagery in the lyrics from “Dance in the Street” to create the globally-inspired album cover.  “My songs on this record are about letting go\,” says Nevins. “Whether it be the attachment of love lost\, the past\, or the particular blue funk you’re coming out of.”   Nevins in particular adds an interesting twist of “creating future” in Motor\, the inspired second cut of the album with the chorus: \nYou’ll be dancing under the moon before too long\, \nYou’ll be flying high as a kite when the wind gets blowing\, \nYou’ll be right back where you started\, \nYou’ll be holding tight to the motor that gets you going. \nDonna the Buffalo joined forces with legendary Producer/ Engineer Rob Fraboni to record Dance in the Street at Sonic Ranch Studio in El Paso\, Texas.  Best known as producer of The Last Waltz soundtrack\, Fraboni is also acclaimed for his work with Bob Dylan\, The Band\, Eric Clapton\, and The Rolling Stones.  Fraboni set out to capture the essence of Donna The Buffalo’s live performances on a studio record. He had the band record in a circle directly to tape. Dance In The Street is a fully analog recording all the way to vinyl. The track list alternates in his-and-hers fashion; even so\, Nevins believes the album makes a cohesive statement. “We think of it as painting a picture and I like the picture that we’ve painted with this record\,” she says. \nNevins and Puryear have nurtured a close friendship after meeting at an old-time fiddle convention years ago.  In 1989 they landed their first gig in a Trumansburg\, NY restaurant setting Puryear and Nevins on their musical path.  During that time\, Puryear took note of Nevins’ songwriting ability – “the first person I met that wrote songs that sounded like you could hear them on the radio”.  While they mostly write separately\, their music is often on the same wavelength.“ Our history is so long and very successful musically\,” he says. “She’s my best friend – we’ve done this forever. It’s a big part of what makes it still interesting to do. We definitely have a good\, rough-and-tumble\, super-longstanding respect and love.” \nDonna The Buffalo is not just a band\, rather one might say that Donna The Buffalo has become a lifestyle for its members and audiences. The band has played thousands of shows and countless festivals including Bonnaroo\, Newport Folk Festival\, Telluride\, Austin City Limits Festival\, Merle Fest\, and Philadelphia Folk Festival.  At several festivals Donna The Buffalo has become the house band for closing the events by backing up artists including The Avett Brothers\, Keller Williams\, Zac Brown\, Bela Fleck\, John Paul Jones\, and Chris Thile. They’ve opened for The Dead and have toured with Peter Rowan\, Del McCoury\, Los Lobos\, Little Feat\, Jim Lauderdale\, Rusted Root\, and Railroad Earth to name a few. They also toured with Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen to help raise awareness about increased corporate spending in politics.  In 1991\, the band started the Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival in Trumansburg\, NY. The four day festival has become an annual destination for over 15\,000 music lovers every year and was started as an AIDS benefit. It continues as a benefit for arts and education. To date\, the event has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and is now one of three Grassroots Festivals; the Bi-annual Shakori Hills fest in North Carolina and Virginia Key festival in Florida. In 2016 GrassRoots Culture Camp was introduced in Trumansburg\, New York as four days of music\, art\, dance and movement workshops\, including nightly dinners and dances. \n“Successes? We have certainly tried to make a difference in the world\, trying to inspire ourselves and others to treat their lives as a work of art\, and our collective destiny as something that we are creating\, not just something we are subject to.  And at the same time we’re having a blast\, who wouldn’t want to ride around on a bus playing music with their friends?” Puryear added. \nThe most loyal fans in the Herd are always eager to accept a call to action. Last year Donna the Buffalo started a crowdfunding campaign to buy a new tour bus; within three weeks\, they had raised $90\,000.  “You can imagine how validating that felt for us\,” Nevins says\, still overwhelmed at the generosity. \nBy creating a bridge between generations\, Donna the Buffalo attracts one of the broadest demographics on the festival circuit.  When Nevins encounters young women in the autograph line\, she likes to write “Girl Power!” She’s proud to see them looking up at the stage and watching a female musician really getting down\, comprehending that they could do the same thing one day.   In addition\, Puryear has noted that Vietnam veterans have gravitated to the band. During a songwriting workshop\, Puryear sang “Killing A Man\,” which examines the complicated psychological ramifications of ending another person’s life. He felt uncertain about recording it\, he says\, until a veteran came up and asked him how he got those emotions exactly right. \nDance In The Street closes with “I Believe\,” a song with a message of support. From the stage\, Nevins often hears men and women singing it with her.  “I think our message is encouraging. It’s something for people to latch onto\,” she says. “And what an awesome sound and feeling to hear an audience en masse singing your song with you.” \nDonna the Buffalo draws on a lot of musical influences\, from country and rock ‘n’ roll\, to bluegrass and old-time fiddle\, as well as Cajun and Zydeco.  In many ways\, they were Americana before the term was ever coined. The common thread? Songs of the human spirit\, and an incredibly tight relationship with their fans. \n“The fans\, they show up to be a part of it. We show up to be a part of it\,” Puryear says. “And we don’t have an intimidating vibe where we’re different than them.  If a scene is really on\, it doesn’t matter whether you’re watching\, listening\, dancing\, or playing – it’s on\, everybody knows it’s on and it feels great! I think that’s the nature of the connection.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Western Centuries  When did country music start to sound the same? The first generation of country artists borrowed from everything around them: Appalachian stringband music\, Texas fiddle traditions\, cowboy songs\, Delta blues. In an era of unprecedented access to our musical pasts\, shouldn’t country music be even more diverse than it was in its infancy? Honky-tonk supergroup WesternCenturies\, back with a new album in 2018\, surely understands this. They aren’t bound by any dictum to write songs in a modern country\, or even a retro country style; instead they’re taking their own personal influences as three very different songwriters and fusing it into a sound that moves beyond the constraints of country. Part of the reason they can make music with this range of influences is because of their roots in city life. Both Cahalen Morrison and Ethan Lawton\, two of the three principal songwriters\, live in Seattle’s diverse South end\, and the third songwriter\, Jim Miller\, spends most of his time in and around New York City. The urban landscape is rarely mentioned in country music\, but it makes for a refreshing sound that draws as easily from modern R&B as it does George Jones. It helps too that the album was recorded and co-produced by acclaimed musician and Grammy-winning producer Joel Savoy in Eunice\, Louisiana\, where local Cajun and Creole artists have always been adept at marrying old country sounds with R&B and rock n roll. \nWith Songs from the Deluge\, out April 6\, 2018 on Free Dirt Records\, Western Centuries brings three songwriting voices together into a more unified sound than ever before. Over the past year of heavy touring (since the release of their last album)\, they’ve pushed each other hard as songwriters. But with a band this well tested on the road\, it’s the sonic and lyrical places where each artist’s styles depart that’s most interesting. \nEthan Lawton\, known for his earlier work in Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers\, loves to pen imaginative parables about people living at extremes. “Wild You Run” by Lawton tells the story of watching someone you love deteriorate with a crippling addiction. The subject chases his temptation\, but loses his soul as Lawton cries out helplessly “I won’t tell mama what you done\, go have your fun….” Lawton’s “My Own Private Honky Tonk” is a rambunctious new take on the drinkin’ alone narrative which finds Lawton dancing and playing music until the downstairs neighbors call. It’s a boogie-woogie flavored tune à la Fats Domino that highlights the upright bass work of Nokosee Fields\, the band’s newest member. With the opening track\, “Far From Home\,” Lawton wails “mother\, dear mother\, won’t you spin a yarn about the way things were.” It’s about the dark days that young men found abroad in Vietnam and the personal wars they had to fight when they returned back home. \nCahalen Morrison\, known for his earlier duo work with Eli West\, is the country boy to Lawton’s urban cowboy\, inspired by his love for cowboy poetry and the New Mexican desert where he grew up. He’s got a knack for bending words around stories until they’re as funny as they are tragic\, as fantastic as they are real. His songs grow like mesquite in the desert; they twist and turn. On “Earthly Justice\,” Morrison sings of barflys and their troubles\, remarking sardonically “if earthly justice just don’t get them in the end\, there’s always a heavenly trial on its way” as vocal harmonies and pedal steel two step all around him. On Morrison’s album closer “Warm Guns\,” he waxes quixotic about loss in love\, singing in Spanish about being a victim of his own flaws. \nJim Miller\, known for his earlier work with Donna the Buffalo\, is the resident psychedelic poet. Like the best country songwriters\, Miller’s sense of communion with nature turns his songs into works of magical realism. On “Wild Birds”\, a song about a road-bound band\, he consults the moss\, befriends the tide\, and survives fire all while asking for prayers to guide his band home to the end of their migration. “Borrow Time” features Louisiana accordion legend Roddie Romero\, and the album’s best harmonies between the three lead singers. Some of his most beautiful lines happen on “Time Does The Rest” as he sings “Your heart knows what’s best / Hold her close\, the lips will confess / Let it rise let it fall\, time does the rest”. \nWestern Centuries’ music crosses vastly differing geographies–the city\, the southwest\, the metaphysical. And their musical influences are equally as diverse. Together\, they weave a tapestry of western music\, without sacrificing their hard-earned country dancehall sound. Songs from the Deluge will levitate heavy hearts\, turn spilled beer into ballads\, and bring country music home as literate\, epic odysseys from parts unknown. \n URL: LOCATION:Skipper’s Smokehouse\, 910 Skipper Road Tampa\, Florida 33613 813.971.0666\, Tampa\, FL\, 33613\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg: GEO:28.0809576;-82.4506519 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Skipper’s Smokehouse 910 Skipper Road Tampa Florida 33613 813.971.0666 Tampa FL 33613 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=910 Skipper Road Tampa\, Florida 33613 813.971.0666:geo:-82.4506519,28.0809576 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR


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women in indie films

Women directors, writers, editors and producers are making strides in the indie film industry, but there’s still a long way to go. According to a new study from San Diego State University, the number of women in indie film productions hit a “historic high,” are still by outnumbered men 2-to-1.

The latest Indie Women study (via The Wrap) conducted by San Diego State University found that women achieved record high numbers in the indie industry as directors, writers, producers, executive producers, and editors. The percentage of women directors grew from 29% in 2017-18 to 33% in 2018-2019, with similar gains across the board, including a significant rise in women writers from 26% last year to 32% this year. Executive producers saw a similar increase (32% in 2018-19, from 26%) to writers, while producers saw a 1% increases from 36% to 37% and editors a 2% increase from 27% to 29%.

However, these history-best numbers don’t outweigh the fact that men still greatly outnumber women on these productions, “with independent films employing more than twice as many men as women in these roles,” according to Dr. Mautha Lauzen, who conducted the study with the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film. Lauzen’s survey studies indie films that screened at major festivals since 2008, exmaning more than 10,700 credits on more than 970 films in 2018-19, and over 80,000 credits on almost 8,000 films over the period of 2008 to 2019.

“After many years of tracking stubbornly stagnant numbers, this year women achieved healthy gains in a number of key behind-the-scenes roles,” Lauzen said. “Despite these increases, it is important to note that women remain dramatically underrepresented, with independent films employing more than twice as many men as women in these roles.”

However, the study found that indie productions have seen progress since 2008, and have in some ways made more gains than mainstream films. In comparison to the TheWrap’s study finding that 18% of all films released by the six major film studios in 2019 were directed by women, the percentage of female filmmakers directing indie films is almost double that. Still, women are slowly making gains in both fields — this is the first year that all six studios had at least one film directed by a woman.

This study comes as Hollywood is undergoing a massive shift in representation. This year’s Sundance Film Festival saw a group of filmmakers and Stacy L. Smith of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative launch the 4 Percent Challenge, challenging production companies, studios, and producers to hire a woman filmmaker in the next 18 months. Other initiatives, like Time’s Up and calls for inclusion riders have addressed the gender parity and the wage equality.

Read the full study from SDSU here.

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  2. Why include a class in Organizational Transformation (OT) • Change is a key organizational component • When the rate of change inside an organization is slower than the rate of change outside an organization. • The role of information technology (IT) is key in any transformation

  3. A Language of Change • Re-engineering • Re-invention • Re-building • Re-making • Re-organization • Re-designing

  4. Impact on Employees • In the past five years, have you or any member of your family been laid off, downsized, or otherwise lost a job through no fault of your/their own? • Did employers have more loyalty to their employees ten years ago? Twenty years ago?

  5. Definition of Reengineering • The fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to bring about dramatic improvements in performance.

  6. Four key words in the definition • Dramatic (improvement) • Reduced cost • Increased speed • Greater accuracy • Greater quality • Etc… • Radical • Radical means going to the root of things. • Instead of fixing what you have and what you are currently doing by imagining that your company doesn’t even exit today then create it new? • In other words, start from a clean slate

  7. Four key words in the definition • Process • A business process is a set of interrelated work activities with inputs and value-added tasks that produce outputs. • Horizontal work flows that cut across departments or functions • Evolution leads to Isolated “Islands” of Activity • Sub-optimization might not be good!

  8. Four key words in the definition • Redesign • How the work is done to produce the product or service and deliver it to the customer. • The starting point for organizational success is well-designed processes.

  9. Why Reengineering? Three Cs • Customers: • More sophisticated and demanding on the products they want. • Competition • Has become global vs. local, so now instead of just a few, we now compete with thousands! • Change • Instead of the focus on being on how well we operate, but how well we supply the needs and wants of the customer. Customer Satisfaction!!!

  10. BPR Requires a Questioning of the Status Quo • “the continuity of time sequence” • Procedures have a habit of arranging themselves into structures, institutions, and concepts and becoming virtually immortal. • Simple example: QWERTY

  11. Examples • GTE (local phone service provider) • Maintenance and repair process • Then--Repair clerk, line tester, central office technician, service technician. (Slow) • Now—Customer care advocate handles it all! • Customer focus • 1/2% then—now 70% solved by the person they spoke with originally • 40% resolved while still on line

  12. Examples • Federal Mogul (makes car parts) • To get contracts from car manufacturers they: • Sales rep visits customer to get specs. Hand off specs. to engineer who designed from scratch, Pick a place to manufacture this design and use that toolroom, Design sent by mail, Design sent to toolroom, the part then was sent to customer • This process typically took 20 weeks. Their worst competitors took only 10 weeks and the best 6 weeks • The auto manufacturer gave feedback as soon as they got the parts, so Federal was losing out. • Now—engineer goes to customer, designs based on previous similar parts and a computer program reconfigures the old parts to the new specs. 3 days to 1 minute. Instead of mail it is all done electronically. Use any toolroom that is available. • Twenty-week to 18 days, win rate on new proposals 4 times better, profitability more than double.

  13. BPR Focuses on Specific objectives • Reverse-design process. Figure out what you want, then work backwards until you get it! • Backward chaining • GTE faster repair (customer satisfaction) • Federal Mogul faster design (customer satisfaction)

  14. BPR Focuses on Breakthrough Results • Inherent Slack • Inventory • Production capability • Manpower • Working capital

  15. BPR Focuses on Significant Cultural Change • Social Change • Typically involves eliminating, consolidating, and otherwise altering work activities. • Layoffs and early retirement programs • Not downsizing or restructuring • Or doing less with less • But, doing more with less • What are the negative effects on employees?

  16. The Top Ten Ways to Fail at Reengineering • Don’t reengineer but say that you are. • Don’t focus on processes. • Spend a lot of time analyzing the current situation. • Proceed without strong executive leadership. • Be timid in redesign. • Go directly from conceptual design to implementation. • Reengineer slowly. • Place some aspects of the business off-limits. • Adopt a conventional implementation style. • Ignore the concerns of your people.

  17. Don’t reengineer but say that you are. • Abraham Lincoln’s riddle: If you call a horse’s tail a leg, how many legs does the horse have? • Just because the term “reengineering” is popular and used often, doesn’t mean that is what they are actually doing! This can hurt future implementations when you really decide to do it right. • For example, just because you are putting in a new computer system, doesn’t mean that you reengineered what you do, you may have only automated the process you are currently doing. Not a dramatic improvement!

  18. Don’t focus on processes. • You can’t reengineer an organization only processes in that organization. • You should be able to describe specific inputs and outputs for each one • Each process should cross a number of organizational boundaries. • There should be a focus on goals and ends rather than actions and means. • The processes, their inputs, and their outputs should be easily comprehensible by anyone in the organization. • ALL the processes relate to customers and their needs, either directly or as contributors to other processes.

  19. Spend a lot of time analyzing the current situation. • You should understand the process, but don’t spend too much time on it, because you already know it’s not good and we are looking for dramatic improvement. • Look for the “What and the Why” not the “How” because the how is going to change. • Waste of time • Can inhibit change

  20. Proceed without strong executive leadership • Only a senior executive who deeply believes in the reengineering cause can actually make it happen. • Reengineering is a top-down phenomenon. • Leadership support is a must because change is hard and resistance from within will kill it once implementation begins.

  21. Be timid in redesign. • Reengineering requires bold and imaginative thinking about process design and how work is done. • There may already be great ideas lurking in the minds of your employees just waiting for you to ask. • Create an environment so people can share their radical ideas without fear of ridicule. • On company offered cash for people that came up with a too radical idea, otherwise, they adopted it!

  22. Go directly from conceptual design to implementation • It never goes as one plans, so instead try it out in a safe environment. • Go through a series of intermediate steps and put out the fires as you proceed. • You could try out a new concept by developing a prototype. • You want to catch the major flaws before they actually happen. • It can also help you with refining the actual implementation.

  23. Reengineer slowly • You should see at least some major improvements in 12 months or you are sure to fail. • Executive management will lose faith and funding will dry up. • Resistors will gain power • Employees will exhausted from all the change without anything to show for it. • You can lose focus • Don’t increase the size without very good reason. Continually increasing the scope will cause you many delays and therefore failure.

  24. Place some aspects of the business off-limits. • If you radically redesign your processes but refuse to change the compensation plan, the structure of the organization, or job titles, then you will certainly fail. • Everything must be on the table with no limits for change.

  25. Adopt a conventional implementation style. • The old way of planning an implementing must be thrown away. • Be sure of what you want, figure out how it will be done, then go full steam ahead. • Make the decision to change and then do it! • More like a prototyping.

  26. Ignore the concerns of your people. • Employees’ will ask themselves, “What is in it for ME?” • No matter how great your idea is, if you don’t have the support of your employees you will be in trouble. • Empowerment • Involvement • Compensation

  27. Leadership: Primary Ingredient • Unyielding top management support is a must to see the reengineering through. • Middle management have made a career of the current system and will resist because they have the most to lose. • If the leader isn’t the top dog, make sure the top dog isn’t biting the leader in the leg. • They must have the power and ability to get it done.

  28. Characteristics of the Leader • Passion for the project and company • Be able to inspire trust • Be able to inspire confidence • Exhibit an unusual combination of impatience with the current system and patience when dealing with obstacles and setbacks (perseverance). • Charisma to get it done. • See the need for change early.

  29. Responsibility of the Leader • Make the decision to reengineer. • Make the reengineering succeed. • Appoint process owners and specific tasks and provide them with the resources they need. • Measurement • Making sure everyone follows through by being involved. • Create an environment where it can succeed.

  30. The three Ss of Reengineering Leadership • Signals: Explicit Communications • Communication must be relentless. • Communication must be simple. • Communication must be dramatic. • Symbols: Personal Behavior • If behavior supports the talk, then it is believed, otherwise, it is dismissed. • Systems: Measurements and Rewards • If you don’t change what you measure the rewards for improvement, you will not change behavior.

  31. The Reengineering Team: Second Ingredient • Reengineering is not a one man show, so we must create a team from the best and the brightest individuals that fit the job. • The kinds of people picked must reflect the nature of the endeavor itself. • Let’s look at what they will do in terms of content, context, and style.

  32. Content (the task at hand) • Understanding the old process and customer requirements. • Inventing a new process design that shatters long-held assumptions. • Constructing the new process, including fleshing out full details of its operations. • Selling the new way of working and living to the organization as a whole.

  33. Context (environment) • Uncertainty: the old way is wrong, and we don’t yet have a new way. • Experimentation: iterative experience. It must be tried in reality, not on paper. • Pressure: Usually needed yesterday so they operate under conditions of great urgency and intensity.

  34. Style • Reengineering is a journey into the unknown. • It is about exploration and discovery rather than analysis and knowing. • The reengineer lives in a stream of options, alternatives, possibilities. Ideas must be formulated before all the facts are in, tested before the environment is stable, and evaluated fore the results are conclusive. • Stumbling forward and being comfortable with it.

  35. Process-orientation Holistic perspective Creativity Restlessness Enthusiasm Optimism Persistence Tact Team player Communication skills The Profile of a Reengineer To wrap it up, the perfect member would be a female engineer who has changed jobs frequently and has a background in sales. Why?

  36. Team members share dedication to three things. • These three things should come first for all team members and the management needs to create the environment that it can happen. • The process that is being reengineered. • The needs of the customer of that process. • The team itself.

  37. Team Building • Caring: having an environment that allows open and honest communication. • Daring: encouraging everyone on the team to be innovative and adventurous, and to ask the hard questions. • Sharing: Common objectives, there are no winners on a losing team.

  38. Avoid Commonplace Dysfunctional Behaviors by making them known • Not listening • Idea killing • Personal attacks • Silence • Over sharing

  39. Team management • Career paths: So, they know what will happen to them when the job is done. • Compensation: Bonus for job well done. • Celebration: fun time. • Communications: the more the merrier. • Care and compassion: Take care of them!

  40. Do You Need Help with the Reengineering Process? • What do consultants do? • Heads: Bring knowledge and brain power • Hearts: Deal with the motivation and perseverance of getting the job done. • Hands: Actually do some of the jobs of reengineering.

  41. Pros and Cons of Consultants • Pros • More experience that will help you avoid pitfalls. • Getting access to essential skills • Third-party objectivity • Cons • Become dependent on them. • Cost $ • May take you down the wrong road. Not accountable.

  42. Assumption Busting for Fun and Profit • Rule of Whacko: Any valuable new process design will at first appear to be whacko. That is, if someone approaches you with a proposal for a new process design that strikes you as interesting and plausible, our advice is: Throw it away. • Breaking Assumptions: surfacing and questioning the underpinnings of the old process, the reasons why it was designed to work the way it did.

  43. Assumption Busting: continued • Ford accounts payable example: • Purchase order from purchasing, receiving document from the receiving dock, and an invoice from the vendor: checked to see if they all match and if they did, issue a check. • Now, the person on the receiving dock takes possession of the goods, checks to see if they match against an order, and if so, authorizes payment, if not they don’t accept. • Why wasn’t this done all along? • The old way was never designed, it just happened. • Didn’t have the technology to do it the new way. • Based on assumptions: such as, dock workers can’t or shouldn’t authorize payments! Etc.

  44. Assumption Busting: continued • GTE: • one individual couldn’t do it all, deal with customers, test the lines, and dispatch service technicians. • Federal Mogul: • every design was unique • that engineers couldn’t interact with customers • that a part had to be tooled in the same plant where it was to be made.

  45. Assumption Busting: continued • How do we go about identifying faulty assumptions from ones that are still valid? • Problem: First identify the problem that you are currently having, such as Ford’s accounts payable being too slow. • Rule: Then identify the rule or rules that allow that problem to occur. Ford example, too labor intensive. • Assumption: the ideas we take for granted that caused the rules to happen. Ford example, dock workers can’t authorize payment because they don’t have the information or authority.

  46. Assumption Busting: continued • IBM Credit Corporation example: • One person checked the applicant’s credit rating • Another decided what interest rate to charge • A third person put together the lease agreement • And a fourth prepared the response to the customer. • What is the underlying assumption here?

  47. Assumption Busting: continued • Example, a consumer goods maker distributed its products to retailers through a network of route drivers. • A driver would come to a store, see what was missing from the shelf, go back to the van to pull inventory, bring it into the store, fill out a manifest for the store manager’s signature, and then send the form to headquarters for processing and billing. All of this depended on what was inventoried in the truck, which was hard to manage and very expensive to keep.

  48. Assumption Busting: continued • Problem: the company is carrying lots of inventory on the trucks. • Rule: the drivers decide what is needed after they arrive at the store. • Assumption: The company doesn’t know what is missing from the shelf until the driver checks. • Instead, use prediction models to predict what will be needed, pack it all up and shrink wrap the items for each store, load the trucks in proper order and have preprinted invoice to drop off with retailer. More efficient and reduced inventory.

  49. The Hardest Part of Reengineering • CHANGE! • Getting people to let go of their old ways and embrace new ones. All deal with people in the organization and the ultimate goal of customer satisfaction. • Jobs • Organizational structure • Measurement and rewards • Career path • Management roles • Interpersonal relationships • Value systems

  50. Principles of Change • Resistance to change is natural and inevitable. • Resistance doesn’t always show its face. • Resistance has many motivations. • There’s no one way to deal with resistance: Manage it!


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  1. RosseauLake College The Rules of Lab Safety

  2. You are responsible for your safety and for the safety of those around you. Failure to act in a safe and responsible manner will result in the removal of all science lab privileges.

  3. Horseplay will be dealt with severely! Professor Glickman, the lab practical joker, deftly places a single drop of hydrochloric acid on the back of Professor Bingham's neck.--Gary Larson, the Far Side

  4. No horseplay. Be aware of others in the lab. No student should be in the lab or preparation room unsupervised. Be prepared for your lab. READyour procedure for any safety precautions before starting the lab. Do not eat, drink, or chew gum in the lab. Your food may pick up harmful chemicals. Never taste (unless directed to) or directly inhale chemicals. General Safety Precautions

  5. Do not sit on the lab benches. Students must stand while doing labs. Keep work area clean and free from clutter when performing experiments. No unauthorized experiments. Butane lighters, matches, and other flammable materials must not be used by students in class. General Safety Precautions (cont.)

  6. Safety Equipment • Know the locations of all safety equipment in the lab: fire extinguishers, eye wash station, first aid kit, fire exits, and fire alarms. • Safety goggles must be worn for all experiments. Contact lenses should not be worn; use prescription glasses with goggles instead.

  7. Safety Equipment (cont.) • Dress appropriately during a lab activity. Long hair must be tied back, and dangling jewelry and baggy clothing must be secured. Shoes must completely cover the foot. No sandals allowed on lab days. • Your teacher may require additional safety equipment, which must be worn. Be sure to READ your procedure.

  8. Handling Chemicals . . • All chemicals in the laboratory are to be considered dangerous. Do not allow chemicals to come in contact with skin or eyes. Do not taste, or smell any chemicals.  • Check the label on all chemical bottles twice before removing any of the contents.  Take only as much chemical as you need. • Neverreturn unused chemicals to their original container. Dispose of chemicals as instructed by your teacher. • Look for WHMIS or HHPS symbols on containers.

  9. Handling Chemicals (cont.) . . • Neverreturn unused chemicals to their original container. This is so important we had to mention it twice! • No chemicals go down the drain. Dispose of chemicals as instructed by your teacher. • Neverremove chemicals or other materials, including any equipment from the laboratory area.

  10. Hazardous Household Product Symbols CORROSIVE Eats or wears away other materials. EXPLOSIVE Explodes or gives off deadly vapours. FLAMMABLE Ignites if exposed to heat or sparks. POISONOUS May cause sickness or death if swallowed.

  11. Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System WHMIS Compressedgas Flammable and combustible material Materials causingimmediate and serious toxic effects Oxidizing material Materials causingother toxic effects Biohazardous infectious material Corrosivematerial Dangerously reactivematerial

  12. Handling Glassware • Do not use cracked or chipped glassware. • Broken glass should be reported to the teacher who will give instructions for safe clean up and disposal. There is a designated glass disposal container. • Do not tightly stopper a flask where gas is being created. It could explode. • Clean and return all glassware at the end of the lab.

  13. Heating Substances • Light a Bunsen burner as instructed by your teacher. Never leave a heat source unattended. • Hot glass does not look hot! Handle recently heated glassware with tongs. • Do not immerse hot glassware in cold water.  The glassware may shatter. • When heating a test tube, always point the test tube away from yourself and others. Never look into a container that is being heated.

  14. Accidents & Injuries • Respond to emergencies sensibly and immediately! • Report all accidents and injuries to the teacher at once, no matter how minor. • If chemicals are spilled on skin rinse well with running water for as long as directed by your teacher. • For a chemical splash in your eyes, rinse immediately at the eye wash station for at least 30 minutes. Hold eyelids open.

  15. Accidents & Injuries (cont.) • If a chemical is spilled, inform a teacher immediately and follow directions for safe clean up. • If a fire starts, inform a staff member immediately. Remember, if you are on fire, – STOP… DROP… ROLL!!!

  16. When the lab is done . . • Clean all glassware and materials and put everything away according to instructions. • Wipe the lab benches clean with paper towels. • Disinfect safety goggles and return to designated storage. • Wash your hands with soap and water.


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For a lot of people, going to zoo is one of many ways to entertain themselves and learn a little about this animals and their habitats. However, the main purposes of a zoo is to protect the wildlife and let all of us understand the importance of nature.

There are many exotic animals that have the strong chance of extinction while remaining out in the wild. Thus, the zoo’s play the important role for saving these endangered animals. But in the Mirpur Zoo, the situation is quite ironic. The visitors go there with the expectation to see the fun and playful side of the animals, and sometimes the animals and the birds behave that way. But the visitors can’t see the actual situation they deal with inside the cages. The fear, the hunger, the pain and the sadness… it seems like the animals are kept as prisoners without committing any crime!

This is a photo story of such animals in the Mirpur Zoo in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The story is not about the carelessness or the poor job done by the zookeepers. It’s about the pain of the animals that are kept in insufficiently small area or cages, out of their natural habitat purely for our amusement. If people look in to their eyes and feel the emotion and expression deep enough, they might hear the silent scream as well.

As mentioned above, the photos are taken in Mirpur Zoo, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The animals are kept in various, (mostly small), cages that are not anything like their natural environment. Some are even tied with chains so they could barely move around. The aviary was also not big enough for the birds to fly inside it.

I captured these photos for almost 5 years and observed all of their emotions that touched my heart. The daylight changed the drama of the place time to time, so I waited for the appropriate light in the cages and also waited for the animal’s expressions or activities. Even sometimes I got so depressed about them and couldn’t continue to capture any more and got out of zoo. But somehow, I thought that the images can do some important role for the wellbeing of the animals. So I kept capturing.

The images were post processed using Adobe Lightroom. I’ve tried to express the situation as artistic dark portraits of the animals, so I’ve made these photo low-key black and white with faded look, to express the intensity of the moment and created the mood that goes with the animals emotions.

Guest Post by Shafiqul Islam

Shafiqul was born and lives in Dhaka Bangladesh, an introvert being who had a great time learning professional photography in Pathshala South Asian Media Institute. He tries to express his feelings and thoughts through his photographs. Shafique loves pets and enjoy photographing them, also have interest in still life photography, especially with toys.

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Microsoft Acquires CyberX to Accelerate and Secure Customers’ IoT Deployments

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Microsoft Acquires CyberX to Accelerate and Secure Customers’ IoT Deployments

One of the biggest hurdles for IoT-customers is securing their remote devices (IoT deployments) – both for new digitization initiatives as well as for legacy Operational Technology and industrial control system environments. In 2018, Microsoft announced a $5 billion investment in IoT to further their commitment to build a trusted, easy-to-use platform.
Microsoft currently provides multi-layer IoT security and IoT security monitoring in Azure. And while securely configuring IoT devices is already possible, Microsoft aims to simplify IoT and make securing IoT devices easier. Now they are trying to give customers visibility into what IoT devices are already connected to their networks. And to manage the security on existing IoT devices that have so far been difficult due to many custom protocols.

More security for IoT deployments

To accelerate these steps, Microsoft now acquires CyberX. CyberX is meant to complement the existing Azure IoT security capabilities and extends to existing devices including those used in iIoT, Operational Technology and infrastructure scenarios. CyberX allows customers to discover their existing IoT assets, and both manage and improve the security posture of those devices. They may also see a digital map of thousands of devices across a factory floor or within a building and gather information about their asset profile and vulnerabilities. Gaining this visibility is not only critical for understanding where security risks may exist and then mitigating those risks, but it is also a fundamental step to securely enable smart manufacturing, smart grid and other digitization use cases across production facilities and the supply chain.
Microsoft plans to deliver more value to customers as CyberX is further integrated with their portfolio of IoT security offerings in threat protection. More information about CyberX can be found in the CyberX listing in the Azure Marketplace, a demo can be requested.

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Remote Patient Monitoring of COVID-Positive Patients

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KORE, an independent global IoT leader, has announced an ongoing partnership with Dexcom, Inc., the world leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), to rapidly deliver an innovative remote patient monitoring solution to assist care providers during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Using the Dexcom G6 CGM system, healthcare professionals can reduce both the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and the number of in-person glucose level checks on patients who are receiving care for COVID-19 in the hospital. In order to successfully monitor the glucose levels of patients who are being treated for COVID-19, healthcare professionals (HCPs) must equip themselves with fresh personal protective equipment (PPE) for each visit. Patients on insulin need several glucose checks per day, up to one per hour – meaning multiple PPEs are discarded each day, for each patient. With many hospitals and healthcare workers already experiencing a shortage or lack of proper PPE, the risk of exposure and infection grows significantly – as do the costs.

KORE Remote Patient Monitoring of COVID-Positive Patients

Dexcom’s solution allows for continuous glucose monitoring by measuring glucose levels automatically every five minutes and transmitting the data to a handheld mobile device, which can be accessed from a safe distance. HCPs can then safely and accurately monitor blood glucose levels remotely – only using one set of PPE daily in order to change out the device, or other times immediate intervention is necessary.

Doing all that we can to support the health and safety of the patients and healthcare workers currently battling this novel virus is a top priority for our company,

said Matt Dolan, senior vice president and general manager at Dexcom.

It’s our hope to reduce their exposure, eliminate unnecessary waste of limited PPE supplies, and improve the efficiency of the hospitals who are treating these patients.

Dexcom approached KORE Health to help launch this solution with record speed in order to maximize protection for areas that need it most. In reference to the project, Bryan Lubel, EVP of IoT Managed Services, commented:

KORE Health was able to procure fully certified and ISO-compliant devices, complete engineering testing and approval, identify connectivity solutions and deploy the first wave of equipped devices in just over a week – ensuring rapid speed-to-market for this critical solution.

We are in an unprecedented situation and the KORE team is looking for ways to help,

commented Romil Bahl, President & CEO at KORE.

When the Dexcom team approached us to help in short time frames, our healthcare team was up to the challenge.

We are honored that our knowledge and experience in connectivity and device procurement, certification, and deployment is playing a role in this innovative solution and that we are able to help in the global war against COVID-19. Our greatest thanks to both Dexcom and our front-line warriors as they take on this invisible enemy. We are grateful to the team at KORE for meeting our requirements in such a short time in order to quickly launch this solution,

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Together, we will continue to do whatever we can to help those on the front lines fight this novel coronavirus.

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Two of us: Inside the marriage of top scientists Alan and Elizabeth Finkel

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Two of us: Inside the marriage of top scientists Alan and Elizabeth Finkel

Alan Finkel, 66, is Australia's chief scientist and a former chancellor of Monash University. He has been married for 36 years to Elizabeth, 62, a science writer and editor-at-large for Cosmos, a magazine they co-founded in 2005.

Elizabeth: "In my early 20s, I wanted a touchy-feely partner. I didn’t get one with Alan."

Elizabeth: "In my early 20s, I wanted a touchy-feely partner. I didn’t get one with Alan."Credit: Justin McManus

ELIZABETH: Before I met Alan, I was doing my PhD in biochemistry at Melbourne University. We met around 1981 at a friend's wedding when I asked him to dance. He was eyeing me shyly. Friends of mine, especially their male partners, are initially intimidated by Alan. But when they get to know him they are completely at ease, because he's in the moment and has natural bonhomie.

We're different. When I hit a problem, I panic. When Alan hits a problem, he rolls up his sleeves. One day, I was washing the dishes and he said, "You've always got to believe that there's a solution." As the years go on, I see how valuable that contrast is. It sharpens me. In my early 20s, I probably wanted a touchy-feely partner. I didn't get one.

We'd been married a few years when we went on a holiday to Tasmania and visited Wineglass Bay. After walking to the edge of the bay, we took a nap on the sand. When we woke it was late afternoon, so we trekked back. We got to the car and – uh-oh – no keys. They must have fallen out when we were napping. It was an hour back to the bay but Alan jogged back, found our bed of rumpled sand, divided the area into a grid and methodically went through each square. He found them in the very last square. It says a lot about the way he approaches a problem.

After finishing his PhD in electrical engineering, Alan founded Axon Instruments in Silicon Valley. He was commuting back and forth to San Francisco. It was a tense and stressful time: 20 years of work. It was a public company with more than 100 employees by the time it was sold in 2004 for $US140 million.

I was raising our two sons, Victor and Alex, who are now 32 and 29. Shortly after the sale, we took the kids to Byron Bay for a holiday and Alan was bored out of his brain. The pace was too slow for him. Before I knew it, he had gone out and found a place that did light-plane rides.

Even with the commute, Alan always made time for his sons. Victor works as a management consultant for McKinsey and Alex is a software engineer. Alan has been an outstanding father. He took Alex hang-gliding when Alex was 18, which I was not happy with. And go-kart racing. Alan also came to watch Alex and his wife Brinley in a ballroom dancing competition. We were there at 8am, a time when Alan would usually be working. Watching ballroom dancing is not Alan's favourite thing, except for when it's his children.

Alan is naturally collegiate. That's served him really well in the lab, in business and in the public service. When Alan was considering the job of chief scientist, I said to him: "It's as if you've been preparing yourself for the role."

He has a column in Cosmos and until last September, I was editing his copy. We had great conflicts over that. But our conflicts are very productive. I had to sharpen my arguments. I can't have waffly conversations with him. Alan can be strong and I have to stand up to him. He's been the whetting stone I sharpen myself on.

ALAN: We're both curious, we love science, we love intellectual engagement. Elizabeth has written two books: one on stem cells and one on genomes. They each took her three or four years to write. She was prepared to throw drafts out and start again – it's her commitment to quality. You see it in the way she sings, the way she dresses, the way she engages with her family, and the way she writes and edits. Everything has to be just right.

Elizabeth's very artistic and musical. She's a trained soprano and sings beautifully. She sometimes entertains groups of 10, 50, 100 people at community gatherings or old people's homes. For a major birthday, we hired the Chapter House chapel in Melbourne and she sang to all her friends. They were bowled over.

Elizabeth has wonderful qualities that help me a lot. She is highly intellectual and she challenges my assumptions. I can be sharing something about work and she'll question everything I've told her, not in a formal way but through the conversation. That can cause some tension but then I'll go away and think, "That is something I need to understand better."

She's been a tough editor. I write a column for each issue of Cosmos magazine and I expected her to accept it as written. But no – bang, slash. She has been pursuing excellence.

She has an enormously deep love and appreciation of family. It's children first, husband second, but it's not a huge disparity. We've been married 36 years. If you ask people, they would say the relationship is always running at a terrific level. But, of course, sometimes she disagrees with me and we end up having an argument. However, we find circuit breakers and for the past few years that's been Bessie, our kelpie. So as the tension is building, one or the other will say, "Bessie, I said this, she said that, what do you think?" That breaks the ice.

For our 30th anniversary, we went to Hinchinbrook Island in Queensland. We spent four nights and five days carrying our food, walking the pebbled beaches and climbing rocks. Those experiences are exciting, bonding and memorable. We're Netflix tragics. We go to the opera. Her favourite musical is Oklahoma.

She would see that once a week with me, but my limit is watching it once every five years. Without Elizabeth, I might have followed my philistine destiny. But the media has dubbed me a Renaissance man. I credit that to her.

To read more from Good Weekend magazine, visit our page at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times.


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Good news and bad

Last week I had some good news from the gynae hospital.  I’ve had a large cyst on my ovary that been monitored for a few months, along with some worrying blood test results, there was a concern about ovarian cancer.

I’ve been given the all clear, the cyst had gone down, the blood test results a lot closer to normal so it’s all great news!

Then this week I met with my new surgeon Mr Adams, I’ve been referred to him by Mr Brown as he deals with more complex abdominal cases so Timm and I went to see him yesterday.

We looked at my scans and he went through my history and said that he would operate. This I was expecting, I have one large parastomal hernia and one hernia in my old stoma site so I knew that surgery was definitely on the cards.

What I wasn’t expecting was just how complicated and high risk it was going to be. Because of having so many surgeries, the multiple hernias and the sheer size of the parastomal hernia, he says it is going to be very complex and difficult.

I have a 75% chance of complications, this is really frightening.

Ill need a 1-2 week hospital stay and 2-3 months off work recovering.

I was in shock and had a bit of a cry, it’s all just a bit overwhelming and scary right now, I am terrified that I’ve used up all my luck and this is going to be the one where it all goes tits up.

Yesterday was a bit of a blur, I cried a lot, shouted at the sky, said it’s not fair. It all just feels very real now, and hearing those odds of things going wrong has put the fear in me. Though I can reduce that by 10% by stopping smoking or going onto e-cigarettes so yesterday was my last fag and today I have a big stupid vape thingy!! But needs must!

Today I’m a bit less emotional, certainly less weepy. But deep down I’m just scared.

The thing is that it’s not the surgery itself that scares me the most, it’s the recovery and the fear of more god awful nurses who won’t follow instructions and give me the planned pain relief. The last hospital stay was a nightmare with two of the most uncaring, horrible nurses I’ve ever met who left me in agony for over an hour after my epidural was switched off (you can read about it here.)

Whenever I think about surgery, it’s this moment I’m taken back to, this feeling of panic, pain and the complete free fall of no control and I panic. My chest tightens, I can’t catch my breath, my head spins and I feel like I’m right back there. I’m so scared!

And so the thought of having 2 weeks in hospital, potential complications, a big old cut in my belly, potentially another stoma move and then months of not being able to work, of needing so much rest, it’s just too much.

Because I had two surgeries last year (and a handy mental breakdown) I have no more paid sick leave left at work and so although they are really supportive, financially it’s a worry.

Timm says that whatever we need to do, we will, that he’ll look after me, to forget the money, that we will get through it together, that he’ll be with me every step and won’t leave hospital till he knows pain relief is sorted.

I also know we have some wonderful friends who will be right by our side and so that makes me smile.

But all in all, this is a bad time, I paste the smile on but underneath I’m absolutely done in, scared, weepy and upset.

Will update when I’m feeling brighter

✌🏽& ❤

Sam xx

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    Well, complicated post Sam xxx thanks for updating on your blog. So pleased that your ovaries are in tip top health, and that surgery is possible.

    That is a hard time.

    I wo der if there’s anything you can do in advance in terms of nursing care…. I can empathise with that as when I had Emily I ad complications and some nasty midnight midwives who refused pain releif with no understanding of my chronic condition… Scary biscuits.

    Does scope have bay advice in this respect? How to cope in hospital etc?

    Anyway. Easy to say but finances will get sorted as will work… Hard I know…

    Hang on to tat positive. Its OK if that smile pasted on comes down and you need support xxxx

    Super doopa hugs xxx

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    Hello, Well yes, good and bad. Who wouldn’t be nervous? I don’t know if newbie resident doctors will be caring for you too but just tell your new surgeon to make sure they know to keep you comfortable post-operation because it is a complicated surgery.
    In terms of the smoking challenge, the Mayo Clinic article “nicotine dependence” is good–lists the RXs approved in the US. They offer a free online support website called Become an ex.; worth checking out. I think some kind of outside science-based support would help a lot. I’m pleased that new surgeon has taken your case and will bring new skills and eyes to do some needed repairs. You have youth, family, and spirit on your side as well so there is much to be hopeful about with regard to the hernias and pain. Plus your national health system!

    Want to escape into a memoir? I just finished “Educated” by Tara Westover. She grew up in a survivalist Mormon family in Idaho. Never went to school or a doctor. Awful family. Owned by most libraries in US and always checked out. Fascinating quick read.
    Best regards,

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A Graduate’s Guide To Freelancing

With the current climate and COVID-19 pandemic, the job market can seem like a daunting place to new graduates.

However, we know that the world is always full of opportunities to seize, and freelancing is an increasingly popular way to kick start your career.

Independent working allows you to be your own boss and gives you the flexibility to work at anytime and from anywhere.

In the following article we will be guiding you on how to successfully begin your journey into the freelance world:

  1. Find your niche

As a freelancer you can work in a variety of different fields; ranging from writing and content creation to photography and graphic design. The world is your oyster!

Determine which discipline you want to go into and leverage your skills.

  1. Research, research and research

Becoming a freelancer basically means starting your own business, and with this comes a lot of decisions which require a good amount of research to make sure you’re selecting the right choices for you.

Evaluate all the possible avenues for your work and pick out your desired direction, looking at industry demand and competition.

Explore pay rates and typical costings. Use freelancer websites to track what competitors are charging.

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TMC Winter Conference 2019 Wrap Up

SocialSurvey Creating Wow with TMC The Power Of the Network Wrap Up 2019

The Mortgage Collaborative (TMC) is laser-focused on being the most cutting edge and innovative mortgage collaborative for independent lenders. As the only independent cooperative network in the mortgage industry, they’re used to doing things differently for their member and vendor partners. In this dynamic environment, it’s more important than ever to maximize relationships, get ahead of the curve and align yourself and your company with industry trends.

At last year’s Create Wow Summit, SocialSurvey’s “unconference”, we had fun, got a little weird and connected with our peers in a collaborative environment. After joining us at the Create Wow Summit, the TMC Team wanted to extend that same fun spirit to their sphere at their 2019 Winter Member Conference, held this week in Austin, TX.

SocialSurvey partnered with TMC and took over their social media channels to help add to the WOW of their winter conference! It was a memorable experience, and we had a blast Creating Wow with The Power of the Network to make a splash on social.

Highlights from some of the WOW sessions are below:

Day 1 Wrap Up

Women’s Networking Group

Jen Peachman, TMC’s VP Member Engagement, led a powerful women’s networking discussion to kick off the 3 day winter conference. The women discussed how to thrive and solve gender inequality issues in a male-dominated industry. Networking with other women in the industry, lifting each other up and hosting discussions like this one are helping the industry move forward on a daily basis. Keep up the great work, ladies!

TMC Benchmark Powered by LBA Ware, a Hands-on Training Session

TMC Winter 2019 Rich and Lori, Founder of LBA Ware discuss TMC Benchmark

Over 70 members joined this informative, hands-on training session to get acquainted with the valuable new tool the collaborative built for its members, TMC Benchmark Powered by LBA Ware.

They have identified over 40 KPIs that most lender members are currently tracking. Each month, a member may submit those KPIs to LBA Ware (by the 20th of the month). By the 21st, there is a dashboard available where they can see the prior month’s data in comparison to other TMC members. It can be filtered numerous ways to view by company type or size. The data submitted by other lenders is anonymous to you, but it is shown side-by-side in comparison to your company data.

Day 2 Wrap Up

Mortgage Marketing Strategies & Trends

TMC Winter Conference SocialSurvey Mortgage Marketing Trends session

Mortgage marketing is constantly evolving to adapt to industry trends, so this session had everyone all ears! Topics included creating video content at the local level and leading by example (have executives and the C-Suite create video content for their audience). Check out the trends and takeaways below.

“The 3 leaders were excellent. They had a packed room and led a dynamic, flowing discussion. Attendees were engaged and attentive.” -Craig Pollack, SVP Business Development, SocialSurvey

Trending now:

  • Customer experience
  • Growth through acquisition
  • Personal branding–it’s the Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
  • Technology is expanding–branding is happening from the LO to the company level

Takeaways for later:

  • How are you getting your brand out there? Get the whole team involved. Use technology to tell a story.
  • Social starts with onboarding and setting the expectation
  • Use video! Have leaders create videos to lead by example. Coach them. Give them a script. Provide guardrails for compliance.

Day 3 Wrap Up

The Crystal Ball – Mortgage Industry Predictions for 2019 & 2020

TMC Crystall Ball Session Mortgage Industry Predictions 2019 & 2020

Kate DeKay, Rob Chrisman, Jay Brinkmann and David Kittle, CMB discussed industry predictions for 2019 & 2020 during lunch.

According to Jay, things are looking up. Here’s what he sees in his crystal ball projections for the coming years:

  • Interest rates will remain steady
  • Recession highly unlikely with strong jobs market and consumer confidence
  • Dollar volume up 5% on appreciating home prices

To check out more industry predictions from a rockstar lineup of industry leaders, check out the full recap from The Future Buyer Session at the Create Wow Summit.

Effectively Using Social Media to Grow and Market Your Business

Supporting your team’s personal branding on social (while leading by example!) was a topic that came up multiple times throughout the conference. Here’s a breakdown of what you can do to apply the concepts to your business.

1. As the C-Suite, what do you need to know?

  • It’s not about what we want to produce, it’s about what your audience wants to consume.

2. As the C-Suite, what do you need to ask for to manage your digital team?

  • You need to know enough about the metrics to know what to ask for and what to resource.
  • You need to know enough about the possibilities to know what is possible!
  • You need to know enough… to know what to expect from your team at all levels.

3. As the C-Suite, what do you need to resource your digital team?

  • Leverage. When someone is pitching an idea, a platform or a solution, ask how much can be squeezed out of it.

4. As the C-Suite, where is digital going?

  • Social is moving local. Educate your teams on how to become Digital Mayors in the communities they serve.
  • Your audience wants 3 buckets of content. Give them what they are looking for.

5. As the C-Suite, what do you need to produce on social yourself?

  • Your LO’s need to see you doing it!

SocialSurvey is proud to be a Vendor Partner of TMC, with more member clients than any other vendor. Nearly 33% of all TMC members are part of the SocialSurvey family. That’s why attending a TMC conference is more like a family reunion than an industry conference.

We’re already looking forward to the next conference, August 18-20th, in Nashville, TN.

TMC Nashville Summer Conference 2019

Thank you, TMC!


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July 31, 2019

SoftwareReviews names Agiloft Service Desk, C2 ATOM, IBM Control Desk, TeamDynamix ITSM, Ivanti IT Service Management, Cherwell ITSM and OmniTracker as the Emotional Footprint Champions in the IT Service Management (ITSM) software category, according

TORONTO, August 13, 2019SoftwareReviews, a division of world-class IT research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group Inc., has published its 2019  IT Service Management (ITSM)  Emotional Footprint Awards, naming seven medalists in the space:
·         Agiloft Service Desk
·         C2 ATOM
·         IBM Control Desk
·         TeamDynamix ITSM
·         Ivanti IT Service Management
·         Cherwell ITSM
·         OmniTracker
ITSM solutions optimize IT departments by helping process, manage and deploy sufficient support for requests. The features associated with the vendors in the category create the backbone of IT departments. They are utilized to design, plan, deliver, operate, and control information technology services offered to customers.
“Besieged managers often think a new tool will solve all of their problems. Buy the right tool, customize it to a magic set of specifications, and tickets will be prioritized, incidents resolved, and service requests fulfilled. Unfortunately, the outcome is often ad hoc changes that complicate upgrades, increase support cost, and fail to get the service desk out of firefighter mode. Tool customization isn’t the answer. Implementing an ITSM tool can cement organizational change and improve the performance of the service desk, but it’s the time spent standardizing service desk processes that makes the difference, not the customizations,” states Sandi Conrad, Senior Director, Infrastructure Practice Info-Tech Research Group. “The key to a successful ITSM tool implementation is to understand that it actually involves two projects: the first standardizes service desk processes, and the second configures the tool to meet those processes. If you follow this approach, you’re less likely to get lost in the details of the implementation and lose sight of what you’re trying to achieve.”
The indicators separating the Emotional Footprint Champions from others in the category are the exceptional scores in service experience, conflict resolution, negotiation and contract, strategy innovation and product impact. For more on vendor categories and their emotional footprints, please visit:

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hehehe good one. :) but I'm annoying annoyingly the updates.

Smartphone should be call stupidphones. smartphone don't need an updates. :p

1. Put down smartphone. 2. Never touch it again. There will always be updates.

They do though because of the "smart" -- iOS and Android are each a miniature Linux or Unix OS that are at risk of being infected with malware and being able to keylog you, hijack your web connection, etc just as can be done on a PC. If you're using Android you can try rooting and installing a version of ClockworkMod to take control -- you'll be able to remove bloatware, won't get manufacturer updates, and can still use the Play Store to get your apps and keep them updated. CM versions of Android also tend to get some security fixes faster than Google's Android because of the CM team. On iOS rooting (jailbreaking) is far more difficult and is based on the version of iOS that's currently installed. IDK about the custom OS versions or their security/updates/etc though as I've never had an iOS device long enough to jailbreak it.

Maybe all cellphones should have birth certificate, like humans... :p

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Hi folks, This site acts as an archive of my work. If you like a song and want to download it, click on 'Full song info' for that song and you will see the download link. You can also read the lyrics and any background information on the songs that I may have added. All my music is available for free - enjoy :) cheers, Charles
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I am really a solo artist for the most part. However I have played in bands occasionally. When I lived in Mendocino, California - and that was from 1980 - 1984 - I was involved with a couple of bands, the Art Rock band Da-Da mainly - and another occasional band called the C Sharps.
Have you performed in front of an audience?
I still play live from time to time - to select audiences :)
Your musical influences
I have always listened to a pretty wide spectrum of music ... for example I like Cole Porter, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), Harry Nilsson, Paul Simon, Tom Lehrer, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, James Taylor, Ray Davies, Joni Mitchell, the Incredible String Band, Donovan, Pink Floyd, the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Van Morrison, Bob Marley... and.... and.... I liked the festival scene in the UK and Amsterdam in the 70s and caught acts like Gong, Steve Hillage, Here and Now, the Pink Fairies, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, the Soft Machine and others - this was the 'psychedelic' period of my life :) I played at a couple of the festivals myself - notably at the Meigan Fayre in Wales in 1975. Daevid Allen was an inspiration - the Gong album "You" was a highlight of the time. I also loved Elvis and Roy Orbison, all kinds of country music, The Who and the Stones, The Band, West Coast rock - Byrds, Eagles, Poco, Little Feat, Flying Burrito Brothers, Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead. And I love the traditional music of the British Isles and Ireland - the Celtic folk tradition - The Chieftains, Planxty, Ralph McTell, Roy Harper, Nick Drake, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Richard Thompson ... too many names to mention. I have always liked well-crafted pop like the Bee Gees - Fleetwood Mac - Elton John - Kate Bush - Joan Armatrading - The Police - Sting - U2 - Dido - Radiohead - Coldplay... so many new bands now that I don't even try to keep up. I just hear what I hear - often what friends recommend - I like K.D Lang, 'ethnic' and 'chill' stuff, African and South American music, rap, Indian ragas etc. - and I have always loved Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, George Gershwin, Miles Davis and did I mention Cole Porter? And I love a lot of classical music too... naturally I have waves of enthusiasm for certain musical styles. A few years ago I got pretty excited about the Indonesian style known as Dangdut - which is a blend of Arabic, Indian, Reggae, Hip-Hop and local Indo-Malay street music. It deserves a wider global audience. Check it out. It is one of the reasons I love Indonesia. The hypnotic sound of the Gamelan and the seductive smell of clove cigarettes are others :) The older I get the less the distance in time or place or style between different pieces of music matters....... Right now I am enjoying Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler's album - "Neck and Neck". It's a sheer delight!!
What equipment do you use?
I mainly play a Washburn D 30 steel string guitar and an Eko of considerable vintage. I also occasionally play piano, electric keyboards and harmonica... My recent home recordings have been made on something called a 'Zoom'. Nice and easy to use :)
Anything else?
Anything else? Well - um - I hope some of my songs survive for a little while after I am gone. Ars longa - vita brevis and all that. Don't all artists hope the same for their work? Then again perhaps all moments are eternal.. and perhaps time is not real at all... and in the end, as someone said, trying to achieve fame and immortality is like scratching your name on an ice cube on a hot day... when the sun finally expands and fries this little planet... well, what was it all for? :) Ha ha! Enjoy the days we have, I say! And be kind to each other - and to the planet.
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It may seem odd to write an introduction to a two-year-old blog, but here’s why I’m doing it: I’ve been working in a non-traditional library environment for a decade and at some point in the past 10 years, I convinced myself that it is too hard to write about my work because only my colleagues would understand.

Then it dawned on me that this was a failure of imagination on my part. While writing “Libraries Gave Us Power,” I realized that if I am looking to find connections with librarians and other professionals that would be mutually beneficial, then it is up to me to write clearly and concisely about what I do.

So, what do I do for a living? I manage data about and electronic resources for the U.S. Department of State’s American Spaces program.

What are American Spaces? They are a network of more than 600 cultural centers supported by the State Department. Modeled after modern American libraries, they  provide free access to information about the United States and give local audiences the opportunity to engage with Americans on issues that are important to them. This description may raise more questions than it answers, but I will explain it all in more detail in due course. I need blog content, after all.

Anyway, my official title is Program Support Specialist, but the jargon-free title is contract librarian. I was hired to manage electronic resources, but as our program has developed and matured, I began to tackle my office’s data collection and management needs.

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