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• Fly On The Wall: Dow Jones Bigs Call A Meeting: "Murdoch Will Not Meddle"

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: Dow Jones, Fly On The Wall, Meetings, Top, Wall Street Journal

  At 11:15 this morning, Wall Street Journal managing editor Marcus Brauchli, Dow Jones CEO Rich Zannino, WSJ publisher Gordon Crovitz and a couple other bigwigs gathered the Journal employees for a...

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• We're Here Because...?: Make meetings count with action

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Meetings, We Re Here Because

  Meetings are useless unless they result in action, says the business consultants at Behance - so they've got a few guidelines for avoiding dead end time-wasting meetings. First: Beware of "Posting Meetings." A meeting to "share updates" should actually be a voice-mail or an e-mail. Rule of thumb: if you leave a meeting without action steps, then

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• Growing Online Dating Relationships

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:40 am

  Tags: Entertainment, Self Improvement, Meeting People Online, Online Dating, Online Relationship, Relationship, Virtual Meetings, World Relationships

  the same? Neglecting virtual meetings can be considered abuse or neglect, so treat each other's time with respect. If it's lacking, might mean time to move on. (more…) copyright @2007 bu.bulicio.us meeting people online, online dating, online relationship, relationship, virtual meetings, world relationshipsIf you enjoyed this post

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• Early Registration for Teaching the Teachers: Effective Instruction in Legal Education Conference Due Before September 1

  Published: August 13, 2007, 3:57 am

  Tags: Education Professional Development, Meetings

  Teaching the Teachers: Effective Instruction in Legal EducationOctober 18-20, 2007Tarlton Law LibraryThe Univeristy of Texas at Austin School of Law Program Speakers To register online or by mail...

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• Note Taking: A Beginner's Guide to Mind Mapping Meetings

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: Feature, Meetings, Mind Mapping, Note Taking, Top

  have trouble keeping up with meetings because you can't take notes as fast as the speaker talks? If you do jot down some thoughts and ideas, by the time you re-read your notes they make no sense? If this sounds like you, a meeting mind map may be just what you need. Here is a quick start guide that will give you some pointers and a printable

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• Hillary Promises Transparency but Fails to Deliver

  Published: August 14, 2007, 6:05 pm

  Tags: Political Commentary, Link Fest, Transparency, Transparent, Accent, Cronies, Records, Meetings, Peek, Infidelities

  Hillary Rodham is putting out a commercial in Iowa where she is traipsing through a field and talking about why she should be president. I am not going to discuss her farmer transformation because she has more covers than a chameleon. Has anyone forgotten her southern accent, her black accent and... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the

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• Here We Go Again

  Published: August 20, 2007, 1:34 am

  Tags: Meetings Should Be Kept To An Absolute Minimum, Thanatos

  to start-of-the-semester meetings. Since my banal complaints are permanently archived on the intertubes, I'm not going to rehash them here as I prepare for two -- only two?!?!?! -- enervating days of conversation about my university's "Strategic Plan" and its "Accreditation Self-Study."I will, however, remind readers in the Seattle or

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• Distraction: Laptops in Meetings a Double-Edged Sword

  Published: August 27, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Distraction, Laptops, Meetings, Netiquette, Office Culture

  laptops in meetings help you get more out of it or escape the boredom? And before you answer, watch out—your meeting moderator's giving you the evil eye. Minding the Meeting, or Your Computer? [NYT]

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• Staff Meetings: New 'Voice' Editor Already Pissy, Irritable

  Published: August 30, 2007, 12:13 pm

  Tags: Staff Meetings, The Gays, Tony Ortega, Village Voice

  We got some rumblings from inside the Village Voice about last week's porno-hooker-classified-ads cover; it was intended to be a commentary on how some weeklies are pulling the R-rated ads, but the...

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• Celebrate Constitution Day With These OUP Titles

  Published: September 17, 2007, 3:50 am

  Tags: Meetings

  Our ConstitutionDonald A. Ritchie and JusticeLearning.orgList Price: $40.00256 pages, Oxford University Press, 2006 ISBN13: 978-0-19-522385-9ISBN10: 0-19-522385-3Description: An in-depth look at the entire text of the U. S. Constitution, annotated with detailed explanations of its terms and contents. Each Amendment and...

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• Reminder: Teaching the Teachers: Effective Instruction in Legal Research Conference, Oct. 18-20

  Published: September 21, 2007, 3:51 am

  Tags: Education Professional Development, Meetings

  Hosted by Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas. Excerpts from the website:In 2006, the National Conference of Bar Examiners announced an initiative to explore the development of a stand-alone component of the national bar exam that would test legal research...

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• SHOULDN'T FISHING REPLACE GOLF?

  Published: September 21, 2007, 12:12 pm

  Tags: Board Meetings, Golf, Fishing, Theoriginaljd

  when I have my SPSR board meetings I think it's much more impressive to show off my fishing boat then it would be to show off my 3 wood.Anyone who tries to tell me that you can't replace golf with fishing because there is the chance that you won't catch anything when you fish - I wish your mother had succeeded in poking you in the face with a

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• ALA 2007 Conference Videos: Freedom to Read Litigation and Whistleblowing in the Post-9/11 Age

  Published: September 27, 2007, 3:44 am

  Tags: Education Professional Development, Library Associations, Meetings

  I hope law librarians find the following videos of ALA sessions of the Association's 2007 annual meeting of interest: Freedom to Read Foundation: Status of Recent Litigation Affecting Libraries. Theresa Chmara, Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) Counsel, Jenner & Block,...

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• All day meetings suck my hairy anus

  Published: September 27, 2007, 8:15 am

  Tags: Meetings

  it ended early. All day meetings. They suck arse and accomplish little. Basically a massive utter waste of time for me. However as for the other people they did need to be there and it was important to them.sn't there some management guide out that says meetings that go for more than 15 minutes are dead time or something? We should all

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• Vox Pop: Re-creating scarcity

  Published: September 27, 2007, 11:43 am

  Tags: Internet, Meetings, Scarcity, Time Amp Amp Attention, Vox Populi, Work

  for person-hours in meetings. So, to schedule firewalled, group face-time, the PM would need to cough up the equivalent number of tokens from her pile. Thus, one, long, all-hands meeting might require the whole week’s stack. While, fewer, shorter meetings with smaller groups made the pile go further. It was just an idea, and

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