tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99466462012-02-16T09:26:26.014-08:00Adding language concepts to the practice of community building. A combination of linguistic telescope, microscope, and zoom lens applied to social sciences and the exploration of civics and community. And yet, this blog has nothing to do with liquid mouthwash.Katin Imeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892360314088121229noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9946646.post-22958593059939288712006-12-13T17:35:00.000-08:002006-12-13T18:36:21.602-08:00

I'm completely smitten with Second Life, the virtual world where IBM recently announced they will be opening twelve public sims (sim = a land section of 65,535 square meters) to add to their roster of private sims (they didn't say how many of those they had, but they did say they are planing to support their 330,000 worldwide employee base with them). (One story talks about the IBM CEO Samuel S.

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A ZINE IS SIMPLY a self-published work done entirely of personal passion and usually without any commercial support whatsoever. Zine topics range everything you can think of... from music to travel to cooking to stories to personal life to art to addiction to mental health to just about any geeky hobby. There were over five-thousand zines available in the mid-90's, and after a few years of

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NLP (Neural-Linguistic Programming) has models for the way individuals store their experience. As you store a memory or piece of important information, it threads together with all the other reality-maps, experiences, and information you have stored. People thread experiences and information together in different ways: some connect it chronologically, some by relationship (between people), some

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In Thomas Armstrong's "Seven Kinds of Smart", he proposes that there are actually seven (with variants, nine) kinds of intelligence that are created in our human minds & bodies: Word smart (Linguistics), Picture smart (art & spatial), Music smart, Body smart (athletic & dance), Logic smart (math and logic), People smart (Interpersonal people skills), and Self smart (inner sight, self-knowledge,

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I just returned from the American Institute of Architects 2005 National Conference (Continuing Education Services track) where William Draves, co-author of "Nine Shift: Work, life, and education in the 21st Century" was the keynote speaker. He gave a terrific presentation that was interesting, very "scoping", and hopeful in - let's face it - a decade of turmoil.The premise of the book is that a

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One of the big problems in talking about trust is the lack of a common, popular vocabulary that has a good level of resolution and precision. How do you have immediately useful and compelling conversations about trust methods and practices with people when every other concept has to be defined?Perhaps there are other paths to connect people to talking about trust. Sure, there is the structure of

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I'm forming a new linguistics group in Portland, Oregon: The Noon Academy. The first meeting is Saturday, January 22, 2005, at 12pm (more details at The Noon Academy web site). I've done study groups before, and my girlfriend/co-star has done a wonderful job starting and growing the Portland Chapter of the Church of Craft. She has over 200 members and the group has been meeting just over 14

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