As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.  ~Mel Brooks  (From Quote Garden)

Excuses are lame.  Explanations feel pointless.  It happened though.  I botched.  I blundered.  I seriously embarrassed myself. 

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Gary got me thinking:

It helps to be an expert in something. Pick something you’re in to or uh, ‘Passionate’ as they say; management, communication, finance. Something. And commit to it. Read everything you can about the subject, join a group, write down your thoughts. Steal ideas. Try stuff.  Fail fast. Learn fast. It’s the Myth of Genius that you’re born brilliant. So you can give that one up now. Sir Isaac Newton wasn’t just being modest when he said, “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”  You’re going to have to work at it.garykoelling, Dec 2008

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My work for the Minnesota Susan G. Komen Affiliate office has continued since my initial November post. 

I think the most important part of the process, so far, has been the discussions with the affiliate co-chairs. They had some questions, some fears and some reservations -

Discussions with white-label microsharing SaaS, called Headmix begin in Spring 2008. (I first wrote about this work here.) After six months of discussions, decisions and integration work, BlueShirt Nation (BSN) Mix went live to all Best Buy employees this week.

The original use case that prompted this integration has been joined by countless possibilities. The first public news of BSN Mix helped to quickly identify test volunteers and the uncovering of new use cases that we might not have conceived.

Now it's on. BSN Mix was on a staging site for about three weeks. Stage testers were solicited directly and put the site through it's paces. We learned a lot!

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I have been called “long winded” and “verbose” by my friends. It's a curse. I want to get better - be concise - listen more.

With just 140 characters of space, I've been told I'm getting better.

Thanks, Twitter.