Archive for September 2013

Report #6 from Portland, Maine You’ve endured enough – as I’ve presented my various “learnings” all last week gleaned from the Agents of Change 2013 conference. Thanks for your patience. I’ll do my best to wrap it up. • Chris Brogan Re-visited Remember the Encourager featuring speaker Chris Brogan? It must have been okay… I haven’t…

Report #5 from Portland, Maine I’m serious. What’s an hour of your time worth? Of course, I wouldn’t be serious if we were talking about what MY time is worth, so let’s keep the focus on YOU. How would you answer this question? And once you’ve mulled it over, how would you answer it aloud in…

Report #4 from Portland, Maine As I look up at the above headline (Report #4 from…), I realize now that I attended the wrong mid-afternoon break-out session at the Agents of Change Conference 2013. But I didn’t think so at the time. Instead of going to the “Crush Headlines like the National Inquirer!” workshop, I…

Report #3 from Portland, Maine You know how kids love lunch and recess? Conference attendees have the same affinity for scheduled “breaks.” No doubt about it. Along with check-ins to bathrooms, caffeine stations, and voice mails, these program-free times are great for making introductions and networking. In theory, that is. Oh, I have the bathroom…

Report #2 from Portland, Maine The Agents of Change Conference 2013 offered up an impressive roster of speakers, and after each session, my internal techno-anxiety lessened considerably. Roderick Russell, the sword-swallowing first session keynoter, obviously gave a message that didn’t require me to text one of our district tech integration specialists back home for help (whew!),…

Report #1 from Portland, Maine In today’s – and in the next few Encouragers – I’m going to try the impossible and actually string together several coherent thoughts and sentences. As many of you know, our arrival to Portland got off to a rocky start (befitting the coast of Maine shoreline and the full reason…