<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:18:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Mentors, Masters, Leaders</title><description>Direction for Momentum in Life</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>69</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-8163990032369674470</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-30T19:18:00.220-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Human Resources</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Employment and Career</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Job</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Professional Development</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>E-tainment</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Entertainment</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Infotainment</category><title>Disciple Colin's new talent management technique</title><description>Note: This is a forwarded email*. This post is categorized under fun, and is taken from the Guru's blog @ www.personneltoday.com 'HR offered new approach to talent management.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="color: lime;"&gt;Put 400 bricks in a room; then shut all your new employees in the room.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;Leave them alone and come back after six hours; then analyse the situation&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;• If they are counting the bricks, put them in the &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;accounting department&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they are recounting them, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;auditing&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;engineering&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;planning&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;operations&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they are sleeping, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;security&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;information technology (IT)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they are sitting idle, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;human resources&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;sales&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they have already left for the day, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;marketing&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they are staring out of the window, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;strategic planning&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;senior management&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard, put them in &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;government&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;*On the Net you will find a slightly different &lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/collectionofemails/subscribe"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://collectionofemails.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; with no clue about the author of this stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;On the same shelf: &lt;a href="http://forwardability.blogspot.com/"&gt;To-forward or not-to-forward&lt;/a&gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://forwardability.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img src=http://images.websnapr.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fforwardability.blogspot.com%2F&amp;size=s&amp;nocache=94&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-8163990032369674470?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2009/12/disciple-colins-new-talent-management.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-5681224262602515714</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-28T02:48:53.033-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Educators</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Library education</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Librarians</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Information Literacy</category><title>Emerson's Conceptual Librarian, Professor of Books -- Library Education Revisited</title><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The idea of a “Professor of Books” originated from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote in his essay on books in 1856: “Meantime the colleges, while they furnish us with libraries, furnish no Professor of Books, and I think no chair is so much wanted.” &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8185689423?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpmultifait-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=8185689423"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.akbani.info/dict.jpg" align="right" height="30%" width="30%"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Quoted from a book that has over fifty quotes by Emerson: &lt;em&gt;A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations&lt;/em&gt;. Edited by Mohamed Taher &amp;amp; L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 126&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Emerson's legacy in practice:&lt;/u&gt; "Upon becoming the President of Rollins College, Holt saw the cultural possibilities in Emerson’s suggestion, and believed it suited his hope of making Rollins an ideal small liberal college. He made Grover his first faculty appointee as America’s first “Professor of Books.” Some years later Grover recalled “the thrill which I experienced when I came upon Emerson’s suggestion which was to change my life work and make my new vocation also an avocation. My imagination immediately took wings and I began to mull over the possibilities dormant in Emerson’s idea.” &lt;a href="http://tars.rollins.edu/olin/archives/golden/grover.htm"&gt;Edwin O. Grover&lt;/a&gt; (1870-1965): Professor of Books and Citizen of the Community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1936117045&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="right"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A new book that finds a model for library education is here: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936117045?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpmultifait-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1936117045"&gt;The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship&lt;/a&gt; ~ Juris Dilevko &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=1832"&gt;Extract from the book&lt;/a&gt;: "Instead, building on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “professor of books” model, Dilevko suggests that anyone wishing to work in an academic, research, or public library must independently pass a series of essay-type subject-specific examinations in about ten to fifteen fields or areas of the arts, social sciences, and sciences. In addition, he or she must be able to read and speak at least one non-English language fluently, as well as attend courses about various aspects of the operation of libraries at regional summer institutes." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting is another dig. John Mark Tucker's essay &lt;a href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&amp;_&amp;ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ312124&amp;ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&amp;accno=EJ312124"&gt;Emerson's Library Legacy&lt;/a&gt;: Concepts of Bibliographic Instruction (1984): "Ralph Waldo Emerson's criticism that libraries lack the profession of "professor of books" represents the central problem of bibliographic instruction: an inadequately formed theoretical or conceptual framework. A history of the ideas, notions, terms, and phrases about bibliographic instruction illustrates this."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bottomline:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0824057872&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="left"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; The notion of 'A professor of books' (not just caretaker or possessor of books), is not new with Emerson. Libraries in the middle ages were managed by a scholar of repute, who had subject-specific knowledge. Period. These caretakers of libraries (the equivalent of modern librarians) were not trained in library schools, but they knew their art and craft of managing the books, providing service to their users, as per the best practices of the time. Examples of such scholarly librarians (with a transition from old-fashioned librarians to the modern librarian), are many. For instance, &lt;a href="http://taher.freeservers.com/ilm.htm"&gt;Ibn al-Nadim &lt;/a&gt;(died 995 C.E), and among others the caretakers at the Alexandrian Library, Bodlean Library, Cambridge and Oxford University libraries (details are here: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0824057872?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpmultifait-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0824057872"&gt;Encyclopedia of Library History&lt;/a&gt; ~ Wayne Wiegand ), and much about them here: &lt;a href="http://libr.org/juice/issues/vol8/LJ_8.5.html"&gt;Some Old-Time Old-World Librarians.&lt;/a&gt; Scholar librarians are in the modern era replaced by bibliographers or subject librarians. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Questions for Further Study includes:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Finally, what difference does the scholarship of librarians make to library users? Are scholarly librarians, and libraries that support and encourage scholarship, more innovative? Is there a measurable relationship between the degree of scholarship undertaken at certain libraries and the quality of library service delivered?" [&lt;a href="http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/viewArticle/305/562"&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;: The Scholarship of Canadian Research University Librarians, David Fox, Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, Vol 2, No 2 (2007)]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-5681224262602515714?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2009/12/emersons-conceptual-librarian-professor.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-2635283632266772059</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-23T00:20:46.441-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Libraries</category><title>Who's Who at the Library from the 500 Most Influential Muslims</title><description>Source: &lt;a href="http://www.rissc.jo/muslim500v-1L.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;the &lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;500&lt;/span&gt; most influential  muslims&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[alternative source: &lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/22652672/The-500-most-influential-Muslims-in-the-world"&gt;The 500 most influential Muslims in the world&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COLOMBIA&lt;br /&gt;Al colombi, Dawood Abdl Ghafur&lt;br /&gt;Al Colombi is one of the most well respected Muslim scholars in Colombia. He is the most active&lt;br /&gt;and influential da’wa activist in Colombia, being present at the conversions of over 1000 people.&lt;br /&gt;He is the founder of a mosque in the city of Pereira and of the Centro Cultural Islamico Colombian’s&lt;br /&gt;da’wa project. He hosts conferences and awareness lectures for Muslims and non-Muslims,&lt;br /&gt;and he is acknowledged for his talent for conveying the principles of Islam to non-Muslims. He is&lt;br /&gt;also the author of several articles in Spanish and has created the only library of Islamic books in&lt;br /&gt;Colombia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MOROCCO&lt;br /&gt;Benbin, Prof. Dr. Ahmad Shawqi&lt;br /&gt;Benbin is the director of the Hasaniyya Library, Morocco. He is an eminent professor, and is globally&lt;br /&gt;recognized for his research in the study of Islamic manuscripts. He has published many books&lt;br /&gt;and specialized studies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BELGIUM&lt;br /&gt;Al Yahya, Dr. Abdul-Aziz Mohammad Abdullah&lt;br /&gt;Al Yahya is the director of the Islamic Cultural Center in Brussels, Belgium. In 1969, the Islamic&lt;br /&gt;Cultural Center in Brussels was founded as an institution housing a mosque, a library, and&lt;br /&gt;information service as well as offices. It was funded by the Muslim World League and Saudi&lt;br /&gt;Arabia, and hosted the European Council of Mosques for several years. It mainly functioned as&lt;br /&gt;an intermediary between the Muslim community and the Belgian state, negotiating the needs and&lt;br /&gt;interests of Muslims.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-2635283632266772059?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2009/12/whos-who-at-library-from-500-most.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-7176696642392244676</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-30T22:37:51.900-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Leadership</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Information Professionals</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Indian librarian</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Librarianship</category><title>Tributes to Professor P. N. (Prithvi Nath) Kaula, 1924-2009</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2009/08/prof_prithvi_na.php"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 48.59%; height: 75.21%;" src="http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/152a-kaula.png" width="40%" height="30%" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Prof. P. N. Kaula receiving 2004 Padma Shree Award from President Prof. APJ Kalam). Photo courtesy &lt;a href="http://www.kaulaendowment.org/"&gt;Kaula Endowment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2009/08/prof_prithvi_na.php"&gt;I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2009/08/prof_prithvi_na.php"&gt;TBH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2009/08/prof_prithvi_na.php"&gt;U's The Chronicle&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;"With deep regret we announce the demise of Prof. P. N. Kaula. He was a distinguished Librarian of our country and abroad. He classified and standardized Library and Information system...&lt;br /&gt;Among his achievements:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&gt;&gt;Former Professor &amp;amp; Head, dept. of Library &amp;amp; Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, India&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Author bibliography for document list educator journalist,&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Library and Information Science Specialist&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;Emeritus Professor (UGC)&lt;br /&gt;&gt;&gt;2004 Padma Shree Award Winner by Govt. of India." &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Much more in &lt;a href="http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/606/01/Librametrics_PDF.pdf"&gt;L&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/606/01/Librametrics_PDF.pdf"&gt;ibrametric Mapping &lt;/a&gt;of the 'Libraries, Archives &amp;amp; Information ...; and here: &lt;a href="http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?hd=1,46&amp;amp;Search%5FArg=kaula&amp;amp;Search%5FCode=NAME%40&amp;amp;CNT=100&amp;amp;PID=Mgl3-yyMeKcuCUeXKUPiWK5HIGfj&amp;amp;HIST=0&amp;amp;SEQ=20091029142555&amp;amp;SID=1"&gt;Library of Congress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A note from the family &lt;a href="http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/09sep02/class.htm"&gt;reads&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"With deep sorrow and grief we inform about the sad demise of our beloved&lt;br /&gt;Padmashree Prof. P N Kaula, one of the greatest intellectual of the world in&lt;br /&gt;library and information sciences who left this world on August 30, 2009 at his&lt;br /&gt;residence at Lucknow. Born at Banamohalla Srinagar and educated in J&amp;amp;K&lt;br /&gt;State, Delhi, Chennai, and Banaras, he was the brighest student of Dr&lt;br /&gt;Ranganathan, the father of library sciences in India.May God bestow peace upon&lt;br /&gt;the departed soul.Sh M L Peshin and Smt Uma Peshin, Brother-in-Law &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;Sister09419205774, 2594146&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.merachaman.com/content/view/1037/43/"&gt;Aligarh Muslim University&lt;/a&gt; - Mera Chaman - Sad demise of Padmashri ... &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[&lt;a href="http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2009-September/009656.html"&gt;LIS-Forum&lt;/a&gt;] Tribute to Prof. Kaula&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Info courtesy: Dr. R. N Sharma&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-7176696642392244676?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2009/10/tributes-to-professor-p-n-prithvi-nath.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-774971706215806606</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-06T22:29:17.018-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Librarians</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Leadership</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Librarianship</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Solo Librarian</category><title>Knowledge Worth Sharing from a Solo Librarian: Helen Tannenbaum</title><description>&lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;      Knowledge Sharing is...        &lt;/h3&gt;                                  &lt;strong&gt;Joseph Addison&lt;/strong&gt; said: "When knowledge, instead of being bound up in books, and kept in libraries and retirements, is thus obtruded upon the publick; when it is canvassed in every assembly, and exposed upon every table, I cannot forbear reflecting upon that passage in the proverbs, 'Wisdom crieth without, she uttereth her voice in the streets.'" More quotes from the blog: &lt;a href="http://cutchi.blogspot.com/2006/06/knowledge-sharing-is.html#links"&gt;Library &amp;amp; Information Science Quotations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, here is the wisdom, share it, and be empowered:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Extract:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Helen Tannenbaum&lt;/span&gt;, editor of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Flying Solo&lt;/span&gt;, the newsletter of the &lt;a href="http://units.sla.org/division/dsol/"&gt;SOLO Librarians&lt;/a&gt; Division of the Special Libraries Association, compiled this top ten list from posts on the dsol-sla electronic discussion list. I think it's great for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;any&lt;/span&gt; librarian!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. Never lose your enthusiasm over purchasing a book truck.&lt;br /&gt;9. Keep track of the things you do, the questions you are asked, etc.&lt;br /&gt;8. Promote yourself and your services--don't be afraid to blow your own horn.&lt;br /&gt;7. Don't be shy about asking the Solos list a question--that's why we're here.&lt;br /&gt;6. Make nice with the following staff: IT people, office management, supplies purchaser, HR, your boss's assistant, mailroom and receptionist (i.e., Everyone).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Continue reading the complete list posted on the blog by Judith A. Siess:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: center;" class="post-title entry-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://opls.blogspot.com/2009/04/top-ten-list-for-new-or-all-librarians.html"&gt;TOP TEN LIST FOR NEW (OR ALL) LIBRARIANS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;On the same shelf:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://lonewolflibrarian.wordpress.com/"&gt;The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian's Weblog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Person_Library"&gt;One Person Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.citizendia.org/One_Person_Library"&gt;One Person Library - Citizendia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.aallnet.org/sis/pllsis/Groups/solos_aall08_survey.PPT"&gt;The Evolving Role of the Solo Librarian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-774971706215806606?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2009/10/knowledge-worth-sharing-from-solo.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-2472351897449637341</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-04T12:08:30.294-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Worship</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Prayer</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Communication</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Business--Religious aspects</category><title>Deep Thoughts - Gandhi on Prayer, Humility and Heart Softeners</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/ajax/share_dialog.php?s=2&amp;amp;appid=2305272732&amp;amp;p[]=851280248&amp;amp;p[]=9220218"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs210.snc1/7722_310213505248_851280248_9220218_4896047_s.jpg" align="left" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;   “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948) ~~source: &lt;a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/prayer_is_not_asking-it_is_a_longing_of_the_soul/148514.html"&gt;ThinkExist.com Quotations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Info courtesy: Begum Ibrahim @ &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000314223496&amp;amp;ref=nf"&gt;Facebook &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Picture courtesy: &lt;span class="UIIntentionalStory_Names" ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;name&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/MikeGhouse?ref=mf" onclick="'ft("&gt;Mike Ghouse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  @ Facebook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;On the same shelf: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gandhi on humility, by &lt;/strong&gt;vinod&lt;strong&gt; @ &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q3xIfoar8g&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search="&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;, courtesy:&lt;a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','1','')" href="http://uiforum.uaeforum.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&amp;amp;daysprune=-1&amp;amp;f=22"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heart  Softeners - Understanding Islam Community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=1893163024&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=1893163091&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=1928706258&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;U.N. releases Mahatma stamp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/04/stories/2009100457841600.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/04/images/2009100457841601.jpg" width="111px" height="110" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-2472351897449637341?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2009/10/deep-thoughts-gandhi-on-prayer-humility.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-6299765609624084216</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-12T00:06:11.469-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Leadership</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><title>Magnificent Pillars of Leadership by Joseph Plazo</title><description>Quote of the day: "Integrating, coordinating, motivating. These prime directives allow a CEO to weather any storm and take the corporate ship home to port. They are the three pillars of magnificent leadership."&lt;a href="http://www.appledapple.com/self-healing/article405.htm"&gt; Continue reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-6299765609624084216?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2009/03/magnificent-pillars-of-leadership-by.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-624621234519756857</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-18T01:23:07.282-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Leadership</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><title>Six Lessons for Investors</title><description>&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137479520962869.html"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 262px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 262px" alt="" src="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AI801_bogle_DV_20090104221941.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be diversified and don't assume past performance will continue.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By JOHN C. BOGLE&lt;br /&gt;"There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past. This cost them dearly last year. Here are six of the most important of these lessons:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Beware of market forecasts, even by experts&lt;br /&gt;2) Never underrate the importance of asset allocation.3) Mutual funds with superior performance records often falter.&lt;br /&gt;4) Owning the market remains the strategy of choice.&lt;br /&gt;5) Look before you leap into alternative asset classes.&lt;br /&gt;6) Beware of financial innovation." &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137479520962869.html"&gt;continue reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See on the same shelf:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/11/leverage-one-cause-of-financial-crisis.html#links"&gt;Leverage: One Cause of the Financial Crisis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/10/if-worlds-population-were-reduced-to.html#links"&gt;If the world’s population were reduced to 100…&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-624621234519756857?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2009/01/six-lessons-for-investors.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-1431850752964820851</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-17T00:32:17.648-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Employment and Career</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Professional Development</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Women</category><title>Thought for the day ~~ Indecent Obsession in love and duty</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0751508365&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="right"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"The last lines in the book read: ''Nurse Langtry began to walk again, briskly and without any fear, understanding herself at last. And understanding that duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.'' Neither the sentiment expressed nor the suggestion that Nurse Langtry finally understands herself is convincing; nevertheless, Colleen McCullough is able to make the reader care about Sister Langtry, who, despite herself, is a vibrant enough character to make the book enjoyable and worth reading. "&lt;/br&gt;continue reading &lt;a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E6DB1039F936A15753C1A967948260"&gt;NYTimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-1431850752964820851?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2009/01/thought-for-day-indecent-obsession-in.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-8530907502304475422</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-28T16:36:46.651-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Teaching and Training</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ethics</category><title>Leverage: One Cause of the Financial Crisis</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1586485636&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="right"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0471227277&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align="right"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/STBSxWsglwI/AAAAAAAAAb8/6GkaOqxM-cc/s1600-h/left_quote.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 24px; height: 13px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/STBSxWsglwI/AAAAAAAAAb8/6GkaOqxM-cc/s200/left_quote.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273806171510183682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Extract from &lt;a href="http://eflbliss.blogspot.com/2008/10/leverage-one-cause-of-financial-crisis.html#links"&gt;EFL Bliss&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Teachers who like to deal with topical issues in class won't want to skip over the current meltdown. The problem is that so much of what has been happening in the world of finance is so arcane - impossible for us to understand, let alone explain in simple English to our students. However, there are some very important phenomena that can be grasped, described and discussed.&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/STBSxolTf3I/AAAAAAAAAcE/qNqDtMyvyzk/s1600-h/right_quote.gif"&gt;&lt;img style=" margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 24px; height: 13px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/STBSxolTf3I/AAAAAAAAAcE/qNqDtMyvyzk/s200/right_quote.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273806176311803762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://eflbliss.blogspot.com/2008/10/leverage-one-cause-of-financial-crisis.html"&gt;continue reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-8530907502304475422?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/11/leverage-one-cause-of-financial-crisis.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/STBSxWsglwI/AAAAAAAAAb8/6GkaOqxM-cc/s72-c/left_quote.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-6810633070444858803</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-24T12:51:01.030-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Professional Development</category><title>The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need</title><description>&lt;iframe style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px" align="right" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=1438258488&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;iframe style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px" align="right" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=B001970HQU&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"I’ve written about motivation a bunch of times before here on Zen Habits, but the more I learn about it, the more I realize that motivation isn’t that complicated.&lt;br /&gt;Sure, there are numerous tips that can help, numerous tactics and strategies I’ve used with success. But it really all boils down to two things.&lt;br /&gt;And those two things are so deceptively simple that you might decide to stop reading after I name them: 1) make things enjoyable and 2) use positive public pressure. But read on for more on how to use those two things to motivate yourself for any goal..." continue reading this great article by Leo Babauta @ &lt;a href="http://zenhabits.net/2008/10/the-only-two-secrets-to-motivating-yourself-youll-ever-need/"&gt;Zen Habits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-6810633070444858803?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/11/only-two-secrets-to-motivating-yourself.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-8002340812420892385</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-03T21:11:55.432-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Worship</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Leadership</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><title>The Ten Commandments of Life Branding: Violate Them at Your Own Risk</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object id="Player_c3f22054-54ed-403a-9d86-6116ef5d9a60" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" height="250" width="300" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="7938"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="6615"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2Fc3f22054-54ed-403a-9d86-6116ef5d9a60&amp;amp;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2Fc3f22054-54ed-403a-9d86-6116ef5d9a60&amp;amp;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;embed src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2Fc3f22054-54ed-403a-9d86-6116ef5d9a60&amp;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate" id="Player_c3f22054-54ed-403a-9d86-6116ef5d9a60" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Player_c3f22054-54ed-403a-9d86-6116ef5d9a60" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="250px" width="300px"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;NB. Life is a brand that is for you, and its a brand only you can make. I found the an excellent article by Mike on branding. He integrates work, business and all the rest under the main theme, Life Branding. The best part of this is the 101 and categorization of ideas, that fit, and fit very well. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;'10 Steps to Be the Brand You Want in Life,' Guest post by Mike King of &lt;a onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/learnthis.ca');" href="http://learnthis.ca/"&gt;Learn This&lt;/a&gt;; posted @ &lt;a href="http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/10/20/10-steps-to-be-the-brand-you-want-in-life/"&gt;The Positivity Blog&lt;/a&gt; October 20th, 2008 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Life Branding: 1. Know Your Own Brand; 2. Eliminate Any Ego Based Perception; 3. Hold True Your Background; 4. Live and Reinforce Your Morals; 5. Make Your Core Values Known; 6. Practice What You Preach; 7. Strengthen Your Unique Attributes; 8. Demonstrate Your Most Wanted Traits; 9. Write About and Share With Others; 10. Be Consistent With Your Brand&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;... conitnue reading: &lt;a href="http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/10/20/10-steps-to-be-the-brand-you-want-in-life/"&gt;10 Steps &lt;/a&gt;to Be the Brand You Want in Life &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://kmlisc.blogspot.com/2007/10/18-commandments-of-knowledge-conscious.html#links"&gt;The 18 commandments of Knowledge-conscious managers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://kmlisc.blogspot.com/2007/08/productivity-brainstorming-ten.html#links"&gt;PRODUCTIVITY: Brainstorming - Ten Guidelines&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://multifaith.blogspot.com/2008/06/cyber-worship-resource-of-week-is-ten.html#links"&gt;Cyber Worship Resource of the Week is The Ten Commandments of Access&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-8002340812420892385?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/11/ten-commandments-of-life-branding.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-5849334088201459312</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-16T13:57:08.498-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Workplace</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Books</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Job</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Professional Development</category><title>Real World of Work ~ Bulletproof Your Job</title><description>&lt;iframe style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px" align="right" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=0609806866&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;iframe style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px" align="right" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=0061713600&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','1','')" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/freeheadlines/LAC/20081015/CABULLET15/business/ROB_Managing"&gt;Plan Be: Visible, easy, useful and ready&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In buoyant times, whiny, difficult and unengaged employees may be tolerated but, the minute the going gets tough, they're the first to be axed, author and headhunter Stephen Viscusi tells Stephanie Whittaker. Don't want to find yourself in the crosshairs? Consider following his four strategies to protect your job&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/freeheadlines/LAC/20081015/CABULLET15/business/ROB_Managing"&gt;STEPHANIE WHITTAKER&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, October 15, 2008&lt;br /&gt;Special to The Globe and Mail&lt;br /&gt;Has the shaky economy got you worried your job is on the line? Go get a haircut. And classy shoes.&lt;br /&gt;And if you can't stand the awful coffee in the office kitchen, or the co-worker brewing it, swallow the words you'd like to say, and the swill, too.&lt;br /&gt;That, at least, is some advice being dispensed by New York headhunter Stephen Viscusi in a new book, Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out on Top at Work. continue reading &lt;a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','1','')" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/freeheadlines/LAC/20081015/CABULLET15/business/ROB_Managing"&gt;The Globe and Mail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-5849334088201459312?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/10/real-world-of-work-bulletproof-your-job.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-6007803332495884300</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-07T22:50:10.038-04:00</atom:updated><title>If the world’s population were reduced to 100…</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1v9xJPiIlQU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1v9xJPiIlQU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Worth watching again, from time to time, and asking yourself “what did I do recently to make the world better?” Click here to see the real show:  &lt;a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbounds/article/http://www.miniature-earth.com/');" href="http://www.miniature-earth.com/"&gt;http://www.miniature-earth.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Published by &lt;a class="url fn" title="View all posts by Claude" href="http://vedovini.net/author/admin/"&gt;Claude&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://vedovini.net/tag/ecology/" rel="tag"&gt;ecology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://vedovini.net/tag/miniature-earth/" rel="tag"&gt;miniature-earth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.villageof100.com/images/village-logo-noblack.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.villageof100.com/images/village-logo-noblack.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;If you have a bed to sleep in, a refrigerator for food, a closet for clothing, if you have a roof over your head each night, you are wealthier that 75 percent of the world’s population. According to the &lt;a href="http://www.minature-earth.com/"&gt;Minature Earth Project&lt;/a&gt;, if the world’s population were reduced to 100 people, 6 individuals would control 59 percent of the world’s money. The &lt;a href="http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article=vn338villageed"&gt;“State of the Village Report,”&lt;/a&gt; originally published by Dartmouth professor Donella Meadows in 1990, was used to calculate the statistics which many of us have seen in the form of an email titled "Village of 100." If the world’s population were reduced to 100 people, what would our global village look like? Since 1990, Ms. Meadows’ research has been circulated through millions of email inboxes and shared in thousands of classrooms, mine included. The updated version published by the Miniature Earth Project includes recent population statistics from the UN and the Population Reference Bureau. Continue reading Ms. Ward's post @ &lt;a href="http://etceteraward.blogspot.com/2007/07/village-of-100.html"&gt;I am a teacher et cetera: A Village of 100&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-6007803332495884300?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/10/if-worlds-population-were-reduced-to.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-7704748313141984811</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-09T16:42:10.834-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>American Studies</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Educators</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Teaching and Training</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><title>Learning By Heart - for a change from the monotonous worldview</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" id="Player_20f2d407-6770-4991-9ba2-a9a108f0e89c"  WIDTH="250px" HEIGHT="250px"&gt; &lt;PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2F20f2d407-6770-4991-9ba2-a9a108f0e89c&amp;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2F20f2d407-6770-4991-9ba2-a9a108f0e89c&amp;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate" id="Player_20f2d407-6770-4991-9ba2-a9a108f0e89c" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Player_20f2d407-6770-4991-9ba2-a9a108f0e89c" allowscriptaccess="always"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="250px" width="250px"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/OBJECT&gt; &lt;NOSCRIPT&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2F20f2d407-6770-4991-9ba2-a9a108f0e89c&amp;Operation=NoScript"&gt;Amazon.com Widgets&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/NOSCRIPT&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/learning-by-heart.html"&gt;Learning By Heart &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Open Source Learning Community is created by educators for educators. Open Source Learning is the new name for Progressive Education.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: Learning-by-heart, is also a methodology of education--part of it relates to memorizing (i.e., not doing things with a fondness, or by desire of the heart). India follows this system--a system of education, learning, and training.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-7704748313141984811?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/09/learning-by-heart-for-change-from.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-8951149682542467763</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-01T11:35:00.770-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Information Professionals</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Competition</category><title>Do we need to work harder in a downturn?</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" id="Player_187f7a2e-95a4-43c3-bd8b-0b594c8f6f24"  WIDTH="300px" HEIGHT="250px"&gt; &lt;PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2F187f7a2e-95a4-43c3-bd8b-0b594c8f6f24&amp;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2F187f7a2e-95a4-43c3-bd8b-0b594c8f6f24&amp;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate" id="Player_187f7a2e-95a4-43c3-bd8b-0b594c8f6f24" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Player_187f7a2e-95a4-43c3-bd8b-0b594c8f6f24" allowscriptaccess="always"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="250px" width="300px"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/OBJECT&gt; &lt;NOSCRIPT&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2F187f7a2e-95a4-43c3-bd8b-0b594c8f6f24&amp;Operation=NoScript"&gt;Amazon.com Widgets&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/NOSCRIPT&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;"This is the title of an interesting &lt;a href="http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/use/3094"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.fumsi.com/"&gt;Fumsi&lt;/a&gt; (part of &lt;a href="http://www.freepint.com/"&gt;Freepin&lt;/a&gt;t) which to anyone with any common sense the answer would be obvious - Yes must worker harder to show how valuable I am.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But...it's not just about working harder, it's also about adding more value and making yourself more visible to those individuals (managers) who make decisions about funding and staffing. The article has 10 Top tips on how to survive a downturn, which I have listed below:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Continue reading &lt;a href="http://ligissues.blogspot.com/2008/07/do-we-need-to-work-harder-in-downturn.html#links"&gt;James Mullan &lt;/a&gt;@ The Running Librarian: Running towards a web 2.0 future&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-8951149682542467763?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/09/do-we-need-to-work-harder-in-downturn.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-1410645971946893686</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-17T19:03:15.502-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Teaching and Training</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><title>Qualities of a Great Teacher -- Thought for the day</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" id="Player_14d7536a-ebbf-46d9-9135-ffddc772ed15"  WIDTH="300px" HEIGHT="250px"&gt; &lt;PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2F14d7536a-ebbf-46d9-9135-ffddc772ed15&amp;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2F14d7536a-ebbf-46d9-9135-ffddc772ed15&amp;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate" id="Player_14d7536a-ebbf-46d9-9135-ffddc772ed15" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Player_14d7536a-ebbf-46d9-9135-ffddc772ed15" allowscriptaccess="always"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="250px" width="300px"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/OBJECT&gt; &lt;NOSCRIPT&gt;&lt;A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fhttpmultifait-20%2F8003%2F14d7536a-ebbf-46d9-9135-ffddc772ed15&amp;Operation=NoScript"&gt;Amazon.com Widgets&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/NOSCRIPT&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Let’s take a look at the qualities that define a great teacher:&lt;span id="more-164"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;b&gt;1. Love What They Do&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Good Communicators&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. Admirable&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. Positive Reinforcement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. Fair &amp;amp; Just&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. Leadership&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;7. Committed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;8. Understanding&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;9. Compassion &amp;amp; Caring&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;10. Confidence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;11. Prepared&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;12. Professionalism &lt;br /&gt;continue reading the details &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a class="blog-name" href="http://www.alexlandis.com/2008/08/12/qualities-of-a-great-teacher/"&gt;AlexLandis.com&lt;/a&gt;                      &lt;p class="blog-description"&gt;Silence is golden, duct tape is silver…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-1410645971946893686?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/08/qualities-of-great-teacher-thought-for.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-6702417803038973654</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-03T21:12:23.613-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Worship</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Prayer</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Librarians</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>CyberWorship</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Business--Religious aspects</category><title>WHO'S WATCHING OVER OUR LIBRARIES?</title><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.warriorlibrarian.com/IMHO/lawrence.html"&gt;Patron Saints of Libraries&lt;/a&gt;: from Warrior Librarian Weekly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; The most excellent reference librarian &lt;a href="mailto:rhadden@usgs.gov"&gt;Robert Lee Hadden&lt;/a&gt; has completed serious research on the matter of patron saints of libraries. He states that "there are a number of official and unofficial patron saints in the various forms of Christianity." Pope John Paul II recently declared St Isodore of Spain to be the patron of electronic communication, including the Internet...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;...However, celestial guardians for libraries are not restricted to Christian religions. In Arabic culture, scrolls were dedicated to the King of the Cockroaches so that lesser bugs wouldn't destroy other documents. In Hindu countries, Ganesh, the elephant headed god of beginnings and remover of obstacles, is the library guardian. As he also invented the Sanskrit alphabet...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the same shelf: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lit2542006.blogspot.com/2008/07/librarians-prayer-prayer-for-librarians.html#links"&gt;      THE LIBRARIAN'S PRAYER&lt;/a&gt;  / PRAYER FOR LIBRARIANS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;h3 class="post-title"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://multifaith.blogspot.com/2008/07/cyber-worship-resource-of-week-is.html#links"&gt;Cyber Worship Resource of the Week&lt;/a&gt; is The Jewish Prayer While Logging Onto the Internet&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-6702417803038973654?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/07/whos-watching-over-our-libraries.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-3966293825705361127</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-14T16:34:21.899-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Leadership</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Communication</category><title>Skills/Tools a Coach/Mentor Needs - - A question in-deed</title><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask&lt;/strong&gt; a Question:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/answers/career-education/mentoring/CAR_MEN/200710-2754099"&gt;Skills/Tools  a Coach/Mentor Needs.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p class="meta"&gt;Asked by: &lt;span class="given-name"&gt;Md Abubucker&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="family-name"&gt;Alathick. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="meta"&gt;10 Answers | 3 months ago | Closed &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-3966293825705361127?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/07/skillstools-coachmentor-needs-question.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-333479048118108454</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-22T16:57:22.283-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Wiki</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Blogging</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Google</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Web 2.0</category><title>Dialogue: interviews with industry mavens -- Rishi Chandra</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.internetevolution.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=191884&amp;amp;piddl_msgid=159928"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.utterz.com/imgs/i/26/26f00d90c17277ce7ab5133bae2e5a3d.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=156400"&gt;Rishi Chandra, Product Manager, Google Enterprise&lt;/a&gt; At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference last week, Internet Evolution sat down with Google's Rishi Chandra to talk about Google Apps&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the same shelf&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=644&amp;amp;doc_id=157077&amp;amp;"&gt;Data Mining in the Age of Web 2.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Written by &lt;a href="http://www.internetevolution.com/bloggers.asp#Oded_Noy"&gt;Oded Noy&lt;/a&gt;, 6/20/2008 -- Web 2.0 is both a data-mining goldmine and a nightmare. While it provides a valuable environment of consumer-generated data and media, it's hard to consume this information in a meaningful way without getting overloaded with noise. ... &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today, if you are really interested in doing any meaningful research on any topic, you need to subscribe to 37 RSS feeds to connect with 24 people who are visionaries in their fields, and listen to all their "&lt;a href="http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&amp;amp;doc_id=156995&amp;amp;"&gt;tweets&lt;/a&gt;." Or, you end up looking at a bunch of different Google search results with no idea if they are recent or old or have any relevance at all. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://vip.itworldcanada.com/t?r=8&amp;amp;c=8833&amp;amp;l=7497&amp;amp;ctl=3C656:D2257C75E94C455652CC1EC9244E3F91&amp;amp;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Top 10 Google Flubs, Flops, and Failures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not everything Google touches turns to gold. These are some of Google's biggest nonstarter Web services, software programs, and business moves.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://kmlisc.blogspot.com/2008/06/research-isnt-google-search.html#links"&gt;Research isn’t a Google search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-333479048118108454?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/06/dialogue-interviews-with-industry.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-2848800405181528958</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-06T17:03:21.314-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Teaching and Training</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Employment and Career</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Communication</category><title>Teacher or Trainer: What's the Difference?</title><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;by &lt;a class="articleAuthorLink" href="http://www.socyberty.com/writers/Rana%20Sinha.35234"&gt;Rana Sinha&lt;/a&gt;, Apr 21, 2008&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having served as a teacher and trainer for over twenty-five years, I get different answers from different people engaged in the field of &lt;a class="kLink" oncontextmenu="return false;" id="KonaLink0" style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" href="http://www.socyberty.com/Education/Teacher-or-Trainer-Whats-the-Difference.112236#" target="_top" _lstnr="null"&gt;education&lt;/a&gt; when I ask them to clarify if they are teachers or trainers.&lt;br /&gt;Teachers are usually found in primary &lt;a class="kLink" oncontextmenu="return false;" id="KonaLink1" style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" href="http://www.socyberty.com/Education/Teacher-or-Trainer-Whats-the-Difference.112236#" target="_top" _lstnr="null"&gt;schools&lt;/a&gt;, whereas trainers are found in all walks of life, especially commercial ones, they say. A tennis coach (trainer) teaches you new skills and trains you for improving your playing skills. A leadership trainer or coach can teach you new methods of leading people and help you become a better leader. An instructor gives you instructions for learning to do something while a mentor is like a guide, leading you to acquire insights as well as acquire skills.&lt;br /&gt;Teachers educate people (children are also people), while trainers help them learn skills for doing certain things, which earn them their livelihood. When students finish school or university for that matter, they may not have learnt skills like welding, &lt;a class="kLink" oncontextmenu="return false;" id="KonaLink2" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,2);" style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,2);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,2);" href="http://www.socyberty.com/Education/Teacher-or-Trainer-Whats-the-Difference.112236#" target="_top"&gt;bookkeeping&lt;/a&gt; or managing other people, which they can trade for money on the &lt;a class="kLink" oncontextmenu="return false;" id="KonaLink3" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,3);" style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,3);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,3);" href="http://www.socyberty.com/Education/Teacher-or-Trainer-Whats-the-Difference.112236#" target="_top"&gt;job&lt;/a&gt; marketplace. People have to go to special institutes classified as VET or vocational &lt;a class="kLink" oncontextmenu="return false;" id="KonaLink4" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,4);" style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,4);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,4);" href="http://www.socyberty.com/Education/Teacher-or-Trainer-Whats-the-Difference.112236#" target="_top"&gt;education and training&lt;/a&gt; to learn professional skills. &lt;a href="http://www.socyberty.com/Education/Teacher-or-Trainer-Whats-the-Difference.112236"&gt;continue reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-2848800405181528958?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/06/teacher-or-trainer-whats-difference.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-8459973732033830126</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-09T08:31:33.552-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>American Studies</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Obituary</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Teaching and Training</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Leadership</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Indo-American Cooperation</category><title>University of Utah Emeritus Professor of American Studies, William Mulder, Dies</title><description>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/SA2JHkvOyrI/AAAAAAAAARY/hs30Bnow9QA/s1600-h/Helen+and+Bill.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191956708641917618" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/SA2JHkvOyrI/AAAAAAAAARY/hs30Bnow9QA/s200/Helen+and+Bill.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Gentleman scholar, mentor, bibliophile, Mormon historian, English and American studies professor and advocate of Indo-American scholarship and understanding, Mulder, 92, died Wednesday, Mar. 12 at his home. Born in Haarlem, Holland in 1915, he immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1920, first to New Jersey and six years later to Salt Lake City. "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mar. 19, 2008 - "The motto Wij zijn klein maar groot (We are small but great) expresses the sentiment of the Dutch in Utah," wrote William Mulder, emeritus professor of American studies at the University of Utah. As a fellow Dutchman in Utah, Mulder achieved greatness on many levels, professional and personal, local and abroad. &lt;a href="http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=031908-2"&gt;continue reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','3','')" href="http://obits.kutv.com/search/show_listing/1690/?printable=Y"&gt;Dr. William Mulder obituary&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 52px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 79px" height="207" alt="" src="http://www.alumni.utah.edu/u-news/june05/images/mulder.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. William Mulder obituary - Obituary provided by UtahTributes ... With Hyderabad as a second home for the family, the years in India, full of travel, ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','8','')" href="http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8634756?source=rss"&gt;Prof leaves worldwide influence - Salt Lake Tribune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Former University of Utah professor of English William Mulder. ... East Center) and developed its American Studies Research Center in Hyderabad, India. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','16','')" href="http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600135452,00.html"&gt;Deseret Morning News The eloquent Dutchman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mulder was also the guiding force in establishing the American Studies Research Center in India. He initiated its programs in Hyderabad, attracting scholars ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','17','')" href="http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&amp;amp;se=gglsc&amp;amp;d=5006598670"&gt;American Studies in India, a Personal Memoir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was William Mulder, professor of English at the University of Utah, ..... a professor at the University of Hyderabad, India's University Grants ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','24','')" href="http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695263428,00.html"&gt;Deseret Morning News Late professor was a brilliant, gifted scholar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He initiated its programs in Hyderabad, attracting scholars from throughout the continent. Mulder came to love India almost as a second home and returned ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://humanistsofutah.org/2008/BillMulderObit_Apr-08.html"&gt;In Memoriam, William Mulder&lt;/a&gt;, 1915 ~ 2008, Humanists of Utah&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-8459973732033830126?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/04/university-of-utah-emeritus-professor.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/SA2JHkvOyrI/AAAAAAAAARY/hs30Bnow9QA/s72-c/Helen+and+Bill.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-1200791478148033274</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-03T21:11:55.432-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Worship</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Resource of the Week</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>CyberWorship</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Online Religion</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Religion online</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Cyber_Worship_Inside</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Business--Religious aspects</category><title>Cyber Worship Resource of the Week is The Ten Statistical Commandments of Chairman Alroy</title><description>&lt;iframe style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px" align="left" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=0810852578&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr" frameborder="1" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;Here is a sample from inside the Book: &lt;a href="http://multifaith.blogspot.com/2006/09/cyber-worship-in-multifaith.html#links"&gt;Cyber Worship&lt;/a&gt; in Multifaith Perspectives--full of resources, and KM accessories, that will facilitate building bridges in a Multifaith society. &lt;a href="http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0615/2006018579.html"&gt;Table of Contents &lt;/a&gt;/ &lt;a href="http://multifaith.blogspot.com/2006/09/cyber-worship-in-multifaith.html"&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://multifaith.blogspot.com/search/label/Cyber_Worship_Inside"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180660162976138338" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/R-Vm-Ew1xGI/AAAAAAAAAPg/emSa5TExiO8/s200/Inside_the_book_CW.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Chapter 3.&lt;/strong&gt; 'Fast Track to Multifaith Resources for Cyber Worship': &lt;a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','2','')" href="http://www.byregion.net/cgibin/myregion/classifieds_list.pl?username=earthsurya&amp;amp;member_type=members&amp;amp;site_AshevilleHealers"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resource of the Week is&lt;/strong&gt; The Ten Statistical Commandments of Chairman Alroy:&lt;br /&gt;          Thou shalt log thy data!&lt;br /&gt;          Thou shalt run non-parametric tests!&lt;br /&gt;          Thou shalt standardize thy sampling intensity!  &lt;a href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/JA_commandments.html"&gt;Much More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Order the book with &lt;a href="http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&amp;amp;db=^DB/CATALOG.db&amp;amp;eqSKUdata=0810852578"&gt;Publisher&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&amp;amp;db=^DB/CATALOG.db&amp;amp;eqSKUdata=0810852578"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 126px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 56px" height="38" alt="Order from Publisher" src="http://www.rlpgbooks.com/images/scplogo.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My &lt;a href="http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5433644006742210578"&gt;book Talk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More in this Weekly series @ &lt;a href="http://multifaith.blogspot.com/search/label/Resource%20of%20the%20Week"&gt;Multifaith Information Gateway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-1200791478148033274?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/03/cyber-worship-resource-of-week-is-ten.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/R-Vm-Ew1xGI/AAAAAAAAAPg/emSa5TExiO8/s72-c/Inside_the_book_CW.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-5465356474020901070</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-09T08:31:33.765-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Communication</category><title>Hall of Fame: Leaders &amp; Legends of the Blindness Field</title><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="Listen" href="http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=34977&amp;amp;perma_link=http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/02/hall-of-fame-leaders-legends-of.html" target="_blank"&gt;Listen to this Article&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=34977&amp;amp;perma_link=http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/02/hall-of-fame-leaders-legends-of.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173311604245456658" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/R8tLfqN05xI/AAAAAAAAANs/SYPv2ZKPnTs/s200/speaker_20.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com/"&gt;Talking Books Librarian&lt;/a&gt;  also says: "The &lt;a href="http://fredsheadcompanion.blogspot.com/"&gt;Fred's Head Companion blog&lt;/a&gt; recently alerted me to the Hall of Fame for Leaders &amp;amp; Legends of the Blindness Field.  The list include people like Samuel Ashcroft, Richard Hoover, and Anne Sullivan Macy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are currently accepting nominations for 2008 - you can nominate &lt;a href="http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/nominate.html"&gt;someone&lt;/a&gt;. The deadline for 2008 nominations is March 21! "&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See also on the same shelf: Who is Who @ &lt;a href="http://multifaith.blogspot.com/2006/06/multifaith-hall-of-fame-of-21st.html"&gt;Multifaith Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt; of the 21st century &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-5465356474020901070?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/03/hall-of-fame-leaders-legends-of.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m6eePM1g_6c/R8tLfqN05xI/AAAAAAAAANs/SYPv2ZKPnTs/s72-c/speaker_20.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34045688.post-2238170591838150211</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-21T18:36:28.298-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ideas</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Teaching and Training</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Leadership</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Best Practices</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Professional Development</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Communication</category><title>Thought for the day posted at Libraries Today Blog</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=039470391X&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" align=right&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Before you study the history, study the historian." Edward H. Carr,  The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lecture 1961 at Cambridge University--pulished as What is History [&lt;a href="http://libraries-today.blogspot.com/2008/02/egerton-ryersons-library-sytem.html#links"&gt;Libraries Today Blog&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS. Incidentally, this study of the narrator, interpretor, writer, communicator in the history of Islamic literature, corresponds with the practice adopted by those who were involved in collecting the Tradions (Hadith) of the Prophet Mohammed (Peace be Upon Him). See &lt;a href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=%22Asma-ur-Rijal+&amp;amp;btnG=Search&amp;amp;meta="&gt;Asma-ur-Rijal&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href="http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Hadith/Ulum/asa3.html"&gt;Rijal al-Hadith &lt;/a&gt;(The Study Of The Reporters Of Hadith).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;!-- http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=2423353 --&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34045688-2238170591838150211?l=dearer.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://dearer.blogspot.com/2008/02/thought-for-day-posted-at-libraries.html</link><author>mt2222@yahoo.com (Mohamed Taher)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>