Posts by Carol Ross
Working, Playing, and Everydayness of Life
A couple of quotes to ponder: "The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence…
Read MoreDigital Coaches and Hollywood Writers
Signs that technology is increasingly impacting the way we live and work: Seth Godin has a Squidoo lens for digital coaches. What’s a digital coach? Read more here. The McNeil News Hour recently reported that Hollywood writers, in light of the strike, are turning to Internet-based media to do their work. They can connect with…
Read MoreEmpathy Babies (and Pets)
The Wall Street Journal reports that a Canadian non-profit, Roots of Empathy, is addressing school bullying with a novel approach–by bringing babies into the classroom. More than 2,000 empathy babies (and their moms) are in elementary school classrooms in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US. The idea is to boost "emotional literacy" by having…
Read MoreEntreprenurial Heroes
A great resource that I stumbled on today is a podcast series produced by the National Center for Women in Technology, or NCWIT. The podcast, Entreprenurial Heroes, is a series of twenty short interviews with women entrepreneurs in high tech. The one I listened to this evening is with Heidi Roizen, Managing Director of Mobius…
Read MoreA Bigger Voice
In November 2007, I blogged about my experience at the Dreaming Room, talking about the process of dreaming and manifesting the dream, but not what the dream is for me. It’s taken me longer than I thought to flesh out my dream and now I’m ready to go public. The business, A Bigger Voice, will…
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