Posts by Carol Ross
If You Want to Grow Your Career, Grow Your Community
That’s the title of an event that I’ll be facilitating for Asian-American women on Sept 21 in Denver. We’ll be looking at how to network in a meaningful and natural way, what the participants know about success and failure in navigating their careers, and what it feels like to tap into a community of women…
Read MoreAmbient Awareness, Twitter, and Eco-Systems
Two people pointed me to this blog posting about Twitter and how it creates "ambient awareness" of each other. Actually, the posting is an excerpt from a New York Times Magazine article published on Sept 7. What I notice is how quickly the news spreads because it’s excerpted on a blog (that viral thing), more…
Read MoreNew Episodes of Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving
Two new episodes of the Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving podcast, "Choosing the Bigger Story," and "Joy and the Greater Good," are now available. This brings the number of episodes available to eight, with another ten episodes in the pipeline. For those of you who are new to the Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving project, you can…
Read MoreFounder of Flickr on Community
A quote from Stewart Butterfield, founder of Flickr: "A lot of our success came from George, the lead designer, and Caterina. Both of them spent a lot of time in the early days greeting individual users as they came in, encouraging them and leaving comments on their photos. There was a lot of dialogue between…
Read MoreA New Blogger in the Family
I’ve been the sole blogger in the family (underground bloggers excepted–you never know.) Until now. Ryan, my 24-year old nephew just started blogging about his new adventure, a year in downtown Oakland, as part of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. His writing is personal and compassionate, sprinkled with moments of biting humor and quick wit. Maybe…
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