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From Seth Godin today, especially relevant as we’re at the start of a new year.
Doing goal setting with friends and colleagues is always motivating and invigorating for me. You hear things ranging from, “I want to help this village get out of poverty,” or “I want to double our market share,” or “I want to [...]
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David Bergman made a 1,474 megapixel (yes, that’s 1.5 gigapixels) image of Barack Obama’s inauguration. This remarkable photo is a panoramic composite of 220 individual photos–quite something! Here’s the photo and here’s the story.
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This from the BAM Network:
“My basic theory was this: “Charities” raise funds and redistribute them. By nature, value is destroyed in the process. You hope a well run charity might take your $1 donation and turn it into 80 cents of giving. A for-profit company, however, creates value. An investor expects their $1 to generate [...]
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If your photos are blurry, make sure you’re holding your camera in a way that minimizes the dreaded “camera shake.” Wildlife photographer Moose Peterson demonstrates proper handholding technique to reduce camera shake and get sharper photos:
And when you’re losing light and shutter speeds get really slow, Moose’s buddy Joe McNally offers what he calls Da [...]
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If you read some amount of content from blogs and you’re not using a feed reader to do it, you really should. My favorite reader is the free Google Reader and it helps me easily manage much of the content I read online. Google has some short YouTube videos, including the one below, to help [...]
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Business as Mission Network asks the intriguing question, When did numbers become evil? Does measuring attendance or giving somehow seem unspiritual? The post references the oft-stated phrase, “it’s not about the numbers” yet there’s one phrase–numerically-oriented–that I often hear: “if just one person gets saved (or gets __(whatever)__) it will be worth it.” Why is [...]
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Angela Zirkelbach – Photo © 2008 Gowinphotography.com
Angela Zirkelbach, a junior in the Business Administration program at Lincoln Christian College, worked as an intern at the White House this past summer. As far as I know, she’s the first LCC student to have done so. Her story was featured in the Lincoln Daily News this week, [...]
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Stephen Moore, writing in the WSJ, offers this:
Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read “Atlas Shrugged” a “virgin.” Being conversant in Ayn Rand’s classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job [...]
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