This is a test post using ThePollTaker.com survey tool. They provide a tool that can embed a poll into your various Social Media networks and websites. Your friends and followers can easily see your poll request and start clicking answers back right away.

I created a poll asking college graduates if they would go through college (if they had to repeat it all over again) at a faster or slower rate than what they experienced it at. I copied and pasted the provided provided iframe code into this Posterous hosted post:

I had no problem embedding ThePollTaker tool into my personal Facebook page (see pic below). I wanted to embedd also into one of my business Facebook Pages, but there was no such option proferred.

I spent about 2 hours in a worksession with MadeOn owner, Renee H., going over her business website and matching up the message of her current design against the values that we hammered out earlier while pursuing a better logo. This means we evaluated not only the content, but also the format, color, and size font.

In the end we drafted a rough design on Butcher Paper of what we wanted our future website to say. The next step will be for Renee to edit our Squarespace hosted site so that it reflects our re-focused company purpose.

Bye, bye, old trusty HP OfficeJet Pro L7580! You gave up the ghost this past Friday and I've already found a new love with my HP OfficeJet Pro 8500A Premium. It was a good four year relationship, but I'm ready for a younger model.

Being able to connect directly from the printer to the Internet for printing 3rd party forms is brilliant!

Sharepoint 2007 is missing an easy one button way to print out an entire WIKI Operational Guide. However I searched the Internet and found a solution proposed by a student that encountered the same problem.

Go to Stony Brook University's public "WIKI on Sharepoint Wikis & Blogs" to see the steps. The Wiki site itself is a great example to check out what an Operational Guide could look like. Compare that to navigating through dozens or hundreds of Word Doc or Excel Spreadsheets for process descriptions.

Basically, the answer to printing a Wiki hosted on a Sharepoint, is to create a custom view of the WIKI first. Then, once you are in the custom view, you are able to print the entire document in any designated page order that you desire.

Build an Operational Guide from the ground up using a Wiki.

Stay a way from using a Word Document that requires constant version monitoring and uploading and downloading.

A Word Doc is okay as long as the users and creators of that information are not more than three people. Beyond three people, my experience has been that no one will really reference the guide (unless in the middle of crisis for CYA purposes) but will simply scan their inbox for the latest email referencing an operational process.

But here's the problem to using an online, dynamic, collaborative document with hyperlinks:

Most large organizations with that kind of need are also notoriously behind on the new collaborative social tools. Security and confidentiality concerns override any other concerns, including efficiency. As a result, their favorite tool, because of security, is Microsoft's Sharepoint. Frankly, 37signals project management collaborative tools are light years ahead. IMOP a Sharepoint site is everything, but collaborative. EXCEPT, amazingly, Sharepoint does have a WIKI option! Turn it on immediately. Do not wait, do not turn to the left or to the right.

Do not ask for permission -

the permissions to the WIKI are all built into the Sharepoint structure.

This satisfies the legal people and you can extend the rights to hundreds of collaborating partners.

If you are using Sharepoint 2007, follow these screenshots to turn the Wiki on now:

The Triple Constraint Triangle is the Picture of Balance.

I can use it as a beautiful visual summary of the project and a quick way to share the vision.

For taking rough notes and jotting ideas, my favorite tool is a black pencil with green steno-pad.
Steno-pads are cheap too: I have a whole stack of them in my right-hand drawer.

The spiral binding is great because I like to flip back and make my "Next Action" items from the earlier notes.
And I like the split page format, so that I'm not bothered by coordinating conjuctions