by It's Me! | Jul 1, 2013 | Careers, Cultural Economy, Professional Development
My response to a posting on Puttylike.com seems relevant to reproduce here. Puttylike.com is the brainchild of Emily Wapnick, whom I encountered as a fellow traveller on the journey to find words and metaphors to explain the misunderstood or unseen value of the...
by It's Me! | Sep 16, 2011 | Capacity Development, Careers, Creativity, Professional Development
Join me in Wells, BC to help weave the tapestry of this great warp and woof of talent and experience. Over the course of these days in October, the little town that could (create) will be bursting with artists sharing and learning and building their creative...
by It's Me! | Jun 13, 2011 | Careers, Cultural Economy, Left Brain
Organizations aren’t social. People are social. To me the idea of a ‘fan page’ for a business is absurd, unless ‘fans’ themselves build it. The only ‘organizational’ Twitter accounts I follow are because I know the person...
by It's Me! | Jun 28, 2010 | Careers, Economics
Barbara Eirenreich speaks. We listen. It’s strangely familiar… Pulling back the curtain on the paradigm of employment and jobseeking in white collar America, even in 2005 when this interview took place, reveals some hard truths about how we are preparing...
by It's Me! | Jul 6, 2008 | Careers, Creativity
It seems ironic to me – and reason for concern – that parents who have nurtured the creative and expressive nature of a child would still be frightened when the child says: I want to be a…. (dancer, an actor, a painter, a musician, etc fill in the blank with some...
by It's Me! | Jul 6, 2008 | Careers, Creativity
It is important to make space where creativity can emerge, and where individuals can get help or share ideas not when and where the preset agenda dictates, but in the moment when the need or thought occurs. “The long hallway” refers to a comment made by a...
