Work

• [X] Share notes and follow up on action items from training
• [-] Prepare presentation on sharing and workflow – written up, but not yet illustrated
• [X] Organize and run Idea Labs – one down, another to go
• [X] Follow up on expertise pilot – shared with team member, whew!
• [-] Draft follow-up presentations / articles on eminence?
• Started working on bookmark summarization tool
• Reflected on career options
• Prepared ThinkLabs information
• Learned about Pickover format for evaluating invention disclosures
• Talked about my community tool and social analytics
• Helped organize non-Innovation-Discovery Idea Labs
• Attended meeting for potential Drupal project

Relationships

• [X] Have dinner with W’s parents – keeping my name, clashing with traditions
• [X] Go to W’s family get-together
• [  ] Plan tea party for end of August or beginning of September
• [-] Sort out accommodations / travel plans for my family – checked out some places
• Helped rescue Maira from temporary housing crisis

Life

• [X] Catch up after busy weekend
• [-] Organize notes
• Finished Scott Pilgrim game on Average Joe setting

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Have several mentoring conversations
• [  ] Run Energy & Utilities Idea Lab
• [  ] Work on bookmark tool for Boz and Yael
• [  ] Prepare presentation on sharing

Relationships

• [  ] Confirm accommodations and photographer
• [  ] Apply for marriage licence
• [  ] Plan tea party

Life

• [  ] Set up twine support for peas
• [  ] Organize my notes
• [  ] Tweak schedule so that weekly reviews go out on Sunday or Monday

Work

• [X] Organize upcoming Idea Labs
• [X] Attend training for Application Innovation Services consultants
• [X] Work on plugin to make it easier for other people to organize Idea Labs
• [X] Contact briefing consultants regarding the expertise pilot
• Scanned my notes
• Did innovation archetype analysis for car company
• Produced slidecast for Communicating Across Cultures session
• Helped more people with stats / community tools

Relationships

• [C] Send a quick note to people I met at VXToronto and in woodworking class
• [-] Mail lots of jam – packed, but not yet sent

Life

• [X] Pick up more travel business wear at the Tilley sale  (yay for wash-and-wear blazer, blouse, and pants for ~$190 total including tax!)
• [X] Outline my “lifeline of books” (see “Write for Your Lives”) – also outlined presentations; looking into posting this online
• Packed lots of frozen lunches

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Share notes and follow up on action items from training
• [  ] Prepare presentation on sharing and workflow
• [  ] Organize and run Idea Labs
• [  ] Follow up on expertise pilot
• [  ] Draft follow-up presentations / articles on eminence?

Relationships

• [  ] Have dinner with W’s parents
• [  ] Go to W’s family get-together
• [  ] Plan tea party for end of August or beginning of September
• [  ] Sort out accommodations / travel plans for my family

Life

• [  ] Catch up after busy weekend
• [  ] Organize notes

Long-weekend focus: declutter space, organize information

Work

• [X] Organize upcoming Idea Labs
• [X] Answer more requests for community toolkit: statistics, bugfixes, etc.
• [  ] Package Lotus Notes plugin – postponed, but worked on community membership management for Lotus Notes plugin
• Helped revise slides and posters
• Helped a client learn more about Idea Labs
• Gave mentoring advice
• Talked to potential new team

Relationships

• [X] Declutter living room – wow! so different now.
• [  ] Follow up with people, learning about them and their interests – still haven’t followed up on tweetup or class
• [X] Catch up with mylifeandart
• Bought a television and a Playstation 3
• Bought latest book in Artemis Fowl series
• Treated W- and J- to Despicable Me, which was lots of fun
• Experimented with the Litter Robot – wonder if the cats will take to it. Pricey, but if it works…
• Decluttered living room and gave away a third of our books
• Harvested our first bitter melon and made pinakbet with it =)

Life

• [-] Draw more! =)
• [-] Create an index for images, book notes, blog posts, etc. – scanned my sketches
• [-] Plan next tea party – maybe end of month?
• [C] Price-match blender if possible – cancelled because of price differences for colour
• Posted lots of reflections
• Replanted large parts of the garden
• Upgraded to Lucid Lynx

Next week’s plans:

Work

• Organize upcoming Idea Labs
• Attend training for Application Innovation Services consultants
• Work on plugin to make it easier for other people to organize Idea Labs
• Contact briefing consultants regarding the expertise pilot

Relationships

• Send a quick note to people I met at VXToronto and in woodworking class
• Mail lots of jam

Life

• Pick up more travel business wear at the Tilley sale
• Outline my “lifeline of books” (see “Write for Your Lives”)

• [X] Support upcoming workshops
• [X] Re-use Idea Lab results
• [X] Launch expertise pilot with SMEs
• [X] Explore possible expertise specialist position
• [X] Add features to community toolkit plugin
• Helped community owners learn more about vitality and metrics
• Added statistics to Lotus Notes community tools plugin
• Learned how to modify Lotus Notes plugins and use Expeditor!

Relationships

• [X] Experiment with more recipes (instead of hiring cooking teacher? More sustainable, and we’ve got the basics sorted out already)
• [-] Reflect on happiness with a friend, co-writing a blog entry – postponed to next week
• [-] Follow up with people from tweetup, learning about them and their interests
• [X] Coordinate with family on new date
• Helped a friend learn more about cooking
• Tidied up my computer
• Had great conversations about connecting, introductions, etc.

Life

• [-] Organize everything into neat zippered pouches, etc.
• [-] Declutter: Eliminate one thing a day
• [C] Sign up for singing lessons – focusing on other things right now
• [-] Take advantage of free studio time at the Sewing Studio (Sunday, 2pm to 6pm – get all of my cutting and serging and sewing done, and get some exercise on the way there and back too)
• Also: Cleared and replanted parts of the garden
• Learned more about woodworking
• Drew, yay!
• Explored Craigslist a little more

PLANS FOR NEXT WEEK:

Long-weekend focus: declutter space, organize information

Work

• [  ] Organize upcoming Idea Labs
• [  ] Answer more requests for community toolkit
• [  ] Package Lotus Notes plugin

Relationships

• [  ] Declutter living room
• [  ] Follow up with people, learning about them and their interests
• [  ] Catch up with mylifeandart

Life

• [  ] Draw more! =)
• [  ] Create an index for images, book notes, blog posts, etc.
• [  ] Plan next tea party
• [  ] Price-match blender if possible

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [X] Launch idea lab
• [-] Launch expertise location pilot and invite SMEs – sent note, drafted SME note
• [X] Follow up with experts
• [X] Set up my Lotus Notes development environment – Whee!

Relationships

• [X] Sort out wedding plans: re-check assumptions, constraints? – October 2?
• [-] Share cheesecake with friends: Finished before anyone could come over.
• [-] Help work on chair: postponed due to humidity
• Helped Maira learn more about cooking. Looked into how to make alfredo sauce from scratch – should be easy!
• Mended the laundry basket (yay sewing!)
• Made pesto, mmmm
• Filled the freezer with individual portions of food. Must be getting the hang of it, as I don’t remember spending lots of time in the kitchen, just having lots of fun. =)
• Planted more peas

Life

• [-] Buy my own ukulele tuner: Don’t need it for now
• [X] Collect and try out more songs: Getting pretty good at this! =)
• [X] Sew more tops and accessories: Got lots of practice, although knits are still a challenge
• Decluttered: donated a few bags of old clothes, houseware items
• Bought a few tops from Value Village, am happy with finds

Plans for next week:

Work

• [X] Support upcoming workshops
• [X] Re-use Idea Lab results
• [X] Launch expertise pilot with SMEs
• [X] Explore possible expertise specialist position
• [X] Add features to community toolkit plugin

Relationships

• [X] Experiment with more recipes (instead of hiring cooking teacher? More sustainable, and we’ve got the basics sorted out already)
• [X] Reflect on happiness with a friend, co-writing a blog entry
• [X] Follow up with people from tweetup, learning about them and their interests
• [X] Coordinate with family on new date

Life

• [X] Organize everything into neat zippered pouches, etc.
• [X] Declutter: Eliminate one thing a day
• [X] Sign up for singing lessons
• [X] Take advantage of free studio time at the Sewing Studio (Sunday, 2pm to 6pm – get all of my cutting and serging and sewing done, and get some exercise on the way there and back too)

Work

• [X] Support upcoming workshops: lots of juggling and following up! I’m getting much better at reaching out across the organization, too.
• [-] Plan for and have mid-year review: getting close to my birthday review, too
• [X] Consolidate community toolkit: Thanks to the lovely IBM OneUI template that Stephan Wissel customized for me, I got inspired to integrate my Community Toolkit and make it look fancy. The toolkit includes a newsletter, forum exporter, blog exporter, stats generator, content exporter, OPML generator, and feed-to-email link generator. I’ll add other public tools as I get requests for them, and Luis Benitez will help me figure out how to get this and even more awesome functionality into Lotus Notes plugins (to deal with the security and privacy issues).
• Made a lot of headway on planning external Idea Labs

Relationships

• [X] Organize a get-together or spend time with friends: Helped Maira look at kitchen knives
• [-] Reschedule all the services related to the wedding: moved my vacation, still figuring out plans
• [  ] Cook a new recipe
• Watched several movies with W-, thanks to the library (yay library!)
• Caught a glimpse of the Indy 500 while biking around
• Did lots of biking with W-, yay!
• Ruthlessly purged fridge. Mwahaha!
• Helped make cheesecake for J-‘s unbirthday party

Life

• [-] Find a singing teacher: E-mailed a few potential teachers
• [X] Learn how to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on the ukulele
• [X] Identify and work on clutter spots – bought a belt bag with more pockets to help me stay organized
• Also learned how to play Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah (ukulele chords). I love self-referential things. (It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift…)It sounds remarkably cheerful on the ukulele.
• Weeded and trimmed the garden. Pulled up peas in order to start second crop. Pulled up some of the bush beans, too. Added to compost heap.
• Sewed a ukulele case, yay! Had just enough padding to make it. Worked without a pattern.
• Sewed simple knit top and dress. Still a little rough, but more comfortable than my old cotton T-shirt. Browsing through the fabric store gets me excited about sewing.
• Started printing selected entries from my blog.
• Biked along the lakeshore (Martin Goodman trail). Pretty!
• Bought some more technical shirts for biking.

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Launch idea lab
• [  ] Launch expertise location pilot and invite SMEs
• [  ] Follow up with experts
• [  ] Set up my Lotus Notes development environment

Relationships

• [  ] Sort out wedding plans – re-check assumptions, constraints?
• [  ] Share cheesecake with friends
• [  ] Help work on chair

Life

• [  ] Buy my own ukulele tuner
• [  ] Collect and try out more songs
• [  ] Sew more tops and accessories

Plans from last week:

Work

• [X] Finalize posters
• [X] Revise expertise locator note
• [X] Talk to manager in Lotus (IBM)
• Supported upcoming engagements in terms of expertise location and Idea Lab planning
• Supported training programs by creating charts and material
• Improved newsletter and community toolkit

Relationships

• [X] Host tea party on Saturday – Just canned blueberry jam, kiwi jam, and apricot syrup. Perfect excuse to make biscuits and banana bread. Also good time to raid the garden for a pea shoot and nasturtium flower salad, and green beans and garlic scapes. Maybe bruschetta with basil too. =) Mmm…
• [C] Check out High Park picnic potluck organized by Gail Vaz-Oxlade – spent the day doing chores and helping J- with ukulele
• [  ] Drop off marriage licence application  – filled out, still need to drop it off; wedding postponed to October-ish due to parents’ visa delays
• [  ] Fix jacket for tea ceremony – postponed because of wedding delay

Life

• [-] Try more videoblogging – recorded some more
• [X] Practice ukulele for at least half an hour a day. Have to work on those calluses…

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Support upcoming workshops
• [  ] Plan for and have mid-year review
• [  ] Consolidate community toolkit

Relationships

• [  ] Organize a get-together or spend time with friends
• [  ] Reschedule all the services related to the wedding
• [  ] Cook a new recipe

Life

• [  ] Find a singing teacher
• [  ] Learn how to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on the ukulele
• [  ] Identify and work on clutter spots

And because it’s important to be comfortable with mediocrity on the way to competence:

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [X] Bike to work on sunny days
• Worked on expertise locator project
• Prepared posters for upcoming meeting

Relationships

• [-] Drop off marriage licence application  – filled out, still need to drop it off
• [X] Blog more stories
• [-] Fix jacket for tea ceremony – started working on this
• [-] Start on storage bench project  – measured
• [X] Pick out swatches for my chair
• Made lots of preserves for gifts/entertaining

Life

• [X] Do research for tablet?
• [X] Draw, draw, draw
• Sewed a slip – comfy
• Picked up Lego Harry Potter for the PSP – pretty good
• Used the compost in the garden. Hooray!

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Finalize posters
• [  ] Revise expertise locator note
• [  ] Talk to manager in Lotus (IBM)

Relationships

Having realized that I should trust people more to make their own decisions and that when I invite people, I’m not imposing on them, I think I’ll organize more get-togethers. =) I used to do this back home, too. I like doing things together more than just hanging out, so if I put some thought into it, I can experience new things and help friends experience things too. Besides, there are a number of new friends in Toronto and a number of people getting the hang of grown-up life, so it’s practically my duty to help people try things out. =)  So I’m planning to be more intentional about looking for opportunities and events, and we’ll figure out some way to organize get-togethers.

• [  ] Host tea party on Saturday – Just canned blueberry jam, kiwi jam, and apricot syrup. Perfect excuse to make biscuits and banana bread. Also good time to raid the garden for a pea shoot and nasturtium flower salad, and green beans and garlic scapes. Maybe bruschetta with basil too. =) Mmm…
• [  ] Check out High Park picnic potluck organized by Gail Vaz-Oxlade. I liked her “A Woman of Independent Means” personal finance book, and I wonder if that might be an interesting place to meet other people into personal finance. =) July 11 (Sun) at 10 AM (High Park Area #3)
• [  ] Drop off marriage licence application  – filled out, still need to drop it off
• [  ] Fix jacket for tea ceremony

Life

• [  ] Try more videoblogging
• [  ] Practice ukulele for at least half an hour a day. Have to work on those calluses…

Our garden is paying off. This afternoon, we grazed on sugar peas, snow peas, tomatoes, and strawberries, picking and eating things straight off the stem. The nasturtiums I planted out front because of their edible flowers turned out to be quite peppery, reminding me of radishes. I planted four kinds of basil in the back garden box in preparation for pesto season. Life is good.

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [X] Prepare and give Extreme Blue presentation on making pitches – 20 people
• [X] Draft next monthly newsletter
• Chatted with Boz and Rooney about newsletter tool – removed need for authentication
• Created community blog dumper for Karen Keeter
• Invited more experts to our expertise location pilot
• Planned think labs
• Helped summarize Jam

Relationships

• [-] Apply for marriage licence  – printed it out
• [ ] Finish influence map stories
• [ ] Fix jacket for tea ceremony
• [-] Decide on photographer (or whether we’ll have one)
• Built chair
• Helped W- and J- shop for J-‘s graduation dress
• Introduced a friend to Dream in High Park; gave her job interview tips

Life

• [X] Draw/scan at least three sketches
• Helped more people with mail merge

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Bike to work on sunny days

Relationships

• [  ] Drop off marriage licence application
• [  ] Blog more stories
• [  ] Fix jacket for tea ceremony
• [  ] Start on storage bench project
• [  ] Pick out swatches for my chair

Life

• [  ] Do research for tablet?
• [  ] Draw, draw, draw

Work

• [X] Update Idea Lab moderator guide
• [-] Import Smarter Planet experts into expertise locator tool
• [X] Create expertise locator batch importer tool
• [  ] Create Activity set-up tool
• [X] Lead team enablement call
• [X] Plug into other expertise location initiatives
• Also: explored career options
• Shared thoughts in interview with Don Cameron
• Added web interface to newsletter tool (thanks, Marty Moore!)
• Created notecards for upcoming workshop
• Summarized exercises and experts
• Sent expertise location offer

Relationships

• [-] Apply for marriage licence
• [X] Check out more photographers
• [X] Catch up with Maira Bay de Souza and Leigh Honeywell at hacklab.to
• [-] Finish influence map stories
• [X] Make box bottom and top
• Started building a chair!
• Spent time with friends

Life

• [-] Figure out proper configuration for php-fastcgi
• [X] Convert more planting space
• [X] Bike during sunny days
• Hemmed new pants
• Fixed a few more bugs in org-toodledo
• Posted more images
• Requested tons of books

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Prepare and give Extreme Blue presentation on making pitches
• [  ] Draft next monthly newsletter

Relationships

• [  ] Apply for marriage licence
• [  ] Finish influence map stories
• [  ] Fix jacket for tea ceremony
• [  ] Decide on photographer (or whether we’ll have one)

Life

• [  ] Draw/scan at least three sketches

This weekend, I finished my finger joint jig (my very first!), bought my own workbench (a Black & Decker WorkMate 425), and made my finger-jointed box sides. Whee! It was a lot of fun working on the deck with W- and J-, routing my box while W- sawed the pieces for his chair and J- collected sawdust. Progress! I think we might be getting the hang of this.

I did a lot of gardening, too. I turned the compost twice, and it’s getting close to the right texture. Next weekend, I think I’ll build a sifter and shake out the twigs so that I can use the compost to feed the strawberries, tomatoes, and peas, all of which are doing quite well. I revamped the back planter box and planted some more lettuce, and I planted jalapeno peppers along the path. Gardening is a great way to get more greens into our diet, and I’m looking forward to more harvests. Next time, I’ll be more consistent with succession planting. Just because you’re swimming in lettuce one week doesn’t mean you can skip planting the lettuce you’ll harvest in a few weeks’ time. =)

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [  ] Update Idea Lab guide
• [X] Give talk on Idea Labs
• Added more Smarter Planet experts to my list
• Gave students advice
• Worked on Lotus Connections Java library, stuck on multipart/related PUT
• Helped HR person with mail merge

Relationships

• [  ] Check out more photographers
• [  ] Catch up with Maira Bay de Souza and Leigh Honeywell at hacklab.to
• [X] Finish box joint jig
• [X] Make box-jointed box
• [  ] Finish influence map stories
• Set up my own work bench
• Went to science fair, yay!
• Attended U of T lab potluck
• Lent J- shoes (she’s growing up so fast!)

Life

• [X] Set up new webserver
• [X] Take it easy
• Made a pair of Thai fisherman’s pants
• Planted hot peppers

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Update Idea Lab moderator guide
• [  ] Import Smarter Planet experts into expertise locator tool
• [  ] Create expertise locator batch importer tool
• [  ] Create Activity set-up tool
• [  ] Lead team enablement call
• [  ] Plug into other expertise location initiatives

Relationships

• [  ] Apply for marriage licence
• [  ] Check out more photographers
• [  ] Catch up with Maira Bay de Souza and Leigh Honeywell at hacklab.to
• [  ] Finish influence map stories
• [  ] Make box bottom and top

Life

• [  ] Figure out proper configuration for php-fastcgi
• [  ] Convert more planting space
• [  ] Bike during sunny days

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [X] Facilitate Jam – also built tools for analysis, yay!
• [X] Talk to intern about GBS – Hina Khan
• [X] Keep up with related initiatives
• [  ] Update Idea Lab guide
• [X] Prepare presentation on Idea Lab process for BlueIQ
• [X] Provide feedback on project management presentation
• More thoughts on career next steps

Relationships

• [  ] Catch up with Maira Bay de Souza and Leigh Honeywell at hacklab.to – postponed to next week
• [-] Work out cleaning schedule and possible maid service – actually, I can get a lot of tidying done in the evenings
• [X] Get letter of invitation notarized and sent home
• [-] Book a photographer – all the photographers I checked are booked, will widen search
• [X] Batch-cook: two pecan pies, oatmeal cookies, sausages, ground beef mix, and curry
• [X] Write stories for influence map
• [X] Build box with floating bottom and sliding top
• Replaced the spinach with pepper plants – got five garden salads out of the spinach + lettuce, yay
• Did lots of batch-cooking to take advantage of cool days
• Three-pizza story
• Adventure: taking hardboard home (lashed it with twine)
• Talked to an OJT about my mom’s book project
• Got a toolbox and kitted it out

Life

• [X] Sew notebook covers and pouches
• [  ] Set up new webserver
• Started sewing wrap pants

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Update Idea Lab guide
• [  ] Give talk on Idea Labs

Relationships

• [  ] Check out more photographers
• [  ] Catch up with Maira Bay de Souza and Leigh Honeywell at hacklab.to
• [  ] Finish box joint jig
• [  ] Make box-jointed box
• [  ] Finish influence map stories

Life

• [  ] Set up new webserver
• [  ] Take it easy

Work

• [X] Talk to people about expertise location and other new tools
• [X] Talk to Lynne Waymon about networking
• [-] Present “Remote Presentations That Rock” again on Friday? Postponed
• [-] Update Idea Lab guide
• [X] Add more to Lotus Connections API library – create/retrieve/update/delete discussion forum posts, blog posts, etc.
• [X] Catch up on other initiatives
• Set up mentoring meetings

Relationships

• [-] Plan and build Adirondack chairs – bought plan and parts
• [X] Post pictures of projects
• [  ] Batch-cook this weekend: ground beef, chicken, etc. – went to Rails BBQ instead
• Attended Rails Pub Nite BBQ and caught up with old friends. Spent time with other twenty-somethings.
• Harvested lots of lettuce for salad
• Checked out 30 books on woodworking from the library. Librarian was awed.
• Raided Lee Valley Tools for cool stuff
• Learned how to use a router for woodworking
• Built a cut-open box
• [X] Check out photographers
• Had great chat with my mom regarding family stories
• Drafted letter of invitation – need this notarized
• Thought about party plans
• Mapped out influences, started working on stories

Life

• [X] Install soaker hose irrigation system for back box and street-facing garden
• [-] Make a Moleskine cover for myself; create other items
• [  ] Set up my new webserver
• Planted basil
• Moved more money into investments

Plans for next week

Work

• [  ] Facilitate Jam
• [  ] Talk to intern about GBS
• [  ] Keep up with related initiatives
• [  ] Update Idea Lab guide
• [  ] Prepare presentation on Idea Lab process for BlueIQ
• [  ] Provide feedback on project management presentation

Relationships

• [  ] Catch up with Maira Bay de Souza and Leigh Honeywell at hacklab.to
• [  ] Work out cleaning schedule and possible maid service
• [  ] Get letter of invitation notarized and sent home
• [  ] Book a photographer
• [  ] Batch-cook
• [  ] Write stories for influence map
• [  ] Build box with floating bottom and sliding top

Life

• [  ] Sew notebook covers and pouches
• [  ] Set up new webserver

Work

• [X] Launch and facilitate two Idea Labs
• [X] Give “Remote Presentations That Rock” v2 presentation
• [X] Have more mentoring meetings
• [X] Write newsletter tool and use it for EAD
• Reviewed Extreme Blue presentations and started planning June 23 preso
• Chatted with David Singer about virtual presentations
• Wrote feed widget interface script for Darrel Rader
• Wrote a script to process Idea Lab RSVPs
• Coached a developer on Drupal theming
• Helped with Smarter Leaders virtual session
• Had one-on-one chat with new manager
• Blogged about new team structure
• Contributed org-toodledo.el

Relationships

• [-] Book bed-and-breakfast for my parents  – sent two options
• [  ] Check out photographers
• [X] Coordinate
• [X] Edit stuff – spring cleaning
• [C] Plan tea party – postponed: incompatible with woodworking. Also, Luke’s shedding lots of cat hair, which makes entertaining hard ;)
• Also: Built a bobbin box and a bread box, yay!
• Finished orange paisley Moleskine cover, wallet, zippered pouch
• Started making a price book. Still need a good way to refer to things easily and do unit cost comparisons
• Picked up a router bit from Lee Valley Tools
• Worked on the deck with W-
• Clipped Neko’s claws
• Checked out e-counseling – yes, they do premarital counseling too! Nifty. Picking their brains for best practices.

Life

• [X] Make a list of more craft ideas
• [X] Get through crunchy week
• Installed soaker hose irrigation system for front boxes and side garden
• Reviewed new library books.

Plans for next week

Work

• [  ] Talk to people about expertise location and other new tools
• [  ] Talk to Lynne Waymon about networking
• [  ] Present “Remote Presentations That Rock” again on Friday?
• [  ] Update Idea Lab guide
• [  ] Add more to Lotus Connections API library – create/retrieve/update/delete discussion forum posts, blog posts, etc.
• [  ] Catch up on other initiatives

Relationships

• [  ] Plan and build Adirondack chairs
• [  ] Post pictures of projects
• [  ] Batch-cook this weekend: ground beef, chicken, etc.
• [  ] Check out photographers

Life

• [  ] Install soaker hose irrigation system for back box and street-facing garden
• [  ] Make a Moleskine cover for myself; create other items
• [  ] Set up my new webserver

Work

• [X] Present social media / collaboration ideas at an executive briefing
• [X] Set up two simultaneous Idea Labs
• [X] Update SME note and send it to Julia
• [X] Follow up on IBM innovation journey – refine into presentation
• [X] Put together En glish summary for past Idea Lab – someone else contributed a translation, hooray!
• Helped Cate Huston settle in
• Met with mentors
• Put together checklists/activity templates for post-engagement follow-up, Idea Labs
• Launched expertise search pilot for our group

Relationships

• [X] Cook another batch of food  – arroz caldo, chicken curry, and lots of chicken soup
• [X] Explore woodworking
• [-] Edit stuff – spring cleaning

Life

• [-] Map past few years of blog posts
• [X] Draw more
• [-] Make organizer
• Made wallet, Moleskine covers, zippered pouch, etc. – getting the hang of this sewing thing!
• Planted parsley bed
• Sawed top off shelf so that it fits into the greenhouse
• Set up Nginx, PHP, and WordPress
• Shared org-toodledo

Plans for next week

Work

• [  ] Launch and facilitate two Idea Labs
• [  ] Give “Remote Presentations That Rock” v2 presentation
• [  ] Have more mentoring meetings
• [  ] Write newsletter tool and use it for EAD

Relationships

• [  ] Book bed-and-breakfast for my parents
• [  ] Check out photographers
• [  ] Coordinate
• [  ] Edit stuff – spring cleaning
• [  ] Plan tea party

Life

• [  ] Make a list of more craft ideas
• [  ] Get through crunchy week

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [X] TOP: Facilitate Idea Lab and summarize results
• [X] Revise “Remote Presentations That Rock”
• [X] Follow up on expertise location pilot
• [-] Reflect on IBMers at their best – map competencies to how I currently practice them and how I want to grow
• [-] Post more thoughts on career growth

Relationships

• [X] Work on garden frame
• [X] Send some more information that my mom needs for her visa application
• [X] Plant the rest of the herbs
• [X] Send additional information to lawyer

Life

• [-] Spring cleaning: wardrobe, bedside table, living room, etc.
• [X] More organization: try belt pouch + bag system – working well!

Plans for the week ending May 16, 2010:

Work

• [  ] Present social media / collaboration ideas at an executive briefing
• [  ] Set up two simultaneous Idea Labs
• [  ] Update SME note and send it to Julia
• [  ] Follow up on IBM innovation journey – refine into presentation
• [  ] Put together English summary for past Idea Lab

Relationships

• [  ] Cook another batch of food
• [  ] Explore woodworking
• [  ] Edit stuff – spring cleaning

Life

• [  ] Map past few years of blog posts
• [  ] Draw more
• [  ] Make organizer

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [X] Discuss virtual leadership
• [X] Finalize preparations for Idea Lab
• [-] Revise my “Remote Presentations That Rock”
• [X] Flesh out more parts of the wiki
• [X] Follow up on expertise location pilot – export lists of experts
• [X] Track Idea Lab interest
• [-] Update invitation template
• Also: Listened to Debbie Landers talk about being a remote executive (“All executives are remote, in a way”)
• Chatted with Laurie Friedman about leadership
• Blogged about facilitation tips
• Drafted newsletter
• Set up training community
• Posted visual essay on smarter leaders
• Updated and reorganized part of the wiki
• Talked to extended team members
• Helped Camille Nichols track down resources
• Sent list of experts for expertise location pilot

Relationships

• [X] Meet with lawyer regarding the marriage contract
• [-] Add another freezable meal to our repertoire (chicken-based?)
• [X] Plant more herbs in the back box
• Also: Attended Tania’s tea party
• Built garden box frame with W-. Lots of work and lots of fun.
• Planted asparagus, whee! Also picked up more strawberries and a cherry tomato plant
• Turned the compost
• Made large batch of spaghetti sauce
• Made cream puffs
• Attended J-’s school musical (Dear Edwina) – that was fun! Why don’t we have beginners’ musicals that grownups can sing in? =)
• Scanned paperwork for my mom

Life

• [-] Get started on skirts
• [-] Post five drawings
• [X] Figure out how to blog or journal small, quick notes
• Also: Drew more cats
• Planned how to simplify life, remember better, and fight clutter

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] TOP: Facilitate Idea Lab and summarize results
• [  ] Revise “Remote Presentations That Rock”
• [  ] Follow up on expertise location pilot
• [  ] Reflect on IBMers at their best – map competencies to how I currently practice them and how I want to grow
• [  ] Post more thoughts on career growth

Relationships

• [  ] Work on garden frame
• [  ] Send some more information that my mom needs for her visa application
• [  ] Plant the rest of the herbs
• [  ] Send additional information to lawyer

Life

• [  ] Spring cleaning: wardrobe, bedside table, living room, etc.
• [  ] More organization: try belt pouch + bag system

Work

• [X] Update Idea Lab organizer guide
• [-] Career growth: map role models
• [-] Review favourite collaboration examples and map them to challenges
• [X] Send invitations for Idea Lab
• [X] Work on Smarter Leaders presentation/panel ideas
• [X] Talk to people about Web 2.0, Smarter Planet, Smarter Work, etc.
• Listened to webinar about Enterprise 2.0 at Deloitte
• Wrote a LotusScript button that creates a view
• Had a great chat with David Singer
• Explored Sametime 3D
• Chatted with Luba’s team
• Drafted resource overview
• Chatted with Mike Barnard about networking
• Talked to Karl Roche about expertise location
• Listened to podcasts about new IBM competencies
• Created batch tagging script using PHP
• Reorganized facilitation methods in wiki
• Planned another talk for July

Relationships

• [X] Batch cooking: Prepare treats for tea party and a new recipe for entrees: cream puffs were awesome
• [X] Wedding: Pull together info for marriage contract and reschedule appointment
• [X] Buy saucers so that I don’t have to scramble during tea parties
• Made pecan pie, pastry cream, cream puffs, quiche, lemonade
• Hosted tea party and cherry-blossom viewing

Life

• [X] Sewing: Finish tops (understitch facings, fuse, and hem)
• [-] Gardening: Set up small containers for seedlings
• [X] Drawing: Play with tones
• Bought more fabric for sewing
• Posted cat sketches

Plans for next week:

Work

• [X] Discuss virtual leadership
• [X] Finalize preparations for Idea Lab
• [X] Revise my “Remote Presentations That Rock”
• [X] Flesh out more parts of the wiki
• [X] Follow up on expertise location pilot – export lists of experts
• [X] Track Idea Lab interest
• [X] Update invitation template

Relationships

• [X] Meet with lawyer regarding the marriage contract
• [X] Add another freezable meal to our repertoire (chicken-based?)
• [X] Plant more herbs in the back box

Life

• [X] Get started on skirts
• [X] Post five drawings
• [X] Figure out how to blog or journal small, quick notes

Work

• [-] Map team challenges to examples of groups doing well
• [-] Install software needed to create Lotus Notes plugin for processing Idea Lab RSVPs – making a custom view instead
• [-] Document best practices and processes for idea labs
• [X] Follow up with team regarding enablement guide
• [-] Work on Smarter Cities whiteboard story
• [X] Update my social insurance number records
• Interviewed Jason Wild
• Had great career chats with Bernie, Jen, Ted, Mike; Patrick West
• Built tag analysis tool
• Learned how to work with long-running processes and reporting progress in web pages
• Joined Boz’s calendar meeting
• Added mail subscriptions to my Connections community tools
• Listened to facilitation panel for Best of TLE; everyone v. happy with Sametime backchannel I set up

Relationships

• [-] Order two cubic yards of triple-mix for backyard raised bed – bought bagged soil instead
• [X] Build raised bed and plant lettuce
• [X] Plan tea party for end of April or mid-May
• [X] Clear out more space in freezer
• Also: Dropped off pizza day money for J-
• Sent visa information and housing options
• Redid compost heap
• Had Korean BBQ
• Made butter tarts and pecan tarts
• Andrew and Malena(sp?) dropped by for surprise tea. Fun!
• Prepared pasta sauce for week

Life

• [-] Finish tops
• [>] Post pictures of cooking adventures
• [>] Follow up on missed Schedule 7
• Checked out cherry blossoms
• Cut my hair
• Also: Lots of exercise, biking, and gardening
• Played with colour blocking and painting
• Wrote Perl script to get list of new books from library, place holds
• Took pictures of cherry blossoms

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Update Idea Lab organizer guide
• [  ] Career growth: map role models
• [  ] Review favourite collaboration examples and map them to challenges
• [  ] Send invitations for Idea Lab
• [  ] Work on Smarter Leaders presentation/panel ideas
• [  ] Talk to people about Web 2.0, Smarter Planet, Smarter Work, etc.

Relationships

• [  ] Batch cooking: Prepare treats for tea party and a new recipe for entrees
• [  ] Wedding: Pull together info for marriage contract and reschedule appointment
• [  ] Buy saucers so that I don’t have to scramble during tea parties

Life

• [  ] Sewing: Finish tops (understitch facings, fuse, and hem)
• [  ] Gardening: Set up small containers for seedlings
• [  ] Drawing: Play with tones