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Weekly review: Week ending April 25, 2010

Plans from last week:

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
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