At home, though, she loves arranging chairs, singing songs, and exploring instruments. I think it's totally worth it and that she gets a lot out of it, even if it's not obvious in class.

Besides, I can relate to wanting to hang back and observe. That's what W- and I tend to do.

I think things might be starting to change, though. A few months ago, she used to cry and ask to leave the drop-in centre as soon as we got there. Now she can usually play there until it closes. Last month, she started talking about the family support workers while we were at home, referring to them by name. During circle time this week, she didn't sit on my lap, but on a stool that she brought over. I liked watching how intently she watched the family support worker and how she tried to quickly imitate the gestures, and I saw her mouth a few of the words too. She hid under the scarf or waved the scarf around as prompted. She flapped her part of the parachute up and down. She smiled great big smiles; she seemed happy that she was able to follow along.

At music class, she got interested in helping put away things when I suggested that we play the excavator game. She liked holding the jingle bell sticks and the scarf (maybe because they triggered the “Mine!” instinct in her?). Once they were in her hands, she imitated the teacher and the other kids. She also returned them to the teacher. It helps to hold something or do something with her hands, I think.

It probably helps a lot that A- likes the family support workers now. The family support workers serve snacks, answer my questions, and offer her things to play with. I've started bringing extra food to the drop-in centre to enable even more positive social interactions, too, and I think A- likes helping share yummy food with other people. She knows the music teacher's name, but she doesn't have as varied positive interactions with her.

I'm looking forward to seeing how she'll respond to music time and circle time next week. Maybe she'll stay close, and maybe she'll venture out a little more. While it might seem faster to push her into independence by not picking her up as much, I like watching her gradually feel comfortable enough to participate. I like how sometimes all she needs is a quick reconnection and then she's off to explore. I like how she clearly feels secure enough in music class to listen and learn, and how much she remembers, and how she enjoys singing. She'll have enough opportunities to practise independence without being pushed into it. She's driven to grow.
I've signed up for music classes until April, except for July and August. We'll go to drop-in centres whenever we can, too. We're both slowly getting the hang of things, and it's wonderful.

In the meantime, I'll focus on picking up songs that I can sing to her throughout the day. We'll practice imitation one-on-one. We'll bring in babysitters so that she can have lots of positive interactions with people who are not me while staying in a familiar environment. We're experimenting with going at her pace as much as possible while giving her plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow. She's wonderful, and I have full confidence that she'll get the hang of this.

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Dragging an Organization into the Digital Age – Sarah Major and Jeanie Hendrie

7 Steps to Social Media Success, Richard Marginson

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DRAGGING AN ORGANIZATION INTO THE DIGITAL AGE
Sarah Major and Jeanie Hendrie
#torontoB2B
Nov 15, 2012

First!
Content strategy and framework
Current clients start conversations
Associates engage
Prospective associates
Great place to work

Rest of the world
SEO, etc.

Anchor
-> Outpost
-> Outpost
-> Outpost

What questions do clients ask you? What language do they use? -> Organize into framework -> Blog categories (Targeting, Brand strategy, …)

Plan on a page
Goals
Ways of working
…

Translating analogue behaviours to digital

Content strategy is not permanent.
BrainRider
-> Review using data

Analytics: tie it back to goals to make them actionable

Generate Content
Views
Posting momentum

Expand deployment
Reader loyalty
Length of stay

Fostering engagement
Client breakdown
Comments

drum up internal engagement
highlight client comments

Video objectives
Share and celebrate
Recognize and reward
Have fun!

Evolution of SKW
Before and after
Stats
Blog team

Challenge:
Keeping writers writing, otherwise stale!
-> buckets of inspiration

Q: Guest bloggers?
A: Clients co-write some posts. Those are very successful.
Q: Most commented vs most read?
A: Often different.

7 STEPS TO SOCIAL MEDIA SUCCESS
Richard Marginson (@RickyInMotion)
#torontoB2B
Nov 15, 2012

Word of mouth of SUPER STEROIDS
listening
connecting
publishing
Chris Brogan

One-to-one dialogue

1. Got the vision? Get the support!

Not the decision-maker?
GET BUY-IN.

Community manager

monthly, etc.
Steering committee
–agency
Community manager
-SMEs
-Editorial

2. Who knows your BRAND better than

YOU?
Be engaged instead of handing it all

off to an agency.

3. Start with free tools.
Understand what your customers see.

4. Rules and guidelines are important.
– resolve ambiguity

5. Engage!
converse
comment
curate
create

6. you’re already making a ton of

stuff.
Reimagine it for social media

purpose -> content -> measurement

7. Measuring success
mentions per day
positive, negative, neutral
trends, opportunities, threats

Google authorship, Bing and Klout,

Google Panda update

Social proof
Restaurant
full of your friends.

Q: Talking to clients?
A: Survey, key search terms, call

centre, content..
sales team may also know, can

summarize over many customers.

You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

Ingredients bought for the party: $52.81 total
Home ingredients used: Approximately $10 (one pack of chickpeas, half a pack of black beans, half a pack of red beans, three packs of curry paste, assorted spices)
Estimated cost of party: ~$63 / 3 (as we only ate a third of the food available) = ~$21 total, or ~$3 each

plus the cost of whatever desserts people shared, of which we probably ate a fifth. Maybe a total of $4 each, for the whole meal + desserts?

I don’t think you can find a restaurant in Toronto where people can eat such a spread for $4, or stay for so long and chat with such ease without the waiters trying to drop hints about freeing up tables. ;) Nor could you find a restaurant with such friendly cats, I think – Luke was _such_ a charmer, immediately identifying the cat fans and climbing onto their laps for a good purr.

I traded time for these savings, of course, but not as much time as one might expect. Pre-cooking the beans using a pressure cooker took up most of my Friday evening, which was a good time to relax and unwind. Chopping everything up for all the meals took an hour, and cooking both the chili and the curry took another hour and a half – during which I was learning more about cooking, thinking about what was going on in the week, and planning what I wanted to do next. (And listening to bouncy Japanese pop songs…) Time well spent.

And the conversation and company? Priceless.

If we had more chairs, or found some way to squeeze more people into the house (in an elegant way that doesn’t mean some people are privileged enough to sit at the table while everyone else just stands around ;) ),I can easily scale up. It seems that the time and money I spent on the get-together could scale up to 24 people, and even more if we decided to make it a well-organized pot-luck get-together.

What would this house look like with 24 people in it? Where would people sit? How would we deal with the coats and shoes? Someday I’ll figure that out. =)

Tonight I’m attending a dinner get-together for recent hires in my department. The pre-set menu is $30 per person. Now that I look at that sum, I’m thinking, “I could host a quite a dinner party for that amount!” ;)

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