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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

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Running Back to You
By Chris Sligh
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I agree with you Dare!

"PS: Am I the only one that thinks that Google is beginning to fight too many wars on too many fronts. Android (Apple), OpenSocial (Facebook), Knol (Wikipedia), Lively (IMVU/SecondLife), Chrome (IE/Firefox) and that's just in the past year." from http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/09/01/TheComicBookGoogleUnveilsChromeItsOpenSourceBrowser.aspx


Thursday, March 15, 2007

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Lifesong
By Casting Crowns
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How Google handles project management

Consider how Google handles project management. Every week, every Google technologist receives an automatically generated e-mail message asking, essentially, what did you do this week and what do you plan to do next week? This homegrown project management system parses the answer it gets back and extracts information to be used for follow-up. So, next week, Merrill explains, the system will ask, "Last week, you said you would do these six things. Did you get them done?"

A more traditional project tracking application would use a form to make users plug the data into different fields and checkboxes, giving the computer more structured data to process. But instead of making things easier for the computer, Google's approach is to make things easier for the user and make the computer work harder. Employees submit their reports as an unstructured e-mail, and the project tracking software works to "understand" the content of those e-mail notes in the same way that Google's search engine extracts context and meaning from Web pages.

If Google employees found the project tracking system to be a hassle to work with, they probably wouldn't use it, regardless of whether it was supposed to be mandatory, Merrill says. But because it's as easy as reading and responding to an e-mail, "We get pretty high compliance."

Those project tracking reports go into a repository—searchable, of course—so that managers can dip in at any time for an overview on the progress of various efforts. Other Google employees can troll around in there as well and register their interest in a project they want to track, regardless of whether they have any official connection to that project.

"What we're looking for here is lots of accidental cross-pollination," Merrill explains, so that employees in different offices, perhaps in different countries, can find out about other projects that might be relevant to their own work. Despite Google's reputation for secrecy toward outsiders, internally the watchword is "living out loud," Merrill says. "Everything we do is a 360-degree public discussion."

from http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=182560,00.asp


Friday, February 23, 2007

Currently Listening
See the Morning
By Chris Tomlin
Awesome Is The Lord Most High
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Immanuel Baptist church is now on MyChurch.org

I just set up my church, Immanuel Baptist Church of Richmond, VA on MyChurch. This is a very impressive online infrastructure! http://www.mychurch.org/


Sunday, February 18, 2007

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Lifesong
By Casting Crowns
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Congrats to Casting Crowns!

Casting Crowns is celebrating its sixth consecutive No.1 song with “Does Anybody Hear Her.” This is the third No.1 single from the band’s RIAA Gold-certified Lifesong album.

Over its three-year career, Casting Crowns has been the most played artist on all Christian radio formats combined.  The band has sold more than 2.3 million albums, with RIAA certifications including two Platinum records and two Gold records.  Casting Crowns won a GRAMMY for its sophomore studio release, Lifesong, and was named Group of the Year for the second consecutive year at the 37th Annual Gospel Music Awards.  Lead singer and songwriter Mark Hall has been a student pastor for 15 years. He currently serves on staff at Eagle’s Landing First Baptist Church in Atlanta.

from http://christianmusic.about.com/b/a/046065.htm


Thursday, November 09, 2006

Currently Listening
See the Morning
By Chris Tomlin
Awesome Is The Lord Most High
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President Lyndon Johnson Quote


Portrait courtesy of the White House.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
—Lyndon B. Johnson



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