When looking at a situation – viewing it from a different perspective is often worthwhile. Case in point: while prepping for an interview, I came across these two wonderful documents from LinkedIn Talent Solutions for interviewers. They helped me prepare myself. Perhaps they will help you too!
Here’s a blog post from Elizabeth Minchilli, a foodie in Italy I’ve followed for a couple of years. Check out her first hand account of being their coronavirus lock down. She’s a great person.
Our Airbnb bookings in early February seemed a little less than usual for mid-winter. So I compared our bookings for February and March to the Airbnb’s around us.
Net: We’re right in the middle of pack.
Click on the graphic below to my telling of this story on YouTube.
We had fun catching up with friends over some nibbles and great music by Kate Morrison and Vince Frates.
Sometimes I geek out on charts… like this over-done one by Wine Spectator.
Basic Conclusions
What does it say to me?
I’ve been working my way along Salesforce’s Trailhead (software training). The points have been racking up with those 500 point challenges! Then I noticed ApexHours.com Developer Training Program in conjunction with Salesforce. The trainings have been great and well organized. There is more to being a developer than I realized! Pleased to say my experience with SAS, SQL, C++, and Java has come in handy as they put the various software components and methodology into perspective.
The pace reminds me of a College summer course.
I’m amazed by what I stumble upon. A neat example: wonderful Japanese wood blocks. In a recent blog, “500 Japanese Woodblock Prints from Van Gogh’s Collection Are Now Available to Download” by Jessica Steward on MyModernMet.com. Both Jessica and the Van Gogh Museum provide a wonderful introduction and explanation of this printing method.
If you want even more: ukiyo-e.org has over 200,000 Japanese wood blocks. Their focus is on the huge collection, rather than the presentation. To quote Ms. Steward in a blog post from Sept., 2017, “Ukiyo-e.org is a digital archive that collates collections from 24 museums, libraries, auction houses, and art dealers around the world. By uniting the individual collections, there are several interesting features that make Ukiyo-e.org a top destination for anyone interested in Japanese printmaking. Aside from the ability to search by institution, artist, and time period, you can also upload an image to see if there are any similar prints in the database. And, once you click on an entry, similar prints in the archive also appear, allowing you to click through and see the differences in color and quality.” Check out this wood block by my fav Yoshida Hiroshi.
Want to try your hand at making a woodblock? Woodblock Printing How To.
Enjoy!
@PDX_SNUG held a full day gathering today at United Way downtown. It was a blast. The crowd was friendly and social. Surprised myself and won the ice breaker “Bingo” game. Got a 2019 Dreamforce knapsack!
What did I learn?
New Info:
– The four admins I talked to – none had their certification
– Near all the orgs are bouncing between Classic & Lightning
– Non-profits really use SFDC differently than sales organizations
– A new term: Technical Debt – it hurts
– Automation gets better and better: Flow!
Reinforced:
– Track & measure business processes in ways easy on users
– Keep the Data cleaned up
– Be a net add to the organization
– Everyone is a customer: Staff to Management to Board to Donors
– Let the data/organization tell its story: Dashboards
– I learn something from everyone
My First Toastmaster Contest – Glad I did it!
Our usual casual Toastmasters group was very formal, as we had both the speech and evaluation contests today.
What’s the deal? This is the first round leading to the state, national and ultimately global contests. Each week, speeches and verbal evaluations are given during our meetings. Several people in our group have won at the Portland-level. Everyone was nervous, including myself, as Jerry read aloud the formal rules of the contest, rather than in our usual casual camaraderie. I confess, I was not the winner of the three people in the evaluation contest. Though we cheerfully sent along our winners to the next contest level.
I recently stumbled upon this new blog, “The Other Side of Sales“. While I’m not “in Sales”, we all promote our ideas, organizational efforts, our team mates. I like how they talk about being comfortable and struggling in the work place.
Podcast: Episode 9: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
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