Dream a Little Louder » Innovation http://dreamalittlelouder.com Conversations about training and development in the child and social welfare world. Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:31:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Facebook as an Inspiration Tool http://dreamalittlelouder.com/2009/12/facebook-as-an-inspiration-tool/ http://dreamalittlelouder.com/2009/12/facebook-as-an-inspiration-tool/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:31:24 +0000 Annette Sandberg http://dreamalittlelouder.com/?p=200 I joined Facebook a couple of years ago, before it became the happening place it is today. At first it seemed like a sparsely populated desert where I was standing around talking to myself. I couldn’t understand why all the tech geeks were raving about it. Then slowly but surely people I knew started moving in. Now I’m connected with friends, colleagues, family, and even high school classmates. One of those classmates, my friend Phip Ross, created a video at the beginning of the Fall semester for his fellow teachers. I thought his video was so inspiring I decided to finally tackle my own video editing learning curve. Understand, I’ve been reading about editing for years, but after seeing Phip’s video I actually edited my first video. It’s a very silly video, but I had a lot of funny learning about the editing process which was ultimately my goal.  So now I’m inching closer to my dream of creating an online collaborative training/learning portal for professionals in the child welfare field.  And all because I reconnected with a long-lost friend through Facebook. Cool, eh?

Here’s Phip’s video. Watch and be inspired.


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I have spent much of my life trying to figure out how to be me without alienating you. Unfortunately, these goals are mutually exclusive. How many times has someone told you to “just be yourself”?  How many times have you wondered what the heck that means?  When I quiet my ego chatter for a micro-moment, and get courageously honest, I know EXACTLY what that means for me. And, it has nothing to do with anyone else’s opinion of me, or what they think I should be about.  Gary Vaynerchuk inspired me with the following video, and even if you’ve already seen it, it’s worth watching again.  Enjoy!

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