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		<title>The publisher calculation and various other considerations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week turned out to be fairly eventful. I spent some time talking to a publisher during a series of phone calls about various strategies to get a book to market. In this case, because my work is highly specialized the  publisher suggested a strategy that involved marketing to libraries and major book buyers. Overall the calculation or triangulation of market value seemed to be reasonable enough, but I was still conceptualization various other considerations that created a certain degree of hesitation. I realized that my current usage strategy for social media was lacking follow through. My strategy needed to be updated to be easier to execute. Hearing somebody say, &#8220;That&#8217;s great that you created a website, but who is reading that website and why are they going to buy the book,&#8221; (paraphrased) was difficult thing to hear and to internalize. I plunged ahead and installed the Windows 8 &#8220;Consumer Preview&#8221; build version 8250 on primary workstation on Wednesday February 29, 2012 in the evening. Overall, the install was easy to accomplish and reminded me why I keep all of my data in the cloud. When your local workstation is free of personal data the decision to format is easy to make. The hardest part of the process was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear, 2011. I am done with you. Thanks for the memories.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will 2012 be better than 2011? Will 2012 be the year of the project manager? Will 2012 be known as the year strategy become came to the forefront of the public mind? Within the United States questions about economics will be central to our shared experiences within public spaces. What strategy will the United States adhere to during 2012? Will the dog and pony show of political theater overshadow the substance of proper strategic planning? I will be engaging in some live blogging throughout the evening as 2011 draws to a conclusion. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Tentative Goals for 2012 Publish at least one non-fiction manuscript; throughout the last decade I have been putting the final touches on about five different manuscripts that could be published in 2012 Complete the Stanford University advanced project management program Pass the Project Management Institute (PMI) test to be certificated as a Project Management Professional (PMP) Pass the Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) test Pass the Cisco Certified Network Associate Voice (CCNA Voice) test Write 3 new papers for the 2013 conferences Apply for grants to fund the Civic Honors Institute Publish at least 1 of the my 3 2012 conference papers in a peer reviewed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cloud has become overcrowded</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think back to a time when you were separated from the internet. If you have not experienced this phenomenon recently, then consider taking a camping trip that involved fly fishing in the mountains. I hear Colorado Springs, Colorado is an excellent place for a base camp. Before the advent of the digital age, the accumulation of knowledge within our society could have easily been represented by books sitting on library shelves. Research projects used to begin by locating a point on a library shelf selecting a book and reading the book. The author of the book provided road signs to other thinkers through the use of references. Sometimes the local library had all of the referenced books and papers. However, sometimes hunting down references can become a full time job. In the grand scheme of things the library system has worked for thousands of years. Only within the last few years has the system started to breakdown. Knowledge streams have gained a unique combination of breadth and depth that the sheer volume of thought has become overwhelming. In this case, the best description of the problem is the most simple and direct. The cloud has become overcrowded. The marketplace of ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential debates have become functionally meaningless</title>
		<link>http://nelslindahl.com/nels/2011/11/presidential-debates-have-become-functionally-meaningless.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We as a national would be better off allowing each of the candidates to deliver a 5 to 7 minute campaign speech followed by a period where the candidates are allowed to ask questions of each other with time limits for the questions and answers. Honestly, who could argue with the argument that the media (or partisan journalists) have no business asking debate questions of candidates that should be debating each other? If it was an interview, then it would be the right forum for journalist questions.  We should allow candidates to debate each other openly and honestly during lengthy televised debates. Journalist should not be allowed to set the national agenda by controlling debate questions. Allowing leaders to provide some degree of leadership mixed with vision and defined agendas would allow votes to make better informed decisions.]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Social Networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I will give pretty much any social networking technology a few moments of consideration, I’m running out of patience for both Twitter and Facebook. Participation within the social networking experience always seems fleeting and uninspired. Without any degree of contribution to the broader social discourse modern social networking seems to create a series of divergent microcosms or in some ways delusional pockets of realism. I’m pretty well convinced that giving up posting to Twitter and Facebook may be the best possible course of action.]]></description>
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		<title>Workforce theory revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it has been one of those weeks. David (who presumes to have some type of wisdom derived from across the pond) took the time to mock my weblog with reckless abandon. Outside of the mockery, I can say that until this week I had never really questioned how hierarchical stability affects a workforce. The economy over the last few years has without question affected the modern workforce. Organizations are focused on doing more with less based on optimization strategies and occasionally lean six sigma techniques. Modern workforces are incredibility adaptive. Good managers seem to raise productivity margins every year. A workforce can naturally develop and gain institutional knowledge at an organic rate. Alternatively, with good management a workforce can develop based on planning and targeted development.]]></description>
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		<title>We the people: A shared memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the shared American public square is everywhere. Globalization and the diversification of the public mind have both united and divided our attention globally and locally. Please consider for a moment the magnitude of our converging shared memories. For the most part, I avoid writing about politics. Today however is not about politics. Transformational (convergent) events can occur in a variety of ways. Communities of place, circumstance, and interest experience transformational events in different ways. We the people of the United State of America share a certain set of shared memories and experiences. Informed by our shared memories and experiences we communicate and work within our communities of place, circumstance, and interest. Today every American community is united in the commonly shared memory of what happened ten years ago today. As a people we are still very conflicted about how to move forward while being informed by our shared past. We are still conflicted about how to dream again about a future for the United States of America that involves prosperity without conflict. We are still united as Americans, but torn apart by increasingly divergent politics. We stand at a crossroads. Together we all have to make a choice. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The complexity of our utterances</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With respect to the greater social discourse that occurs within a civil society, we as a people collectively working together throughout the course of recorded history have reached a moment where the complexity of our utterances has grown larger than the bounds of a single conversation. A greater social discourse will always occur within any civil society. Collectively people work together toward a commonly shared future. Connected or separated the span of recorded history unites people from different times and places. Beyond the intersection of technology and modernity we the people stand at a strange and unique intellectual crossroads. Our capacity for history (our capacity for knowledge) has expanded our understanding of the world beyond any reasonable measure or definition. The complexity of our utterances has grown larger than the bounds of a single conversation. Without the capacity to have a single conversation that includes a complete understanding of the situation we have lost our ability to achieve informed consideration of our ideas and arguments. Social media is changing the very nature of our shared understanding of each other and civil society. The way we as a society communicate information about our lives and our situations has undergone a rapid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent Speech Essay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essay, “Permanent Speech: Politics in the age of permanence.” A new world is emerging. The intersection of technology and modernity is almost complete. A new generation of politicians is beginning to emerge. The very nature of civil society is changing. Permanent speech is about to become a reality. Everything, every moment, every utterance an individual makes will be searchable. This new change will make the politicians of the past obsolete. The new generation of politicians will be accountable. Complete searchable databases of individual utterances will define the political landscape. Real honest accountability will fundamentally transform politics. Instant reliable on demand a recall of individual utterances will ensure accountability. Do not underestimate this new politics. A politics of permanent speech will define the age of permanence. Never again will politicians say different things in front of different crowds. Permanent speech could be an isolated phenomenon. However, the age of the Internet will intersect with the age of permanence. Within this change a new world order will develop. An order based on transparency, accountability, and reality. What is permanent speech? What is permanent? What is permanence? Permanent speech occurs when recording devices (audio, visual, or both) save all individual utterances into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restructuring News Presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following represents a few initial thoughts on news presentation. Oversupply creates a certain degree of crowding within the news reporting industry. A simple solution exists to the problem. Change the methodology of news presentation. Change can start with websites devoted to the aggregation of news related content. Editors should divide news related content into four categories. Only a solid crew of devoted editors can successfully organize the news. Within the Lindahl model for news presentation, division of categories should be in column form including meaningful news, relevant news, interesting news, and considered news. The following explanation of the Lindahl model for news presentation is a work in progress for information purposes only. Theoretical models for content analysis require consideration and evaluation before any consideration of implementation. 1) Meaningful News: This category should contain the smallest number of news stories. Most news stories are not meaningful within the greater context of society. Meaningful news advances society by contributing to the greater socially shared history. Meaningful news stories describe significant influence on communities of purpose, place, interest, and circumstance. 2) Relevant News: News stories that provide additional information about meaningful events are relevant news stories. Relevant news stories are important to [...]]]></description>
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