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I just finished reading Curt Rosengren’s 101 Ways to Get Wild about Work and I loved it!  I will be posting a review soon, but in the meantime, suffice it to say that 101 Ways to Get Wild about Work is definitely worth reading.

Tags: 101 Ways… and Worth Reading

Following are some words I would like to use some day: 

radiant, festooned, thematic, monochrome, gold leaf, big word, dodged, dashes, sleeve, horsepower, orchestrate, elaborate, tableaus, and pledge

Got any ideas?

Tags: Words, Positive Words, and Other Words

Kudos and congrats to this week’s featured 10 Outstanding Blogs:

• SoVeg
• CK’s Blog
• Thought Sparks
• Middle Zone Musings
• Jeremy Jacobs
• Dan Schawbel
• Coudal Partners
• Management Craft
• Viaspire
• Spooky Action

Check out the new Outstanding Blog Award badges for 08. 

Tags: Blogs and Outstanding Blogs, Kudos and Congrats

There is something to be said for imaginary friends, not the least of which is that you can snuff them out without consequence when they betray you.

Via Good

Related: Make it Great, Leadership Turn, Slurping Life

Tags: Wordless Wednesday and Good Magazine

Check Your Attitude

1. Do not reveal personal information inadvertently.
2. Turn on cookie notices in your Web browser, and/or use cookie mangement software or infomediaries.
3. Keep a “clean” e-mail address.
4. Don’t reveal personal details to strangers or just-met “friends”.
5. Realize you may be monitored at work, avoid sending highly personal e-mail to mailing lists, and keep sensitive files on your home computer.
6. Beware sites that offer some sort of reward or prize in exchange for your contact information or other personal details.
7. Do not reply to spammers, for any reason.
8. Be conscious of Web security.
9. Be conscious of home computer security.
10. Examine privacy policies and seals.
11. Remember that you decide what information about yourself to reveal, when, why, and to whom.
12. Use encryption!

Visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the straight dope: EFF’s Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy.

Have a safe week!

Tag: Online Privacy

“Join me in raising social awareness.  Together we can take steps towarad making a difference.” — Kenneth Cole

It’s funny, I have never owned anything made by Kenneth Cole. 

Visit Kenneth Cole’s Awearness Blog.  Friend Liza Sabater is a contributor.

Tags: Awareness, Awearness Blog, Kenneth Cole, Liza Sabater

Subprime Carbon [n] :: Epithet for commodities like coal that are expected to lose value when governments put a price on carbon emissions.  Calling carbon subprime, Al Gore is urging investors to dump environmentally irresponsible holdings.

Tags: Subprime Carbon and Jargon 

Via Wired