PASS Summit 2013-Almost Final Thoughts
I’m home in Orlando, reveling in not being jet lagged for once. A great traveler I am not. I was...
2013-10-21
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PASS Summit Report #16 (Mentoring)
A couple years back Steve Jones and I started The Mentoring Experiment. Our first experiments to see how effective non-local...
2013-10-19
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PASS Summit 2013-Blogger Interview With PASS Officers
On Thursday the PASS bloggers were given the chance to meet with the PASS officers and I participated along with...
2013-10-19
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PASS Summit 2013 Report #15
Slower day today, fewer notes!
Most of my morning spent on mentoring and some networkingLunch today was Birds of a Feather,...
2013-10-18
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PASS Summit 2013–Board Q&A
PASS Board Q&A just starting. Session is being recorded – transcript will be published, no decision on whether recording will be...
2013-10-18
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PASS Summit 2013-Board Q&A Today at
The PASS Board of Directors will be available for questions from the members from 12:30 to 1:45 in Ballroom C....
2013-10-18
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PASS Summit 2013 Report #14
More quick notes, it was a busy day:
I saw down with PASS Board Rick Bolesta after the keynote to discuss...
2013-10-18
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PASS Summit 2013 Report #13
Incoming President Thomas LaRock up. 3000 viewers of PASS TV yesterday. Adam Jorgensen the the new VP of Finance and...
2013-10-17
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PASS Summit 2013 Report #12
Waiting on the second day keynote to begin.
Douglas McDowell going over funding sources for PASS – primarily the Summit, but $100k...
2013-10-17
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PASS Summit 2013 Report #11
Today flew by. I posted earlier about my visit with Dr. DeWitt and it’s late, so bullets for the rest...
2013-10-17
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