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Things have been exciting here lately. The semester started and Typewriter is up to his eyeballs in statistics homework and a new book with pressing deadlines. The kids started first-grade with all the acclimation issues related to being in all-day school for the first time. Telly, our little gray cat, is no longer a kitten and has taken to chasing the kids around the house for sport. Meanwhile, the pink-haired lady of the house is experiencing change as well.

A month or so ago I hired to take on a large-scale research project with an online university to examine their use of online communities and how to improve their use. Today marks the official start of that project and I’m totally stoked to be the one who gets to the answer questions that may just help us all be better at what we do online. It’s a four month project that should keep me hopping about half the time. The other half of my time will be spent on another great new opportunity in a role with Kelley Executive Partners at Indiana University where I’ll be helping move more of their custom training projects online using a wide variety of technologies. Executive training like KEP does has never been conducted online so we’ll be the first! The folks at KEP are simply amazing and I feel very lucky to be part of their team.

Both projects are huge and that time investment means I’ve had to leave my full-time job with Media Sauce. It’s only been a day and I already miss them terribly. The folks in that office are by far the most creative, generous, fantastic people under one roof ever! I’m still hoping to help them out now and then just as an excuse to hang out with all the amazing people and the innovative projects they get to work on.

Meanwhile, the dissertation is still chugging along and I’m still travelling lots for talks and conferences. Last week I was in Cocoa Beach, Florida at the Young Professionals Organization Summit. Over 150 professionals between twenty and forty years old, all gung-ho to change the world. It was absolutely inspiring. Thanks to Rebecca and Marti at Next Generation Consulting I was able to deliver a pretty ass-kicking keynote (if I do say so myself) but it was the smaller conversations that made me come home feeling like I could change the world. I have renewed faith in my generation. We rawk!

So much to do and so little time to do it all but I feel truly fortunate to be where I am. Stay tuned for more fun info and updates. Meanwhile, leave a comment about your fav project. What are you working on that really lights your fire? Share the love and we’ll all pass the kudos around.

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