[Dialogue] Repository Update

Tue Aug 15 09:52:39 EST 2006

Good work! You may not let me stay with you, but I do not take it personally 
and can still appreciate the great work you do..when you are sober!!
Dick

<html><DIV>Richard H.T. Alton</DIV>
<DIV>Institute of Cultural Affairs</DIV>
<DIV>4750 N. Sheridan Road</DIV>
<DIV>Chicago, Illinois 60640</DIV>
<DIV>T: 1.773.769.6363</DIV>
<DIV>F: 1.773.769.1144</DIV>
<DIV>email:ralton at ica-usa.org</DIV>
<DIV>www.ica-usa.org</DIV>
<DIV><EM><U>Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back,</U> Babe 
Ruth</EM></DIV>
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>From: "Gordon Harper" <gharper1 at mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
>To: Dialogue at wedgeblade.net
>Subject: [Dialogue]  Repository Update
>Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:24:54 -0700
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>Colleagues --
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>It's now been two months since we announced the OE/EI/ICA Repository. 
>Here's a brief update for those of you interested in its progress so
>far.
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>There have been two public showings for colleagues that I'm aware of,
>at gatherings which some of you from the US and
>Canada attended--one in Seattle and one in San Francisco.  At last
>count, 68 of us have both visited the site and registered on it.  Among us, 
>we come from eight different countries.  I don't know how
>many people may have visited without registering.
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>Several of you have left words of greeting and current photos of
>yourselves for us on the personal page created for you when you
>register; much appreciated!  Some of you have asked for a hand in
>registering, and Tim has helped you through it.  We've tried to record
>any difficulties you've run into, along with their solutions, in the
>sidebar links, Site Help and Your Comments.
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>Thanks in part to you, the Repository now includes a variety of
>materials in addition to your current pictures and greetings: photos
>from our consults and human development projects (and just recently,
>shots of us as we showed up at the 2000 reunion in Vail), corporate
>rituals, lectures, symbols, audio clips of Slicker and Matthews, Brian
>Stanfield's timeline, stories (some of them pretty funny), songs
>(including audio of us singing), documents, old assignment sheets,
>Beret Griffith's marvelous chronology of our history, memorials,
>witnesses, poetry, office location listings from our most expansive
>phase, an interactive global grid, newspaper clippings, article
>reprints--you get the idea.  Many thanks to all of you who have
>contributed to the site during these first two months of its life!
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>Even with that list, we've obviously only scratched the surface of the
>things we can share from our history.  More important, we've only begun
>the attempt to articulate the profound aspects of our legacy, the
>impact it's had on us and others and the relevance it may yet have for
>the future.  In this respect, I hope all of you have had a chance to
>read the witness (though he might not use that word) of the current ICA
>USA Board Chair, Richard Wilkinson (if you haven't, here's the link:
>http://twiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view.cgi/Main/WhatBecoming).
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>For those of you who find this venture of some value, we invite your
>thoughts on what you'd like to see on the Repository and your
>suggestions for how we might do that, as well as ideas on how we might
>make it easier to use.  One of the things I hope to explore in the next
>couple months is getting some video on the site.  This is an arena in
>which I have no experience or knowledge--converting old VHS tapes into
>a format that can be easily viewed on line.  If any of you have some
>smarts here, I'd love to hear from you!
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>If you are moderately comfortable around computers, you probably
>haven't had (or won't have) much difficulty registering and putting
>things of your own on the site.  We know, however, that not all of you
>have wasted as much of your lives on information technology as the
>three of us who have perpetrated this trouble!  Please do ask for help
>when you get stuck.  Have something you'd like to put up but aren't
>quite sure how to go about it?  By all means, call the Geek
>Squad--we'll work with you on it.  And sometimes a problem you run into
>is actually a glitch in the system that we have to fix.
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>One of the things we're planning to do is to schedule some colleague
>gatherings at which people can bring items they'd like to post and get
>a bit of tutoring, mentoring, guidance, whatever, on the spot in doing
>so.  Watch for word about one of these in your area.  Plus here in the
>US, there will be a gathering in Chicago in November focused on caring
>for the ICA legacy.
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>Now, if you're someone who's feeling depressed or guilty because you've
>not yet even visited the site (tsk, tsk!), salvation is at hand.  Just
>type wedgeblade.net into your browser, and you're good to go. Skim the home 
>page, and click on the links at the bottom to get you
>started.  (That's also where you'll find the link to the Registration
>form, BTW.  If you want a little support in registering, click Step
>By Step in the sidebar on the left.)
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>As for the rest of you, if you've not been on recently, I think you'll
>find several new items of interest.  Have a look, then add some more of
>your own.
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>OK, let's see what the next couple of months bring forth . . . .
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