[Dialogue] Repository Update

Wed Aug 16 05:01:50 EST 2006

Dear Gordon et al,
I read, with delight, Dick Wilkinson's 'witness' and left a comment  
(clicking on comment) but nothing seemed to happen, so don't know if  
it all worked!  I did 'log on'.
Thanks for the GEEK support, and I trust that you'll all be in  
Chicago for all the Living Legacy events!!
Peace, Ellen Howie
On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Richard Alton wrote:

> 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
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> <DIV><EM><U>Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back,</U> Babe
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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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>> Gordon
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