Twin Post launches archives online

Just a heads up that The Twin Post (the new weekly newspaper for the fourth grade class at St. Thomas More School in Kansas City, MO) has just moved to online publishing. Acrobat PDF archives and editor contact information are now available online at www.twinpost.org.

Editor's Note: This domain name is scheduled to expire in fall 2007. The link above may no longer be current. -8/5/2007

Open Road Communications is donating technical expertise, domain name and hosting services to this project as part of an ongoing Big Brother, Big Sisters match with David DePriest, 4th grade editor of The Twin Post.

Enjoy!

On the Road,
Eric J. Reid

Quotes from random people

About 13 years ago, I started writing quotes down in a little publication I called the Words Once Spoken series. It was basically a quotebook putting in print things I'd overheard, read, said or written that I thought were noteworthy. Little snippets that were interesting, enlightening or funny -- especially out of context.

Today, that little publication has blossomed into an online database of over 2700 quotes searchable by keyword, "quotee", or edition. I just published the latest edition, "Somewhere Near Ambiguity", and I look forward to any feedback you may have. With over 570 speakers quoted since the series began, there must be thousands of tendrils reaching out to various degrees of separation.

Just keep in mind that some projects you give birth to for the sheer joy of it may one day become a tradition well beyond what you ever imagined.

On the Road,
Eric J. Reid

Business meetings and training

With September being the end of the budget year with training for one of my clients, it gave us a little time to work on the business of what we do. Being a small company, Open Road Communications has prided itself on sticking to business fundamentals and avoiding countless meetings when unnecessary... However, this strategy session started with a few key goals (developing a new schedule, researching and introducing new courses for the year, and setting promotional dates to boost enrollments) and it accomplished them. Moreover, it gave us some time to develop new, off-the-map ideas which should prove ground-breaking when sufficient resources can be devoted to get them off the ground. More on that later.

The main point here, however, is that although open-ended meetings can often be "time-wasters" they can also provide one of the greatest things you get from training itself: inspiration to do something new.