Greg Gratton and myself, Paul Grim are playing golf on Wednesday, June 27th at Augustine Golf Club in Stafford, VA. We have a tee time for 2PM and need two more to join us for a foursome. Email me or Greg if you are interested. The cost is $40 for 18 holes.
by Paul Grim
Who's up for some Top Golf this coming Saturday night?
E-mail dc-v2412@googlegroups.com
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Paul Grim
Hi All,
Blogging is a new world to me, and I think I have the advantage of liking exploring this new world... As you may have known, I like the challenge. The blog site we are using is a part of Google Products. It's a good exercise for me to learn more about Google products, since I am going to teach " Google Mania: What can Google do for your for FREE? " on Saturday, June 23, 2007. Please take a look at http://www.takeaclass.org to see the description of the course.
Many of you having questions on how to post to the blog?
The step you need to take is first, you have to accept the invitation to be a blog contributor, and once you accept that, the e-mail you sent to fadoli.dc-v2412@blogger.com will be automatically posted to our blog (website): http://dc-v2412.blogspot.com .
I took the sample the great e-mail that Dan sent on " A 2 Minute Magic Formula incident", which is very inspiring and encouraging us to practice DC principles. What he will need to do is to send the same e-mail to fadoli.dc-v2412@blogger.com. He will be credited as the Contributor and his story will be automatically available on our blogsite. Yes, that e-mail address has my id there as the blog was under my account :-).
So, if you have similar stories, announcement, or something you want to share to the world, you can just e-mail it to:
fadoli.dc-v2412@blogger.com
If you have difficulties to remember our blog website address, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, or Fire Fox have bookmark feature you can use and for the e-mail address, you can save it in your address book.
In any rate, the action I want you to do is to accept the invitation and you will be part of this great technology!
PS. Please make sure before you send your blog posting to fadoli.dc-v2412@blogger.com, you may want to delete your signature, so it won't be published it to the whole world. Otherwise, you can edit it later... (I will write another posting for this).
Happy Blogging!
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Agus "Etcera"
Keep your date open on Jul 28 for our first barbeque party hosted by Brian Dusek.
As this is a public site (available on internet), I won't send the detail address of Brian's home.
This is what he explained on the e-mail:
"We are located in the AU Park / Tenleytown Neighborhood in NW DC - 4 blks straight west of the red line Metro stop, which is 4 stops up from Dupont Circle or 2 stops down from Bethesda (yes, I will send all the direction info as the date gets closer)."
So, please RSVP to Brian Dusek through our e-mail group, dc-v2412@googlegroups.com.
There I was, three weeks ago considering learning new things in aquarium hobby, maintaining a reef tank! This aquarium hobby has been an incremental hobby for me. I started with one small aquarium, now I have 6 aquariums from 5.5 Gallon to 64 Gallon.
About two weeks ago, I found a good deal of used complete Saltwater Aquarium systems including fish, live rocks and corals through Craigslist. I bought them, I wasn't usually a compulsive buyer, but with fish and aquarium, it was different.
The owner of the tank helped me to deliver and set up the systems for me. It took me the whole weekend to work on it. What I found after I set up my tank, my basement started looked like places with boxes, aquariums, buckets, nets and other fish tank accessories, nothing really to be proud of.
I remembered in session 4, I told the DC class: The old me, who were moving constantly, and having so many boxes unpacked. The new me, enthusiastically opening the boxes and cleaning up my basement to make up some room.
Those commitment kept hanging over my mind as I didn't reach this goal in session 8. What ashame I was.
Last week, I spent my weekend with full 
enthusiasm cleaning my basement, making some room for my new tank and its equipments, throwing away unused items, sorting out items for charity.
Now, I have a nice place to display my new saltwater aquarium, 4 boxes ready to go to the charity, a space to walk through, and less stress. Tomorrow, I am planning to drop the boxes to the charity place.
The action I want you to do is to share your commitment to others openly and you will make it happen as you are a responsible person!
I really enjoyed the class and learnt a lot from you all. I have not only learnt the presentation skills but learnt the importance of the Human Resources principles we talked about. Hope we can all get together this thursday at Arlington.
Congratulations to all of you for completing the Dale Carnegie Course and graduating last Thursday night. While I was at my society's President's Reception that night in Baltimore I thought about all of you and how you all have made a personal impact on me and my leadership and communications skills. Thanks for all that you have shared with me about yourself and your personal life. I look forward to staying in touch via this blog. FYI, our 2007 Annual Conference was a big success, and I used my new DC communications skills in my presentation to our Board of Directors and in our Annual Business Meeting to the 450+ attendees. Thanks Mike and Maria for helping me be a more confident leader. Take care!
It was a great 13 weeks and getting to know everyone was truly amazing. Thanks for sharing your professional and personal stories. This course and the people it trained and brought together was definitely life altering. I hope we all stay in touch. Perhaps a reunion at some point?? Take care all.
Hope and I very much appreciated the opportunity to get to know you all. What a great change in all of us. We learned a lot about ourselves and probably influenced ourselves more then others.
Congrats to Greg for winning the 'best' award and his closing remarks were heartfelt by everyone.
Thanks Mike L. for being an amazing instructor. How you summarized our speeches so well was beyond me. Paul G. was a terrific coach who always kept me well informed.
Thanks - Avery Collins (hopeavery1@cox.net)
Congratulations to ALL
Last night was great.It's truly amazing how far all of us have come in 13 weeks. Thanks to everyone for sharing your experiences with me in classes.It really has made me grow in ways that I would never have imaged. A special thanks to all the coaches especially Mike Barber for all you guidance .What will I do with Thursday nights now!!!!!
Thanks "Etecetera" for creating this Blog
