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Lawrence women among more than a million female farmers in the U.S.
Megan Paisley of Crane River Farm, greets Camillle Cody while the “market kids” play in the back of Paisley’s truck during the season’s first Downtown Lawrence Farmers’ Market on April 10. Paisley is part of a growing trend of female farmers, which now account for an estimated 30 percent of farmers in the US.

At Megan Paisley’s stand at the Lawrence Farmers’ Market, it’s pretty easy to get a glimpse of the future. Paisley’s two daughters, Josie and Julia, ...

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The Brain That Changes Itself: Matthew Fontaine Maury Added "template" tag to Dick Saunders' PBworks project posting & cloned as new topic: ** Edited tags from existing memes listing Please review the Goals Presentation Minnesota Futurists goals update 11nov.ppt Project Name: An MNF Facilitated Thinking VIPanel on Virtual Team Tactics Overview Objectives Team Timeline Tasks/Milestones

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Bob-RJ Burkhart Watershed Marshal at VFW Post 6654

To: Bob-RJ Burkhart

Date: September 5, 2010

Look-Listen-Learn :: I asked ConAgra CEO Mike Harper a similar question in early 1980's just after Peavey Company's merger. At General Mills Chemicals, I adapted some of my unclassified insights (thinkLets) from doing CNA-NRSAND projects for/with ComThirdFlt.

BTW:
I F1RST joined World Future Society as a 1970-71 UH-Manoa graduate student while on an extended "military-education leave of absence" from General Mill, Inc

On 09/05/10 1:31 AM, Bob-RJ Burkhart wrote:
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Mahalo Joel - Your focus on "virtual team tutoring" resonates ...

Recently, it was part of Ford CEO Alan Mulally's response on his deploying turnaround tactics that adapted effective Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) enabled by "blended visual learning" balanced scorecards.

At UN-Omaha, Dr. Robert O. Briggs (Collaboration Science) guides research along lines you shared. It's an outgrowth of DARPA basic research funded by ComThirdFlt & ONR.

Jow

On 09/04/10 10:49 AM, Dr. Joel Ginsburg wrote:
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Hello ...
My name is Joel Ginsburg. I am a veteran of decades of industrial virtual team work with international teams, currently online university instructor/professor, and formerly a chief operating officer with several large international companies. I have completed a qualitative doctoral dissertation dealing with trait-characteristics > of successful members of widely-dispersed virtual teams.

We have completed pilot-testing an assessment of hundreds of participants, measuring their characteristics against common characteristics of successful members of widely dispersed self managed virtual teams. The results yielded an agreement that we needed an Item Response Theory, IRT, assessment in order to optimize the results. The psychometrist is committed to other work, at this time. I am anxious to restart work as soon as possible. I am seeking a new psychometrist, IRT expert, who has relationships with publishers of assessments or a company offering both services.

The 21st century global marketplace is the dispersed virtual teams. The scholarly literature had never dealt with the fact that there simply are professionals predisposed to either be successful or unsuccessful as members of such teams. Human resources and management has been hiring virtual workers, without a Tool to screen applicants. The result has been a high turnover. We need to provide such a tool...an IRT based assessment. Universities do not train students in such work by offering courses dealing with how to function properly on such teams.

We need to market to all international companies. The initial work could be expanded to offerings for universities and more. I hope you and your company would entertain such a concept and or put me in contact with a company that may be anxious to joint-venture. I look forward to hearing from you,

Joel Ginsburg

On 08/30/10 9:53 AM, Bob-RJ Burkhart wrote:
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Experience
Four years doctoral study in organizational leadership.
Dissertation produced foundation for the Assessment.

Instructor/Professor
Univ. of Phoenix Online, Colorado Technical University-Online Feb 2002 - Present
Instructed over 300 courses; approved to instruct a variety of over 300
Undergraduate and graduate Business, Management, General and
Professional Study courses.

Joel- Please introduce yourself by asking a clarifying question or sharing your insights on emerging "hot topics" or pragmatic effectiveness measures for higher education ...

Please review the Goals Presentation Minnesota Futurists goals update 11nov.ppt

Please draft your proposal ideas and post them as a NEW PAGE in the FOLDER MNF PLANNING

*** MNF "Digital Library Initiative" hyperlinks with "virtual team" memes/tags:

• Brainstorming for Session on Futures Learning Please contribute! [edit tags]
• ConfidenceBasedLearning [edit tags]
• Creative Commons Index [edit tags]
• Facilitated Thinking Guide [edit tags]

• FutureThought [edit tags]
• Futurists Meetings [edit tags]
• MN Future Problem Solving Program - Brownsville, MN [edit tags]
• MNF Virtual Team Tutoring Tactics [edit tags]

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• MindShift [edit tags]
• New Model For Decision Making [edit tags]
• Past Meetings Old [edit tags]

• PeopleWare [edit tags] 
• Planet U [edit tags]
• Test Page - Center for Collective intelligence [edit tags]

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• VirtualTeamTactics [edit tags]
• WFS 2007 Project [edit tags]

• digital library ARTifacts [edit tags]
• thought leader [edit tags]

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Project Name: An MNF Facilitated Thinking VIPanel on Virtual Team Tactics

Overview

This project is intended to fill a specific set of user needs.  It is based on the following data:

• We co-created sharable VIPanel protocols from Minnesota Joint Computer Conference (MJCC) collaboration experiences ... (1975-95)
• University of Saint Thomas Graduate Programs in Software adapted sharing protocols for Upper Midwest "CyberCrime Fighting Forum" 2000.
• Capella-U's School of Business Dean Kurt Linberg (E.C. Joseph, Sr doctoral student) co-created sustainable "virtual team tutoring" courseware!   
• As our economy rebounds, there is an opportunity to provide exposure to small-medium enterprises seeking effective "social capital" leverage.

Objectives

This project should have the following impact on our organization:

• Establish MNF as a coordinator for exposure of a broad range of small and midsize enterprises (SME) to the community and investors
• Increase our visibility and credibility in our community
• Increase our membership through this increase in visibility and credibility
• Provide a new forum and new venue for Special Presentations of a Topic Specific Nature
• Establish a new revenue stream for MNF, through admission charge that, through good attendance, exceeds costs

Team

• recommended participants for the following roles - David Keenan, Dick Saunders, Duane Carlson, John Dudziak, and other volunteers
• Investment Forum Organizer
• Venue Coordinator
• Speaker Coordinator
• Event Promotion

Timeline

• Kickoff: Planning in early December 2009
• Business Case Complete: early Jan 2010
• Specification Complete: late Jan 2010
• Event Planning: consider initial target for late March through May 2010, with possible repeat in 6 to 12 months
• Celebration: Present status at Annual Meeting in June 2010

Tasks/Milestones

• Write Business Case (team)
• Conduct market assessment - if we do it, who will come?
• Develop venue options
• consider weekday or weeknight event
• consider appetizer, beverages
• consider location and timing - based on candidate, client, and market input
• Develop speaker candidate list
• Develop vetting process for speakers
• Which companies to include based on their business / business plan for the future
• Preview and review the presentations for best in class outcome
• Develop pricing and marketing plan
• consider $25+ per person in advance, more at the door (with discount for MNF members)
• consider promotion for 8 weeks minimum advance
• consider sponsorship, exhibitor spots for additional income to offset marketing and other expenses
• Execute the approved plan
• Review lessons learned and determine how to proceed
• Celebrate

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