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Submitted by innowen on Mon, 2006-07-03 21:17.

Happy 4th of July everyone (or post-Canada Day to our Canadian friends). Doug has packed his system and all his things and now treks across Canada to his new home. In the meantime, he wanted to share with you the post he wrote last November for Communication Nation. The article focuss around Doug’s personal experiences with electorinc and paper planning and what drove him back to the analog paper system once and for all.

Trading away the handhelds, tablet PCs and online productivity tools for pens, planners, cards and Moleskines is a leap of faith, like toppling a regime in the hope that the next one will somehow be more benevolent, more attuned to your needs, and offer greater opportunities. It may not, and you may find yourself before the firing line, remembering with fondness the evils of yesterday.

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Not only does using paper planners, storyboards, index cards, whiteboards and flip charts allow us to see and experience things from entirely new vantage points, they force us to re-examine the execution and importance of the task at hand. It’s the break from the worn-out tech-centred paradigm, with no restrictions to hinder you, not even battery life.

Hope everyone’s having a great 4th of July and we’ll return to normal postings later this week. Take care.

. We have also noted who Is Jaymi Elford

Submitted by steves on Fri, 2006-07-07 05:08.

Greetings all. Well, I’m back. We had some troubles a few weeks ago and I had to take a hiatus from this site, but I’m back again and raring to go. There have been a few changes on this site since I was last here. Doug Johnston, with a 20 month old son, a brand new baby and moving to the Yukon, for some reason felt overwhelmed and brought Jaymi Elford on board to help with editing and organizational duties and we’ve all been seeing a lot of her lately on this site, but the question remains: who is Jaymi Elford?

Jaymi Elford is multi-talented and eccentric, esoteric and contemplative, but to really understand her, you have to understand her background. So, after exhaustive and brain-wrenching research, I present The Unofficial Biography Of Jaymi Elford:

• At an early age, Jaymi overcame a crippling fear of radial tires and later served 5 years in the French Foreign Legion as a fashion consultant.
• She is descended from an Irish immigrant and a shallow West-coast yuppie and is proud of her colorful heritage. She speaks English at work, Gaelic at home and something that sounds like Mandarin Chinese when she’s been drinking whiskey out of the bottle for more than 2 days.
• In high school, she was known as “everybody’s friend, nobody’s lover” and was voted Most Likely To Foment An Unsuccessful Revolution In A Small African Country.
• Due to the captain of the football team, she still has a tattoo on her butt that says The Tao Of Dwayne.
• At the age of 23, she spent an entire year in contemplative silence, not because she trying to come to a better understanding of her own consciousness, but because she was really, really mad at her boyfriend. He didn’t know what he did. She didn’t tell him.
• Although she works in many different media, Jaymi chose to work primarily in print rather than in film. She describes film as being a lot like books, only louder.
• She is not confined to the traditional definition of marriage, but she is opposed to “really screwed up people reproducing”.
• She is convinced that dyslexia is a government plot to control California.
• She’s waging an underground but vigorous campaign to have Alexander the Great’s name’s name officially changed in the history books to ‘Alexander The Really Really Terrific.” She respects his accomplishments, but just doesn’t think conquering Asia Minor would have been that difficult.
• Her favourite book is Zen And The Art Of Electro-Shock Therapy.
• She’s an expert at Tarot, but refuses to use The King or The Fool in her tarot readings, as they’re just too glam rock for her.
• Although not strictly a religious person, per se, she is deeply spiritual and refers to herself as a lapsed sun worshipper, which is a fancy way of saying she likes the rain.

Well, that’s the full story on Jaymi Elford. I hope that this has helped to engender a sense of community and common purpose, or, ya know, whatever, on this site. Yeah. Till next time, keep your pen on the page and eccentricities justified.

Steve Sharam
www.whenrealityknocks.com

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