http://daviddaniels.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:30:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://daviddaniels.com/2010/10/i-born-too-late-nys-now-using-google-apps/ http://daviddaniels.com/2010/10/i-born-too-late-nys-now-using-google-apps/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:23:18 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=5185 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I’ve been using everything Google now for the past 5 years. Gmail, Chrome, Docs, Notebook, Reader, ect, ect… Now NYS is going to be using Google Apps in the classroom. Essentially I was born too late! :) But check out the video and check out all the cool stuff you can do with Google Apps. Everything [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2010/10/i-born-too-late-nys-now-using-google-apps/feed/ 0 http://daviddaniels.com/2010/08/a-young-persons-guide-to-the-constitution/ http://daviddaniels.com/2010/08/a-young-persons-guide-to-the-constitution/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:00:24 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=5109 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Ok, I found this youtube video incredibly informative and just had to repost it. I have been incredibly busy lately at the expense of my blog but I’ll get back to posting regularly very soon. Summer is almost over and I hope that everyone is enjoying their summers as much as I am. They just [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2010/08/a-young-persons-guide-to-the-constitution/feed/ 0 http://daviddaniels.com/2010/05/dont-close-the-book-on-libraries/ http://daviddaniels.com/2010/05/dont-close-the-book-on-libraries/#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 11:00:08 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=4668 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Image via Wikipedia This is my open letter to Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn in response to the $37 million in budgets cuts planned for the NYPL, reducing the days the Library is open from 6 to 4. - Dear Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn, Now is not the time to close the book on [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2010/05/dont-close-the-book-on-libraries/feed/ 0 http://daviddaniels.com/2010/04/what-adults-can-learn-from-kids/ http://daviddaniels.com/2010/04/what-adults-can-learn-from-kids/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:00:19 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=4122 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Now here is a video that is incredibly impressive! Not only is this 10 yr old girl a child prodigy but an excellent public speaker with some interesting points of view. Don’t watch this or you just might learn something. “Learning between grownups and kids should be reciprocal“. Remember the days when kids should be seen [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2010/04/what-adults-can-learn-from-kids/feed/ 2 http://daviddaniels.com/2010/03/imagine-leadership-by-xplane/ http://daviddaniels.com/2010/03/imagine-leadership-by-xplane/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:00:51 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=3817 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper of Harvard Business School‘s Leadership Initiative collaborated with XPLANE to create this video in order to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership to address some of society’s most pressing problems. I believe true leadership will address societies problems and work towards the common good.  You can start here… [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2010/03/imagine-leadership-by-xplane/feed/ 0 http://daviddaniels.com/2010/02/what-im-reading-this-sunday-morning/ http://daviddaniels.com/2010/02/what-im-reading-this-sunday-morning/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:45:23 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=3390 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. Here is a topic I explore quite frequently here on my blog, the differences between Generations X, Y and the Millennial’s. Looks like the Pew Research Center is also doing an in depth study on the same subject. Very interesting read I hope you enjoy. The full article is [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2010/02/what-im-reading-this-sunday-morning/feed/ 0 http://daviddaniels.com/2009/10/shuttle-rollout/ http://daviddaniels.com/2009/10/shuttle-rollout/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:17 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=2093 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } OK, so I have a little bit of Trekkie in me but I’ve always enjoyed the more boring aspects of the Space Shuttle, like how do they position the Shuttle onto the launchpad? The? 7 hour, 3.4-mile trip began at 6:38 a.m. and was completed at 1:31 p.m. That’s about 1/2 mile an hr. Hmmm… “Space shuttle Atlantis was moved [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2009/10/shuttle-rollout/feed/ 0 http://daviddaniels.com/2009/10/columbus-greatest-businessman-ever/ http://daviddaniels.com/2009/10/columbus-greatest-businessman-ever/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:07:49 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=1948 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Happy Columbus Day everyone! I was just going over my History Channel subscription delivered to me via email and thought I’d share this short clip on Columbus day. Columbus could be considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time (among other things). Very interesting piece! “From the YouTube History Channel: Christopher Columbus is known as many [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2009/10/columbus-greatest-businessman-ever/feed/ 1 http://daviddaniels.com/2009/09/age-of-stupid-film-opens-today/ http://daviddaniels.com/2009/09/age-of-stupid-film-opens-today/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:07:05 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=1790 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Just in time for President Obama’s big Speech at the U.N. today about Global Warming, the premiere of possibly the first movie to be distributed worldwide without the help or financing of any major movie studio and it happens to be on Global Warming. The Age of Stupid is not only a film about global warming but [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2009/09/age-of-stupid-film-opens-today/feed/ 1 http://daviddaniels.com/2009/09/the-science-of-motivation/ http://daviddaniels.com/2009/09/the-science-of-motivation/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:00:46 +0000 David Daniels http://daviddaniels.com/?p=1726 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } This is an incredibly interesting presentation. The carrot and stick method of motivating people does more harm than good.  Rewards narrow our focus and restrict our possibilities whereas working completely autonomously increases creativity. If your a manager of people in any field,  watch and learn! Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting [...]]]> http://daviddaniels.com/2009/09/the-science-of-motivation/feed/ 0