Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

Enjoy Your Holidays!

Posted in Miscellaneous on Monday, December 19th, 2011. One comment so far

As I’ve done this time of year over the 5+ years of this blog, I’ll not be posting over the next two weeks for the holidays. I hope you’ll consider joining me in enjoying your holiday season, relaxing, refreshing, and readying for 2012!

Wild Fire Spotting on My Twitter Search Feeds

Posted in Miscellaneous on Tuesday, September 6th, 2011. 4 comments so far

Most of Texas has been living through an exceptional drought with Central Texas in its driest 10-month spell in recorded history. The recent tropical storm that hit our neighboring state, Louisiana, coupled with a cool front, brought high winds to the area–a perfect recipe for wildfires. I’ve been keeping an eye on the Twitter hashtags, [...]

Traveling the Highways and Byways

Posted in Miscellaneous on Monday, August 1st, 2011. No comments yet

I’ll be traveling the roadways across the great U.S. over the next couple weeks and not posting here on the blog. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy the break from my writing, too!

Changing Nature of Problem Solving

Posted in Miscellaneous on Monday, May 16th, 2011. No comments yet
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The Measurement Control & Automation Association (MCAA) is having their annual Industry Forum this week in Tempe, Arizona. The session is filled with instrumentation and automation suppliers from large companies and small. The two day conference shares updates in global economic outlooks and trends, moving from product selling to solutions selling, developing economic models to [...]

Is it Worth Your Time to Listen Online?

Posted in Education, Miscellaneous on Friday, April 29th, 2011. No comments yet
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Things seem to have settled out in our transition of this blog over to WordPress. We’ve been repairing a few breaks from the move of 5+ years of posts. We don’t have them all but hopefully most. I appreciate any feedback you have on the new site as we continue to tweak and settle in to [...]

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Two Views on Leadership

Posted in Miscellaneous on Friday, April 15th, 2011. No comments yet
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With the Dilbert cartoon poking fun at highly hierarchical organizational structures these past few days (14-Apr-2011, 15-Apr-2011), it’s great to see an alternative view in the post on leadership over at the ControlGlobal.com SoundOff! Editors’ Blog, Leaders on Leadership #pauto #mfg #manufacturing @plantsuccess. I wanted to pass along these four leadership attributes from the post: [...]

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Posts from the Emerson Process Management Blogosphere

Posted in Miscellaneous on Monday, February 28th, 2011. No comments yet
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This will likely be a light posting week with travel and meetings. I’ll highlight some of the recent posts on some of the other Emerson Process Management blogs. Over at the Modeling and Control (RSS) blog, Terry Blevins has a post on ratio control. Terry opens: For many processes, such as blending and boiler combustion, [...]

To Blog or Not to Blog

Posted in Miscellaneous on Friday, February 11th, 2011. No comments yet
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To Blog or Not to Blog. That is the title of an article I wrote for the winter 2011 edition of Valve magazine. Being a blogger, you might expect my answer to be yes–and you’d be correct. I gave it an emphatic yes. Here’s my brief rationale for this affirmative position: Most of your wisdom [...]

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Have a Great Holiday Season!

Posted in Miscellaneous on Monday, December 20th, 2010. No comments yet

I want to wish everyone a great holiday season and let you know that posting will resume the first week of January 2011. Enjoy!

Social Media for Automation Sales and Marketing Folks

Posted in Emerson Exchange, Miscellaneous on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010. No comments yet
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Posting will be lighter this week than normal. I’m in Atlanta for the ISA Marketing and Sales Summit. I’ll be speaking with automation supplier sales and marketing folks on my favorite topic, social media. The talk is titled, Social Media–Should We, Should We Not, or Should We Just Ignore the Whole Thing. The talk will [...]

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