Personal Ideas & Personal Skills: Figure out what you believe in and what you can do about it

lxpk — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:41:20 -0500

There's some new content types in town. Create Personal Ideas and Personal Skills to figure out what you believe in and what you can do about it.

Your Personal Ideas are for defining for yourself what ideas you believe in.

For example, I saw someone posted the North American Union idea group. I not only wanted to subscribe, I posted my personal idea about this I call "Stop the North American Union". It shows up in the North American Union idea group's feed and it is a way of defining for myself what I believe about this idea.

You can already post your personal tech as inventory.

This is not just for a list of your stuff. All of these things can be added both as things you have and things you want or thing you oppose. For example, you might add an idea you disagree with to make your statement against it, you might add a skill you want someone to teach you, and you might add a piece of tech that is on your wishlist.

This will get much better. Right now the user experience to create and manage these things is clunky but the functionality is at least being define before the planned optimal experience is developed by our Drupal Dev Team. P

Personal Ideas, Personal Skills and Inventory will eventually be combined with the "subscribe to this group" button. There will be a button at the top right of every idea, skill and tech group that makes thinking, learning and equipping it as push-button easy as digging social news.

You will be able to click any idea to create your belief in it. You will be able to do likewise with Skill Groups to click to add your personal skill to your profile along with notes about your capabilities and eventually tracking of skill data like learning experiences and training.

North American Union

Stop the North American Union!

lxpk — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:19:16 -0500

I'm concerned about the proposed North American Union that would merge significant aspects of Canada, the United States and Mexico into one continental federation. Having lived in Canada and the United States before, I feel there are pros and cons of each nation and I think it would be a mistake to try to combine them politically. Canadians, Americans and Mexicans want different things and they have a right to vote for their own governments and policies to reflect their needs. We shouldn't all be smooshed together into one undemocratic superunion just because a lot of rich business people think it will make their corporations more profitable.

North American Union

North American Union

"North American Union A Couple Years Away"

Personal Ideas & Personal Skills: Figure out what you believe in and what you can do about it

Stop the North American Union!