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Independence, Process and Courage

Check out this post for the blog at Transparency Towers and stay tuned for more news on How to Be(come) a Director, presented by Charles Elson, coming soon to a desktop near you. I hope you can also access the … Continue reading

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A brand new look–and a brand new jersey

Dear Doris, Apologies for the sustained silence but, if you’ve been following my public posts you’ll know it has been all go at this end, as Bottom would doubtless have remarked to Oberon if the Blarney Crone and not the … Continue reading

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As large as life and twice as cheerful.

Take two tables, each shaped like a slice of melon and place one of them in Boxborough MA and one in Phoenix AZ. Add the magic of Cisco Telepresence, three 65 inch television screens, and some eerily good audio and … Continue reading

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Ten Years To Remember

The papers and tv channels are full of retrospectives of the first 10 years of the century–the noughties. Those who care for the official record can check out the decade in three minutes here but the Crone offers her own stand-out … Continue reading

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Halloween in Itchy Ankle

If the Blarney Crone was writing the definitive Irish novel you would expect to be moving about between different locations and time periods but on a humble blog a certain simple respect for a linear chronology is usually expected. Sorry. … Continue reading

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On human contact and social networking

Being nosy–and noisy–the Crone has always liked the company of others, and to know all their business. She once had a Shrek-sized boyfriend who called her “desperate to be involved” but she prefers to think of herself as outgoing and … Continue reading

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