Thursday, July 26, 2007

Olle had his first piano lesson this evening. I have the piano which my father learnt on and then my sisters and I learnt on (boys apparently didn't learn piano in my generation). I learnt from ages 8-14, up to grade five in piano terms. My first teacher was an old nun adobe photoshop illustrator who was of the rap-hands-with-a-ruler school of teaching. Hers was the first funeral (to the grave) that I ever attended a couple of years later. I played the piano a lot when I was in my 20s, for relaxation. I like playing Bach - something about the mathematical quality of his music on the piano appeals to me on a deep level. But I haven't played the piano in any routine way for years now. I've wanted Olle to learn, firstly because we have a piano and secondly so that he learns to read music, which is a bit like having an extra language. Thirdly, I guess I have a generalised wish that he develops his musical appreciation and that it does great things for his brain. In the two hours since the lesson I've become aware of a slight anxiety about it - the spectre of PRACTICE is hovering in the background. He's done lots of extracurricular activities - dance, soccer, swimming etc - but none of those had to be practised at home. This wil be something new. A friend whose son also learns the piano told me on the weekend that at first she really stressed out about the practice issue - and ended up, for her own sanity, having to completely leave it up to him whether he did it or not.

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I use the General Motors Fastlane blog as an example of a good blog and a bad blog in my presentations, and tonight I had to update my presentation. Regular readers may recall my earlier posts about General Motors on this blog and when I worked siemens hearing aid at Backbone Media . I was stating that the GM Fastlane blog was a good blog because the company is making some effort to conduct a dialogue with customer through its blog. However I thought the blog was a bad blog because the people who wrote the posts at GM hardly ever responded to the customers who posted comments on the blog. A colleague of mine in the Society for New Communications research, and formerly of IBM Christopher Barger now runs social media strategies at GM and he is starting to actively answer people's comments . I'd like to learn more about the change in strategy for General Motors and the size of the blogging team there, but that appears to be a good step in the right direction. Here's a graphic of Christopher's comment post.

I use the General Motors Fastlane blog as an example of a good blog and a bad blog in my presentations, and tonight I had to update my presentation. Regular readers may recall my earlier posts about General Motors on this blog and when I worked at Backbone Media . I was stating that the GM Fastlane blog was a good blog because the company is making some effort to conduct a dialogue with customer through its blog. However I thought the blog was a bad blog because the people who wrote the posts at GM hardly ever responded to the customers who posted comments on the blog. A colleague of mine in the Society for New Communications research, and formerly of IBM Christopher Barger now runs social media strategies at GM and he is starting to actively answer people's comments . I'd like to learn more about the change in strategy for General Motors and the size of the blogging team there, amateurmatch com but that appears to be a good step in the right direction. Here's a graphic of Christopher's comment post.

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I use the General Motors Fastlane blog as an example of a good blog and a bad blog in my presentations, and tonight I had to update my presentation. Regular readers may recall my earlier posts about General Motors on this blog and when I worked at Backbone Media . I was stating that the GM Fastlane blog was a good blog because the company is making some effort to conduct a dialogue with customer through its blog. However I thought the blog was a bad blog because the people who wrote the posts at GM hardly ever responded to the customers who posted comments on the blog. A colleague of mine in the Society for New Communications research, and formerly of IBM Christopher Barger now runs social media strategies at GM and he is starting to actively answer people's comments . I'd like to learn more about the change in strategy for General Motors and the size of the blogging team there, but that appears to be a good targeted mailing lists step in the right direction. Here's a graphic of Christopher's comment post.

Olle yugioh cards packs had his first piano lesson this evening. I have the piano which my father learnt on and then my sisters and I learnt on (boys apparently didn't learn piano in my generation). I learnt from ages 8-14, up to grade five in piano terms. My first teacher was an old nun who was of the rap-hands-with-a-ruler school of teaching. Hers was the first funeral (to the grave) that I ever attended a couple of years later. I played the piano a lot when I was in my 20s, for relaxation. I like playing Bach - something about the mathematical quality of his music on the piano appeals to me on a deep level. But I haven't played the piano in any routine way for years now. I've wanted Olle to learn, firstly because we have a piano and secondly so that he learns to read music, which is a bit like having an extra language. Thirdly, I guess I have a generalised wish that he develops his musical appreciation and that it does great things for his brain. In the two hours since the lesson I've become aware of a slight anxiety about it - the spectre of PRACTICE is hovering in the background. He's done lots of extracurricular activities - dance, soccer, swimming etc - but none of those had to be practised at home. This wil be something new. A friend whose son also learns the piano told me on the weekend that at first she really stressed out about the practice issue - and ended up, for her own sanity, having to completely leave it up to him whether he did it or not.

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