Those who think violence can never solve problems should consider my method for fixing a faulty set of dashboard indicators in our Dodge Caravan, as I demonstrated last evening when I arrived home:
Month: August 2010
Another Joyous Occasion
As I referenced in my previous post, the Aase family had a big week with the birthday of our granddaughter, Evelyn, and my son Jacob’s marriage on Saturday to the former Alexi Iler. Here’s a video snippet from the beginning of the wedding, featuring Evelyn as Flower Girl and Alexi walking down the aisle with her father, Steve:
A few hours later, the newest Mr. and Mrs. Aase departed the church for a honeymoon in North Carolina:
It was a wonderful wedding and we’re so proud of and happy for Jacob and Alexi.
Joyous Occasions
This is a big week for the Aase clan, as my son Jacob is getting married today. I will follow up with a post with some more wedding-related photos, but here are some highlights from the events leading up to the big day.
The wedding provided a reason for my daughter Rachel, her husband Kyle and our two grandchildren, Evelyn and Juday, to make the trip to southern Minnesota from western Michigan. It also happened to be right at the time of Evelyn’s second birthday, so we had a family party for her on Wednesday night at our home. Here are some highlight photos (click to enlarge):
Here’s the big finish, in which her father, Kyle, helped ensure that as of this moment she has NO boyfriends:
Last night we had the rehearsal for Jacob’s wedding to Alexi Iler at the church in La Crosse, WI. Jacob’s favorite food is steak, so that was our main course, and I got to grill 13 boxes of No-Name steaks:
More highlights coming soon.
More Good Reasons to Not Protect Your Tweets
For the background on the slide deck below, check out Twitter 135: 10 Reasons to NOT Protect Your Tweets.
After our interaction described above, which brought Lisa Fields (@PracticalWisdom) to the point of open tweeting, she was inspired to use her presentation design skills to turn my blog post into a set of slides, which I have embedded here:
Lisa has a great gift for finding the right photo or illustration to make a point. For fuller amplification of the slides, click this link to open Twitter 135 in a new window and read along as you advance through the slide show.
This leads me to my eleventh reason why you shouldn’t protect your tweets. If Lisa still was using tweet protection, you wouldn’t be able to see this tweet of hers from earlier today:
Now wouldn’t it be a tragedy if sentiment like that had been kept under wraps?
FIR Interview on Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media
I had an opportunity on Wednesday to record a conversation with Shel Holtz, co-host of For Immediate Release, for one of the podcast series he produces with Neville Hobson. This one, Lee Aase on Mayo Clinic’s Center for Social Media, is part of the FIR Interview series.
I believe I met Shel seven or eight years ago, and in the last four years we’ve gotten to know each other well through social media and in speaking together at conferences. In fact, he’s going to be one of the speakers at our Mayo Clinic/Ragan Communications Social Media Summit in Jacksonville in September.
In our FIR conversation we go into a lot of the detail about our new Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, so for those interested in more background on what we’re envisioning for its role, and how it came to be, I think it will be helpful.
Listen here.
Let me know what you think!