Sunday, August 14, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
New animated video on YouTube--Breathless Mom Project Conversation
Just released on YouTube--a Breathless Mom Project Conversation animated video. Melissa and Susan engage in a conversation about the Breathless Mom Project at the coffee area at work. As they talk about the project, both agree to work with JoelMonty to get more people involved in working on and with the project.
I've learned over the years that cartoons--and now, animated videos, can do more to convey a message than email, face-to-face, or video-conferences. While this may not be true for long-term messages, it is very true for small, tight messages.
Anyway, check-out the video, get involved with the Breathless Mom Project and tell me what you think.
I've learned over the years that cartoons--and now, animated videos, can do more to convey a message than email, face-to-face, or video-conferences. While this may not be true for long-term messages, it is very true for small, tight messages.
Anyway, check-out the video, get involved with the Breathless Mom Project and tell me what you think.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Need Help With "Breathless Mom" Project
(Reprinted from JoelMontyPresents.com, JoelMonty’s Facebook Fan Page)
Sharlie, Our Breathless Mom
Sharlie is a 32-year-old mom suffering from cystic fibrosis–a lung disease that is genetic and life-threatening–life-ending. I had a close friend in high school who suffered from the disease and who died at an early age. Please watch the YouTube video about Sharlie and her family.I have been working for several months with a group of caring Internet professionals who have decided to band together to make a difference for Sharlie–and for the people willing to help this Sharlie project.
This is not a non-profit (501C3) charity, there are no tax breaks for donating or participating. We are in a hurry to raise funds for Sharlie and for others. Some of these professionals have donated information products that normally sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars. Others have donated their time and expertise.
Sharlie isn’t looking for handouts–though donations for Sharlie can be made on the Breathless Mom Project website.
The people behind the project want this to be a “win-win” for everyone involved. How that works is that a variety of products are being sold at greatly reduced prices by people affiliated with the project. People purchasing these products get real value from their investment and most of the money goes to help Sharlie.
I’ve purchased product and am looking to replicate what I’m doing. At a minimum, I need three people to commit to purchase a product and to find three others to purchase a product. If we can do that, when it happens 11 times we will have generated Sharlie’s million dollars.
Want Some Breathless Mom Products?
I’m one of the affiliates who is working to generate funds for Sharlie and for other worthwhile projects as well. These links will get you to products I am promoting for Breathless Mom.Bye, Bye, Butterflies
Brush and Brush Kids
How to Start a Business Without Losing Your Mind in 12-Easy Steps
Ultimate Consulting Challenge
Social Media Hat Trick–Score Profits with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
EZ Pillars of Cash
EZ Affiliate Mastery
The Guardian of Heaven
Wow…You Don’t Look That Old!!
Want to join me in promoting the Breathless Mom Project and these valuable products?
Contact me and I will give you the details of how we can work on this together.
Moving Out of Census Daze
As you will have noticed by now, I have posted infrequently on this blog for almost a year--this after almost a year of daily blogs.
I was involved with Census 2010 as a bilingual (Spanish) enumerator and as an Office Operations Supervisor for a suburb west of Chicago. Census 2010 consisted of a series of operations and each operation could have separate staffing. I was involved with Census 2010 from March, 2010 through the end of March, 2011, and was scheduled to participate in a final operation during May and June, 2011.
The Census geared their temporary employees based on geography--wanting people to work in their local area. Fortunately for the area in which I live, there was little to do in the final operation and no one from this area was hired. For my area, Census 2010 and its follow-up activities are over. (The U.S. Census Bureau has ongoing operations--Census 2010 was the Decennial Census.)
The Census believes strongly in protecting privacy and Census employees agree to terms of employment that include a $250,000 fine and up to five years of imprisonment for disclosing personal proprietary information (PPI). That had a lot to do with not keeping up with posting. I had several months between operations. I took some of that time reviewing my earlier blog posts and am in the process of turning them into a book.
My focus and efforts are now in reaching out through the Internet to share my experience and insights as a global learning and change navigator. Visit my new blog at http://www.JoelMonty.Info/blog/.
You can also see more of what I'm up to these days on my Facebook Fan Page for JoelMontyPresents.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Helpful book to track recovery from brain injury
Open Letter to Mark E. Kelly
Dear Mark,
My thoughts and prayers are with you and Gabrielle. After learning some of what her surgeon had to say about her condition, I felt drawn to suggest a resource that helped me support my mother through brain surgery in 1995.
In April of 1995, my mother, now 96, underwent brain surgery for two subdural hematomas. These blood clots--caused by am old accident and a recent blow to the head--grew to the point that her brain was being compressed. She was on Coumadin and the surgeons had to wait until her blood could clot.
They shaved her head, pulled her scalp forward, and drilled four holes in her head--trepanning, surgery found in the skulls of cavemen. One hole allowed the air to come in and the other allowed the blood to flow out. They had to have two pairs of holes, one for each clot.
She almost died before they started surgery. Her body functions were starting to fail. The surgery was successful and she was alert and speaking well immediately after the surgery. Then her brain, which had been compressed, had to swell to return to normal size. It took several weeks to recover--which she did successfully. A book written by Glen Doman--in particular the Doman-Delacro Developmental Profile in the book--really helped me as I went through her recovery with her. The book is What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child and is available from Amazon.com. (I ordered two updated and revised copies tonight so that I can send one to you.)
I will look for an older copy of the book so that I can scan the chart and email it to you immediately. (I found the chart and copyright restrictions keep me from sending you a copy. It will be better seen in the book so that you can have the context of the chart.)
The book more accurately described the stages of brain growth, healing, and repair than the neurosurgeons did who performed the successful surgery.
This information may help both you and Gabrielle to understand her healing process better.
God bless you both and all concerned with her healing process.
I am posting this email to my blog and sending you the link in care of Diane Sawyer at ABC News because I believe she can forward it to you. Let me know where to send your copy of Glen Doman's book.
Sincerely,
Joel Montgomery
Dear Mark,
My thoughts and prayers are with you and Gabrielle. After learning some of what her surgeon had to say about her condition, I felt drawn to suggest a resource that helped me support my mother through brain surgery in 1995.
In April of 1995, my mother, now 96, underwent brain surgery for two subdural hematomas. These blood clots--caused by am old accident and a recent blow to the head--grew to the point that her brain was being compressed. She was on Coumadin and the surgeons had to wait until her blood could clot.
They shaved her head, pulled her scalp forward, and drilled four holes in her head--trepanning, surgery found in the skulls of cavemen. One hole allowed the air to come in and the other allowed the blood to flow out. They had to have two pairs of holes, one for each clot.
She almost died before they started surgery. Her body functions were starting to fail. The surgery was successful and she was alert and speaking well immediately after the surgery. Then her brain, which had been compressed, had to swell to return to normal size. It took several weeks to recover--which she did successfully. A book written by Glen Doman--in particular the Doman-Delacro Developmental Profile in the book--really helped me as I went through her recovery with her. The book is What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child and is available from Amazon.com. (I ordered two updated and revised copies tonight so that I can send one to you.)
I will look for an older copy of the book so that I can scan the chart and email it to you immediately. (I found the chart and copyright restrictions keep me from sending you a copy. It will be better seen in the book so that you can have the context of the chart.)
The book more accurately described the stages of brain growth, healing, and repair than the neurosurgeons did who performed the successful surgery.
This information may help both you and Gabrielle to understand her healing process better.
God bless you both and all concerned with her healing process.
I am posting this email to my blog and sending you the link in care of Diane Sawyer at ABC News because I believe she can forward it to you. Let me know where to send your copy of Glen Doman's book.
Sincerely,
Joel Montgomery
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Census Daze--Almost Gone
Census Daze--it's certainly occupied my summer. It's coming to an end and my life (and blog) are beginning to return.
Census 2010 has been a long and involved process. From the inside the beginning and the (near) ending have much in common.
Hopefully the Census will have sufficient data for the next 10 years to do effective planning for Medicare, schools, roads, members of Congress, etc.
The U.S. Constitution requires a Census every ten years. The questions asked on the Census are approved by congress and become the "as approved by law" part of the Constitution.
Census workers agree not to divulge information they gathered while working for the Census. This is why you won't see many blog posts with lots of detail.
I'm already thinking of other areas--Flu Vaccine for 2010 (I had mine on August 10th at a local Walgreens), for example.
More soon.
Census 2010 has been a long and involved process. From the inside the beginning and the (near) ending have much in common.
Hopefully the Census will have sufficient data for the next 10 years to do effective planning for Medicare, schools, roads, members of Congress, etc.
The U.S. Constitution requires a Census every ten years. The questions asked on the Census are approved by congress and become the "as approved by law" part of the Constitution.
Census workers agree not to divulge information they gathered while working for the Census. This is why you won't see many blog posts with lots of detail.
I'm already thinking of other areas--Flu Vaccine for 2010 (I had mine on August 10th at a local Walgreens), for example.
More soon.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Census Daze
It's been many days since my last posting. Blame it on "Census Daze." I'm working with the Census 2010 in a variety of ways and am learning lots and lots about the census.
I've shared some about it on this blog. Details of the census are protected by a lifetime privacy agreement I committed to when becoming a census employee.
Here I can say that the No Response Follow-Up phase of the census (the most traditional phase with people with questionnaires showing up at a home) is a 24/7 operation. "Door-knocking" is usually from 8AM to 8PM and the rest is processing of the information gathered by the enumerators ("door knockers", census takers).
I've met lots of people from all walks of life, ethnic groups, and education levels both in the ranks of census workers and at the homes whose doors I have knocked on.
The process is rooted in the U.S. Constitution--where the job of Enumerator is listed along with President and Vice-President. Congress was involved in accepting the questions being asked by the census.
I'm bringing to bear many of the business skills I use in my consulting and teaching practice in the day-to-day-operations of my work with the Census and, while it is a temporary job with a modest pay scale, the work is helping me pay my bills while the work I do helps the government have the information to make informed decisions about how to distribute tax monies for the next ten years.
All in all it's very good experience. Sometimes my hours are strange and I haven't had the extra energy for this blog for a while. More later.
Back to Census Daze.
I've shared some about it on this blog. Details of the census are protected by a lifetime privacy agreement I committed to when becoming a census employee.
Here I can say that the No Response Follow-Up phase of the census (the most traditional phase with people with questionnaires showing up at a home) is a 24/7 operation. "Door-knocking" is usually from 8AM to 8PM and the rest is processing of the information gathered by the enumerators ("door knockers", census takers).
I've met lots of people from all walks of life, ethnic groups, and education levels both in the ranks of census workers and at the homes whose doors I have knocked on.
The process is rooted in the U.S. Constitution--where the job of Enumerator is listed along with President and Vice-President. Congress was involved in accepting the questions being asked by the census.
I'm bringing to bear many of the business skills I use in my consulting and teaching practice in the day-to-day-operations of my work with the Census and, while it is a temporary job with a modest pay scale, the work is helping me pay my bills while the work I do helps the government have the information to make informed decisions about how to distribute tax monies for the next ten years.
All in all it's very good experience. Sometimes my hours are strange and I haven't had the extra energy for this blog for a while. More later.
Back to Census Daze.
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