Michael Wender's Posterous http://mwender.posterous.com "If you can email, you can blog with Posterous!" posterous.com Sat, 21 May 2011 15:44:12 -0700 The Graduates http://mwender.posterous.com/the-graduates http://mwender.posterous.com/the-graduates

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Beth and I traveled to South Bend, IN to celebrate Claire's graduation from Notre Dame.

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We had fun playing with the red ball in our backyard.

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Today is a great day for grabbing some shots of the flowers in our front flower beds.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/5571/thewebist_jumps.jpg http://posterous.com/users/gsXwBIS0y Michael Wender Michael Michael Wender Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:54:12 -0700 Happy Birthday Matt http://mwender.posterous.com/happy-birthday-matt http://mwender.posterous.com/happy-birthday-matt

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For Matt's birthday, his wife got the guys together for an after work surprise of a little pizza and poker.

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If all I grew was grass in my yard, I wouldn't be able to get a shot like this.

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On the way home from the gym, I stopped to shoot the pre-rush hour traffic along I40/I75.

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After dinner out this evening, we visited the park at Catholic High School.

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Ella waits patiently while we wait on our take-out order after church.

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When we were last at Beth's parents, I shot a couple of camera phone shots while Ella played on her tummy.

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On Monday evenings it is hard to pry Ella from the arms of her grandmother. Here she is enjoying a bottle from this past Monday night.

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On this beautiful Indian summer afternoon, Beth and I decided to take Ella for her first visit to the park. Plus, we got plenty of great footage for another episode of EllaTV.

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Ella is doing a little Sunday afternoon relaxing on her quilt.

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This afternoon Caleb is in the office shadowing me. I'm getting ready to put him to work.

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Since when does this does this equate to "Always stack your weights?"

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For her five month birthday, Ella enjoyed playing in her ExerSaucer. She made it look so fun that it has me wondering where I can get one of those things.

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For the past several months, I've been developing a Learning Management System (LMS) for TechShorties.com. We teach real estate agents how to use tools like Twitter and Facebook to cultivate relationships rather than simply tweeting out their listings or talking about their next "open house."

We're calling our LMS the TechShorties Integrated Learning Environment (ILE). Based on WordPress, the interface features multiple modules (i.e. WP categories) filled with lessons on best practice use of online social media tools.

I've programmed the single post pages to only display a user's comments. In other words, this lets users leave themselves notes on each post. For discussion of the posts/lessons, I've added a plugin which automatically creates a forum posting in our integrated phpBB install.

There's much more to say about this, but for now the video above gives a good introduction to TechShorties and our WordPress Powered Integrated Learning Environment.

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Miracle at St. Anna, a Spike Lee film, tells the story of four black American soldiers, members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" division, stationed in Tuscany, Italy during WWII. Given my penchant for WWII films, I look forward to seeing this one when it comes out.

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