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Is your little one hitting milestones? Marchelle Abrahams reports
While milestones are not hard and fast rules, they are a fair indicator of how children should be developing in direct relation to the tasks they are able to execute.
Educators, therapists and medical professionals can be used as a guideline to ensure a child is developmentally on track, says Justine Schapers, psychologist and therapeutic head at Birdwood Remedial School in Durban.
For busy parents, knowing the few milestones that pertain to a child's age can help you guide them at home and during play.
It can inform the type of toys you buy and the conversations you have with your little one.
Remember that each child develops at his or her own pace and simply try to find the fun while offering learning opportunities.
Here is Schaper's checklist of milestones for children between the ages of three and six.
Grade 000 (3-4 years old)
Social and emotional:
- Manage their emotions to some degree. ie: Not become overly distressed when separating from parents
- Co-operates with other children. ie: Is able to understand the concept of sharing toys and not resorting to tantrums or aggression every time they are not able to get what they want learn routines and stick to them. eg: Sitting in a ring, sitting at the table for snack time
- Learning to ask for teacher assistance when needed in conflict situations.
- Is able to be more independent. eg: dressing and undressing and going to the bathroom (should be fully toilet trained during the day)
- Is increasing their use of fantasy play and sometimes has difficulty distinguishing between fantasy and reality
Fine Motor:
- Be able to draw a basic image of a person with a head, basic facial features, possibly arms and legs coming out of the head, this should progress to a body during the year
- Is able to hold a crayon between thumb and fingers ( not a fisted grip)
- Be able to thread beads onto a string
- Be able to hold a pair of scissors and start cutting – supervised
- Be able to copy basic shapes and draw a circle and lines independently
- Hops and stands on one foot up to five seconds
- Goes upstairs and downstairs without support
- Kicks ball forward and throws ball overhand
- Catches a large bounced ball most of the time
- Moves forward and backward with agility
Speech and language:
- Be able to speak fairly clearly so that another person can understand them. Some children have speech processes which are normal at this age, eg: wed for red, lellow for yellow but these need to be monitored as they can affect phonics development later on, if not addressed.
- Can speak in sentences of about six words
- Tells stories
- Understands the concepts of same and different
- Correctly names some colours and basic shapes, eg: circle, heart, star
- Understands the concept of counting and may know a few numbers
- Rote counts to five
- Approaches problems from a single point of view
- Is able to follow a 2 -3 part command eg go to the room and fetch your shoes.
- Recalls parts of a short story (listening and comprehension)
Grade 00 (4-5 years)
Social and emotional:
- Is able to understand basic emotions and label happy, sad, cross
- Wants to please friends
- More likely to agree to rules – play is more rule bound
- Likes to sing, dance, and act
- Shows more independence in routines
- Aware of gender and gender attributes
- Is more able to distinguish fantasy from reality
- Stands on one foot for ten seconds or longer
- Hops, somersaults
- Swings, climbs
- May be able to skip
Fine motor skills:
- Copies triangle and other geometric patterns
- Draws person with body
- Is showing an interest in letters and wants to write their name
- Dresses and undresses without assistance
- Uses fork, spoon, and (sometimes) a table knife
- Recalls part of a story
- Speaks sentences of more than five words with conjunctions, eg: and, but,
- Tells longer stories
- Says full name and age correctly
- Uses words to express thoughts, feelings and ideas
- Listening skills are better
- Can count ten objects
- Can rote count to 20
- Can name at least six shapes (circle, square, triangle, diamond, heart, star)
- Correctly names four – six colours
- Better understands the concept of time: yesterday, today and tomorrow,
- Knows about things used every day in the home (money, food, appliances)
- Engaging more with books and enjoying being read to
- Concentrates on an age appropriate activity for a few minutes without getting distracted
Grade R (5-6 years old)
Social and emotional:
- Is able to solve conflict situations by asking for assistance or working it out with peers without resorting to aggression
- Is able to label more complex emotions
- Is able to understand and separate fantasy and reality
- More independent
- Can catch a smaller ball – bigger than a tennis ball
- Can swing themselves
- Can climb a cargo net
- Can pedal a bicycle
- Are agile: can run, jump etc
Motor skills:
- Is able to cut out shapes
- Can draw complex shapes like a cross, square, triangle, three intersecting lines
- Can draw a detailed person with at least eight body parts
- Adds other detail to drawings
- Can write their name, is learning to record numbers and letters
- Can recognise the names of children in the class
- Can tell a coherent story with a beginning, middle and end
- Recalls details of a story
- Can give birthday, name and address
- Can listen to more complex instructions eg. Three part instructions and carry these out.
- Can use correct grammar eg. Irregular past tense swam vs swimmed
- Uses correct pronouns
- Can count more than ten objects
- Can recognise numbers 1 – 10
- Can name more than six shapes
- Can name more than eight colours (blue, red, purple, pink, yellow, green, brown, black, white, grey) and differentiate light and dark colours
- Is starting to learn phonics, sound symbol combinations and by the end of grade R knows all the phonic sounds of the letters, in preparation for reading
- Starting to rhyme words and remembering rhymes and songs easily
- Understanding concepts like opposites, number and quantities (half, more, less, bigger than, less than, before, after)
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OMEP is an international, non-governmental and non-profit organization focusing on children aged between 0 and 8. Founded in 1948, it defends and promotes the rights of the child to education and care worldwide as well as supports activities which improve accessibility to higher quality education and care.
OMEP is divided into five regions – Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America and the Caribbean. Each National Committee belongs to a region of OMEP.
OMEP is currently established in around 70 countries around the world and is the oldest and largest international organization focusing on children aged between 0 and 8. We have over 26,000 members worldwide.
OMEP takes pride in our contributions to the creation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). We are an Early Childhood Partner of UNESCO, and have achieved Special Consultative status at ECOSOC of the United Nations.
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How can a betrayer be a hero? Is it possible for a character whose origin names him as one of history's most vilified person to be a force for good in the world?
It has been apparent since the reintroduction of this character in DC's The New 52 Free Comic Book Day issue of Justice League that the coming year will see a renewed focus on the mystical side of this rebooted universe. Since very few of these characters were a part of the initial relaunch, DC is going to great lengths to bring them back in such a way that they mesh with existing continuity and form the threads of their own corner of the universe.
The purpose of the "Phantom Stranger" title would seem to be to provide the proverbial connective tissue between these elements. Last month's Zero issue showed the Stranger's role in the inception of The Spectre, a character who will undoubtedly play a large role in the mystical DCU, and this month's issue follows much the same formula.
Long-time Teen Titans fans will be able to deduce from the cover alone which heretofore-missing character is the focus of this month's betrayal-in-the-service-of-the-greater-good, but those unfamiliar with that lore will encounter a heartfelt but ultimately tragic tale of a gifted girl on the run who makes the sad mistake of trusting the Stranger.
We who know the eventual fate of young Rachel realize that the Stranger's actions will indeed result in a positive outcome for her and for humanity, but that doesn't lessen the story's impact or its poignancy.
The Stranger is a deeply tragic character. By virtue of his past transgressions, he is doomed to betray anyone he cares about, all in service to something larger. It is not hard to imagine that there is some metatextual significance to the fact that Dan Didio, DC's Executive Editor, is the writer on this book. The longtime comics exec has repeatedly come under fire for his treatment of fan-favorite characters as vehicles to drive larger company-wide narratives. There is a certain similarity between his style of character management and that of the Stranger, in that both are willing to sacrifice a character's individual well-being to ensure the long-term viability, health, and success of the larger DC Universe.
Right now, this book is still finding its way. We are slowly being introduced to the plot elements that will shape the Stranger's own larger narrative outside of the monthly betrayal episode. What's more, the use of his inability to act of his own accord or have a direct positive impact as a recurring theme would seem to indicate that, when the shift in the book comes, it will be in that arena. The Stranger has been shown to be an immensely powerful character, and it will be intriguing to see what happens with him if and when the shackles of his penance are finally removed.
If you are a fan of the mystical DCU, this is an essential book. It is clearly the "spine" of that side of the universe, and it would appear obvious that events within its pages will echo throughout the rest of the company's line for some time to come.


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Whipped Cream Frosting
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Recipe by CindiJ
Don't let this recipe fool you. It is light and fluffy and not overly sweet. Awesome with Preacher's Chocolate Cake! Cooking/Prep time does not include cooling time.
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This is one of my favorite frostings, though the name is mis-leading a bit. I do find if i blend the sugar with the roux while it is still hot, I get a better texture - it "softens" the sugar and I never have a problem with the end product being a little gritty.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 2⁄3 cup milk
- 1⁄2 cup Crisco
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
Directions See How It's Made
- Cook milk and flour until thick and let cool (be sure to have paste cool completely).
- Beat shortening and butter 4 minutes till light and fluffy.
- Add sugar, beat another 4 minutes.
- Add cold paste and vanilla, beat another 4 minutes.
- Beating makes this frosting.


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Speaking to Natalie Pinkham about his new book "Aussie Grit", former F1 driver Mark Webber reveals rugby star David Campese helped realise his dream of becoming a professional driver.
Despite years of fractious rivalry, Mark Webber admits in his book "Aussie Grit" that team-mate Sebastian Vettel was the stronger all-round driver, and discusses this with Natalie Pinkham.
Speaking to Natalie Pinkham about his book "Aussie Grit", former F1 driver Mark Webber has no regrets over the 2010 season, where he was in touching distance of being World Champion.
Former F1 driver Mark Webber talks to Natalie Pinkham about his new book "Aussie Grit", discussing crashes, podiums, moving to Ferrari and of course the infamous "multi 21" incident in Malaysia 2013.
Speaking on this week's F1 Midweek Report, former Red Bull driver Mark Webber feels that the "paid drivers" are affecting the strength of the grid and some simply shouldn't be in F1.
Former F1 driver Mark Webber will be at Sky Sports to talk about his new book "Aussie Grit" and will be on the F1 Midweek Report to discuss the Italian GP and his move to WEC.
The panel discuss Mark Webber's retirement and whether his relationship with Sebastian Vettel had some impact on his decision.
Red Bull's Mark Webber bows out of Formula One after finishing 2nd at the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix - removing his helmet to wave to the crowd as he makes his way back to the pits.
After his Red Bull failed to make the end of the 2013 Singapore Grand Prix, Mark Webber hitched a lift from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
Red Bull's Mark Webber looks back at his F1 career. The Australian is making his 215th and final Grand Prix appearance at Brazil.
Martin Brundle joined Red Bull's Mark Webber for a driving masterclass in the wet at a soggy Silverstone.
At his final driver's press conference Mark Webber says that the negatives outweighed the positives when it came to making his decision to leave Formula one.
Mark Webber introduces young GP2 talent Mitch Evans. The Red Bull driver believes the Evans has a raw talent and is possibly the best Australia and New Zealand has ever seen.
Mark Webber was pleased with Red Bull's qualifying session after finishing fourth fastest on the medium tyres.
Mark Webber will be on pole position for the 2013 Japanese Grand Prix.
Red Bull's Mark Webber think's his team have put as much work into his car as they can and is hoping that it will pay off on Sunday.
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Skippyjon Jones in the Dog House
Judy Schachner
Dutton Children's Books, 2005
From the dust jacket, "Skippyjon Jones is a rambunctious kitty boy with very large ears and a gigantico imagination to match. He dreams of becoming El Skippito, his Zorro-like alter ego, who is really a Chihuahua. Skippito gets to speak with a Spanish accent; he gets to wear a mask and cape. And he gets to help out his Chihuahua friends down in Old Mexico by driving a scary monster called the big Bobble-ito out of their doghouse.
"The tale of how Skippito chills the Chihuahuas and banishes the Bobble-ito will create more crazy-loco and loving fans for this irrepressible feline folk hero who has stolen the hearts of readers young and old. For story time or anytime—mucho fun!!!!"
Bad Skippyjon!!! His momma catches him doing beautiful artwork all over the freshly painted walls of the hallway and gets a time-out! But that doesn't deter our kitty boy! Sending him to his room is the best thing ever for him because he gets to visit his amigos, Los Chimichangos!
You all know how much the LoC LOVES Skippyjon Jones. Just thinking of him makes us smile and reading his books is cause for laughing out loud. In the Dog House is an earlier book that our library didn't have; since it was still in print, we asked if they would order it and they said yes!!!!
There's nothing negative to say about the book—no cautions of any sort – El Skippito is a winner for us – always 5 paws – and one of the occasional books we seriously thinking about "losing" (i.e., not returning to the library) but we always turn it in! If your library has them, check them out – especially if you need a smile in your day!!!
Rating: 5 paws out of 5, because it is Skippyjon, after all!!!


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Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
This Ice Age: Collision Course movie is like all of the previous Ice Age movies; funny, hilarious cute, a suitable family kid movie. People who enjoyed Shrek, Toy Story and Despicable Me should enjoy Ice Age too. Blue Sky productions has made awesome movies such as Horton hears a Who, Rio, Epic, Robots not to forget the Peanuts Movie. Those who enjoy Blue Sky productions will not miss out on the best. I believe that Blue Sky computer animated movies are worth watching and not a waste of your monies. Thank you for all your hard work; producers, animators, actors and all others that may go unnoticed. Keep producing more for our entertainment. Way to go Blue Sky Productions!
Very funny, and educational. Easy to follow story for the kids with great life lessons.
With plenty of animated thrills to sustain both lifelong audiences and casual moviegoers, Ice Age: Collision Course is none the less decently negotiable as a follow up to its jumbled predecessors with its own amount of ups and downs.
This was the best ice age movie ever the story was great but movies are totally subjective
I am a huge fan of the Ice Age saga, have watched each one numerous times and never tire of them, especially the first film. I was so excited when I heared that there was a new one coming out. I love the beautiful job of Blue Sky Company does with the visuals, especially with its Rio movies. New Ice Age: Collision Course movie is as usual a wonderful comedic Lee Action animated film.
It is visually dazzling and Scrat once again steals the show. I laughed out a loud more he 3-4 times and smiled the rest of the time. That is what I was looking for from this movie, and I got it.
The fifth Ice Age sequel to come out in cinemas, Blue Sky Studios has once again made me love this series. After the lovely yet sometimes cringe-worthy Secret Life Of Pets and the good yet a little bit overrated Finding Dory, I was anticipating another common average everyday kids film, but what I got was a really crazy close relatives film complete of fun for all age groups. The whole cinema was in stitching from how much they were having a laugh and giggling! The animation is amazing, from the photorealistic designs of the animals to the vibrant background scenes complete of purple feel, and it makes great use of 3D effects, with plenty of gadgets being tossed towards the listeners and a fantastic sense of space in almost every taken of the film. The voice stars are all energetic and they fit their figures completely, with Simon Pegg and Chris Wedge's precious crazy activities. Overall, Ice Age: Collision Course is the only cartoon film worth seeing this year other than Zootopia, with everything you could possibly want from an cartoon close relatives crazy. And by the way- Scrat is again the most very crazy part of an already very crazy film!
wow. Ice Age: Collision Course, being the 5th sequel of this cartoon series, is still nearly as good as it gets while Blue Sky has a say in it. Ice Age: Collision Course is the fifth hit in one of a longest animated franchises of all time. Children will definitely appreciate this humour-filled movie, it's definitely a excellent end to the Ice Age sequence.
There's no way to start an Ice Age movie without our favorite squirrel, Scrat. In his tries to cover his acorn, he results in a traveling saucer and then space, triggering a series of activities that send an asteroid hurtling towards World.
Ice Age 5 Collision Course is a film the entire members of the family can enjoy, but it's definitely more suitable towards the younger kids. In the end, it's just another Ice Age movie, and you're limited to love this particular one if you've experienced any of the other sequels. It has humor, romantic endeavors and moralistic styles, and is a film that's enough to amuse members of the family.
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Resources to help you in the Grow100 Challenge.
Type "grow100" into the search engine of the Grow It Eat It blog to see all of the posts from last year's contest. You'll see the photos and words that captured the remarkable creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of participating gardeners.
"Getting the Most Out of Your Small Vegetable Garden: The 100 Square Foot Garden"
PDF document of a PowerPoint presentation - a great resource on how to grow your 100 Square foot garden. View/download here.
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I have been spoon feeding Alex since March 2008.
It is like breathing. It has just been the way it is. At school Alex is mostly on his own when it comes to eating, and that is what he does, he feeds himself. Here in the comfort and habits of home, Alex knows and is used to being fed. It is easier, and even though it is how it had to be, it is not how it has to be now. He can feed himself! However, since there aren't an unlimited hours in the day, and I still have those with more knowledge telling me how many calories he "needs" I do a lot of the work for him. BUT, change is happening, change will come, and he is doing it by himself more and more. Also, he can do this by himself.........
Thursday, July 21, 2011
by himself
4 comments:
- Angelica mom to JesusRTS said...
love love love this! i got all teary eyed! way to go Alex!!! :)
- July 21, 2011 at 3:31 PM
- Jodes said...
Go Alex! What a little champion :)
- July 21, 2011 at 7:32 PM
- Sawyer said...
That is awesome!!
- July 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM
- Groceries said...
Love love love!!!! You're awesome, Alex!
- July 28, 2011 at 8:27 AM
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My story, "Bloodstone" (note the changed spelling), that was the prompt for the previous post is "finished" – my critique group reviewed it last weekend. I've made a number of changes based on their suggestions and comments.
One member of the group mentioned that he'd read the story four times to see if the title object was consistently called a "blood stone" or a "bloodstone" – two words or one. He had thought it should be a single word, like moonstone. Interestingly enough, "moonstone" is sometimes written as two words, too! But, since I'd made up the name, the decision was mine. I decide to avoid the stumbling block that other readers might have here by changing it to "bloodstone." I think that's a good rule to follow: Even if nothing is "wrong," anything that causes a reader to stumble should at least get a good look.
I learned something, too: Don't add info about a story to a website until the story is pretty much "done." Changing from "blood stone" to "bloodstone" meant that I had to go to my Stellar Economic Community website and make a Bunch (with a capital B) of changes there.
One scene in the story involves Marcus and Sheila going on a picnic and meeting Rali. While working on the story, I found an interesting 3-D model, Skull Rock, by TheAntFarm at DAZ3D. It seemed like a good spot for the picnic.
The Exotic Island Bangalow (sic) model by greenpots that I'd got from Renderosity came with a Poser file which contained all of the props, and then some, for the scene. I'd removed all of the props except the beach, horizon, and sky and resaved it as No Bungalow.pz3. I loaded this file into Poser Pro 2014, then loaded the Blood Stone Full prop in from Poser's Library. This prop contained all of the rocks, water plane, and shark fins.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81788772015-09-16T17:42:30.248-07:00Silicon Tails..... A small collection of tales from a Dane in Silicon ValleyKlaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-13971732018701009752010-10-22T13:54:00.000-07:002010-10-22T14:06:14.393-07:00Looking for a talented user experience researcherI am looking for a user experience researcher to join the UX team at HP.

As part of the Digital Strategy team at HP we are embarking on a variety of ambitious and exciting projects including the re-launch of HP.com. Our goal is to create a world-class HP digital presence and we are looking for only the best talent to help us make it happen. So, if you want to join a fast-paced organization where your contribution will make an immediate impact and you will gain exposure to one of the highest profile projects at HP, apply today.

Job Description:

In this role, you will be a key member of HP's user experience team reporting to the head of user experience research. Your key responsibility will be to integrate user experience research into the design cycle and you will work with stakeholders inside and outside the user experience team to determine and prioritize strategic and tactical questions that can be properly informed by primary or secondary research. You will plan and execute user experience research projects for multiple areas of HP.com and you will help drive product vision, product requirements and UI design based on insights from user experience research, as well as market research and analytics. It is important that you have a good understanding of a wide variety of user experience research methods so as to properly match methods with questions, rigor with risk and speed with reliability. In a fast-paced environment, you will also continuously apply your extensive knowledge of usability principles to help create designs that are innovative, market-leading and usable.

Qualifications:

- A Masters or Ph.D. degree in a relevant field, such as HCI, Information Science or Psychology.
- A minimum of 3 years experience as a user experience researcher on large-scale web applications.
- Excellent analytical ability, especially with regard to observation of user behavior.
- Knowledge of a wide range of user experience research methods, including strong knowledge of experimental designs and both formative and summative usability testing. Experience with eye-tracking is a plus.
- Proven ability to turn research insights into actionable product- and design recommendations.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex data and findings in a clear, relevant and impactful way.
- Ability to coordinate and guide vendor relationships when necessary.
- A team-player with the desire and ability to stand up for what you believe in.

Apply here: http://tinyurl.com/26uyqpv
Feel free to contact me directly if you have questions.Klaushttp://email@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2010/10/looking-for-talented-user-experience.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-87797990043799804802010-07-16T02:41:00.000-07:002010-07-16T02:57:45.047-07:00Moving Back To Silicon ValleyNo, I don't blog much any longer, but need to update the post below. After 15 months I am leaving Telstra in late July and moving back to Silicon Valley in August.

We have launched important products over the past months with great customer feedback and reviews, showing that change is coming to Telstra and that there is a renewed focus on user experience.

For example, in April we launched the T-Hub: http://www.telstra.com.au/latest_offers/thub/index.html. The T-hub received great reviews, e.g.: "The unit is well designed, and not just aesthetically, but also conceptually" - http://www.cnet.com.au/telstra-t-hub-339302375.htm.

In June we launched the T-Box, Telstra's first IPTV offering. Example of press: "..struck by the ease of use and 'flow'", "it's really quite impressive" - http://apcmag.com/video-watch-telstras-t-box-in-action.htm

Over the past year we have also made significant changes to "The Telstra Development Process", which incorporates important user-centred design activities previously omitted from Telstra's official development process. These changes have driven more focus on user experience across the business and across functions.

I wish everyone at Telstra well, I will be cheering from the sidelines. But now I'm looking forward to going back home to the San Francisco Bay Area and to once again work amongst the world's sharpest innovators and entrepreneurs.Klaushttp://email@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2010/07/moving-back-to-silicon-valley.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-77104616427900061392009-03-09T10:17:00.000-07:002009-03-09T11:37:01.424-07:00Klaus Accepts Position at Telstra (Sydney)It is about time I update you all about my plans for the immediate future.

As most of you know I recently left Yahoo! after almost 6 1/2 years. I will no doubt miss all the great people I worked with there - especially all of you in the (former) customer insights team of course, none mentioned, none forgotten - and I will be cheering from the side lines. Yahoo! is a great brand and has good products (look at the innovation in Search over the past year for example, and note that for the first time Y! has gained market share in the past 5 months according to Comscore numbers).

Since I left Yahoo! I have spent my time looking into many different opportunities. I ended up grabbing the one opportunity that is both a great challenge work-wise and a great, new experience for my whole family. I have accepted a position as Executive Director of Service Enablers and Customer Experience at Telstra in Sydney, Australia. Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company. They offer a full range of products and services and compete in all telecommunications markets throughout Australia, as well as in media / information services through Bigpond and Sensis as well as other media properties. Under the leadership of CEO, Sol Trujillo, Telstra mapped out a transformation program 3 years ago that covered a series of parallel paths with an emphasis on establishing a World leading media-comms company that offers truly differentiated and integrated services.

What initially attracted me to Telstra was that the company so explicitly and vocally focuses on customer experience as a key lever in their business transformation. The customer and the customer experience is front and center in Telstra's vision and mission, as it is stated on the web site:

"Our vision

 To know our customers and meet their needs better than anyone else.

Our mission

 To do for customers what no one else has done: create a world of 1 click, 1 touch, 1 button, 1 screen, 1 step solutions that are simple, easy and valued by individuals, businesses, enterprises and government.

Customer experience

 To give customers a personalised, seamless experience that makes it easy for them to do what they want, when they want to."

In February I visited Telstra in Sydney and Melbourne and met with a lot of great people across the business. They all impressed me with their dedication to the company's vision, but also by the honesty and candidness with which they viewed Telstra's current position and future challenges and opportunities.

SO - to make a long story short, I am convinced that the skills and experience I have built up over my career will be a great fit with Telstra. I have taken this position to make a real difference and to keep them ("us" I should say now) honest when it comes to the goal of creating the best, seamless, personalized experiences across multiple devices and "channels".

We are now in the process of moving to Sydney. Everyone is excited, including the kids. You can follow updates on this new experience here, but (as I find I write less and less) more likely on Twitter and Facebook.Klaushttp://email@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2009/03/klaus-accepts-position-at-telstra.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-74366056339153338562008-09-14T17:37:00.001-07:002008-09-14T17:37:36.144-07:00The Eclectisism of Twittering

The Eclectisism of Twitter
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Binge drinking, disney world, IA semantics, and web 2.0 - all in a few minutes of twittering (thanks, or sorry, tara, christina, and john).
Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/09/eclectisism-of-twittering.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-11007365833308914532008-08-15T13:16:00.000-07:002008-08-15T13:47:32.788-07:00"Soft" skillsI never liked the terminology around "soft" skills and "hard" skills, but everyone with a little bit of practical experience knows that both types of skills are necessary to succeed, probably always have been, probably always will be. It seems that his issue came up several times independent of each other during Richard Anderson's "user experience executives speak" courses.

My colleague at Yahoo! Jim Nieters brought up communication and advocacy skills and Richard quotes me for saying:

 "'It is all about getting people on your side. Researchers won't get an SVP of business to act just by presenting their insights. One needs to build momentum to get people behind you in order to convince them, which is a long process. You have to wear 2 hats -- your scientist hat and your strategy and business hat, which is like becoming a different person. This is difficult for all of us to learn.'"

In many ways it is harder for researchers (this is true for many professions I'm sure) to learn to be effective communicators, advocates, strategists, than it is to learn the "hard skills" of research. Of course it also has to do with the mere fact that it is often a lot harder to determine what to do with certain insights in a given business context, than it is to execute research projects following the rules and guidelines of research methodology. That is why research should really be viewed as a collaborative endeavour that includes creative thinkers and business thinkers alongside researchers. When cross-functional groups work well together, then that's when research can spark real and "doable" innovation. Insights in a report or a in presentation is in itself little more than a wish-list.Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/08/soft-skills.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-68793089130742683532008-07-28T09:43:00.000-07:002008-07-28T09:44:59.260-07:00Soeren on his Harley.........somewhere around Apalachicola, Florida.

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Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/07/soeren-on-his-harley.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-27389199742766434872008-07-23T21:36:00.001-07:002008-07-28T09:55:11.081-07:00Gulf MC tour

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Yeah, time really IS an invention........my old friend Soeren and I spent two weeks in the gulf coast area on two harley's. Life doesn't get much better than that.....
Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/07/gulf-mc-tour.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-74748932083771975042008-06-26T10:05:00.000-07:002008-06-26T10:06:09.500-07:00The End of Theory? I hope not!Another good and provocative article by Chris Anderson in Wired this month (long version in print magazine) - and a surprisingly well thought through commentary on Valleywag (what's up with that level of journalistic quality on Valleywag?).

A central quote from Anderson's article:

"This is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves."

Scary stuff in my mind. Massive computation can be, and is, extremely useful to scientific endeavours, but to throw the baby out with the bath water is just plain wrong - even dangerous. Why? Because unlike what Anderson seems to argue, data never speak for themselves; as a matter of fact the mere act of collecting data tends to change the nature of what we are observing. This has been convincingly proven in Physics (The Heisenberg uncertainty principle) - and resulted in new models in quantum theory, notably Niels Bohr's principle of complementarity. Consider the extent to which the observer effect is even larger in the social sciences. If we do not interpret data in a context of hypotheses, models and theories we risk not only abandoning the cumulative nature of science, but opening up for a much more "politizised" version of science ruled by - most likely - commercial and religious interests. It's the equivalent of claiming that the syllogism is a way to arrive at truth, when in fact syllogistic reasoning bears no connection to the truth value of the argument (only to the logical "mechanics" of the argument). That is powerful in itself, obviously but would we want to assign a positive truth value (or any truth value for that matter) to the assertion that "my mother is a stone" (as in the play "Erasmus Montanus" by Ludvig Holberg) based on the mechanics of the argument alone? Of course not.

The fact that models and theories often fall short of explaining empirical phenomena - whether in biology, physics or the social sciences - should not make us abandon the quest for understanding and explaining. It would bring out the dogmatists and the fanatics, and it's not like we don't have enough dogmatism and fanaticism already.Klaushttp://email@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/06/end-of-theory-i-hope-not.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-81484983381160496732008-06-04T10:11:00.000-07:002008-06-04T10:32:41.867-07:00CHALLENGE: The Song You Never Want Written About YouDriving to work this morning, I was listening to Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street" thinking "Man, I'm glad he didn't write that song about me" (lyrics below). I always think the same thing when listening to the Danish Artist CV Joergensen's song "The Entertainer" (Danish lyrics here - click the link "Entertaineren" in the right pane).

Anyway, here is a fun challenge: List at least one song that you would NOT like to have been written about yourself, because it portrays personality traits that you would not like to be associated with: weakness, cowardice, falseness, selfishness, vainness - the list goes on.

Here is my contribution:

Positively 4th Street:

You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that's winning

You say I let you down
You know it's not like that
If you're so hurt
Why then don't you show it

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You're in with

Do you take me for such a fool
To think I'd make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don't know to begin with

You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say, "How are you?" "Good luck"
But you don't mean it

When you know as well as me
You'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come out once
And scream it

No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I'd rob them

And now I know you're dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don't you understand
It's not my problem

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is
To see youKlaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/06/challenge-song-you-never-want-written.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-3020082460785959192008-05-13T15:06:00.000-07:002008-05-13T15:26:25.155-07:00On "Unscientific surveys"......I have often wondered what people mean when they show you data that has been collected in various ways, often polls by media, and add the note: "This is not a scientific poll". I have heard journalists refer to "unscientific surveys" as another example. So what does that really mean? If it is not a scientific poll, I assume it means that we have no idea what it really represents, and therefore we should not pay attention to it. But that is contradictory because it is published on valuable "real estate" (as in the example below). So they want me to pay attention to it but not believe it? I'm confused....

I think it's because people have a tendency to believe that scientific principles and methods can be graduated, so it might not adhere to strict scientific method but you can still partly believe it, maybe half of it, maybe a third - it's a "gut feel" as many like to say (when did we start thinking with our guts). But that is actually only true if you have strictly adhered to scientific method, it's called confidence intervals, confidence levels and margins of error. But in cases such as below it is meaningless to speak in terms of graduation of "the truth". But of course if people are interacting with your brand, who cares about the truth. We can't handle it anyway.

Klaushttp://email@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/05/i-have-often-wondered-what-people-mean.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-89005248650144910442008-03-31T11:30:00.000-07:002008-03-31T11:57:08.757-07:00A bit of IT historyBack when I was in College, the book "Understanding Computers and Cognition" by Fernando Flores and Terry Winograd was one of the most important books I read. In fact it may be one of the most important books on the development and uses of information technology in the past 30 years, in that it helped re-shape the thinking and the discourse around IT and it's optimal use in organizations and society as a whole.

So I was interested to read this story on Mr. Flores' part in early experiments on how to use IT to help run production in a quasi-socialist system in Chile under Salvador Allende. Mr. Flores was both economy and finance minister in the Allende government and left for California after spending three years in Pinochet's concentration camps, received his Ph.D in philosophy and in 1987 co-wrote the above mentioned book. But back in 1971 Fernando Flores was 28-year-old government technocrat, who foresaw how IT and cybernetic concepts could help manage work-flows. I wonder how his thinking changed incrementally between 1971 and 1987, the story doesn't go into that level of detail, but obviously there is a stretch between cybernetics a la '71 and hermeneutics a la '87. NYT story here.Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/03/back-when-i-was-in-college-book.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-56778862794733613022008-03-19T12:30:00.000-07:002008-03-19T12:34:52.900-07:00The future of Web 2.0: Cool is out; utility is inForester research analyst, Charlene Li, is right on here: Time to focus less on "cool" and more on bringing real utility to people with Web 2.0 apps.

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"Google not only served organic pie today but the pies were custom-made so that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter was exactly pi. Bon apetit."

I thought pi was defined as the ratio of......oh never mind.........although if anyone were to convince us all that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is anything but Pi (at least in Euclidean geometry), it would have to be Google's PR department. And I'm sure they'd be succesful.Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/03/googles-chef-discoversinvents-pi.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-30432428450461632532008-03-12T09:17:00.000-07:002008-03-12T09:22:14.092-07:00My colleague at Yahoo!, Amr Awadallah, created a ten minute short called Yahoo 300 (over Zack Snyder's "300" obviously. Simple stuff, just slapping some sub-titles on, but for those of us who bleed purple, it's....what should I say.....if not entertaining then meaningful.

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That's lame. I wonder how much Google were actually surprised and caught off guard by the decline as a result of the changes?Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2008/02/comscore-explains-or-backtracks.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-72621772647213837862008-01-15T11:29:00.000-08:002008-01-15T12:01:25.305-08:00Lessons from the food industryChristina Wodtke pointed me to this wonderful short talk by Malcolm Gladwell in which he relates a story of a food industry consultant who uncovered a key secret to what eaters like. Through the story Gladwell touches on a number of points that everyone in product and market research struggle with, including the fallacious yet widely held belief that consumers can and will verbally articulate their desires and needs. He also touches on something even more important, namely that research is considered to be essentially a quest for universal rules that govern behavior and attitudes when in fact we have seen a major shift in the philosophy of science away from universality and essences towards particulars and variability (as well as in specific fields of study such as genetics and psychology). The Gladwell story might as well have been phrased in the context of the different notions of human knowledge expressed by Plato and Aristotle. There is no perfect (enter item: tomato sauce, car, search engine etc.) - there are clusters of products within each area that will serve different needs of different segments. Problem is, if we spend our time searching for universals we will miss those different needs and their particular instantiations in peoples' lives and we will also miss great product ideas and business opportunities hiding right under our noses. Anyways, I'm already taking the fun and insights out of talk, watch it yourself.

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<embed src="http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1765295" quality="best" width="400" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2007/06/iphone-parody-ads.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-68710126932528531672007-06-15T06:25:00.000-07:002007-06-15T06:32:48.554-07:00The Internet in 2050Read/Write web reports on this video about the future of media, call it a vision, a fantasy or a nightmare. The core media concept is the agent avatar which connects you with information, people and virtual worlds. Lots of speculation about who acquires who, but it is an interesting story about where the web and media could be headed.

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xj8ZadKgdC0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xj8ZadKgdC0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Klaushttp://email@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2007/06/internet-in-2050.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-58005906158504338812007-05-27T07:27:00.000-07:002007-05-27T07:27:41.899-07:00What is reCAPTCHA?Bryce Glass, Interaction Designer at Yahoo!, pointed me to this brilliant way of extracting value from the seamingly "meaningless" and unproductive work done by millions of people everyday. About 60 Million Capthas are solved by humans everyday. Each transaction takes about 10 seconds, so these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books. It harnesses the power of the 60 million daily CAPTCHA transactions to digitize old books that confound OCR conversion.

I love this thinking. In general there is so much work done online and so much value created - in meaningful intellectual and social activity obviously but also in "meaningless" activities such as solving CAPTCHAs. A lot of this value is not harnessed beyond the individuals or small groups who create it, and we are still in the very early stages of understanding how business value and broader social value can be extracted from different types of online activities.Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2007/05/what-is-recaptcha.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-67147688389732059412007-03-19T23:02:00.000-07:002007-05-07T22:23:15.475-07:00Jubii to challenge Yahoo, Google?Lycos, Early Search Engine, in a U.S. Remake as Jubii - New York Times

According to the New York Times, Lycos Europe is going to use the brand and services of Jubii, its Danish portal subsidiary, as a springboard into the US market - I assume that this beta version of the Web 2.0'ified product is it. Interesting for an "old" Dane like me, I remember Jubii of course from when I lived in Denmark, I was never a user/customer, but it was probably the largest Danish Web product of its time, founded by Martin Thorborg.

The popular meaning of the word "Jubii" in Danish, by the way, is the exclamation of delight someone may utter when something good happens. Or is it "Yahoo"? Ironic - it's almost as if my loyalties are being tested............(Nah....).Klaushttp://email@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2007/03/jubii-to-challenge-yahoo-google.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-13147345041236148602007-02-21T16:44:00.000-08:002007-05-07T22:32:48.974-07:00Thank you for bothering meDoing the real estate voyerism thing on Zillow - and here is what they throw at me. We'd love to hear your opinion but then again, No, we don't want to hear it, we'll just waste your time.

Klaushttp://email@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2007/02/thank-you-for-bothering-me.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-1171043173723093562007-02-09T09:44:00.000-08:002007-02-09T09:46:13.850-08:00Why I have not posted anything lately
Late-night hotel rooms
Originally uploaded by Klaus Kaasgaard.

Absorbed in work.
Note to self in late-night hotel room: Take more vacation !
Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2007/02/why-i-have-not-posted-anything-lately.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-1164937020578973272006-11-30T17:10:00.000-08:002007-05-07T22:27:31.337-07:00Say what?I know, I know. It's always really easy to find stupid error messages and general system responses likely to be meaningless to 90%-plus of users - as a matter of fact it is so easy that people make careers out of publishing books about meaningless system responses and UI copy in general. By now, one should think that we all got it, and were able to communicate in fairly straight-forward ways with users of our apps and sites - in ways that may even be, hold it, helpful.

Yesterday as I was posting the post below I wanted to copy some text in an article to quote it in the posting. As I higlight the text and copy it, IE7 feels a desperate need to force me into making a decision that seems to have nothing to do with my action and, worse, that I have no idea what means (see below). But it sounds scary, I don't want anyone, least of all a web page, to access my Clipboard. So much for that feature. I wonder what it is, what it does and why I would want it. And if they assume I would want it, why do they scare me away with non-sense that hints at privacy obtrusion?

Below is a much more positive example of essentially a 404 error (a web page that cannot be retrieved). The communication is much more personable, humorous, straight-forward, written in "natural language English" with clearly suggested actions to move me along. I am glad to see more of this direct and more informal communication on the web, even in apps that used to apply more "businessy" language that just seemed distancing and alienating.

Klaushttp://email@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2006/11/say-what.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8178877.post-1164856489366068142006-11-29T19:14:00.000-08:002007-05-07T22:23:23.291-07:00Google Answers - RIPGoogle's got no answer for Yahoo Answers - MarketWatch

This is Marketwatch's comment on the news that Google is essentially shutting down its "Answers" product. Excerpt:

"Speculation among Google critics on Wednesday was that Google Answers was no match for Yahoo Answers, a feature introduced last year in the United States that also let users pose questions. But unlike Google Answers, at Yahoo Answers anyone could ask or answer a question for free.

Yahoo Answers has roughly 60 million unique users, according to Yahoo Inc. spokeswoman Melissa Rische.

"We didn't set out to end Google Answers," she wrote in an email. "Yahoo saw an opportunity to build a community for users seeking knowledge, whereas Google's effort was something different, more one-sided."

Google say that they are re-focusing efforts (basically they need to kill some of the hndreds of projects that are going nowehere I guess). Danny Sullivan says that "killing off the service certainly will help Google seem like it is focusing efforts toward more needed areas". "But it still feels like an odd, almost surrendering move in the face of Yahoo Answers being such a success."

There is no doubt (even in the mind of a completely unbiased user of Y! Answers like me :-): Yahoo! Answers Rocks!!Klaushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://blog.klauskaasgaard.com/2006/11/google-answers-rip.html


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Something that has been on my wish list for a long time is an area rug for our living room. It is the space we spend the most time in and I just felt like an area rug would add some needed warmth and texture, as well as coziness (who doesn't love sitting on a nice rug). Well, I finally bit the bullet and bought an area rug!
This has been a long time coming, but prior to this, several things were making me think that having a rug in our main space wasn't such a good idea. The main reason being that we had a dog, and dogs and rugs usually don't mix well. Our yard tends to have a lot of mud that Moose would track his paws through and he shed a whole awful lot which would make the rug a hair magnet. He also would throw up from time to time ( I know fun right?!) I didn't want to spend a lot of money to have the rug ruined by our pet, so I just put it off. Now that Moose is gone (rest his little soul), the opportunity to purchase a rug presented itself. We now have Nora, and I know children can destroy things even more than pets sometimes, but I'm going to take my chances. Also, I didn't spend so much money that I couldn't replace it if something should happen.
Deciding what area rug to get was just plain comical to anyone watching me try to make a decision. I spent more time than I care to say looking over countless rug styles and finally narrowed it down to two separate styles. Ryan kept saying "don't ask me anymore, just decide!" Funnily enough, the two styles I narrowed it down to, Persian and shag, were completely opposite. I love the quality and patterns of persian rugs, and the fact that all that color and pattern can hide stains very easily. I haven't always been a fan of shag rugs, but they're making a big comeback nowadays. I love the softness and neutrality of shag rugs. Persian rugs are far more expensive than shag rugs, however. I was concerned that in our small space, the persian would be too much pattern and color so in the end, the neutral shag rug won.
If I could have afforded it, this would have been my number one choice. It's a Caitlin Wilson rug and has all my favorite colors in it.
Maybe one day…
This is the rug I ended up choosing from RugsUSA. I love it (and Ryan likes it too). The only downside, for the time being, is the shedding. The retailer made the disclaimer that this rug can shed for up to 3 months (Man, I hope it isn't that long), and all the reviews warned about it too, I just thought that there would be some slight shedding. I have already vacuumed up an entire sheeps worth of wool fibers and we have only had the rug for 2 days. My plan is to vacuum it a lot every day to cut down on the shedding time. We will see. So for now, I just need to keep all the extra hairs floating around our house out of Nora's mouth and out of our food. Ironically, I got the rug because we had no more dog hair to worry about, but it's seriously like owning a sheep dog.
Here's the Before and After. I purchased the 8×10 size and don't think we could have gone much bigger without the rug spilling over into our eating area and the front door area.
We are already enjoying reading and playing on the rug. I'm so glad she finally has a nice soft spot to plop down with her toys and books in our living room. What do you think?
FYI: My experience with RugsUSA was very good. Processing time for my order was quick, it shipped within a few days for free, and the description was accurate. Also, you can't really beat these prices!


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