Gini Nelson’s Engaging Conflicts

Last year I posted about OneWebDay (what some call “an earthday for the web”) and here we are again… it’s tomorrow!

The mission of OneWebDay is to create, maintain, advance and promote a global day to celebrate online life. From the OneWebDay site:

OneWebDay, Sept. 22, is an Earth Day for the internet.

Here’s a very short overview video that will give you the idea (watch here) and a Rocketboom interview about OneWebDay (here). The first OneWebDay took place in 2006.

It’s easy to take the web for granted. But it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on what the web could mean to humankind in the future. That’s the purpose of OneWebDay, held each September 22.

There are substantial threats to the free flow of information online, all over the world. Many governments censor online content. (see opennet.net). Many people in developing nations can’t get online at all. We need to ensure that the internet used by future generations will be open and empowering — access to the internet is central to the future of humanity.

The idea behind OneWebDay is to encourage people to think of themselves as responsible for the internet, and to take good and visible actions on Sept. 22 that (1) celebrate the positive impact of the internet on the world and (2) shed light on the problems of access and information flow.

OneWebDay is a global, decentralized event. We’re encouraging people around the world to meet up on Sept. 22 to talk about how the web could change lives around the world in the future. We’re aiming for at least fifty of these events, and thanks to the Internet Society and others we’ve already heard from Poland, Italy, Colombia, the Philippines, Bulgaria, Kenya, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Belgium, Ethiopia, Tunisia, and other countries. In the US, there will be events in Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, and New York.

            

“I hate the way some mediators introduce themselves as ‘reformed lawyers’ — as if law is some kind of disease. I see what I do now as
a natural extension of what I did then.” — Geoff Sharp

Geoff is featured in today’s issue of Engaging Conflicts Today. He is the 2007 chair of the NZ Law Society ADR Committee and often speaks on mediation both in NZ and more recently in the United States at the invitation of the American Bar Association. He is also the author of mediator blah…blah… http://mediatorblahblah.blogspot.com/. If you would like a copy of his interview, and are not signed up for the newsletter (which you can do in the sidebar on the right!), email me this week at engagingconflicts@gmail.com with Geoff Sharp in the subject line and I’ll email it to you.

            

Welcome to a new blog, Science and Religion, at DiscoverMagazine.com. Father Holleran has, to me, an interesting background and the right approach to these discussions, some of which he states in his inaugural post :

The second caution has to do with what we mean by “religion.” As a Roman Catholic priest, I obviously come to the conversation with my formation in the wondrously rich intellectual tradition of Catholicism. I do not, however, have a formal theological degree. What I do have is Jesuit training, not only from high school (Regis) and college (Fordham), but also as a Jesuit myself for five years. Perhaps more importantly, I have over twenty years’ experience as a hermit contemplative monk in the Carthusian Order. (The life of the Grande Chartreuse, where I lived for seven years, is the subject of the recent documentary Into Great Silence [click here to see the New Yorker’s review and click here to hear Father Holleran talk about the film]. While there I was in charge of the production of our liqueur—Chartreuse—a job that surely mingles not only herbal ingredients but also art and science!) For this reason, I do not consider my stance to be either conservative or liberal but contemplative. By this I mean an attitude that shuns ideology and rests in the grateful and often scary appreciation of the real as it reveals itself in all its splendor. For this reason, too, I have an immense respect for other religions and their traditions, and look forward to having blog participants enlarge the discourse with insights from their own spiritual backgrounds. I myself have training in yoga and more especially in Zen Buddhism, and hope to be able to offer for your consideration some contributions from these venerable worldviews.

Perhaps a better way of saying this is that I have an enormous respect for the often tortuous and frequently exciting personal journey of each individual in sincerity and freedom.

            

Rajesh Setty is an entrepreneur and investor based in Silicon Valley who also maintains a popular blog called Life Beyond Code. I visit it periodically to catch up on ideas I consider helpful for developing professional and business success (just as I periodically visit Guy Kawasaki’s How to Change the World blog). Rajesh writes directly for technology professionals but the principles apply for all professionals. I came across his article Making the Most of Your Time: Going Beyond To-Do Lists at ChangeThis recently. As he says in his introduction:

Everyone knows that time is the great equalizer in this world. Everyone has a flat twenty-four hours in a day–nothing more and nothing less. Everyone also knows that successful people get a lot more out of those twenty-four hours than average people.

Time management is hard, and it’s a flawed concept. You really can’t manage time. It is finite. What we all know and talk about really is how we can mange ourselves better. So, really, if you want to manage your time better, you have no choice but learn to manage yourself better.

He identifies and discusses 9 things to consider in a short, clearly written article, which I list here (but his article is worth downloading and reading): Read more »

            

I’m reviewing The Negotiator’s Fieldbook: The Desk Reference for the Experienced Negotiator, Christopher Honeyman & Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Editors (ABA 2006), through the rest of 2007 and into 2008 (it has 80 chapters, more than 700 pages of substantive text, and something for everyone, from novice to expert!). I’m reviewing the book because it’s hot, hot, hot. More about the book and its editors here. More about Part I: Why Even the Best Get Stuck, here.

Part II: The Big Picture, is comprised of three sections: A. How People Frame the Negotiation; B. When Is It Really A Negotiation?; and C. Is it Moral, is it Fair, is it Right? Today’s post is about two articles in C., specifically these articles (annotations are from the book):