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About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Category Archives: writing
Being introvert (3)
Today I came across an article about introverts in the workplace. The article says something about the preference in general for characteristics that come with extraverts, but that organizations should become more aware of the skills introverts can bring to work: analytic, observant, not judging immediately. Some other characteristics: introverts need more ’self-time’ to recover [...]
Taking what I do serious (2)
This week I’ve come to realize that a lot of the time I don’t take my work seriously. In the sense that I’m always playing down what I do. I have a hard time being convinced that what I do has value.
This realization hit me in the face and could easily knock me out if [...]
Making this a daily habit
I’ve never been a daily blogger, but I haven’t been active on any of my online thinkpads lately and that makes me feel sad. Inspired by Nanowrimo/VloMo09/NaBloPoMo and knowing that it probably takes longer than 30 days to make this a habit, I’ll be blogging daily for the next 66 days.
(photo: horizontal.integration)
Change the climate, start blogging.
The blogging competition TH!NK ABOUT IT will enter a second round. This time it is not just for Europeans and in my opinion has a much more appealing topic: climate change. Here’s the invitation:
After the success of round one, we are inviting 81 bloggers from Europe, India, China, Brazil and the USA to TH!NK AGA!N, [...]
TH!NK ABOUT IT – KICK OFF: the day after
[note: I wrote this on Wednesday, but due to a fever couldn't post it until now]
I am not sure how to summarise this event. The short version: It’s been interesting, especially the people that I’ve met. However:
I left the kick-off event of the European Blogging competition with mixed feelings. Let me explain. First of all [...]
TH!NK ABOUT IT
The first half of this year I’ll be competing! I’ll take part in the European blogging competition 2009 TH!NK ABOUT IT. Although I’m not a huge of competitions, especially in writing, I thought this would be a fun way to get a little bit closer to understanding what it’s all about in Brussels.
About the competition:
The [...]
Too busy writing… (13)