Nowadays stand-up comics are all questioning who will replace famous Bush on the stage. It still is their job to do so and I think all of us will need someone to replace him. Maybe it hears silly but we need someone to laugh at,…just to remind us that ‘bushism’ relay is passed to another generation:)

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SECRETARY OF STATE: HILLARY CLINTON

Mrs Clinton, first lady from 1993 to 2001, lost a close race against Mr Obama for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.

She will now have to step down as senator for New York.

Mrs Clinton will be able to hit the ground running, given her wide experience and international contacts.

Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton clashed on some foreign policy issues during the primary campaign, and with incoming Vice-President Joseph Biden also well-versed in foreign policy, there is scope for friction within the Obama team.

DEFENCE SECRETARY: ROBERT GATES

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates will remain in charge of the Pentagon when Barack Obama takes office, at least for the first year of his administration.

Robert Gates, 65, is a former director of the CIA and was appointed Defence Secretary by President Bush in 2006. He has promoted the military surge in Iraq that has been credited with stemming violence there.

Mr Obama opposed the surge but both men are agreed on a greater focus on Afghanistan.

Mr Gates is seen as a moderate and is widely respected among both Democrats and Republicans in Congress.

His appointment would also fulfill Mr Obama’s pledge to include a Republican in his Cabinet.

TREASURY SECRETARY: TIMOTHY GEITHNER

The 47-year-old head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy Geithner, was instrumental in shaping the US government’s response to the banking crisis.

He played a pivotal role in the intense negotiations which took place before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, and also helped forge the deals involving AIG and JP Morgan.

He regularly speaks about the need for major reforms in the financial system in order to avoid further turbulence.

Before joining the Federal Reserve of New York, Timothy Geithner worked for the International Monetary Fund.

He was also the Treasury’s under-secretary for international affairs from 1999 to 2001.

HEALTH SECRETARY: TOM DASCHLE

Mr Daschle was the Democrats’ Senate Majority Leader from 2001 until 2003.

As head of the health and human services department, Mr Daschle will oversee Mr Obama’s proposed reforms to the US healthcare system, which is likely to be one of the top domestic priorities of the new administration.

Mr Obama will be hoping Mr Daschle’s long legislative experience will help steer reforms through Congress.

Mr Daschle served as a senator for South Dakota from 1987 to 2005, and was an early backer of Mr Obama’s run for the presidency.

ATTORNEY GENERAL: ERIC HOLDER

Eric Holder occupied the number two position in the Justice Department in Bill Clinton’s administration.

He was a senior legal adviser to Mr Obama’s campaign team and co-chaired the vice-presidential selection committee.

If confirmed, he would lead the administration’s efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, a move Mr Obama has singled out as a priority.

Mr Holder, 57, would be the first African-American to occupy the position of attorney general.

One issue that may surface during confirmation hearings is Mr Holder’s controversial advice on pardons to President Clinton in 2000, on the last day of his administration.

Mr Holder told the outgoing president that he was “neutral, leaning towards favourable” about pardoning fugitive financier Marc Rich.

HOMELAND SECURITY: JANET NAPOLITANO

Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has been picked for the post of secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

This post was created in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks.

As a governor of a state bordering Mexico, Gov Napolitano has wide experience on immigration issues.

She served as US attorney for Arizona and was also state attorney general.

UN AMBASSADOR: SUSAN RICE

Barack Obama’s UN ambassador, Susan Rice, will hold cabinet rank, in a sign of Mr Obama’s plan to work more closely with UN member states than the administration of George W Bush has over the last eight years.

Ms Rice worked in the Clinton administration from 1997 to 2001 but backed Mr Obama for the Democratic nomination because of his opposition to the Iraq war.

She is also an advocate of tough action to end the killing in Darfur.

Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 2007, she supported the idea of military action to force the Sudanese government to halt the massacres.

COMMERCE SECRETARY: BILL RICHARDSON

Bill Richardson, New Mexico governor, is no stranger to government, having served in Bill Clinton’s cabinet as Energy Secretary and UN Ambassador.

He also ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, but dropped out after poor performances in the early primary contests.

Alongside Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, he will be third of Mr Obama’s former rivals for the nomination to enter the incoming president’s inner circle.

OBAMA HIMSELF

I mean guys name is Barrack, middle name is Hussein and last name Obama. It looks like a great recipe for laughter but it has one drawback, the fact he is black, so every joke could be somehow treated as racist.

Who will be next George W. Bush Comic Figure?

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RSS feeds? What to blog about?

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Today I held a presentation to my faculty colleagues about Stephen Denning‘s article Telling Tales. What he says is that managers should use storytelling as a business tool in organizations.

Why the brain likes a good tale

Margaret Parkin says stories can be included in change programs in many ways, such as:

• as part of a brainstorming session;
• to communicate the future of an organization, clearly and enthusiastically;
• to unpick a problem and offer a parallel view;
• to add spice to a presentation on forthcoming changes;
• as an aid to memorable learning;
• to aid discussion and reflection during training sessions; and
• to stimulate curiosity in a “change update” newsletter or e-mail.

Her choice of the word “brainstorming” might take on a more literal meaning as she explains:

Research shows that while listening to stories, biochemical changes take place in the brain; levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) drop and levels of immunoglobulin A rise. So listening to a story can promote relaxation.

It makes you think, doesn’t it?

When Stephen Denning was program director of knowledge management at the World Bank in the mid-1990s, he gave impressive demonstrations and made compelling arguments about the need to gather information that, at the time, was scattered throughout the organization.

Frustrated at the poor response, he told them a story about a health worker in a tiny Zambian town who needed to know something about treatment for malaria, knowledge she was able to get immediately from a web site. The World Bank’s vast array of knowledge on poverty-related issues was not available to her in the same way.

Make’s you think, doesn’t it?

was the sort of response the little story elicited, and it did make them think and change the way they approached the management of their organization’s knowledge.

Ironically, Denning’s account was later criticized by a storytelling “expert” as being somewhat pathetic, lacking in detail and “plot”, few details about the health worker, nothing about her problems and so on. To his credit, Denning rejected this particular expert’s view.He says:

The ‘maximalist’ account would be more engrossing than my relatively dry anecdote. But I had learned enough by then to realize that telling the story in this way to a corporate audience would not galvanize implementation of a strange new idea like knowledge management. I knew that in the modern workplace, people had neither the time nor the patience – remember executives’ general skepticism about storytelling in the first place – to absorb a richly detailed narrative. If I was going to hold the attention of my audience I had to make my point in seconds, not minutes.

Storytelling can be used effectively at a time when an organization is about to undergo huge changes, and when those at the top need managers and other employees to envision what the organization will be like, and their role in it, after the changes. Human nature tends to make us apprehensive, maybe downright scared, of change, with a consequent reluctance to go for it enthusiastically. In the absence of a time machine to let people see that the future organizational change is not such a bad thing after all, the nearest you can get to it is their own imagination, fired by a “story-like” explanation of what is involved.

How Does Storytelling apply to blogging?

Article It is a very useful guide for blogging too. I know much of you already arranged your blog as a one big tale of yours but think again and try to give your audience a useful tale from your experience. Sometimes that’s what they need and that is what they will read with as little  pain as possible.

Here are 30 storytelling blogs you’ll love:

1. Karen Chace – Catch the Story Bug!
   http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html
2. Granny Sue’s News and Reviews
   http://www.grannysue.blogspot.com/
3. Ellouise Schoettler
   http://www.storyteller.net/tellers/eschoettler
   http://www.ellouisestory.blogspot.com
4. Storynory
   http://storynory.com/
5. Stephen Hollen
   http://mountainstories.easyjournal.com/
6. Priscilla Howe
   http://www.storytellingnotes.blogspot.com/
7. Going Deep: The Long Traditional Story Festival
   http://www.storytellingnotes.blogspot.com/
8. Gwyn Calvetti – Musings on story and me…
   http://musingsonstoryandlife.blogspot.com/
9. Kevin Burge – Siegfried’s Viking Tales
   http://siegfriedsvikingtales.blogspot.com/
10. Sean Buvala: A Quarter for a Tale
    http://wheresmyquarter.blogspot.com/2008/01/roadblocks-to-your-storytelling-success.html
11. Sally Crandall: Heads or Tales
    http://sallycrandall.typepad.com/heads_or_tales/2008/01/storytelling-re.html
12. Rachel Hedman
    http://www.storytellingadventures.blogspot.com/
13. Limor Shiponi: Limor’s Storytelling Agora
    http://lisb.wordpress.com/
14. Eric Wolf
    http://www.ericwolf.org/
15. Kathy Hansen: A Storied Career
    http://www.astoriedcareer.com/story_seminar_essay.html
16. Mathew Needleman: Creating Lifelong Learners
    http://www.needleworkspictures.com/vic/
17. Austories
    http://austories.blogspot.com/
18. Teresa Clark – Storyteller
    http://teresaclark.blogspot.com/
19. Tim Ereneta: Some Thoughts from Tim and Breaking the Eggs
    http://storytelling.blogspot.com/
    http://blog.myspace.com/storiesbytim
20. Storytelling Guild of Eastern Idaho
    http://snakeriverstories.blogspot.com/
21. Chris King: Curiosity Cubed
    http://www.curiositycubed.blogspot.com/
22. Holly Stephens: The Storyteller and the Listener Online
    http://storyteller-and-listener.blog-city.com/
23. Liz Weir: Liz’s Ireland Journal
    http://irelandjournal.typepad.com/lizs_ireland_journal/
24. How to Tell a Great Story: A Beginner’s Guide to Storytelling
    http://www.howtotellagreatstory.com/resources/blogs.html
25. TallTales Audio Storytelling Blog: All About Storytelling
    http://www.talltalesaudio.com/blog/index.php
26. The Multicolored Lady
    http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com
27. Hope Baugh: Indy Theatre Habit
    http://www.indytheatrehabit.com
28. Dianne de Las Casas: The Story Connection Blog
    http://storyconnection.net/blog/
29. Laura Lewis-Barr: Jung As I Can Be
    http://www.storiesthatwork.blogspot.com/
30. Stories From Papi
    http://papistories.blogspot.com/

List source: http://www.story-lovers.com/listsstorytellingblogs.html

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