Information Maven: Greg Meyer

While foraging for roots and berries in the yard, we noticed that we have a rather sizable Red Huckleberry plant there.
Red Huckleberries have antioxidant qualities as well as other beneficial health effects.
I guess I’ll be fighting the birds for these now

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While looking for random information, I found Volunteer Match, a location-based search for finding volunteer opportunities. Nifty stuff.

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to use networking as a resource for learning more, specific information about the topics I’m interested in exploring.

This should sound like a “duh” statement but seriously - think about a time when networking produced direct answers. Networks connect you to people who know the answers you don’t, but not usually directly. In my experience, you realize the connections you have once you ask people in your network to help you think about the problem. Google makes the lag time shorter, as do services like LinkedIn, because they use technology to help you realize the connections that you have.

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It’s not every day that you see something really interesting on the sidewalk.
Here are some amazing (and I believe, unretouched) photos of sidewalk art.

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Okay, so dinosaurs are big in my house.
My local dino expert and I recently made fascinating and realistic drawings of many of the amazing creatures that inhabit our house.
Enjoy.

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