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We made the news with Geocaching with an Iphone! Pia and Patricia (exchange students) on American TV!!!

Our awesome course designer Tanya Phillips is a star!

From: Tanya Phillips [mailto:tanyamp@austin.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:09 PM
To: 'Chuck Reburn'; chuckreburn@austin.rr.com; 'Tanya Phillips'; 'Marianne
Ohl Phillips'; 'Sam Beauchamp'; lori.finn@gmail.com; 'Pia Rohde';
'Christiane Rohde'; lubica.faskova@eu.magna.com; 'Lena und Martin';
melanied@austin.rr.com; 'Lynn Robinson'; pattierosario@sbcglobal.net; 'Tim';
'Tim's webmail'
Cc: 'Mrs. Captain Picard'; 'inspectorgadget'; 'John Chen';
andrew@geoteaming.com; 'Jo Ann Fjellman'; driving_me_buggy@yahoo.com; 'Karen
King'
Subject: We made the news with Geocaching with an Iphone! Pia and Patricia
(exchange students) on American TV!!!

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=250829 --
click here to read the story

If you click the PLAY link in the middle of the story that says "watch the
video" to see the live version.

http://www.news8austin.com/shared/video/video_pop.asp?destlist=70410 --
click here to view the video

It has me and my exchange student Pia (from Germany), Seth Pollard and his
exchange student big sister Patricia (from Slovakia)

and geocaching friends Dan and Gabi Hadad.

We filmed it last week, it is airing today on News8 Austin, but you can see
it all online.

Tanya

Google Alert - "Team Building"

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Google Alert - "John Chen"

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Referral from Leadership Tomorrow

From: David Osmer [mailto:Dave@hagel.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:15 PM
To: john@playtimeinc.com
Subject: FW: Referral from Leadership Tomorrow

Dear John,

I got your name from the LT Directory which indicates you have an interest
in Health Care.

We are recruiting for an exciting, challenging ED position in Tacoma, WA.
KWA is one of the premier non-profit agencies in the Puget Sound area. They
are a 1,000 employee - $20 M, multi-county, multi-cultural human services
organization operating numerous programs throughout the region.

We would appreciate any help you might provide us in distributing
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profile is attached and is also available at:
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please call or email me at 425-643-4223 or dave@hagel.net
.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Dave

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FW: Google Alert - "Team Building"

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Fwd: Google Alert - "Team Building"

-- John Chen CEO, Geoteaming (206) 856-8491 2008 Training Magazine Top Young Trainer

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> From: Google Alerts > Date: August 9, 2009 3:19:05 PM PDT > To: john@geoteaming.com > Subject: Google Alert - "Team Building" >

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FW: Adrian Rogers - Incentives Work

As the late Adrian Rogers said, "you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

This man is truly a genius!

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before,
but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on)

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FW: Building a Brand Plan tomorrow on Head Hunter Radio... join me

Subject: Building a Brand Plan tomorrow on Head Hunter Radio... join me

Dear Friends,

I am thrilled to write to ask you to join me (see timings below) as I make my debut on Head Hunter Radio ( http://headhunterradio.com)

What is Head Hunter Radio?

Finally a radio show that tells you what you really need to know about Everything Jobs… and how it works from the inside! Getting hired, fired, promoted, developed – you name it. We’ll probably have some funny HR stories along the way. With HeadHunter Radio, you will get expert insights from top HR and business leaders – from corporations you know!

During this show, I will be interviewed by Cecelia Gonzalez, the show’s host. We will be speaking about Building Brand Plan and why that is so critical in today’s economy. The second half of the show features Mike Molina, VP of HR for Vistage. He will be speaking about those critical things we all need to do when we shift to a new role or new organization.

USA, WEDNESDAY, 5 AUGUST from 3 pm to 4 pm PST (12 noon EST)

MADRID, 6 AUGUST from MIDNIGHT to 1:00 AM (Sorry Antonio)

INDIA, 6 AUGUST from 3:30 am to 4:30 am (Sorry friends)

SYDNEY, 6 AUGUST from 8:00 am to 9:00 am

Warm regards,

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FW: interview with Habu!

From: PodCacher .Com [mailto:podcacher@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:46 PM To: John Chen Subject: interview with Habu!

Hey John,

Just wanted to let you know, in case you weren't aware, that we did an interview with habu! in our show 223 http://www.podcacher.com/?p=623

S&S