Professional Development Corner: Your Six Word Abstract
Last week I released a post titled Willie and the $0.85 Hand Jive about my personal quest for new music. Thanks to some of my readers I’m now listening to some great new music.
It was not long after that I received a tweet from Lori Edwards (twitter) concerning the name of the post. In her words it “seems horrifying and yet compelling”. I was about to counter her with a witty comment about that being how I lead my life when it dawned on me that it would be much more interesting to come up with a personal and professional statement of under six words to describe myself and then challenge others out there to do likewise and see what we come up with collectively. This is not one just for the geeks, wonks, nerds, dorks, etc. This challenge goes out to all those less fortunate to have such lofty labels as well.
I can’t really call this a thesis statement, but more of a personal abstract; it’s harder that I thought it would be.
Mine are:
- Personal: “loves family friends… OOH something shiny”
- Professional: ”innovation skills allows supporting heavy workload”
I’m not going to out-and-out challenge anyone, but would appreciate a link-back to this post from any bloggers that take up the challenge or a tinyurl link in any Twitter post that answers this question. The six word limit should keep well within the bounds of 140 characters in that medium. Use hashtag #my6 when tweeting out please.
