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Will Profiles Ever Be Obsolete? – Retrieve and Herd

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Dean Dietrich's Reflections on Data, Development, Education, Research, and More. Will Profiles Ever Be Obsolete? July 23, 2015. August 10, 2015. This seemed like a revolutionary idea to me, one that could potentially change the focus of my work. If I could work in a manner more akin to that she had described, then I could spent less time writing profiles and more time thinking about ways to identify prospects and to keep more prospect information up to date. I was able to find more efficient ways of work...

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Dean F. Dietrich – Retrieve and Herd

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Dean Dietrich's Reflections on Data, Development, Education, Research, and More. Author: Dean F. Dietrich. What’s Life Like in Nevada? Last week I was too focused on completing the final requirements for my MBA to write any new blog posts. To start things off this week, I thought I’d post a piece I wrote a year ago for my college class newsletter. The newsletter editor invited me to submit a piece telling my classmates more about my life in Nevada. First things first: it’s Nev-a-. Dye) and Genoa (Ge-Noah).

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Returning from a Conference: Six Steps for Avoiding Post-Conference Let-Down – Retrieve and Herd

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Dean Dietrich's Reflections on Data, Development, Education, Research, and More. Returning from a Conference: Six Steps for Avoiding Post-Conference Let-Down. July 24, 2015. July 26, 2015. So what is a newly re-energized employee to do? That last sentence said a lot rather abstractly, so below, I’ve broken it down into a list of steps you might take. 8220;New Orleans Lakefront Airport”. Kevin O’Mara) licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Or do they require more of a long-term change that will require systemati...

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What’s Life Like in Nevada? – Retrieve and Herd

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Dean Dietrich's Reflections on Data, Development, Education, Research, and More. What’s Life Like in Nevada? August 10, 2015. Last week I was too focused on completing the final requirements for my MBA to write any new blog posts. To start things off this week, I thought I’d post a piece I wrote a year ago for my college class newsletter. The newsletter editor invited me to submit a piece telling my classmates more about my life in Nevada. First things first: it’s Nev-a-. Dye) and Genoa (Ge-Noah). And Cl...

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Fun with Data Visualizations – Retrieve and Herd

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Dean Dietrich's Reflections on Data, Development, Education, Research, and More. Fun with Data Visualizations. July 26, 2015. The last two weekends have found me writing about data analysis and data storytelling, so I thought I’d continue the trend tonight with a look at some of the fun and interesting data visualizations I have come across recently. Let’s start with the “Map of Literary Roadtrips” (hat tip: Flowing Data. Perhaps you’d like some coffee to go with your sandwich? Has created a Taxonomy of ...

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The Beginning of Wisdom? Finding More Uses for Prospect Development Data – Retrieve and Herd

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Dean Dietrich's Reflections on Data, Development, Education, Research, and More. The Beginning of Wisdom? Finding More Uses for Prospect Development Data. August 1, 2015. In his book of essays entitled. Philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote “To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom” (Russell, 318). The line concluded a short essay on censorship in education, but his point applies equally well to many sorts of situations. Part of this is a matter of ...

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It’s in the Hands: A Reflection on Forgotten Processes – Retrieve and Herd

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Dean Dietrich's Reflections on Data, Development, Education, Research, and More. It’s in the Hands: A Reflection on Forgotten Processes. July 30, 2015. Last weekend, I read an article from the. About a pianist named Christina Kobb who had studied a number of 19th Century manuals about playing the piano. Christina Kobb Photo Credit: Fredrik Solstad for the. Chords and scales sound smoother and can be played faster, Ms. Kobb also found, and dramatic pauses between notes often a matter of physical neces...

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Prospect Development, Continued: Goals vs. Systems – Retrieve and Herd

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Dean Dietrich's Reflections on Data, Development, Education, Research, and More. Prospect Development, Continued: Goals vs. Systems. June 17, 2015. In my last post. Focusing just on the terminology of “prospect research” and “prospect development,” though may be the wrong approach to appreciating the nature of the repositioning. A more useful explanation of the different strategies comes from Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert. Is something that you do on a regular basis that increases your ...

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Shape and Click: What My Dogs Taught Me about Building Better Systems – Retrieve and Herd

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Dean Dietrich's Reflections on Data, Development, Education, Research, and More. Shape and Click: What My Dogs Taught Me about Building Better Systems. August 2, 2015. Back in 2012, the speaker at the University of Nevada, Reno Foundation’s annual banquet was Charles Duhigg of the. Author of the book The Power of Habit. As I sat listening to his talk, I recognized what he was describing as essentially being what psychologists and behaviorists refer to as operant conditioning. Although technically all dog...