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Correction. DAMA NYC web site is dama-ny.com/meetinginfo.php?…

anonymous@ModelPatterns
27 Sep 2019
You can find out more about DAMA NYC—and register—at dama-y.com/meetinginfo.php?i… The meeting will be on the 18th floor of the AIG building on 175 Water Street, from 9:00 am until Noon. After the presentation, I will have a few copies of the book available for sale.
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You can find out more about DAMA NYC—and register—at dama-y.com/meetinginfo.php?i… The meeting will be on the 18th floor of the AIG building on 175 Water Street, from 9:00 am until Noon. After the presentation, I will have a few copies of the book available for sale.
For those of you who will be in New York City on October 17, you are invited to join me at the DAMA New York Chapter October meeting, where I will be giving a presentation based on my latest book, “Achieving Buzzword Compliance: Data Architecture Language and Vocabulary”.
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Thanks Danette for the picture (and a chance to show off my book)! My followers are invited to check it out! Look for it on technicspublications.com and get a 25% discount with the coupon BUZZ25.

Danette McGilvray@Danette_McG
19 Mar 2019
Good to see @ModelPatterns at #EDW19. Check out his latest book, Achieving Buzzword Compliance. Technics Publications.
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This year I will be appearing at the @EnterpriseData conference 3/17-22/19 in Boston. On Wednesday I will be speaking on "Data That are Metadata: Information Resources".
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@enterprisedata Documents, photos, e-mails, etc. are problematic as a data model subject area. Each of these, in addition to any physical characteristics it may have, is ABOUT something else in the enterprise, so the model of this subject area must be an enterprise META-model.
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Tom Redman has just published an excellent article in the Harvard Business Review. It's about language, my favorite subject. hbr.org/2018/07/what-to-do-w…

What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

We’ve all experienced some this problem: Ask a question to three different departments, and you get three different answers. The problem arises because different systems employ different definitions...

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#Broken #Skype I recently downloaded the most recent version of Skype. BIG MISTAKE. It's broken. No longer shows on-line status of contacts. No pics of grandchildren.
Latest book in June: "Achieving Buzzword Compliance: Data Architecture Language and Vocabulary." Data geeks are very good at criticizing clients for sloppy language use. But what about us? "Logical models"? "NoSQL"? "The Semantic Web".
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Learn all the industry buzzwords (and how to use them) here. (Complete with glossary and bibliography.)
"The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, ...
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but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling." - Ivan Turgenev What work is this from?
amazon.com/dp/1634623703/ref… Available June 8, 2018
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Just as introducing "Ms." into modern life changed Women's role in society, I'd like to think introducing h' and 'e will take it another step!
#RightPronouns...I have been troubled for years now: to say "he or she" is clumsy. To say "they" when you are talking about one person is siimply wrong. So, in my books for the last 25 years, 'e means "he or she", and h' means "his or hers".
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