Patricia… you’re too kind! May the good spirits from our past continue to guide us, and inspire us!

Charlie… appreciate your good wishes as well, …may there be a bumper crop of G8’s for all in 2012!

I’m a firm believer that better ideas are forged in the workshop where two or more minds labor for a common goal. (I also suspect that nature favors the group dynamic over the individualist.) Where two minds meet, rough ideas collide and often unite… and with much work and a bit of luck, that newly evolving idea will loop back and forth taking on a shape and form that may never have been imagined on one’s own.

It’s not for everybody, of course, and with so many differing personalities and ideation styles here in the EN Community it may definitely be worth doing a ‘personality type’ background check. ;-)

On a final note… I believe proper collaboration has much to do with a healthy sense of community, for which I’m thankful to have found here at E.N.

Repost: TED Talk/Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from:
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_g... (18 min)

Best of luck Patricia and Pete, May there be G-8’s in your very near future:)

Thanks Pete your pretty awesome and I am thrilled to be a team, your an amazing teammate and friend. Inspired by three of the greats, My Dad, Henry and Thomas has made it so personal, so special and the reason my passion exists! We have learned much here from each other, the biggest of all gifts is the continued caring and sharing, collaborating together here on the forums and giving breathe to new ideas so as to make a difference for each other and the world. Thank you Betsy, Toni for your well wishes and here’s wishing EN and everyone many more new successes in the New Year!!
- Patricia

Toni… Many thanks for the good wishes!! we’ve learned much from Team Talva …much continued success to you all in 2012!
-Pete

Thanks Betsy! …We make a great team …Patricia, Mr.Ford, and I! ;-)
-Pete

Hi Patricia and Peter, Happy the both of you joined to invent together. I love our Team Talva and I hope you have as much success and we have.
Congratulations. xo

Nice Blog Patricia and Peter. Go Team FordSpirit!!!! ;-D

Teaming up is a great idea!

Beadle… I picked up on a lot of useful info by searching the forums for key words: ‘groups’ and ‘collaboration’

EN-Team member Matt recently offered some useful advice to add an introductory micro-blog entry listing the active team members so E.N. and the community could know who’s involved.

Agreed! It amazes me how Team Talva gets along. Quite an unusual group made up of incredible individuals. They work so well together, like a fine tuned machine….yet they’ve never met each other face to face. And EN is the reason they all met! Wild, wonderful, they continue to blow me away!

There are always exceptions, Betsy! :)

If ever there was a team to be admired…that’s the totally amazing, hardworking EN Team!!!!

Where would many of us members be without them? :-)))))

Heather, I would agree….BUT, Team Talva’s stew came out pretty darn good—-they won 2 LPS searches in one day. Check out the Blog section. It’s an impressive group. Talva’s new avatar pic is comprised of all their individual pics, thanks to the incredible artwork of the Colonel! Go Team Talva!!!!

not necessarily… my Memmy always used to say “too many cooks spoil the stew” :P

Cool, that’s good to know. I’ve always believed that two heads are better than one, three is better than two and so forth…

IAN is another aka Team Magic

Yuppers, there a a few teams around here, Talva is one of them.