Coffee Break - Wednesday, December 6

--Need some inspiration/motivation for yourself or your seminar? Check out Ben Saunders' Arctic expedition video presentation on TEDTalks as he "...recounts his harrowing solo journey to the North Pole, complete with gorgeous images, amusing anecdotes and previously unseen video footage from the Pole." (More on Ben Saunders.)

--Graduating $20,000 in Debt. Employees in Generations X and Y are facing very different financial challenges than the older workforce.

--The methods we use to deliver and process media and messages are changing faster than ever. Today, we're attuned to reading and digesting user-generated "Conversational Media" as much as any of the older "Packaged Goods" media types. John Battelle sums it up well in "Packaged Goods Media vs. Conversational Media, Part One." (Via BoingBoing.)