The Power of Relationship
I titled this post The Power of Relationship, but I could just have easily titled it Why I’ve Neglected my Writing and This Blog. For over the past month and […]
Turning Online Awareness to Real-World Activism on World AIDS Day
Every December 1st the world recognizes World AIDS Day, a day to remember those we’ve lost to HIV/AIDS and those currently infected and affected by this terrible disease. The HIV […]
Failure to Mobilize the Electorate: The Community-Organizer-in-Chief Forgot to Organize!
I specifically wanted to wait several days before writing up my own, humble analysis on last week’s midterm elections- you can already find pretty much every viewpoint from across the […]
The Morning After Gut-Punch- You Live to Fight Another Day
“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.” -Ted Kennedy It’s the morning after. You’re looking around at an empty union […]
Vote! Your Social Media Overlords are Making it Fun!
Every so often, as citizens of the greatest country on the face of this earth, we are asked to participate in one of the most fundamental tenets of a participatory […]
What are you Waiting for?
It took me months to finally publish a blog post. It wasn’t for lack of ideas– I keep an on-going list of ideas I’d like to write about, and I’m […]
Innovating itself to Relevancy? LinkedIn launches “Signal”
Maybe I’m a tad too harsh with my headline, but I’m so incredibly frustrated with LinkedIn. The end-user experience, the community within the site, the purpose of using it– I’m […]
Today is National Coming Out Day- Are you Creating a Safe Space, and Possibly Saving Lives?
Each year on October 11, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community celebrates (or commemorates?) National Coming Out Day. It’s supposed to be a day to recognize those in […]
HOW TO: Increase Productivity with Browser Bookmarklets
It’s always an eye-opening experience to learn that not everyone religiously follows technology blogs on a daily basis. Just last week I was having dinner with some colleges and I […]
Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity a Good Test of Social Media Power to Mobilize the Masses
Lots of my friends are today talking about Stephen Colbert’s official testimony, in character, to a Congressional subcommittee (which is either a brilliant PR move by committee staff to raise the […]
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