Shaping Youth has been on a two week blog hiatus to leapfrog into the future via global human connections. I’ve just graduated from the Women Leaders for the World intensive boot camp for visionaries…Where 2007 global leaders from various countries, races, religions, socioeconomic backgrounds, and political leanings unite through the power and promise of the … [Read more...]
I’ve been trying to stay low key about being selected as one of the U.S. representatives for the Women Leaders for the World program, but after spending the last few days with my fellow GWLN delegates, (bios here) this is an intense global experience that will no doubt impact every iota of my very being. From Rashmi explaining the agribusiness loss of indigenous foods … [Read more...]
I’m behind the eight ball in more ways than one these days, so when Greg Verdino at Crayon (one of my Age of Conversation colleagues) tagged me for the meme game to get to know his fellow authors (or to make it easy on himself to pick eight bloggers, not sure which, but the idea deserves swiping!) I decided that the ‘8 ball’ analogy, (his photo, the whole … [Read more...]
“Social networks get things done,” says the narrator of this short video primer I found on Kim Klaver’s blog, who happens to be one of my co-contributors in The Age of Conversation. Wow, I’ll say. Today Drew and Gavin’s visionary book, The Age of Conversation comes alive! It's already featured in Social Computing Magazine here, the Ad Age … [Read more...]
Let me get this straight. Media watchdogs deem the new Harry Potter film inappropriate for children, yet it’s being marketed to them heavily. Mainstream media mavens and reviewers debate the brooding adolescent depictions of an angry, angst-ridden Harry, deciding it’s gritty teen fare, on the cusp of its PG-13 rating. Gotcha. Meanwhile dark acts in the REAL world … [Read more...]
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