Archive for April, 2009

The Glass is Half Full

A few weeks ago, a conversation on Facebook about the US unemployment rate sparked this response from a friend:
“While it’s true that 8.5% of the US is unemployed—and that’s the highest we’ve seen in decades—it’s important to note that 91.5% of Americans ARE EMPLOYED. And that’s kinda awesome.”
I’ve been trying, ever since, to share this [...]

Who Owns the Conversation?

So I was fortunate to have been invited to speak at mesh last week as a part of the word-of-mouth panel. Under the moderation of Sean Moffitt, we (the “we” being me, Saul Colt, and Angie Kramer) had a bit of a chat around the state of the nation. It was all quite entertaining and [...]