Age of Conversation 3 - I'm Published!

So late last year I volunteered to write a short essay to be included in the latest Age of Conversation book. What is it about?

Following on the success of the first two editions, Age of Conversation III: It’s Time to Get Busy! again kick-starts the discussion about how the global marketing landscape is changing. With over 300 of the world’s leading marketers, writers, thinkers and creative innovators contributing chapters, this collaborative work investigates the roles that community, conversation, experimentation, engagement, and collaboration play in shaping the 21st century’s economy of ideas. As businesses, public and private organizations, and individuals realize that there’s much more to social media and its impacts than first meets the eye, Age of Conversation III shows which platforms, tools, and approaches truly work. (read more)

It's pretty cool - my piece is on innovation and execution. It will be available in mid-April so stay tuned to the book's website for more news and other details.

In the meantime, check out the complete list of the other fine authors contributing to the book.

Disability Doesn't Stop This Teen From Dancing

...and defying expectations. What an amazing and inspiring story this is that I came across in this week's Parade magazine:

In Challes Reese’s dreams, her face is bathed in a spotlight as she dances freely across a stage.

In Challes Reese’s reality, she is a 15-year-old with cerebral palsy who relies on a wheelchair for mobility.

But she has long refused to let her neurological condition, which permanently impairs muscle control, block her dream of dancing.

That dream started when Challes was a little girl in Chicago, before her family relocated to Dubuque, Iowa. And it persisted when she moved into Hills & Dales, a local residential facility for young people with profound physical and mental disabilities, a few years ago.

So when the Stephen Hempstead High School dance team held tryouts last fall, the freshman, one of nearly 1600 students, steered her motorized wheelchair to the center of the floor. She was ready. A wheelchair in a dance routine? Skeptics were soon won over as Challes moved her arms and spun her chair around, “dancing” in sync with the music. It was an unconventional routine but one she performed to near perfection.

Told she was the newest squad member, Challes, a young woman of few words, unleashed a scream of joy. The dream was on.

> Read more here.

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Move Your Money Contest

For the first time, I have to make a personal appeal, but it's for a good cause.

Have you heard of Move Your Money? The movement was started by Huffington Post and is all about getting folks to...:

..move their money out of the Wall Street banks and into community banks and credit unions. Community banks are typically more conservative about how they manage their money, they’re more closely connected to the people and businesses who live near them, and they’re more inclined to make loans they know will get paid back. In other words, they have the values that more people would want banks to have.

Coincidentally, a friend and I both work in credit union organizations and play together in a band called The Disclosures. Recently a contest opened up that asked for people to submit a 2-minute video around moving your money - the only stipulation is you had to start your song with "Money in a bank. Money in a bank. Looking like a fool with your money in a bank."

Almost all the other entries are rap...but we came up with this. Enjoy!



Voting started this week and is open until Wed. March 17 - anyone with an email can vote. It's easy and only takes a second.

> VOTE FOR US HERE (#5 - the Disclosures)

Then please share our video with others and ask them to vote.

Thank you!

Separated Twins Reunite Decades Later

I love stories like this (and in my own backyard too!):

A local woman has been reunited with her twin after 52 years.The family's story starts in Japan, continues with family scattered from Madison to San Diego, Calif., and ends with twins finding each other on the Internet.

Watch the video recap:




> Read the full story here (Channel3000.com)

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