Interesting blog post, though I have a few thoughts about / additions to it. Being a connector certainly is all of these things, but when there isn’t sincere interest in what you’re doing or the people you’re connecting, you can’t be an effective connector in the long term because people stop buying into it. How… Continue reading 9 Skills Needed to Be a Super-Connector
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Giving is actually a habit, and once you have it, it’s a really hard habit to break. Daniel Kaufman, the cofounder of the One Percent Foundation
Social Media Increases Alumni Engagement more than 400%
The Thunderbird School of Global Management enjoyed a 400 percent increase in the number of donors – many of them alumni – to its annual end-of-fiscal-year campaign 2010. Everything they did that year was the same, with one exception – Thunderbird had a small team of social media managers creating and monitoring conversations with the school’s supporters… Continue reading Social Media Increases Alumni Engagement more than 400%
The State of Young America
Some interesting breakdowns here. An excerpt: Jobs & The Economy Only workers with at least a BA degree saw earnings increase over the last generation Median earnings for young African-Americans are 75% of the earnings of whites; 68% for Latinos Young women earn less than men at every level of education. Twenty-nine percent of 18-24 year… Continue reading The State of Young America
Poorsquare… The Ubber-Practical Next Step For Foursquare!
Free things in your NYC neighborhood for Foursquare users! Definitely will use this, because it’d be silly not to.Poorsquare... The Ubber-Practical Next Step For Foursquare!
How we’re Googling the 2012 candidates
I like this on so many levels that I can’t even well-articulate any. So, just take a look and it should speak for itself. (via OhMyGov!)How we're Googling the 2012 candidates
And I believe it’s very important for the non-governmental movement to gather strength, not only to urge better business practices and a better government, but also to find other ways to step into that gap, to do things faster, cheaper, and better. Bill Clinton, at the 2011 Fares Lecture at Tufts University
OPPORTUNITY INDEX
This new metric has just been launched by Opportunity Nation, the second nation campaign from Be The Change launching this weekend from New York. The campaign seeks to enhance opportunity and economic mobility in America, and this Opportunity Index is an innovative benchmarking and comparison tool that will certainly empower communities to do better. Check… Continue reading OPPORTUNITY INDEX
QUIZ TIME! Where was I? [if you muuuuust cheat, the answer is here. So fun!]
If finding this hilarious makes me a bad person, I’m still ok with that.(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Jen Bokoff 
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