Snow on my windshield, check. Bells and red kettles, definitely. Yes, Virginia, it really is December. In addition to the serving and giving you’re going to do this month, you might want to add tweeting and sharing to your goodwill list. I experienced the sharing of good cheer this morning from someone I didn’t know [...]
This morning I was listening to the news, and NPR ran a 20 second blurb on the cholera death toll in Haiti. 550. I got to thinking, why do people in the U.S. hear stories like this and shrug their shoulders? Why aren’t we doing anything? The answer is that people are doing something. A [...]
Do you ever hear business leaders ask about their return on their investment with social media? I do. ROI is certainly not one of those tangibles you can measure in the traditional way. One of the books I feature in my Recommended Reading list is Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and [...]
When I first heard about Convoy of Hope coming to our community for an outreach, it was in the context of need and hunger. One of our pastors, John Slotten, talked of last November’s Thanksgiving Day Meal and the sense he got of hopelessness and despair from the hundreds of people served that day. It [...]