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  • Cluetrain Manifesto, push pull, and the future of managers

    Having a couple turkey sandwhiches with my good friend Kathryn Brown and the folks at Beyond Email today. We’ll be talking about blogging, why people hate being yelled at, and passing the potato chips, please. Poking around for videos to use beyond the usual boring blah, blah, I found this…

  • Inspired: To give and to receive

    A group of kids in South Bronx has me thinking about Greensboro. In this video posted to Barak Obama’s You Tube Channel, high school students from all racial backgrounds talk openly about race and hope–not usually two topics in the same conversation. Something else caught my eye as I watched…

  • Monumental task?

    Hamburger Square is about to showcase another statue to the city’s founder, Major General Nathanael Greene. We already have a statue of Greene up at National Military Park off Battleground Avenue. No disrespect intended to the American Revolutionary War hero. But still, I wonder: How come we can put up…

  • The Eye of Iran

    It’s not ironic, it’s sad, really, that I know as little as I do about the intertwining histories of America and Iran. This weekend, feet propped on the theater seat in front me, I took in a different kind of history lesson through the story of a spirited young woman…

  • St. Patrick’s Day Redefined

    That’s my Dad. And this picture was taken at this year’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day event at M’Couls in downtown Greensboro. Two talented photographers, Michael D. Dunn and Stephen Charles, spent the day shooting the sights, sounds, people, and musical acts who carried the night away. One note: I was…