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bkivowitz

  1. Am honored that Michael Krigsman invited me to guest blog on Change Management & IT Projects: http://tinyurl.com/3co8yzg
  2. Anybody know of any animal welfare groups working in the Gullf who are looking for volunteers?
  3. What has BP wrought! How deadly! On the east coast we're counting the days until we see the first oil tentacles reaching our coastline.
  4. Good piece on 20 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed http://tinyurl.com/yylqbfk
  5. getting more involved in social media as part of a cool Silicon Valley start-up: The Groupery http://tinyurl.com/y32kujk
  6. Am flying to San Francisco today. Asking myself if I would tackle someone who starts smoking (& I don't mean cigarettes). I hope I would.
  7. MSPCA/Angell Animal Hospital does such good work - health care, advocacy, animal shelters. If only services for people were run as well.
  8. My idea of Big New Years eve plans - going to see Avatar at a local IMAX theater.
  9. Reading Pynchon's latest,Inherent Vice.A cross between Maltese Falcon,Gilligan's Island and Cheech & Chong.Intriguing,but not life changing.
  10. Had AMAZING! theater experience- Punchdrunk Company's Sleep No More, an immersive production of Macbeth as a Hitchcock thriller.
  11. Feeling righteous today, day after Thanksgiving gluttony. Went to a 9:00am power yoga class.
  12. Food items have nutrition labels. Why not add social responsibility labels: http://bit.ly/3sgsMT
  13. been offline dealing with illness in the family. it's been an everything time - from deeps sadness to hysterical laughter.
  14. Recent Harvard Med School research shows that 45000 die every year due to lack of health insurance and good health care
  15. Nike, Best Buy, Creative Commons set up GreenXchange to share intellectual property for green product design. Kudos.
  16. Taiwan company TerraSkin makes paper from rocks. Burts Bees uses it as soap package; MOMA uses it for shopping bags- innovative and green!
  17. NYT article on how social media robs us of random discoveries http://bit.ly/bUfMI
  18. Went to Lowell Folk Festival. Amazing talent - blues, New Orleans jazz, Klezmer, Texas honky tonk, bluegrass, even a rocking polka group.
  19. Quote from John Galbraith: No Progress is possible with unimproved people. We need to invest in people as we invest in green sustainability.
  20. A gift from a friend - Leonard Cohen's Anthem: Forget your perfect offering. There is crack in everything; That's how the light gets in.