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It began on Feb 4th when I was tweavesdropping on a conversation between @nancymryland and @gregcooper . I asked if they would be interested in celebrating twestival with me on the 12th and they said yes!



I submitted my info to the twestival committee so that Indianapolis could be listed among the nearly 200 cities participating in this event to raise awareness and money for… Continue

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the man you want to be . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.



Wilfred Peterson





I hope you are like I am; hardly a day goes by that I can’t find some highlight to savor and remember. Last Sunday was… Continue

I received this last night on Smaller Indiana and completed it. Then I thought that it would be a great thing for everyone on Stark Reality to complete as well. Why not let everyone know 7 things about you that they may not already know!



So here goes. . . I will start.



1. First and foremost, I love my family! I am married to a wonderful husband (Mark) and have two great kids, Nathan (almost 6 yrs old) and Lisa (3 yrs. old). I have an awesome younger sister (Angie) and… Continue

While reviewing Direct Messages (DMs) and @replies early Sunday morning, I noticed that RicRaftis began following me on twitter. As with every new follower, I carefully reviewed his BIO to learn about his dreams and aspirations. Was he a twitter purist who wanted to authentically share his wisdom, or a Social Media Monger?



Upon inspection, @RicRaftis’s twitter stats contained a decent FFU… Continue

Have you ever dropped food into a pond and then hundreds of fish swarmed to the surface? How abut throwing potato chips up in the air at a beach filled with sea-gulls? (I don’t recommend that beach thing—it’s scary). On New Year’s Eve, while sitting alone in front of my computer, I experienced this swarm phenomenon -- virtually. I referred to it as a “happening” that night, but Princeton’s definition of… Continue

I discovered it first on www.smallerindiana.com In the video section. Thanks to http://www.smallerindiana.com/profile/PKKoduri

This is hilarious - "Facebook in ReAlity : If Facebook was a real place" 1.7 million You Tube views. Do I smell a… Continue

I was Christmas shopping with Mary, my mom, and sisters ten years ago at the Mole Hole in The Fashion Mall. It was a groovy little store with expensive knick-knacks and lots of fake trees dripping with ornaments for purchase. During one of those eerily quiet moments when everyone stops talking all at once, Mary said something that has been recounted several times throughout the last decade. She was reminiscing about growing up in Des Moines and the… Continue

I donated $400 to the One Laptop per Child Initiative on New Year’s Eve last year. It was the last day to participate in the “Buy One Give One Program.” I donated to this 501(c)(3) rather than purchasing a new Dell Laptop because it did my soul good to know a child in Afghanistan would receive a laptop with meshed networking capabilities.



I slowly became disillusioned with the project because I… Continue

In his book entitled, Out of our Minds, Sir Ken Robinson contends that our current educational structure promotes math and science as the highest academic achievement and the arts as the lowest-worldwide.



Sir Ken, as I like to call him, claims that virtually all countries regularly “strip mine” their children’s minds for certain subjects that are considered valuable, while neglecting those that may be CRITICAL in the future. With the exponential growth in technology, we have no way… Continue

Can you guess what Google service corresponds to each icon? Google is defining an Icon alphabet with very bright colors and simple lines. I wonder if someone from Asia will recognize what these symbols mean. Do shopping carts in China look like the ones at Kroger? I have always been fascinated with visual representations, which is one reason I thoroughly enjoyed Elegant Funk.



I connect easily with images, but the section of my brain… Continue

Are any Smoosiers using the Creative Commons licensure (the first one listed above)? It is a free and extremely user friendly licensing service that simply states—anyone can copy my ideas and words as long as they give me credit for it.



“Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to… Continue

I wrote my article the week before the Wall Street Journal article was published. Does that mean I scooped the WSJ? Check out the title of the article:



Social-networking phenomenon makes it easy for donors to

promote their favorite causes online. (WSJ July 14, 2008--Paul B. Carrol)





The entire article is well worth reading, but not-for-profit organizations should pay careful attention to the following two sentences:…



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Indiana Not-For-Profits Must Not Let Fear Dictate Their Use of Social Media by

Amy Stark is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States… Continue