April 10, 2008 – Silence and Voice

@BronSt How has your time in NYC been? #
@grisonne Sounds exciting. #
Has anybody else noticed an increase in Twitter followers that seem to merely be aggregators, rather than real people? #
@PaulPam2 Does not seem to be a pattern, which makes me even more suspicious of the reasons . . . #
I wish my colleague Christina at work would begin using Twitter. She reads my Tweets from Twitter Tools, after all. #
I wish my colleague Christina from work would use Twitter. She reads my Tweets from the Twitter Tools email, after all. #
I also wish my closest friend from college, James, would also use Twitter. After all, he reads my Tweets in the same way! #
@grisonne Did you forget about using Twitter already? #
Left my work I’d (needed for building entry and floor admittance) at home. #
@edwardperry Are you watching her in person? Can you Tweet the highlights? #
Had lunch with @gsiemens and his lovely wife today. Enjoy when I finally meet people F2F who I have known online for some time. #
@gsiemens Enjoy your time in the Big Apple! #

I attended the 2008 Awards Reception for Wildcat Service Corporation at the Time Warner Center last night. Wildcat is a wonderful workforce development organization that has trained and prepared over 350,000 people in New York, over its 36 year history, to enter the labor force. Its Missions is “to provide comprehensive creative workforce development services to undereducated, unemployed, underemployed, low income residents of New York City to assure their self-sufficiency.”

It serves a population that is often overlooked and neglected in the economic and social strata in the city, especially through serving unemployed people with prior convictions who need basic skills to rebuild their lives.

I was inspired by one of the speakers who introduced herself as a former client and is now a vice-president at Citibank. It is nice to know that the US is still the Land of Opportunity, even for those who need the most help getting started.

That I was standing behind Richard Parsons, who donated the space for the event, was further testament to the good work Wildcat does.

Day: April 10, 2008

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