Profilactic Mashup - Weave

twitter: If you were to create a for-profit collective of socially-responsible communication firms, what brand traits should it have?

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:01:13 GMT

Weave: If you were to create a for-profit collective of socially-responsible communication firms, what brand traits should it have?

twitter: I'd like to do an experiment: I'm working to launch a for-profit collective of companies who want to do social good. Please see next post.

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:00:20 GMT

Weave: I'd like to do an experiment: I'm working to launch a for-profit collective of companies who want to do social good. Please see next post.

twitter: Let's try that again. AdAge re: LinkedIn users: http://snipr.com/5vtc6

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:37:12 GMT

Weave: Let's try that again. AdAge re: LinkedIn users: http://snipr.com/5vtc6

My photos: Flashback: Jena at 7

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:36:26 GMT

Weave posted a photo:

My wife at age 7 (1971)...so cute!

My photos: Flashback: Eric at 7

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:46:57 GMT

Weave posted a photo:

In 1968, Lyndon Johnson was President. We were fighting the Vietnam War. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Students around the world were protesting. Apollo 6 was launched.

And in the American Midwest, I was 7 years old, in second grade. There were three channels on TV in my town (4 on a good day). TV went off the air at midnight. No stores were open 24 hours a day. I lived in a subdivision on a curvy street, played tetherball, ran downstairs to watch William Shatner and Adam West in Star Trek and Batman, and lived a very stress-free life.

My homeroom classmates Cary Kocher, Tim Johnson, Chris Hankinson and Tim O'Leary still connect with me today via Facebook, Classmates and email.

Part 1 of a retrospective for my children.

twitter: Wanna see who's using LinkedIn? AdAge gots the scoopz. http://tinyurl.com/6bzbod

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:21:23 GMT

Weave: Wanna see who's using LinkedIn? AdAge gots the scoopz. http://tinyurl.com/6bzbod

del.icio.us: Finally Find Out Who LinkedIn Users Are - Advertising Age - Digital

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:20:43 GMT

LinkedIn Demographics

twitter: Lots of social media conferences & miniconfs going on. Great oppty for corporate communicators to learn more & rewire their conversations.

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:11:02 GMT

Weave: Lots of social media conferences & miniconfs going on. Great oppty for corporate communicators to learn more & rewire their conversations.

twitter: Has any one purchased the Blackberry Bold or Storm? Wondering if there's a significant improvement over older models.

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:25:07 GMT

Weave: Has any one purchased the Blackberry Bold or Storm? Wondering if there's a significant improvement over older models.

twitter: @socialmedium: you are funny. :)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:41:53 GMT

Weave: @socialmedium: you are funny. :)

twitter: my Twitterank is 150.38! http://twitterank.com/?u=weave

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:29:59 GMT

Weave: my Twitterank is 150.38! http://twitterank.com/?u=weave

del.icio.us: Advertising - As Spending Plunges, Ads Emphasize Value Over Luxury - NYTimes.com

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:34:09 GMT

del.icio.us: Congress:Top 100 Technologies -- RD - PESWiki

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:00:42 GMT

twitter: Want to see who's stopped following you? http://useqwitter.com/ Surprised how many unfollowed me after my "I'm half-asian" comments!

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:50:53 GMT

Weave: Want to see who's stopped following you? http://useqwitter.com/ Surprised how many unfollowed me after my "I'm half-asian" comments!

My photos: Yes we did!

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:44:14 GMT

Weave posted a photo:

I grew up in a Midwestern suburb in the 1960s. My father was a Swiss-English army vet, my mom an Okinawan hairdresser. Being half-Asian, I often longed to fit in with my peers just once... I often felt I was on the outside of the glass, looking in.

I remember many hurled verbal "stones" such as "chink", "jap" and "slope"...such words spit at me from teens in passing cars, or in middle-school hallways. Or when a car full of guys would park in my driveway calling me out and threatening to beat the crap out of the "Jap." Having zero Asian culture, the words often confused me - I grew up with these people after all - and they perpetuated feelings of being isolated and alone. Even as an adult, moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, I was amazed to get hate stares and epithets from toothless guys in pickup trucks with "nuke the towelheads" bumper stickers, or when the smiles of older waitresses aimed at Bengal-sweatshirt-wearing white guys would turn to unhappy frowns when it came my turn to order.

it wasn't until I moved to vastly multicultural Washington DC in 1997, and out of the midwest, that I began to feel accepted. And with my final move to Washington State, home of many Asians and half-Asians, I finally felt free of the unspoken racial divide that I'd grown up with.

It's hard to explain racism to many white Americans. Most could never even begin to understand being on the outside, and instinctively shirk away from an uncomfortable subject, or worse, some fire back a kind of Freudian projection that tries to put someone else, anyone else, in the spotlight. I know what it feels like, and I also know what it means to examine my OWN subtle racisms, most of which I have thankfully moved past.

That's why the election of Barack Obama gives me such hope and happiness: the idea that a mixed-race candidate, only two weeks younger than myself, can be elected by the majority of people in this country, is hugely healing and hugely redeeming. It means, for me, that those hard, ignorant comments from the past have lost their sting, and that the majority of my fellow citizens can view the world without first seeing color. I'm not ashamed to say that seeing Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell and Oprah crying brought on my own tears of joy.

My hope in this country is restored and I am supremely happy to be one of its citizens.

And yes. We did. :)

My photos: Daughters

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:35:07 GMT

Weave posted a photo:

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA - August 7, 2008 - Daughters Caroline, then 14, and Maura, then 16, on the ferry to Bainbridge.

My photos: Evil Caroline

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:34:48 GMT

Weave posted a photo:

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA - August 7, 2008 - I'm not sure what this face means.

My photos: Catch

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:34:20 GMT

Weave posted a photo:

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA - August 7, 2008 - A gull catches a snack thrown overboard.

My photos: Closeup

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:34:02 GMT

Weave posted a photo:

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA - August 7, 2008 - Today (Nov. 6) is Maura's 17th birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE!

My photos: Sparkly

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:33:42 GMT

Weave posted a photo:

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA - August 7, 2008 - Nothing like the Sound in the Sunshine.