Early yesterday morning Seth Godin wrote that the world is getting smaller every day. You—yes, YOU —have the ability to touch and change the lives of people you’ll never once meet in person, often from your living room. The ways in which we affect the world around us are sometimes thrilling, sometimes humbling, but all [...]

Tagged as: Acumen Fund, books, change, connection, Jacqueline Novogratz, Seth Godin

{ 1 comment }

What They Want

by Megan M. on February 26, 2009 · View Comments (Blog) |

You can use a tool like Highrise to track every single conversation you’ve ever had in your life, and the pertinent details of each person you meet. But I have sudden clarity: Why not also use it to track what each of them wants?

I’m not using Highrise at the moment, but musings like Bob’s make [...]

Tagged as: Bob Poole, connection, database, highrise, networking, people, relationships

{ 4 comments }

Mulled Questions (Mix with Cider)

by Megan M. on January 22, 2009 · View Comments (Blog) |

Here are some questions and speculations for a Thursday evening.

Has anyone gone around to talk to the homeless in Austin, and published their stories in blog format? Even a limited site or an ebook would be amazing. I’ve looked for this project, certain that someone must have done it before I thought of it, but [...]

Tagged as: community, connection, helping, homeless, ideas, questions, resources, stories

{ 3 comments }

Feeling Connection

by Megan M. on January 20, 2009 · View Comments (Blog) |

At some indeterminate point in the last few years, I began to feel emotions much more strongly than I used to. Most of the time, they’re normal. But more and more, they rise like a tide, or hit me like a wave. (WHACK! Broadsides me.)

The really amazing ones are about people. An urge to connect [...]

Tagged as: connection, emotion, experience, meaning, purpose

{ 2 comments }

People I Adore: Triiibes (part three)

by Megan M. on October 27, 2008 · View Comments (Blog) |

You know, I meant to write up one post about the new links in my sidebar, and look what happened! You see, the problem here is just that they’re all too awesome. I can’t fit any of them into the paragraphs I wrote, much less a few sentences that would have allowed me to make [...]

Tagged as: communication, connection, leadership, meligion, Seth Godin, tribes, triiibes

{ Comments on this entry are closed }

← Previous Entries