Twitter Vs Facebook

`Twitter is to Facebook what Google was to Yahoo` is a Social Networking analogy heard on Twitter. Is this analogy true to form, i.e. micro-blogging vs Search-Portals. This analogy applies in scope+and member acceptance, Yet in behavior, use, and value proposition, we find complimentary value, not a competing metaphor.
a) Twitter is OPEN ... your thoughts are published to the community of 6+MN Tweeters
b) You can search for any Tweets in the Tweeter Universe
c) Passive listening to other Tweets is accepted etiquette [i.e. Learning Experience]
d) Comment/Respond to Tweeting Universe
e) Grow a `flock` of common/complimentary-minded ... associated Tweeters, as the old adage state ~birds of a feather, flock _____.
I`m listening to a few scientists Tweet on Security, reading their WhitePapers & Blogs, it`s comparable to dropping-IN on a lecture at MIT on Next Generation Security.

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7 Trillion Dollars of US Federal Obligations, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving !

Family, Technology Innovation, GMAT, Financial Review typify my recent months.
A Bloomberg article was a remarkable summation of commitments US Financial Leadership has made in 2008. This is a year for the history books. OMG.

Dara Torres, 21 or 41

GroundSwell Defined

"A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations." GroundSwell,Li&Bernoff,p9.

Year of 2000
a. eBay - consumers purchase goods without a store
b. Craigslist - find a job, consumer goods, tickets without ads
c. Linux -free operating system acquired without purchase
d. Rotten Tomatoes - movie reviews from peers, without ads

Year of 2008
a. Facebook - realtime connect with others using rich-media
b. Wiki - realtime document collaboration
c. Twitter - realtime, cell-text-messaging
d. Digg - realtime book mark your interests
e. Blog - realtime comment on what interest you
f. Linkedin - realtime manage professional relationships
g. Youtube - realtime, on demand video of new events, education, entertainment

***Individuals now engage in a vast community, very quickly, with richly expressive tools.

INOVA Fairfax Hospital Volunteer

Having attended the INOVA Entry-Level Volunteer Training last Saturday I thought a few comments were appropriate.

a. The training session was an excellent introduction to Hospital Service etiquette & protocol
b. Many high school age students were present, some of whom were using this activity as a college application entry.
c. Fairfax INOVA is the most ethnically diverse hospital in U.S.

Inova Fairfax Hospital is a 833-bed regional medical center serving the Washington, D.C., metro area. Inova Fairfax Hospital includes Northern Virginia’s only Level 1 Trauma Center for treating the most critically injured patients , the nation’s sixth-busiest obstetrics program, a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and is the region’s only hospital to offer the full spectrum of organ transplantation, including heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas and bone marrow. Its Emergency Department is able to accommodate more than 80,000 patients per year.

The Inova Heart and Vascular Institute is the region’s only heart institute. It houses the most advanced technology and facilities dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.

Inova Fairfax Hospital is a teaching facility, partnering with the medical schools of Georgetown and George Washington universities and the Medical College of Virginia; the nursing schools of George Mason and Marymount universities and Northern Virginia Community College; and the pharmacy schools of Shenandoah, Howard, and Campbell universities and the Medical College of Virginia. Additional residents rotate from the University of Virginia, Howard University and various other residency programs associated with the National Capital Consortium.