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.

Finance 2008 - Summer Reading

Summer Necessities:
1. old friends
2. new friends
3. family
4. good music
5. beer
6. sun block factor 80
7. Worthwhile Summer Reading !!!!

Below authors are leaders in the financial industry, their thoughts discern the crisis of the day, and explain the unique market events of this era.

Microtrends: Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes, Mark Penn, Sept 2007
Bull in China: Investing Properly in the Worlds Greatest Market, Jim Rogers, Dec 2007
Super Crunchers: Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart,Ian Ayres, Aug 2007
New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008, George Soros, May 2008
Fooling Some of the People all of the Time, David Einhorn, May 2008
The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder,Dec 2008

Exit 245

JMU A Capella brought down the house at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage last week. A packed, overflow crowd was aghast at this heretofore unheard of innovative, melodic, and funny performance. This clip is not from last week, it's a sample of what these gentlemen can do.

Why Digg

Digging express's your values, and the communities. In real-time the community is voting on what news-reports are credible, perspective changing, as well as contributing to the news story itself.

# reply comments from a very hot digg (see below !!!)

People are worried that the United States isn't "keeping up" anymore. We no longer have the tallest building in the world, or the largest shopping mall.

Those are twentieth century status symbols and are no longer relevant.

Some of today's status symbols include super computers and space programs, both of which we have the best of.

"To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day."

http://digg.com/tech_news/Call_Sarah_Connor_Military_Supercomputer_Sets_Record

GroundSwell

A dear+sweet High School friend "Facebooked" (i.e. friended) me recently, I noticed her "Event List" included a fun party at the "Cantina Marina" a D.C. waterfront establishment. This event was a fund raiser for "Hortons Kids" sponsored by District Charitable Trust, DCT. Now, my sweet friend works on Capital Hill as a lobbyist, the good kind I assure you. Capital Hill is not my social circle, nonetheless ... a friend's small act of "friending me" opened a whole new world for me.

This is a "GROUNDSWELL" affect, social networking media can enhance relationships and link you to social realms heretofore unknown to you. I was charmed at the DCT party to visit with Andy + Josh, gentlemen I know from "Frontline". I enjoyed an entertaining evening of social revere, became knowledgeable on "Hortons Kids" - a Reading Program for underprivileged children in Anocostia, and was encouraged by the spirit of volunteerism.

GroundSwell, 2008 Forrester Research Inc., Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff. Details how you are being affected by "Online Social Media" and how you can engage in a salubrious manner.