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''Greens and Means& | Collective Roots

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:26:48 -0700

"It's going to take a different approach to community organizing than I'm used to," said Rev. Bob Hartley, longtime EPA resident. "I want to get into that mindset and start talking not about sons and guns specifically, but about greens and means. And how you can bring back some respect for each other." Hartley believes that bringing the youth back to their cultural roots through showing how food is grown and explaining the significance of the act of growing will help create a sense of community and steer them away from violence. "There's a hard difference between smoking weed and growing greens. But if we can start young enough and hold their interest long enough, I think we'll certainly be able to persuade some change in a select group of young folk," he affirmed.

Fruit Salad Day Serves Up Health and Nutrition at School | JUST CAUSE (beta)

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:41:03 -0700

In line with the USDA's recent `Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food' initiative, eighth graders at East Palo Alto Charter School held an event called "Fruit Salad Day" for their entire school on Sept. 17, 2009. The 15 students in the school's Garden Elective class helped to wash, chop, mix, and serve seasonal fruits donated by farmers' markets in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto to more than 300 schoolmates.

Fruit Salad Day Serves Up Health and Nutrition at EPA Charter School | BlogHer

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:39:25 -0700

Fruit Salad Day: September 17, 2009 | Collective Roots

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:51:12 -0700

Eighth graders in the Garden Elective class at East Palo Alto Charter School hosted a school wide healthy eating event on Sept. 17, 2009. Fifteen classmates helped feed more than 300 students a mix of seasonal fruits donated by East Palo Alto and Palo Alto's farmers' markets. Building up to "Fruit Salad Day," students "gained a really good understanding of where their food comes from and how it gets to their plates," said Assistant Principal Saree Mading. Includes instructions for how to present a similar event in your school.

2 Reasons Why You Need to Care About Dunbars Number

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:58:24 -0700

"How many close and meaningful relationships can we maintain at any given time?" asks Internet Marketer Dan Ronken of PullnotPush.com. "How in the world do my fellow humans keep up with the thousands upon thousands of friends they've acquired through the use of social media?" Ronken offers two tools to weed out the number chasers and build an authentic network.

Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:15:42 -0700

It's presumed that journalists who tweet are applying the same editorial ethics of accuracy, balance, impartiality and objectivity to their work as they would if they were preparing a report for broadcast on-air, online or in print. But could one system satisfy both needs? Could a story written for an online audience be delivered in tweet-sized paragraphs, as it is written, and still make sense as a whole?

Rick Burnes Blog: Hiring an Inbound Marketer? Heres What You Should Look For.

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:21:13 -0700

Considering marketing as a second career, job-seeking journalists? Think again .... Earlier this year David Meerman Scott pointed out that journalists could be great inbound marketers. But journalists and employers have to be careful about these types of hires. Inbound marketing requires qualities that not all journalist have by definition. Job-seeking journalists attempting to sell their transferable skill base need to evaluate their value proposition. If an applicant falls short of any of the criteria Burnes lists, that's his pain point -- where he needs to find an innovative solution and new approach to re-branding himself. What Burnes offers in his reflection is a plan, not false hope.

Is Crowdfunding the Future of Journalism?

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:54:51 -0700

A new crop of sites are combining crowdfunding with volunteer and professional contributions in order to source news that people want to read. There are two issues with crowdfunded sites that also have volunteer journalists, however: who's going to pay for it and who's going to write it. These sites (Chi-town Daily News, Spot.Us) are experimenting with ways of answering these questions. Other ways to raise money: Payyattention, Kachingle, and Contenture.

Former Mercury News photographer Len Vaughn-Lahman dies at 55 - San Jose Mercury News

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:32:06 -0700

"He [Len Vaughn-Lahman] was Indiana Jones with a camera."

But it was in Iraq and Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks that the Vaughn-Lahman legend really took off. There were his incredible photos of fierce gunbattles with the Taliban. He was carjacked and robbed in Iraq. Rogers recalls Vaughn-Lahman telling him how he once used a small mirror on a stick to take pictures from around a wall during a shootout.

Upon his return, Vaughn-Lahman wrote: "We feel as if we're trapped in an elaborate video game as we rattle down the rutted ditch that serves as the road to Taloqan. It's the 14th century, but with rocket launchers."

Stop Obsessing over Number of Blog Comments

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:14:42 -0700

Comments are not necessarily an objective indicator of engagement. Their number, big or small, can be misleading. Seth Godin (ranked 14 on Technorati) shuts off comments. In doing so, is he denying readers rights? Readers want to know that they have certain rights even though they might not actually use them. Blogging is about expressing opinions and enabling free speech. This can be achieved only if you leave the communication channels open.