On February 22, 2010, I made the announcement within a Love of Learning post, that TommyMom was officially on Facebook.
On April 7th, I published a post on Power in Leadership Education featuring Dambisa Moyo. It has sparked a lot of interest. Some of you left public comments on the post; others of you e-mailed me privately.
Still another question that is asked quite a lot is; how, if you don’t live in close proximity to a conference, can you have the opportunity to interact in the Leadership Education Community at large, in order to benefit?
We’re going to try something in hopes of strengthening and broadening the Leadership Education base.
We’d love to include all that practice Jeffersonian Leadership Education principles…
and those that just love to read and support a more socially aware, responsible citizenry in our country.
There are even some “mavens” of the Leadership Education community that have been involved in a book group for quite some time…
that are eager to chime in!
WOO-HOO!
I bless you ladies, and thank you in advance!
So here are the details…
You will need to have or set up an account on FACEBOOK.
I can assure you, if you don’t currently have one…
or have listened to the hype surrounding this socially interactive cyberspace modality…
you will survive.
And you won’t be flooded or inundated with inappropriate information…
contacted by 3, 749, 810 people from your former high school…
or targeted by every group and forum on the web.
When I registered TommyMom…
I held my breath and waited with sweating palms for all of these things to happen.
None of them did.
In fact, I have quite enjoyed the interactions that FACEBOOK has afforded me thus far…
and have watched Sons #1-#3 use it extensively for all kinds of opportunities to interact with others.
Perhaps we had better consider that in this highly technological age…
a large piece of the “Great Conversation” is going to undoubtedly use social media…
to discuss, ruminate upon, and engage great ideas and thoughts.
We are going to launch a colloquium on TommyMom…
to begin May 10, 2010…
under “Discussions.”
If you would like to be included in this opportunity…
simply read this book…
Log in to FACEBOOK on May 10, 2010…
and begin dialoguing!
It would be great if you could post a picture in your profile when you set it up as well.
Thanks to my brother, Tim Driver for encouraging the use of this free, clean format venue…
in order to incite healthy discussion and dialogue…
available world-wide…
24/7…
at-your-anyone-can-contribute-and-participate convenience!
See if you can find a copy of Dead Aid at your library…
or remember, if you order through Amazon, using our affiliate button…
we get credit towards gift cards…
which in turn, will be given away on TommyMom!
I’ll leave you with a couple of excerpts from the book, Dead Aid.
Compelling…
gut-wrenching…
thought provoking.
I can hardly wait to hear from all of you!
Let the reading begin!
“To the Excellencies and officials of Europe. We suffer enormously in Africa. Help us. We have problems in Africa. We lack rights as children. We have war and illness, we lack food…We want to study, and we ask you to help us to study so we can be like you, in Africa.”
Message found on the bodies of Guinean teenagers Yaguine Koita and Fode Tounkara, stowaways who died attempting to reach Europe in the landing gear of an airliner.
And this, from the Foreword by Niall Ferguson…
“It has long seemed to me problematic, and even a little embarrassing, that so much of the public debate about Africa’s economic problems should be conducted by non-African white men. From the economists …to the rock stars.., the African discussion has been colonized as surely as the African continent was a century ago.
The simple fact that Dead Aid is the work of an African black woman is the least of the reasons why you should read it. But it is a good reason nonetheless.
Born and raised in Zambia, Dambisa Moyo also brings to her subject a rare combination of academic expertise and ‘real world’ experience. Her training in economics took her from the World Bank to Harvard and on to Oxford, where she obtained her doctorate. Since leaving the academy, she has spent eight highly successful years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as Global Economist and Strategist. It’s quite a CV.
And this is quite a book…”
Just ordered it from the library and yes, I will be participating in this most exciting colloquium. I saw Deena’s suggestion at the end of a previous post (to have a colloquium on Dead Aid). I think it’s a fabulous idea and I am very JAZZED to participate. Let the great thoughts begin to flow….
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I ordered the book as soon as I read about it in your previous post, but it hasn’t arrived yet. I hope it comes in time for me to read it. And I’m not sure about how one has a dialogue on Facebook, but I’ll do my best.
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Teri Reply:
April 17th, 2010 at 11:07 am
@Deena: We’re going to have some suggestions and guidelines before we start that will hopefully allow all of us to benefit tremendously from the discussion.
I would check with Amazon…I received my book in 3 or 4 days, and I believe you ordered it before I did.
XO, ~ Teri ;0)
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This should be fun I’ve loved what Facebook has allowed me and I can’t wait for the discussion!!
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