oh, that's very odd. I haven't touched my netflix queue in a long time. The friendfeed/netflix synch seems to do this sometimes, pulling in old stuff.
- Laura Norvig
ah, it's cuz Netflix updated the version of it.
- Laura Norvig
really, a LOT more attention is going to need to be paid to this. you can't encourage people to serve and then not have good places to serve. another thing that just occured to me tonight. There needs to be a community where people can really talk honestly about their experiences serving. Whether they got something out of it or not, and why. I'm sure some volunteer centers have placement people who are actually good at placing people in the right experience.
- Laura Norvig
some people want to volunteer and use their professional skills, and some people want to do something unskilled, or want to do something completely different than what they do in their day job.
- Laura Norvig
I also saw Arnold Schwarzenegger who spoke a bit before her. I feel bad, but I couldn't help laughing a bit - he's such a caricature! His poor wife had to follow not long after Michelle Obama, and a large percentage of the audience fled the auditorium because they had already been there for hours. It's all up on YouTube, though, and I'm definitely going to check out what Maria had to...
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- Laura Norvig
http://twitter.com/thenews... did a great job of live tweeting this event. Sounds like I definitely missed out by leaving before Maria took the stage - she was interviewed by Alan Khazei of BeTheChange and formerly with CityYear.
- Laura Norvig