Photo credit: Steve Francis So, I got to tell the TEDxVolcano attendees my personal experience of my favorite explosion, the Percheron Rocket: my first job out of school. The next day, I find out via a tweet from Lara Long, Benetech's literacy product manager, that my talk is online at the TEDxVolcano livestream , at about 46 minutes in.

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It's been a sunny warm day in California, and it takes a bit of thought to get ready for the snow. My goals are to talk to people about the causes I am passionate about: literacy, access and human rights. I am heading off to Davos for my third World Economic Forum meeting. Here's my first Forumblog.org post: Packing up.

My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. we need help.

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang   delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details).  I keynoted the conference last year. oh well.

Now, all students and schools can achieve the level of success experienced by one of our student users, Tyler Norwood, a seventh grade student at the Corte Madera School in Portola Valley, California. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding. Well, I just got my first one out in 2008!

Abby Rosenheck: Well, its kind of a long journey, but I had worked on farms when I was a young person, both working as, helping on farms where I grew up (I grew up in a city) but there were nearby farms that would bring food into our neighborhood. like CastingWords overall. Just an FYI for folks thinking about using it. Britt Bravo: Hi!

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.