Brad Rourke’s Blog
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A New Issue Guide: A Nation In Debt. How Do We Pay The Bills?
I am delighted to announce a new issue book developed by the Kettering Foundation for the National Issues Forums titled: A Nation In Debt: How Do We Pay The Bills? This issue guide, authored by my good friends and colleagues Tony Wharton and Noelle McAfee, is the latest in the issue book library of which I am…
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An Entrepreneur
A family member sent me this note recently: I’ve seen a man on the street the last few days that has intrigued me. I finally talked to him a bit this morning outside my office building. Since I’m in the middle of . . . yet another downsizing, I’ve been thinking a lot about the…
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Results From My First Diet
It was the end of June, and I had just returned from vacation with the family. We’d gone to Hawaii, so I spent a lot of time with no shirt. I’ve always thought of myself as a very fit person. I have run regularly since I was 16, I work out, I have done P90X,…
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How To Change Strings On An Electric Guitar
The other day my friend, Dennis Ellington, asked just out of curiosity how I string my guitar. It was hard to explain in writing, but when I was done he said my method is unusual. So I thought it would be easier to demonstrate on video: Here is what I originally wrote: If you are…
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Interview On Building Community
My friend Craig Patterson asked me to cut a short video as a part of a series he was working on. He was asking a handful of participants to respond to the question: “How can we come together as a community to rebuild our community?” Here is my brief response.
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Google+, Circles, and Facebook (And: How To Make Facebook Act Like G+)
On June 28, 2011, Google pleased geeks worldwide by unveiling their third try at social networking: Google+, or G+. While the previous attempts met with at best only mild success (Orkut is popular in Brazil but few other places, and Google Buzz remains a sideline for most), G+ has seen quick adoption and quick praise…
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Featured On Page One Of Washington Post's Sunday Business Section
I was away on vacation and so was not there to bask in the glory, but I was given a heads-up by the reporter and knew it was coming: On Sunday, June 26, me and my colleague Cindy Cotte Griffiths were featured on the front page of the Washington Post’s business section. The story, by…
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Lotus Uprising
Over the weekend I attended a wonderful event that I wanted to share with you. It was called Lotus Uprising, and was part yoga class, part dinner party, part house concert.
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