Brad Rourke

Brad Rourke’s Blog

  • Trapped Girls Seek Rescue On Facebook

    Recently two Australian girls trapped in a storm drain in Adelaide chose to update their Facebook statuses with please for help rather than dial the local equivalent of 911. This has local officials worried, according to a spokesperson in the ABC News article: “If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they…

  • Questions On The Occasion Of A Presidential Address

    Just to be clear: I regard it as a glorious thing that the president plans to address students in schools directly. The controversy that has brewed over whether this is indoctrination seems ill-founded. President Obama is not trying to control the thoughts of our young ones. He’s using the bully pulpit to urge them to…

  • Twitter Ecosystem Featuring More Teens, Tweens

    It has up to now been enjoyable to make a cocktail party comment that was some version of, “You know, teens don’t use Twitter.” Saying this immediately marked the speaker as someone “in the know” when it comes to social media. While sites like Facebook and Twitter have shown exponential growth, they are not ubiquitous…

  • A One Pager On Why An Organization Should Consider Social Media

    Today I took part in a a conversation with a client who is mounting a broad-based initiative that will be based on holding a number of events around the country. The organization has a proposal from someone to help them use “social media” and, while a couple of key people are convinced of the worthiness…

  • Ducking Trade Offs In Public Life

    I love the first day of the month. There are two things I do on the morning of every first day. First, I say “Rabbit, Rabbit.” That’s a tradition that I learned sometime back in the eighties: if, on the first day of the month, the first words out of your mouth are “Rabbit, Rabbit,”…

  • Useful Resources For Solo Startups

    As most of my readers know, my wife Andrea Jarrell and I are both “solopreneurs” — she has been at it a lot longer than me, but we are both quite accustomed to this way of working. Andrea is preparing for a panel where she will be talking about the trials, tribulations, and rewards of…

  • Will You Support Me In Running For Annie?

    As you may know, the Marine Corps Marathon is coming up in October — October 25, to be exact. I plan to run in it again this year. I am excited! Last year I came very close to my goal (I finished at 4:13:58). This year I hope at least to beat last year’s time,…