Social network links

I'm active in a variety of networks and have trouble keeping track of them. Thus, I created a list at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org/TMLearningNetwork/LinksLibrary...

With the growth of networks, it is getting harder and harder to build a community of purpose because of the time it takes in each network to build a page, and host a discussion.

That is why it's important to recruit others who share the same passion, and who share the role of moderating these communities. At http://nicolecabrini.blogspot.com/ you can see how one of my volunteers is connecting her network to Cabrini Connections and the T/MC vis a blog, and a Facebook community.

I hope that some of you will enlist teams of your students to take this role as you begin the new school year. Such teams can become leaders of connecting people who don't live in poverty with young people who do live in poverty, with the long term result that a bridge of understanding and mutal benefit is created over a period of many years.

Such a bridge helps us understand the challenges of poverty if we don't every experience them personally, and it helps create lifelines to college, jobs and careers for young people who live in neighborhoods where the most visible role model might be an ex-offender or someone earning a living from illegal work.

If you're doing this type of work already, I hope you'll link it to the strategies and information library of the Tutor/Mentor Connection.