Comments on: #Gnomedex 09 Day 2 Mark Horvath on A Conversation about Social Change through Social Media http://blog.orenblog.org/2009/08/22/gnomedex-09-day-2-mark-horvath-on-a-conversation-about-social-change-through-social-media/ This is where you say something clever Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:48:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mark Horvath http://blog.orenblog.org/2009/08/22/gnomedex-09-day-2-mark-horvath-on-a-conversation-about-social-change-through-social-media/#comment-821 Mark Horvath Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:14:22 +0000 http://orensr.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/gnomedex-09-day-2-mark-horvath-on-a-conversation-about-social-change-through-social-media/#comment-821 interesting that ONE tweet showed up challenging the 9yo stat. 1) the post the tweet referenced is a year old. last month there were 460,000 layoffs. that's better then the 550,000 the year before. point is that post was written before the continuing homeless family crisis really started here is a newer post http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/shelters_see_flood_of_homeless_families "The latest numbers from the Department of Housing and Urban Development show that the number of homeless families rose 9 percent last year. In rural and suburban areas, homeless families increased by a whopping 56 percent." 2) the post referenced is debating the math between 13yo and 17yo. ok, pick he average age at 11, or 15 - they are still children. the average homeless person is a child - better? STILL SUCKS! watch this short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS6ar1aJIYM the rest in the series can be found on my about page. including the one on children http://invisiblepeople.tv/blog/about/ interesting that ONE tweet showed up challenging the 9yo stat.

1) the post the tweet referenced is a year old. last month there were 460,000 layoffs. that’s better then the 550,000 the year before. point is that post was written before the continuing homeless family crisis really started here is a newer post http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/shelters_see_flood_of_homeless_families “The latest numbers from the Department of Housing and Urban Development show that the number of homeless families rose 9 percent last year. In rural and suburban areas, homeless families increased by a whopping 56 percent.”

2) the post referenced is debating the math between 13yo and 17yo. ok, pick he average age at 11, or 15 – they are still children. the average homeless person is a child – better? STILL SUCKS!

watch this short video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS6ar1aJIYM

the rest in the series can be found on my about page. including the one on children

http://invisiblepeople.tv/blog/about/

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