Recent Bookmarks 06-Mar-2009

Recent bookmarks on delicious as garymlewis. Read more.

Dear Barack – Why you also got a D on your higher education budget proposals

Rhetoric and analysis have limited power to persuade people to act. Emotion is the missing ingredient, and stories provide the best way to unite ideas with emotion. You had a wonderful opportunity to persuade the American people through story, but you essentially passed on the chance. Read more.

Dear Barack – Why you got a C for your higher education budget proposals

Since I haven’t heard from him yet, I guess President Obama is too polite to challenge the low grades I gave him recently on his budget proposals for higher education. Just in case, however, I prepared a rationale. Here is the first of two parts. Read more.