Wednesday, June 16, 2010

For More Than Recruiting

It is hard to believe it has been a year since the Iranian Revolution, from those days that social media became something much more than a way to keep up with the intentions of athletic, talented 17-year-olds.

Certainly the events of the past seven days should have reminded us of the power of social media - once again, Twitter and participatory media become the force multiplier of the traditional media over the conference realignment saga.

HBO Films provides us a touching, gut wrenching story behind the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, voiced by Shohreh Aghdashloo, the Academy Award nominated actress you might better recognize as the terrorist family wife from 24 or currently a mysterious intelligence operative in FlashForward. As she speaks the opening lines of the documentary,

"Every conflict of the last 70 years has it's own defining image . . ."

I highly recommend taking a moment to watch, and remember.

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