the importance of being civic

Saturday was grim - grey, cold, wet - so did not ride my bike there.
but the rainy weather also meant that lots of people showed up - the speakers mentioned the number "400" several times. and I am proud to say Dorchester was very well-represented.

it was pretty inspiring.
Adam Gaffin of UniversalHub.com was there and has some good coverage of the event, including great photos of the lovely & talented co-chairs Maureen Feeney and Jim Rooney [both of Dorchester.]

I enjoyed the panel with John Henning, Joyce Ferriabough and Adam G.
blogging was oft-mentioned for effective communication, it was weird that I had just started this blog...
the lunchtime speakers were fab, but I felt badly about chewing and slurping instead of hanging on their every word.
really cool technology (of course I am easily wowed) that enabled them to poll us all and have the results posted within minutes and print up a preliminary report that was available for us at the end of the day.
I will be returning to the immense overhang of the BCEC on June 3d to see how I can help (because I am genetically unable to say "no" apparently) the anti-trash and graffiti action team clean up all Boston within one year.

saturday's fun

tomorrow is Boston Civic Summit.
plan to bike there and participate heavily as is my wont, post here later whether all the buzz pans out.