Susan Klopfer's Blog – November 2009 Archive (3)

I've been playing around with http://visibletweets.com today. You can link it up to your tweets and make a nice display for a bookstore or somewhere. Would love to hear from anyone who has used this effectively.



Anyway, go to www.visibletweets.com and type in #sklopfer/civil-rights and I made a display about my book, Who Killed Emmett Till? Not completely sure I've done this right, but it worked.… Continue

I attended an entrepreneur's meeting today for "entrepreneur supporters" (consultants, etc.) and got so discouraged (disgusted), I took my freebie flash drive, coffee cup and pen and left early.



Why do some people find it necessary to put limits on others?



The speaker kept talking about "youth" and how much better young people are at using the Internet and being entrepreneurial. I say "bull-puckey"! It's so silly to categorize people and it is dehumanizing. I was not in… Continue

A Mississippi Delta Juke -- plenty of secrets behind these walls.





...someone calls me on the telephone and tells me a good story. So now that Who Killed Emmett Till? is about to make its way into an ebook, I got a fascinating telephone call from the Mississippi Delta ...



Here's the story:



Thirty-seven-year-old Michael Rosa of tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi lost a research paper he wrote as an… Continue