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We began these blogs because we wanted to start a conversation. The posts on this blog are the personal perspectives of individual staff, volunteers and guest bloggers, they do not necessarily reflect the views of the organization. We encourage response and conversation. We just ask you to keep it respectful. We'd love to hear it. It's a conversation, after all, we hope you'll add to it. Want to be a guest blogger? Email us

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Meghan Keaney Anderson
Mon, 12/29/2008

Happy New Year

It's a quiet day here around the offices of United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley. Hard to believe that we launched this blog a little less than a year ago. Thought you might be interested in a "Wordle" of our recent blog posts, created at http://www.wordle.net/. A wordle is a visual display of our content. The word cloud gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. I liked this one because of the two largest words: "People" and "United". Have a happy New Year, and if you have ideas for how to make SpeakUnited better, please let me know in a comment below!

Wordle!  wordle.net

Meghan Keaney Anderson
Thu, 12/18/2008

Boston Homeless Census 2008

A few photos from the Boston Homeless Census. Where you there this year? What was your experience like? Leave a comment below and let us know.

Homeless Census 2008

Homeless Census 2008  read more »

Meghan Keaney Anderson
Tue, 12/09/2008

Live United Heroes: Tom Simons and Todd Baird

How one local ad agency brought our cause to life

In early October, you didn’t need to be a social scientist to know, beyond a doubt, that something had changed in the latest economic swandive. The calls and emails coming into United Way for help not only came with greater frequency, they had a different tenor. I remember clearly sitting across the table from Tom Simons and Todd Baird of PARTNERS+simons on October 6th and trying to find the words to explain the situation growing in front of us.  read more »

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