Below is all of my content that has been tagged with the term inauguration. Browsing it should be very exciting for you. Enjoy.
I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I'm the CEO and Founder of WeSprout, which is coming soon. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.
Yesterday was an amazing day for me and, I believe, for America. Small things first: for the first time in history, the White House has a beautiful website befitting the office of the leader of the free world (unfortunately, it appears to be in ASP).
As a speechwriting junkie, it was great to hear Obama’s first inaugural address. Though it was heavy on the cliché, it was stirringly effective and powerful, and definitely had the literary air I was hoping for from his first address as President, while still being completely accessible to any listener.
“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths.”
This is great, and probably how Ali and I will end up making our way to the convention on Tuesday morning