Social media is finally catching on with healthcare, public health, and health promotion. With a few recent articles published in the academic literature to rest on, the health and social sector has finally conceded that it might have some value for the public beyond entertainment.

The silent majorities are awakening, as people realize the crushing results of ultra conservative agendas and austerity upon normal folks. They realize that no matter their current security, they may be the next ones in distress.

Economics has become the primary focus of development, not people and their communities. Forgotten is the fact that economic development, as we have come to know it, had as its foundation, community development. Community development, at its roots, is organic.

Each community has a story of place that defines its character and uniqueness.Understanding the uniqueness of its stories of place is the foundation for creating a story for the future that reflects the uniqueness of the place in which we want to live now.