As you might have seen publicized on Thursday, Natania Barron and I did indeed have the honor of speaking to the Philadelphia Alumni Writer’s House at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania last night. The crowd of students and staff were wonderful, with many great questions, and even a few laughs! We livestreamed and recorded the event on Ustream. The video is not that great, and you need to fast forward to about 4 minutes in to get the start of the actual action, but hopefully it’s interesting. We talked a lot about how GeekDad works and how we use the free tools available on the internet to help promote our posts. Special thanks to Professor Ray Bossert for inviting us, Dr. Kerry Wright and the folks at the Writer’s House for their wonderful hospitality, and all the folks who showed up!
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