I recently caught up with Vanessa Van Petten , author of the book You’re Grounded: How to Stop Fighting and Make the Teenage Years Easier for a special interview for the Creating Gen-Y Magic project

Vanessa is such an inspiration, so make sure to read the interview here.

Many thanks to Greg Rollett for inviting me to interview Vanessa…it was a pleasure indeed!

I have watched a bit of AGT over the last few weeks, and I will be shocked if Nuttin But Stringz does not walk away with the title next week.

Amazing!

The Princeton Review has added a green rating to its annual ranking of the best colleges. This score measures how “environmentally friendly, responsible, and committed the institutions are.”The schools that scored 99 (out of 100) are:

• Arizona State University, Tempe
• Bates College
• Binghamton University
• College of the Atlantic
• Emory University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Harvard University
• University of New Hampshire
• University of Oregon
• University of Washington
• Yale University

Get the full article here on YAHOO!

If you have not yet figured out from all of our blog posts how to best communicate with Generations X and Y, this article by Karen Auby in Business Week is a great synopsis of how to do it right!

Senator Barack Obama has done a fabulous job with his online campaign and these folks to the right are the minds behind it all. Check out this great slideshow and article from the Washington Post.

From left: Nikki Sutton, Joe Rospars, Chris Hughes, Kate Albright-Hanna, Scott Goodstein and Sam Graham-Felsen. (By Warren Skalski For The Washington Post)

Wow…wonder how fast this was! I’m thrilled to know that my son Jack may indeed be employable in the future…texting!

Watch it here!

We want to thank Steve Renshaw of Digital Motion TVfor his outstanding work on this video! Thank-you Steve!

Hm…this is smokin hot! Katee andTwitch on Week 7 of So You Think You Can Dance.  My guess…Katee is goin’ all the way to the finals.

Millennial Leaders 

Great post on the Newsweek Blog about McCain, Obama and the Millennials.