The thing about Chicago is that if you don't like the weather, wait a minute. And if you're a conference junkie, just wait a day. The National Council of La Raza conference started on Saturday and I spoke on Sunday during a townhall on "new media" for their youth track.

As I said during the townhall, having a townhall on new media for youth is like teaching 10-year-olds how to program the VCR during the 1980s. They are already there, they know it. BUT... what my fellow panelists and I were there to do was answer questions on how to use social media tools effectively for social change. We also were able to talk to some of the adults who program for and with youths about how to use social media.

We talked responsibility, safety as well as power. The power to connect ones friends with a simple "share this" button to an amazing blog post/news article/etc. Hopefully we were able to convince a room of hundreds of young Latinas and Latinos to toss up a thoughtful article in between Facebook quizzes. Hey, that's what us old folks do.

More from La Raza later this week!