Kenya Day 3

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Kenya Day 2

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Kenya Day 1

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Kenya Bound

I know that I haven’t around and there are reasons for that. laziness.  Well I’m about to take a trip. I will be blogging from that trip. We are heading back to Kenya. I’ve only returned to a couple countries in my life. I love it when I do. The second time around you start to get this bond. anyway.  I’ll see you in a couple days.  I will see this guy. I dont know who the photo bomb is.

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You can have my voice

I dont have much to say other than, Compassion you can have my voice.  So people if you want to sponsor a child you’ll see a link on the lower left of this blog. If you want do donate do it HERE.  Do Something.

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I do have some new music but who really cares.

peace

Drew

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Fugees still

fugeesI have days like this when I search my Itunes for something the reminds me of simpler times. The Fugees the score is one of those times. I remember playing these songs over and over again. The generation that I was born into are now up on deck. We are the ones having with families and we are fully into our career.  We are helping to drive mainstream television and still have some markting power.  Think of the most popular shows on now. Well popular shows on network tv that is, they all seem to revolve around this generation.  Lost, 30 rock and I would even say the strongest story lines on the office. When you start to move down the channel listings you see our influence slipping. Maybe that’s a good thing maybe not.  We are now starting to mange people younger than us. Weird when you start being the older person in the room is that what being 30 something is.  When I play Fugees is that now considered old school. Well we’ll see I guess. I still love hearing “ready or not”  That’s my jam.

Peace

Drew

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How many trees had to die?

Let me first say I know nothing about mailing or the habits of people when it comes to mail. I have no expertise in how it should be done and can only tell you what I’ve read and what I can imagine.  I got an email from a colleague  that sent me a tweet of someone who is part of the shock and awe campaign that is going on right now.  They asked is it necessary to receive a tree a week? That’s a hard question. If it didnt work would we do it or if we had other methods would it work better. Just the fact that we were able to track you down through twitter should give some indication that there may be a better way, one that allows us to know you.  Why don’t we add that field to our data. Yes, I’m suggesting we add a twitter field along with our email field.   This person follows around eighty people that may follow another 90 people wich may follow 300 people and so and and so on.

On the cover of fastcompany this week is Ashton Kutcher also known as @aplusk fast-company-cover-dec_jan-2009 Great article on new media advertising. Everyone is talking about it but not all are doing it . I think it may be fear of losing the gray haired dude  who calls it some type of mojo. But how may trees have to die?I’ve actually been thinking a lot about this.  But how do y0u concentrate on the product along with the means of letting people know about it? If I ask that question does that mean we are doing too much? I’ll let  my boss figure that one out.  What am I supposed to do?

Peace

Drew

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Early Adopter

I dont really know if I can call my self an early adopter. I usually wait for one generation before I adopt anything. This has come to mind because I’ve just became the owner of a Kindle.  The Kindle is an e-reader device. It allows you to buy books, magazines and newspapers that are delivered right to your portable device.  I have always enjoyed reading but it was in spurts. I would read heavy for a month or so and then not read anything for weeks. I am hoping to change that.  I bought the iphone months after its release. That happened because I saw too many youth ministers walking around with them at a youth specialties event. I remember the day when I said I’ve had enough. Anyway it was great buy and so is my Kindle.

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Is being an early adopter a good thing? I dont know. I got my twitter account soon after it was made public but didn’t do too much with it. We talk at work about trying to be at the front end of pop culture. Talk would be the word. We were a nimble ship and slowly we have become and destroyer still agile in the water but a little harder to turn.  So what’s harder leading or following the leader. It may be safer to follow the leader but does it end it up costing you more? It may, if you miss an opportunity.  I don’t want to miss an opportunity but I also what us to be around in the next 10 years. We’ll see how that goes. I have high hopes. I wish I adopted more things earlier. Maybe that will be my new years resolution. Adoption.  Do you have something that I need to adopt.

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