Got Kids? Teach them to type online for free with the BBC – Schools – Dance Mat Typing – http://ht.ly/3gAu1

Just created a short video on Animoto – My Girls http://ht.ly/36DXT – very cool concept

Help MFFO create a new home for 34 orphaned girls in Kenya

ChipIn Widget

 

I read Chris Brogan’s new post today about 34 orphaned girls in Kenya that need urgent help. Mothers Fighting For Others (MFFO) is a not for profit organisation raising funds to take on full resposibility of the care of these girls. Their current home is unsuitable and they need to be moved immediately. Read about their post here. See a photo of the girls that need your help here.

 

I was inspired to add my own post to get you to help.

 

Why?

 

If I can convince one of you to contribute just $14, then that’s going to feed one of the girls for 2 weeks! I know that if you are reading this then you are fortunate enough to have a home, clean water, a meal every day and a computer to be reading this on! What they need to raise according to MFFO:

 

Startup Costs:

• 6 months rent in advance: estimated $12,000 USD.
• Furnishing the home – furniture, beds, sheets, towels, supplies: estimated 10,000 USD

Operation Costs for one year:

• Food – roughly $1 per girl, per day: $12,000 USD per year
• Utilities: estimated $4000
• salaries for six: estimated $12,000 a year
• medical and counciling: $4,000
• personal items such as toilet paper, soap etc: estimated $2,000 a year
• security system for the home: estimated $1,200 a year

 

Give a little, you’ll feel better and most importantly you’re helping 34 girls that urgently need it.

Trying to clone myself…seems #posterous may have saved the day!

I listened to an interview with Sachin Agarwal earlier this year on Jay Berkowitz’s podcast. He spoke about this new site he started called posterous. So I Googled Posterous and immediately signed up. Surely it wasn’t as easy as he said it was? Well I was blown away with the ease and then went on to tell all my friends and anyone else who would listen about it.

I am relatively new to the social sphere of blogging, tweeting, posting, updating, digging, pinging, ninging, mixxing and whatever else there is. I have been experimenting with all of the usual suspect blogs and had kind of forgotten about posterous. I logged on the other day to find all these new and great features specifically linking all of my social sites with one post to posterous! Could this be the answer I have been looking for? I am very excited about this new prospect so this is my very first post to test the waters. If posterous suceeds, I am going to send Sachin a direct message and see if he can also clone me in the same fashion as posterous. I need a few of me to look after the kids, go to work, keep my hubby happy, visit the relo’s, clean the house, wash mountains of clothes, and then I can hit the town with my friends for some dinner, drinks and dancing!

Social Media: Am I socially engaged or am I socially addicted?

Am I socially engaged or am I socially addicted?

Is being socially networked on Twitter, facebook, mySpace, skype, linkedin, foursquare, Google buzz, or posterous a real engagement? I’d like to think that life has somehow not become reliant on status updates and tweets but on real interaction. My most enjoyable moments in life aren’t sitting behind a digital screen tapping away my existence. Don’t get me wrong, I feel connected in the online world. I even love the ability to connect to so many people in a stroke of a button. I’m a self-confessed Social (Media) Activist and a Social Media Groupie. I’m in love with my iPhone and if only they had a husband app, I’d be set. All jokes aside, I wonder if the online world is real engagement or is it addiction? I sat on the beach last weekend, with my gorgeous girls playing in the sand and water. Whilst I sat on the sand, tapping away on my iPhone, connecting and engaging with a lot of people, but I suddenly realised that I wasn’t present. I had forgotten about my family and was immersed in the digital world. Was I really doing this? I quickly put my phone away and had a ball of a time with the people that matter most to me.

I want to raise the question of how many precious moments are we missing in the real world? Think about the personal interaction that delivers real euphoria. When your loved one kisses you, hugs you tight, or holds your hand. When someone dear, visits you unexpectedly, takes you to lunch or you have a great time together, just hanging out. When your child snuggles into you, says something hillarious or just looks at you like noone else in the universe matters. I think that’s real engagement…