Category: life
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Blogging From Tanzania
We've managed to find an internet connection (of sorts) here in SE Tanzania so this is just a reminder that we're putting up some updates on The Great (Ad & Media) Football Giveaway over on the posterous we set up for the trip. So do head over, take a look and subscribe. I'll leave you…
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Leaving For Africa
And so it begins. Later today I'm leaving for Tanzania to lead a team of ad and media bloggers to travel to some of the remotest parts of the country and distribute footballs and netballs to schools and orphanages as part of The Great Football Giveaway. When I put that first post up, I thought…
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Latest on Tanzania (and a request)
So things have moved on a lot since I posted my last update about heading out to Tanzania. We now have a team of 9 embarking on The Great (Ad & Media) Football Giveaway. Leaving with me in early November will be: Willem, Hugh, Matt, Steve, Darren, Thomas, Bjorn and Justine. I am still in…
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Buying Footballs
So, as you're no doubt aware by now, me and seven likely lads (Sam, Willem, Hugh, Matt, Darren, Steve, Thomas) from the advertising and media industry have got together over the blogosphere and decided to go to Tanzania in November and deliver footballs to some of the most disadvantaged kids in the world as part…
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Update On Tanzania
So, it's been just over a week since I wrote about my odessey to Africa. When I wrote that post, I thought it would be amazing if 2 other people from the industry volunteered, so that we could make up a team of 3 to go and deliver footballs to some of the most disadvantaged kids in…
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Heading To Africa
Every now and then in life an opportunity comes along and you just know you have to do something about it. An opportunity to put words and good intention into action. An opportunity to do the right thing. And a chance to do something that really matters. When that happens, you just have to grab…
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Colouring Between The Lines
When children first start to draw we teach them to colour in between the lines. We reward accuracy rather than interpretation. Neatness, not expression. This says a lot about our own predispositions. In this short but insightful interview, Seth Godin talks about an education system characterised by an industrial model from an industrial era. Built…
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Let Them Go
So true. Via the ever insightful Jessica Hagy. There’s a lovely interview with her that mentions a film based on her content made by Clemens Kogler and Karo Szmit that I hadn’t ever seen. So here it is, in case you hadn’t too. HT for the original link.
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Giving Away Footballs
I was going to write about something else today, but then I get an e-mail from Paul who left his job several years ago to found my favourite charity – The Great Football Giveaway . They're not a big corporate NGO, but a small group of people who simply want to make a difference, and…