Free Flowing Thoughts

Space Camp essays a great reminder on why MCEC matters

I was pulled into MCEC 4 or 5 years ago by helping judge some of the submitted essays for the annual Bernard Curtis Brown Space Camp Scholarship.  When we spend most of our time talking about policy or how to get our message out it is easy to get a few steps removed from children we exist to help.  Below is  an excerpt from a sixth grade entry I just finished judging:

"Growing up in a military family has been really hard for this twelve year old boy originally from Tennessee.  I've had to face my dad's continuous deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan.  I've had to go to five different schools due to PCS moves, and had to try and fit in and make new friends.  Since I love sports, especially football, I've had to prove myself on different teams, in different states!  But I've done all this because I believe in what my Dad does for our country.  Even though it hard and I'm tired of saying goodbye, I am so thankful my Dad and many other brave men and women are fighting to keep our country safe.  Their sacrifices are great, and I am so proud to be an American."

Great post on why Twitter is required for marketers

http://www.pr-squared.com/2008/04/get_into_twitter_or_get_outta.html

I can quit anytime...

In a cost cutting move, my employer has pulled away Blackberrys for everyone but executives.  I'm in day 3 of my rehab and finding the withdrawl more painful than I expected.  I thought I was in control and could quit anytime, but I might have been wrong about that.  The change is so painful I am willing to pay personally to get plugged back into the grid.  Below is a petition I started at work to permit access again with a personal device.  My only hope is to find a way to continue my addiction on my own dollar.

From: Rogers, Matthew
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:37 PM
Subject: Together, we can all make difference...

Are you suffering from Blackberry withdrawal? 

(actual former Blackberry user)

Did you really need more time talking to family, reading or exercising?  Are your thumbs losing their muscle tone and coordination?  Wandering around the buildings trying to remember where your next meeting is happening? 

No one would pick a Blackberry over someone’s job, (well maybe some people, but they have a real problem) but there is a setting on the Exchange server that would permit access to your email from a personal mobile device.  This would maintain the opex savings and give access to those people who want an option for keeping up with email.

Use the EmployeeStorm link below to get back on the (personal) crackberry!

Forward this email to other disenfranchised crackberry users.

Matt

(if you cannot reach me at this email address after this note makes the rounds…I can be reached at mattrogerstx@gmail.com.)