02.01.09
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| 13:19
I must write this message. Yesterday made it officially 1 year since I have added 2.0 onto my name. Today, 1 year later I feel completely humbled but the way it has spread. I could have never imagined a year ago that I could be in this position today.
Ironically, I encountered a bit of a set back on Jan 1. I had a terrible cold! Yes believe it or not. Badd cold and I was in bed all day. I could do nothing. Imagine what that did for my motivation! Was 2.0 meant to be?
Everything Is a Matter Of Perspective
I remember thinking that one day will not let me loose ground for the next 364 days. And then I actually appreciated the cold. I know I was going to encounter setbacks over 2008 and I was glad I was already given the opportunity to get the first one out of the way.
New Years Resolutions
Believe it or not Corey Graham 2.0 really came out of my New Years Resolutions. Corey Graham 2.0 is really like a code name. My New Years Resolutions were focused taking my entertainment career to another level and 2.0 became to code name that would remind me to stay on track. So when someone called me 2.0. I would be reminded to be sure to make it work.
People often say New Years Resolutions don't work. I actually think they do. All you have to do is keep them in focus all year round. Make sure you are constantly focusing your time, energy and money on accomplishing them. And where possible actually tweak them a little bit.
Life Is Messy
Now we always hear, all you have to do is focus. Let me make sure you understand ... focus is about being thankful when you get a cold on January 1. Focus is about finding motivation in a the desert of broken dreams. There are going to be several days when things feel fuzzy and you are questioning everything.
Too big
Its scary ... you know what you want to do, but you are in disbelief. "I can't do that its too big". Just be confident. In 2008 the world watched a USA elect its first Black President. Everyone seemed to be in a bit of disbelief. "It really happened in my lifetime" was on the tips of everyone's tongues. In 2009 too big is irrelavant.
Habits, Culture and the Power of People
We are human beings. We are creatures of habit. We are comfortable in doing what we are doing. Resolutions mean you need to change some habits. If you didn't know changing a habit can be a challenge. If you link pain to doing the right thing. You will never change.
Culture is something I have wondered about for a long time, to me when people have a certain culture everything just seems to work. e.g. A winning sports team. We see it over and over again when they just find a way the win. There is power in the people.
This Year
For this year CG 2.0 goes to N. N = Network. I will aim to actively included other persons and their dreams into my day to day existence. There is no fun doing it alone.
Corey Graham 2.0N
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25.12.08
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| 02:30
Corey Graham 2.0 Merry Christmas (With a View)
Merry Christmas to you and your family. I trust that you are able to spend the day around family and friends. The video was taken at 10:10 am on Christmas Day, featuring a view of River Bay and the rest of St. Lucy only secs away from my house. I hope you enjoy the Matrix Effect. Yes it is from my New Blackberry Bold. It was certianly a bit of a task getting it, but thanks to the Sales Manager at LIME and Siobhan the Blackberry Customer Service Rep. I can now bring mobile videos to you! Lots more on the Bold still to come.
For now, allow this day to be about the people who are important in your life and take some time to really enjoy it.
Merry Christmas to you again and have a great day.
Corey Graham 2.0
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14.12.08
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| 02:46
There is a revolution taking place in the world right now. People are being empowered via web 2.0 technologie/social media. Its now easier to get your voice or music heard via blogs and social networks. Its not only about the voice, we are all now much more capable people. You can launch you own radio station within minutes!!!!!
I personally think the way we interact with each other is changing in a very fundamental way and we are not truly appreciating it. Web 2.0 technology - Social Media is a technology. Technology is merely a tool for us complete our various tasks.
Being social is really the big idea here. Facebook, myspace, linkedin etc. are just tools. They are tools which make it easier for us to accomplish our various tasks. Its easy to get caught up with the facts, how many users facebook has or how many blog posts you wrote last month. The core concept is connecting with people.
Its allowed me to be more connected with persons across the world. To connect with people who share similar passions. To share ideas with them. This has allowed me to understand myself and my environment better. I have expanded my thinking. Now I am a much more confident and motivated person.
What are you using social media to do in your life?
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01.12.08
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Did you accomplish your 2005 new years resolutions?
Let me stop here for a moment, some of you might believe that setting new years resolutions makes no sense. Well they are just a fad. "Its all fake and no one really does acheive them" Well let me slow you down right there, New Resoultions are all about you. What your progress is in July is entirely up to you.
If you accomplished your 2005 New Years Resolutions where would you be today?
Why choose 2005? Well this little "magic trick" works for any year you choose! Who you are today is a manifestation of your thoughts, descisions and actions in the years that have passed.
I am not saying to dwell upon the past, but use the PRINCIPLES learned, to dream of the future.
What would your 2010 possibly look like, if you were to accomplish your 2009 Resolutions?
It might help to set those 2009 Resolutions before you start answering this question.
Next question what does your 2020 look like?
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14.11.08
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| 13:33
Well Cable and Wireless, not sorry. I mean LIME said they are going to be rolling out their ambitious 3 G network. (read my post on LIME). Now this means that the Balckberry Storm might well be available from LIME next year. The phone is finally getting into the hand of users with Vodafone (UK) and soon with Verison Wirless(USA).
Its causing quite a steer right now, here is a video I found of the phone.
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13.11.08
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| 14:09
I am keeping my promise in bringing the words of great men to you. Here is one of the most watch youtube videos I have ever seen. When I watched this on November 5th there were more than 7.5 million views on You Tube! On a video that lasts for 1:16:27!!!
Professor Randy Pausch was dianogised with cancer and given a few short months to live. He decided to give one last lecture...this is what he wanted to tell his students knowing he was going to die.
I am not going to much more than This video is that good. If you decide to spend 1:16:27 seconds of your life watching it you will be better for it.
Randy Pausch Last Lecture : Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Interview - Randy Pausch
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10.11.08
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Cable and Wireless's rebranding of LIME has officially touched down in Barbados over the weekend. I came face to face with a few of the employees. We talked about LIME and I learnt some interesting things. I mean they are still tight-lipped about most of the things they will be doing, because most of the new stuff from LIME will be rolled out in their Christmas Promotion.
(read more on LIME here)
The thing I found more interesting with those Cable and Wireless employees I talked to, was that they are genuinely excited. I mean at first, I thought it was something else in their life but, they are all excited about the things to come. I found this so interesting. Imagine if all the people involved with your business or those that you work with were genuinely excited. I mean wake up in the morning with a real smile on their face when they head out the door to go to work?
Think for a minute of that. Can you imagine that?
Nah seriously, stop and think?
How would you greet everyone in the morning?
How would customers be treated?
How would your clients be treated?
What about a new idea? How would that be treated?
We wake up everyday dreading to go to work. Forcing ourselves to build our career or rather just going with the flow. How would your world change if everyone you work with are absolutely excited? It everyone were pouring real passion and true energy into their lifes?
Some people I know say the only absolute in their lives is Vodka - Absolut Vodka....
For me, I will dream of one day sharing a bottle with those working alongside me. Those excited people working alongside me.
Question is?
Can you sit at that table with me? Sipping your Absolut Vodka and tonic water with a "lime" in the glass?
Corey Graham 2.0
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10.11.08
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| 09:48
I am just came across the announcement by the Grenadian Tourism Minister, Peter David that there will be a ferry service between Grenada and Trinidad to begin in the early part of 2009. Apparently its the government of Trinidad that is providing this service accomodating approx 600 persons. He also said that St. Vincent and the Grenadines and St. Lucia will benefit from this service which is expected to improved the economy and relationships between these islands.
All i can say is wow!
Its not that long ago, April fools day to be exact that I was lovingly playing a joke on my readers about a Cruising The Summer Carnivals Of The Caribbean. Imagine by early next year we can be able to move around the islands a little cheaper than before!
Just a few days ago LIME announced they are offering free Roamin throughout the Caribbean. Now we are going to have ferry going between the islands?
Imagine what that can do for our businesses. It will be alot easier to move bulky stuff around.
Think about it! You can take you car to another island for the weekend? You can take something you made in your homeland and sell it in a neighbouring island? I mean really think about the possibilities.
I say again, times are changing!
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05.11.08
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| 13:43
YES WE CAN!
He was very clear.
These are times when the desire to lead is enough. Great change can happen with reasonable ease in a world today where people can connect easily, primarily enabled by the internet. Blogs and social networking allow people to have a voice they could never have. And it allows their voice to stretch as far and wide and they want it to. Grouping people behind a cause no longer is held back by geographical location, having a position of power nor costs. Today more than ever the ease of communication and the ease at which an ideal/idea can spread worldwide is powerful.
2008 is a great year. we are seeing all kinds of tiny but fundamental changes in our atmosphere.
The power of a vision and great leaders who fight for them like Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Gandhi and Nelson Mandela and so many other leaders, can now be amplified by the tools available in a world where the ability to connect has becoming so much easeir. Its no small thing what companies like Google and Facebook are enabling for human kind.
I am glad for the win, its really going to be an eye opening thing. Every black person worldwide should have reason to see a better them when they look into a mirror this morning.
I am excited by these times you know why?
Because you too can build a network? What network are you building today?
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04.11.08
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| 02:30
Its been on my mind the whole day!
After browsing the new LIME website this morning,my mind has been racing all day.
Don't know what I am talking about?
Its the "new company", Cable and Wireless is bringing to the people of the Caribbean - L.I.M.E. - Landline Internet Mobile and Entertainment. Its out with the old and in with LIME. Yes, Yes I know Cable and Wireless was not one of our favourite companies in the Caribbean., however they are saying its time for LIME!
I am saying its time for LIME too. What I am seeing from LIME has me rather impressed!
Yeah i heard that!
Yes I heard you whispering under your breathe "Corey is just stop ranting and raving, over nothing. Cable and Wireless will be Cable and Wireless."
Well, Well, Well ... I thought you would have given me more credit! I am not saying I am a fan of Cable and Wireless but you have to give Jack his jacket. Based on what I am seeing and hearing this re-branding goes much deeper than just a name. It looks to me like an evolution. It looks to me like it could be a company that people love. This re-branding doesn't have feel like a "fly by night" or "quick-fix" operation. Its not really a case where you just tell the people something to get them off our backs.
It appears to be a well thought out, cohesive effort to bring real value to the Caribbean people.
Here is something found that I think might apply. I would say its something written by great man for dramatic effect, but I think I need to "keep it REAL" with you. lol.
Don't get stuck in the rut. You have got to be able to question what you are doing day to day. Pull yourself apart. Take the time to review and analyze yourself and your environment. Admit honestly and with extreme clarity your strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures.Be realistic about your environment. This is the hardest part coming now. Rebuild yourself from deep down in the foundation. Build yourself into the person you need to be to accomplish your dream. Corey Graham 2.0N
It seemed like Cable and Wireless has gone through this process and are now ready to bring something of real value to the Caribbean people...
"We’ve transformed into a new kind of telecoms company. With a new management structure (populated with the best and brightest people the region has to offer), improved customer service and exciting new products and services, such as our ambitious 3G network roll out, the change we’ve made runs a lot deeper than just our name."
3 G Networks are starting to pop up primarily in the developed world and LIME is saying they are rolling it out? I am sorry but as a guy who likes my mobile technology and internet, that very,very exciting!
Learn more about 3 G. (The main advantage is faster data transfer. i.e. streaming video/tv, video conferencing etc)
Its also my understanding, that the E(entertainment) in LIME is going to be pretty huge also. We have been hearing the rumours of IP TV and music downloads for a while now and all these other wonderful things can possibly happen and rather easily. The back bone has been now put in place with this new network, new focus along with the latest consumer technologies (
iphone,
Google's andriod phone,
Blackberry Storm,
VOIP &
Skype, etc).
The stage is set for these rumours to become a reality!
That's what I agree its time 4 LIME.
The time is right. Its now to deliver the goods.
Providing that they do, working online might just become alot more profitable and fulfilling sooner rather than later. The value of online advertising and marketing will greatly increase as more and more Caribbean people get online. Along with the capacity for online tools to deliver the relavant marketing messages to the right people at the right time. As a result we will see that more and more companies large and small investing more time and energy into their online marketing and advertising. This would spark a situation where Caribbean Blogs, communities and other online real estate will grow in value. As they can better deliver the audience advertisers need. There is a world of possibility out there, let your mind wander!
That is one perspective on LIME, let me know what you think? You can share your perspective!
Corey Graham 2.0
PS. To LIME the company formerly known as Cable And Wireless, please don't leave a bitter taste in our mouths. You know we, Caribbean People love a good "lime".
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24.10.08
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| 03:05
I just came across a video of Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook as he was interviewed by Ryan Carson at the Future of Web Apps conference.
I though Ryan did a very good job of interviewing Mark. This is the first time that I've heard Mark speak about his passion and ideas so openly. Mark shared some deep insights behind growing such an influencial company and communicated clearly what facebook is truly about. One thing you realise is that there is a strong sense of the vision and mission for facebook. I think that is very important to have everyone on the same page.
Mark explains makes is that people are getting increasingly more comfortable with sharing information and it essentially facebook's goal to facilitate this human need to share. Mark thinks it will lead to a better world where everyone can understand and appreciate each other more!
Yeah I went. Hmmm interesting when i heard it too...
Another point he made was that he ensured that facebook had a technical DNA. Basically, he ensured that most of the persons coming onto the facebook team had a technical background. He feels it allows them to make better decisions. WOW! ... I think that is a true gem right there.
Many of us can be found guilty of building up teams with people who do not fit our DNA!
Anyways enough of my rant.
Corey Graham 2.0 now presents to you another great man of our time - Mark Zuckerberg
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22.10.08
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| 03:25
I am not sure if you heard as yet, just over a week ago Band Leader Brian Mc Farlane owned the front page of every newspaper in the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Oh, and it was not on a weekday. It was on Sunday! Yup! The prime time spot.
No, he did not just get that placement because he is the two-time winner of the "Band of the Year" title in Trinidad Carnival. Nor did he purchase front page advertising in all the newspapers. Hmm, now there is a thought. Boi would I love to be able to have the kind of money! Can you imagine that purchasing that kind of advertising over the counter. Lol.
(Corey Graham 2.0 stops and looks into his wallet imagining)
Right focus boi and write the blog post! Ok from Dreamland...
I was making the point that he was able to accomplish this feet by being REMARKABLE ...worth making a REMARK about. Seriously, the man asked the media to be ready for pick up at 5:30 am on Saturday morning! Power to them! Maybe my team and I could have gone there after covering something exciting on the Friday night. I am not sure how the logistics of getting out of bed at the time would work out. lol.
Anyways the media who did make it had no clue where they were going to end up! They only knew they were getting on a shuttle to be driven to the location for the presentation... "Up in de bush" (forested location).Yup, I am sure the media were a little surprised by that.
Brian Mc Farlane launched his band in the middle of nowhere! To add to the story... Lets stop here for a minute. Notice who is the story teller here. Brian is. Not the journalist. This man was "making news"
I was saying...To add to his story, 50 dancers, singers and drummers came forth from the forest to present 19 costumes to the 25 journalists on hand. Thatis howBrian Mc Farlane's Trinidad Carnival 2009 Presentation Africa : Her People, Her Glory, Her Tears.
Here are some video clips I found on youtube of the launch.
Also check out Saucy Trini's "ball by ball" review of the Media launch
http://www.trinidadcarnivaldiary.com/2008/10/story-of-africa.htmlNow tell me if that is not worth making a remark about?
Well he was justly rewarded for his efforts by being highlighted on page 1 and 2 of every daily newspaper in Trinidad. I should also make mention of Mango Media Caribbean and Judette Coward-Puglisi who was his partner in crime for this marketing/publicity stunt! Judette wrote an enlightening post about it on her blog
5 AM At Mango Media Caribbean, check out her post here.
http://www.mangomediacaribbean.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/10/14/Strategic-media-thinking-pays-off-for-mas-maker-Brian-Mc-Farlane.
Yes Judette, Its my pleasure to pitch and give you some "free" publicity for the great work. (send my mango in fed ex! thanks alot!)
Seriously, though its a great story to tell not just on pages 1 and 2 of the daily newspapers, but its also a story worth blogging about, worth sending to friends in email and worth being the topic of a worthwhile conversation! a.k.a. Word of Mouth the best kinda of marketing there is.
So do you anything as exciting in your marketing/promotion plan?
Corey Graham 2.0
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14.10.08
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| 11:15
Since I started this blog I have promised myself to set aside time to explain how things work to persons around me now one of the questions that I have found difficult in explaining to others is the whole concept of RSS feeds. Its one thing to explain it, but to also explain it in a way that they get it.
Thanks to Common Craft I now have a great video tutorial that explains exactly what at RSS feed is.
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13.10.08
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| 00:46
I have vowed to myself to ensure that the things I write and communicate to you via this blog are of my own thoughts and my own understanding. Things that I deeply believe is worth your time and effort to read.
I want to ensure that my blog delivers value to you. I me
However recently I have had these 2 thoughts resurface in my head ...
No sadder can a man give of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a months study of books. Chinese Proverb.
After watching this video below, I am committing to making an effort to also showcasing and bringing the thoughts and ideas of great men and women to you.
This video really did move man and its actually given me the perspective I need on the current challenges I am facing.
"Sometimes life is going to hit you in a head with brick, don't lose faith..... " Steve Jobs
Its great to be reminded not to lose faith. I would like to pass that on to you. Not from my words, they might not be enough but from the words of a man whose inventions moves the world forward, Steve Jobs.
This is worth your time and energy, Enjoy!
Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at the Stanford Graduation 2005
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09.10.08
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| 01:20
A few of my recent posts have been about ideas and getting them to spread. Interestly, enough a friend shared this link with me recently that I had to make sure I share with ya. I could not have planned a better example of how a simple idea can really create something rather powerful...
And to add to it had to be another Google idea. Got to like Google they are expanding into everything look ...they even help me write posts! Literally
THE IDEA (taken from article on makeuseof.com)
Let’s say that your email address is ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.
GeorgeBush@gmail.com
G.eorgeBush@gmail.com
Ge.orgeBush@gmail.com
…
…
GeorgeBus.h@gmail.com
GeorgeBush@googlemail.com
G.eorgeBush@googlemail.com
Ge.orgeBush@googlemail.com
…
…
GeorgeBus.h@googlemail.com
And that’s not all, you can place as many dots as you want, it can be even something like ‘G.e.o.r.g.e.B.u.s.h@gmail.com’ and you’ll still get it on ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’
See the full article at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-you-dont-know-about-seriously/
Now this one really blew me away, Its so simple and yet so practical and useful!!
Its good to be quietly blowed over by a new idea every once in a while! Especially when its good for business!!!
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