Compassion in Action

There is a group of people visiting India right now. For many it's their first trip outside the US. Talk about a leap of faith to literally go to the opposite side of the planet! They are blogging about their experiences and I would recommend that if you want to see people's lives being changed for the better take a few moments to read what they are experiencing...compassion in action. Even though I've seen what they are seeing many times, it's still very moving.

Click here to see what they are writing. You won't regret it.

A Blog about Tweeting a LinkedIn Post for FaceBook

I had an interesting conversation with my friend Keely while we were in the Dominican Republic last week. I told her that I'm already on Facebook, LinkedIn and am writing this blog so what additional advantage would I gain by adding Twitter to what has already become a time consuming list of social networking? She talked about the advantage of being able to get micro bursts of information from not just my friends but organizations that I'm interested in. We went back and forth for a few minutes and pretty much left without resolving much of anything.

Over the past week I've kept thinking about our conversation - playing it over and over again in my brain and actually debating with myself over the whole issue. So today I took the plunge. I signed up with the handle "colorado_ric" so if you tweet feel free to follow me.

Ironically, my best friend signed up to check out the Twitter movement at almost the same time that I did and we hadn't even talked about it. If you just can't help yourself you can follow him, too!

While I'm at it I'll toss out that I'm working on an idea for a small business/hobby type of idea. Guess what? It's a social networking thing, too! As some of you know my wife and I own a Mazda Miata that we not only enjoy driving but have been having a good time fixing up, too. I am pretty sure that there are quite a few other people that enjoy the same things we like doing with the Miata so I'm working on a fansite that I hope to launch in the not-too-distant future. The biggest question becomes, "Where am I going to find the time to do all this stuff?!?"

Reconnecting

This week I've had the opportunity to reconnect with some friends I hadn't seen for awhile.

I saw my niece Savannah and helped her celebrate her 17th birthday.

I spent a little over an hour with JoAnn hearing what's happening with her and her husband Jeff.

I spent half a day with Steve, Susie, Mike, Mark and Janelle working on a new video for Compassion.

I ran into Randy and was able to spend a few moments with him just saying hello and chatting about life.

There was Stephanie, Steve and Suzie - different from the Steve and Susie above - who I am in contact with fairly frequently by email or telephone but I got to see them in person this time.

I met some new friends, Mike and Jeff. Great guys with great hearts and a lot of energy!

Next week I get to spend time with Keely again. I haven't had the chance to talk with her in...well, it's been too long. My friend Spence will be there, too.

Overall, I would have to say it's been a pretty good week! I hope things continue to go this direction.