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Enough Already

Posted in Faith and Beliefs on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Today I received a chain email from a friend asking me to sign a petition. It was headed No more Joel Olsteen, TD Jakes, Eddie Long,Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, or Charles Stanley????
The petition “assigned to Frank Dobson” spoke about an organisation wishing to stop all Christian broadcasting on radio and TV. It [...]

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Thoughts: Bob Marley

Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! ~ Bob Marley
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Tags: BobMarley, Wisdom, Quotes

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Congratulations to Ushahidi

Posted in Afro Stuff, tagged , , , , , on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Hash (pictured left) and the team at Ushahidi scooped the award for $25,000 at the NetSquared Challenge. Read more here.
The Ushahidi engine was responsible for allowing grassroots reportage of post election violence in Kenya. In addition it also maps where volunteers are and trying to locate missing persons. The engine recently was extended to some [...]

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Britain’s Best Young Speaker

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Hearing young people speak about subjects that they are really passionate about is amazing.
Organizations like SpeakersBank in the UK have trained tens of thousands of young people around London to speak and each year they hold a final to find the best of those speakers by each borough in London. I often encourage young [...]

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Hyper Connected!

Posted in Work Stuff, tagged , , , on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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ReInventing the CV

Posted in Work Stuff, tagged , , , , on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Seth Godin wrote a little while back about Why Bother Having a Resume or CV’s as we prefer to to call it on this side of the pond. In this popular article he argued that while posting an opportunity for an internship he received loads of CV’s (resumes) with no cover letters, no marketing to [...]

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Good luck Guys

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just a quick note to all the students taking their GCSE’s, A Levels and other exams.
Good luck. Stay focused.
Best to all of you.

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Text of the Day

Posted in Faith and Beliefs, tagged on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the satisfaction for our sins. – John 4:19

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Linking Education and Business

Posted in Faith and Beliefs, Work Stuff, tagged , , on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday I hosted a conference at Merill Lynch in London. Founded by Patrick Philpott an 18 year old entrepreneur, SKILL London was an excellent event to encourage young people about the skills needed for the world of work. Speakers at the event included Katie Ledger, Andy Lopata, Simon Woodruffe of Yo Sushi/ Dragon’s Den and [...]

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Politically Speaking: Race and Politics

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of bumping into the Deputy Mayor for Young People. Ray Lewis pictured here with Boris Johnson (for those Stateside Boris is the New Mayor of London) is one formidable brother who is one person I trust to deal with a lot of issues facing our young black men. Feisty, [...]

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