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Re: Why listen to me?

rebeccahappy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:19:48 -0000

This is a remarkable and very noble project. It is incredible that you were able to provide such an opportunity to so many young travellers and leaders. In Canada we have a program for youth and leadership that is heavily funded by the government but I do not think that it calls forth the amount of personal growth and team work you guys have put into place (and in such a short period of time)
Essentially you have provided a very structured space and code of honour system that then allows people to have fun and experience something exceptional that they will probably always remember. Cool! I work for an interantional organisation that attracts young people from all over the world. Some of them are attracted to Australia. I will certainly pass this info along.

Re: The quality of what you do…

rebeccahappy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:10:16 -0000

Yes, I certainly think there are a lot of people who do not know about the etiquette. There are also those who are yet to develop an agility at speaking to someone that feels like speaking to oneself as it goes into the time warp of type and then wait...perhaps quite .a while up to never for a response.
Ignoring them is the gamble of choice that remains in your hands. Perhaps you will never meet again or you will find yourselves at another venue. It is your time only that you can structure. You decide when and how you want to invest it. I suppose you could make a personal rule as to how you want to accept or reject a request or you can leave it up to your gut feeling at the time. The thing about living our lives is that we are free to choose whatever rule we want in the moment. I personally like Zanders rule #6...dont take yourself too seriously.

Re: The Pizza Store Dilemma

rebeccahappy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:09:28 -0000

You are an excellent story teller Simon. What a great way to teach people. I would say that I am perhaps both a jill and a jack at times. If I am in front of a jill, I will certainly be more distrustful and much less generous.
It is a great point to unerline the importance of the relationship. Without it there are no customers or at least repeat customers. When people feel welcomed and cared for and comfortable and valued they will come back and will bring their friends. As John Lester said in his response, it is cheaper than advertising.
It is great of you to care enough about your community to want to offer help to them Simon.

Re: Offer for those who strive to ‘get it’ - welcome to the family

rebeccahappy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:05:10 -0000

A remarkable challenge...petrifying. I am such a beginner, not sure I can get there but will certainly be there to support the others if not. What a great privilege for us to be invited into an apprenticeship with you to apply immediately the lesson.

Re: “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”

rebeccahappy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:20:15 -0000

Very interesting thoughts Simon. Again i am impressed with your insight and perception and amazing ability to articulate it all so well and congruently.

For me being a beginner and a "briefcase goddess"at the same time, your prelaunch and launch became consuming. I spent pretty well all of my disposable free time and more reading and reflecting and learning. The launch then gave me the book which I am still going through and trying to understand so I can apply the knowledge and get in action. My personal interests of course have kicked in. I want to get up to speed and dream of being so much so that I can take you up on your offer of help.

As well, I am also exploring a couple of the people who were in the traffic group. The daily pace before the launch did not permit any of that for me aside from the glimpses through what people commented. As I explore I find cross overs of some of the same people so for me, that is a sign that I am in the midst of where it is good for me to be.

For sure , the suspended tension was released because there was no longer demand on me to do it on a daily basis...is this a cop-out on my part...not sure. Because for some reason you invited me to participate I felt responsible to you. I needed to pay attention to do this.
One insight that the process had was that it was like a course at school that was part study and part lab. It seemed to me that the whole launch was in fact application of all the lessons disected in the book. It was hard to draw the line between lesson and life. I think that is perhaps what life is. You were certainly successful in absorbing us for this time. For me, the intensity was not feasibly long term. There was no real room to process. The time consumption became an issue for my kids.

Another insight as I finish your post in regards to the Geldoff movement...as I am sure I mentioned to you before about a book called "Getting to Maybe"...these big movements that impart social change actually come from a huge call to action. Many hear it, one person stands up and in a flash it is a movement. The individual is not the movement. They were the weak link. The call to action is so BIG that you cannot shut it out. Had Bob decided through orchestration to do the same thing it would not have flown. The call to action pulled him out of his complacent seat and thrust him into acting. He had no resistance

It is probably similar to what drives you personally . At a systems however level there are many who are hearing the call and at the breaking point as one person crosses over the dike overflows....and there is a mass movement. Geldhoff, Balfour Mount, Linda Lundström, Mothers against drunk driving, Muhammad Yunus.

What cry to action are we hearing?

Thanks again Simon
Rebecca Happy

Re: Social Traffic Inc.

rebeccahappy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:37:32 -0000

Hi,

I am Rebecca Happy and am very happy to be part of this group. I am going to be evangelical in my support. I will do this for about 10 hours a week or more,

Very excited and so glad to meet all these get people connecting so simply for such intricacy.

Re: The Age Old Art of Story-Telling

rebeccahappy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:51:50 -0000

Firstly, I have always enjoyed story telling. I am so glad to see the story here at the beginning in the context of all the preparations. I am so excited to be a part of it and to be invited to contribute and support. My world is being transformed through these global online relationships.

I think this is a great opportunity for newbies and veterans to shift many things. I am very grateful to see that of the three drives, people with disabilities have been put to the forefront in such a massive way. They are in most cases the first to go and be omitted even in the large NGO's. WE all know that in any disaster the strongest will survive. When help arrives and the camps are set up the average 10% of the population that has a disability of sorts are hard to find. When those relief trucks come in, who is getting it to the blind and infirm and those with developmental disability. They may not even realize that there is help there.

A movement as large as social traffic inc. participating in the celebration of the Internationale day for persons with disability cannot but help raise awareness. With awareness comes the opportunity to impart change through actions.
This is the same for the huge Birthday celebrations coming up. WOW!!!What a way to transform our world. I am honoured to take part

Rebecca happy
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Re: Protected: Getting Started

rebeccahappy — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:20:46 -0000

I have already done my first tweet but am certainly going to go and see what they suggest and start over. The 3 questions are great points of reflection.
Thank-you
REbecca
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Re: My Contribution to Mother Earth’s Gift

rebeccahappy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:12:39 -0000

Thank-you so much Shane. You have been very helpful. It's all good.
Rebecca
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Re: 09 - Roaming Heads Campaign

rebeccahappy — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:16:27 -0000

good video explanation again. Now I will go and see how I can change my head links to start building it up.
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Re: Protected: 02 - Friend Connect - Communities

rebeccahappy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:45:49 -0000

Great info Simon. It is all starting to come together. So glad you started talking to me last fall.
Good insight to know that you study this all months in advance to scout out the next moves in the industry.
Rebecca
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Re: Protected: 04 - Strategy

rebeccahappy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:55:18 -0000

This is really great info especially the piece that talks about building up your experience before you go inot seeking out support of other leaders. One of the key things that attracted me to your work form the beginning was your continued focus on servant leadership. Here it is again.
thanks
Rebecca
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Re: Protected: 1. Why YouTube

rebeccahappy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:46:13 -0000

good info Simon. Am looking forward to having fun with youtube.I better get my biz plan together so that I can apply all these tools once Earthday has passed.
Rebecca
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Re: I guess beating Google was too much. Are they cheating now?

rebeccahappy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:58:00 -0000

This is really playing dirty. I always thought Google was celebratory of innovation and forward thinking.
I checked out your story Simon on Youtube.
I will certainly Digg this one. Let's hope the news stories pick it up.
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Re: Protected: 5. Loading Videos

rebeccahappy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:13:06 -0000

This was a great video today Simon. I went back and changed a lot of my words to comply with the lesson. Keywords have just been a word for me until now. Thank you for explaining a little of how you choose them. Loved the critique idea of a biz too.
Rebecca
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Re: Welcome To Social Traffic

rebeccahappy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:59:53 -0000

I am climbing one step at a time all the way to the top too.Thanks so much for being such an excellent guide Simon.
Rebecca
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Re: Protected: 6. Distribution

rebeccahappy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:47:07 -0000

Good explanation of all the points of contact and how to build relationships via youtube.
Will certainly view it again. Each time the info sticks better.
REBECCA
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Re: New Feature: Share to Facebook

rebeccahappy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:59:12 -0000

This is a great addition to the tool. Any integration and funcitonality
across platforms can only be good.Can't wait to try it.

Re: Credit where credit is due…

rebeccahappy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:43:01 -0000

Great to see this process in relaunch again. The internet indeed does offer great ways of marketing that is spoiled by the few.I guess in traditional markets you always had your theives and scammers and frauds to deal with.

Word of mouth is great and building a group of like minded people is great.

Rebecca

Re: Welcome To Social Traffic

rebeccahappy — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:12:28 -0000

Climbing with the Social Traffic Team and Simon U Ford leading the way has
been a great experience. Coming from a place where I don't
use computers to work with to knowing how to use and mentor the use of
multiple tools and WEB 2,0 sites in a few short weeks is amazing. There
is always more to learn but I never would have believed that I came this far.

Beating Google youtube videos using the team approach was fun as well as a gret learning experience.

Anyone having the opportunity to follow the hands on training will be glad they did.

Rebecca
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Re: The Human Dynamics

rebeccahappy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:56:52 -0000

I can see how behavioral psychology would be good to pay attention to. Behind the screens are individual humans. Aside from the tools we use to communicate with now, the essential elements of emotion, body,spirit and mind defining how we interface with the world are the same.

The flat lining that social media has allowed requires that business and government take that into account when using the tools to access people.When they fake it with controlled ideas that are not authentic the person rather than the audience will lose interest and move on to some other place.

The tools are always in service to the relationship. They are not a means unto themselves.

RebeccaHappy

Re: The New Paradigm

rebeccahappy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:51:59 -0000

This book is certainly full of all kinds of interesting information on the tools of the day.
I guess history does not really change much but rather the tools of the day that do.

My experience so far with social media once I opened myself to it has been mind blowing.I have discovered and conversed with more people doing diverse things all over the world than I could have ever even imagined a year ago.The news travels quickly and support follows just as fast.
The networks are all connected and intertwined so they make the world bigger and tighter at the same time.
It is great being apart of it and applying the teachings of your book and figuring out which tools are the best for my needs.

Re: cluetrainplus10 – Links Subvert Hierarchies

rebeccahappy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:30:32 -0000

I just came across the clutrain manifesto yesterday when I signed up for a changecamp and got excited about what they were doing. I followed all the hyperlinks to get the best overview I could. I did not find out what was happening today with it so am glad to find this today via a tweet by @Simonford

Of course this is what we do naturally. This entire movement into new media is changing things but the shift wont really be seen until the generation born into it are building business relationships. It is happening there already of course but I am not surprised that you find a lot still functioning from the 1950s modalities. A lot of the education and literature that is available is anchored in it. The education systems have yet to get introduced to the cluetrain let alone (10).

Re: Facebook Pages

rebeccahappy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:51:25 -0000

This is great info. I work with a non-profit and they are looking for a strategy to do recruitment and keep in touch with offline fans. The pages function of FB looks like it could be an excellent solution. At the moment here are multiple groups created arbitrarily by people who have had great experiences and want to remain connect but there has bee no strategic development on how to keep everyone involved an din the loop.

Re: Scarcity, exclusivity & our word is our word

rebeccahappy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:24:59 -0000

The strategy certainly worked on me. I have been enthralled for months and am still learning daily. ndeed I have been at events with top marketers and even knowing their secrets to selling from the sateg i have seen huge crowds laugh at the process but still provide running ovations as they ran for the few items available for sale.

It is interesting to see that it worked in a virtual manner too and great to observe the process in action.