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Ways Facebook Could Promote Saving Lives Beyond Organ Donations

May 2, 2012 Design, Marketing Moments, News & Politics, Thoughts, User Experience, Web & Technology No comments
Where To Add Organ Donor Info on Facebook

Where To Add Organ Donor Info on Facebook

I read today that Facebook is encouraging organ donations.  I think this is a great effort and more people should be organ donors.  Ultimately I want this campaign to be successful (and it looks like it is) , but I do have a few concerns:

  1. This feature is kind of hidden away.  In fact, I didn’t realize the amount of “Timeline Life Events” I could indicate until I started writing this.  This speaks to a larger problem Facebook has with rolling out new site changes without really communicating to their end-users that it’s happened. See the blog post photo to help with finding this feature’s location.
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A Note of Appreciation: For Janitors

April 27, 2012 News & Politics, Thoughts One comment

Justice for Janitors ProtestOn my walk back to the office from lunch, my co-workers and I were stopped by this really large protest.  It even blocked traffic coming from off the freeway – sorry Los Angeles drivers and bus transit riders.  It turned out to be a protest for Justice for Janitors, emphasizing more affordable healthcare and fairer wages.

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Why Hoekstra Super Bowl Ad is Racist

February 6, 2012 News & Politics, Thoughts No comments

debbiespenditnowGOP senatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra ran/is running a seriously racist ad against incumbent Debbie Stabenow in Michigan.  It’s not that I don’t understand the point of Hoekstra’s ad – obviously, he believes that Stabenow is pouring money into China’s economy by spending too much, but everything about this ad loses that point because of its over-the-top images  and racial insensitivity.

There is a video embed of the commercial at the end, but here’s the text:

Thank you, Michigan Senator Debbie Spenditnow. Debbie spends so much American money. You borrow more and more from us. Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you, Debbie Spenditnow.

Let me point out a few things:

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Thanks for Thinking Differently: In Memory of Steve Jobs

October 5, 2011 Life Stories, News & Politics, Web & Technology One comment

image“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

– Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

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California: The Earthquake Diva

August 23, 2011 News & Politics One comment

I posted this on Twitter today –

East Coast and Colorado?!  I really hope California doesn’t decide to go all diva today too.

-intellichick twitter

 

Antoine RJ Wright wrote back to me:

@intellichick according to earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/re… – no one can touch Cali Diva-ness ;)

 

The link featured a view similar to the one below —

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I think those dots are the West Coast’s collective giggle of Earthquake Diva-ness. :D In the end though, somehow I think the East Coast will get the last laugh.

-cct

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