Ingrid and I have been in Thailand for a few days now. I would liked to have blogged about this earlier on but things were just too busy getting ready for the trip and then we were underway. I’d like to explain why we are here and what we are doing.
Why we are [...]
Remember the bad magician guy from the Frosty the Snowman cartoon? He liked to repeat things three times and one is “Busy!, Busy!, Busy!”. Stuff like that sticks in my head. I have trouble remembering my own phone number but I have Frosty the Snowman dialog I’ll never forget. But that’s [...]
The situation in Haiti is all over the news right now. I’ve been reading, listening and praying about it. There are a number of ways to help and I hope that you are getting involved. CCCI has staff and teams in Haiti of course though to my knowledge we haven’t been able [...]
I had one of those mornings a couple weeks ago, the kind of morning where I woke up a bit late, the kids were running late, it took Rachel forever to eat her cereal, I was late getting my morning coffee, but finally, Rachel made it to safety patrol for the school and I got [...]
I’m still a little groggy and trying to get my sleep schedule back to normal, but the meetings I attended in Singapore went great and it was worth it. We were able to chart the future of our Global Measurements Application. This means a lot of work in the months to come, but [...]
Chris Sleath is a Brit, that lives in Texas and is the Director Of Virtual Movements for Africa and the Middle East. One of the things I love about working for CCCI is that this isn’t all that odd ball a mix around here. Virtual movements or virtually led in CCCI speak are [...]
The Economist ran a special report last month, “Telecoms in emerging markets”. As the name of the magazine would indicate, the focus of the report is on trends and their economic impact. I’m not so concerned with economics, though in very poor places I do like to see people gain the tools to [...]
I was just having a conversation yesterday with a good friend about the potential Americans can have globally just by reaching out to international students that come to study in the USA. Today I bumped into Reaching Internationals a web site that provides guidance and resources to assist anyone interested in reaching international students [...]
Ingrid and I are staffing a Weekend to Remember conference this week-end. We are working in the resource center – and started this morning by unpacking all the books, cds, etc. and setting them up. Then we got trained to use the point of sale software. Looks like a VB app and [...]
The title of this post has kind of a double meaning for me, as we’ll be hitting the road here soon, for a busy summer that includes a decent amount of travel. But what I’m thinking about specifically are mobile devices – phones.
I’ve seen different numbers showing mobile penetration world wide at something like [...]