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ON: Wei-Ji

crisis = opportunity  -wei-ji

 

ON: HillBlazing Once Again

It's rare that you meet someone who inspires you to think differently and take action.  Moreover, does the same thing to your teen daughters. This past year one woman did.  As many of you know I was one of the 18 million who came out and lent a hand to Senator Hillary Clinton's candidacy.  So once again when the campaign asked - I was honored to be one of Hillary Clinton's hosts at an all star event here in New York.

Join me and Hillary at Hiro on Monday September 22.  Go to http://www.hillaryclinton.com/hiro  to RSVP.  When you RSVP please make sure to select my name "Joanna Pena-Bickley" as your host in the drop down. The event is shaping up to be a fun evening with our favorite senator!

If you cannot attend you can still make a contribution.  We could use your help in paying down Hillary's campaign debt at http://www.hillaryclinton.com/hiro (When you make your donation please use the drop down to select my name as your host)

I look forward to you joining me and Hillary in an evening that will help retire Hillary's campaign debt.

ON: Vacation

On a journey that holds so much promise, optimism and knowledge.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. -- Golda Meir

Update: Click here to view photo diary on Flickr or follow me on Facebook (Part One & Part Deux.)

 

ON: A Thought Of The Day

To live heroically is its own compensation in which all can share. In every person there is a slumbering hero. —Henry Neumann

ON: A Thought For The Day

That life is worth living is the essential message and assurance of all art.
—Herman Hesse

ON: A Few Words To Live By

"If you never give up, you never give in, and you keep believing that you are the best you can be, you have no idea where life will take you."

- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

ON: A Weekly Exercise in Thinking

Ted speakers inspire me to think in new ways.

Nathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillionaire. Listen for wild stories from the (somewhat raunchy) edge of the animal world.

ON: Cable Providers & Their Value To Consumers

I am researching cable providers for a new campaign I am building.  I have a hypothesis and need your consumer input.

Hypothesis: Now that cable providers are in essence a commodity, offering similar services and access, their relevance  becomes about  their emotional value to us as home entertainment.

1. Why do you like your cable provider? 
2. How does your cable service provide value to your life? 
3. What do you wish to see in a cable provider? 
4. What do you desire when it comes to home entertainment?
5. What would make you switch cable providers?
6. Who is your cable provider?
6a. Why did you Choose them?
6b. What Made You switch?
6c. What could they have done to make their offering better?
7. Is there a real difference in satellite vs. digital cable?
7a. If so what?
8. What is the most important part of home entertainment?
9. Does the extension of Home entertainment to mobile devices play a role in your evaluation of cable providers?
9a. If so which mobile or entertainment devices?
10. Can you give me an example of a nightmare cable installation or customer service story?

Take my facebook survey by clicking here or drop me line in the comments section on how you would approach this assignment with new creative flare.

ON: A Thought Of The Day

..it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

—Amelia E. Barr

ON: In Depth Thinking Begets New Ideas

Great thinkers inspire many of my great ideas.  Here is today's inspiration.

(variation, selection, heredity)

Susan Blackmore studies memes -- those self-replicating "life forms" that spread themselves via human consciousness. We're now headed, she believes, toward a new form of meme, spread by the technology we've created.

Think teme.