Tee It Up!
The 2nd annual (last one was in 1999) HM&P Golf Outing is set for Saturday, August 7. This exciting Superball or Captain’s Choice format tournament will be played at Reedy Creek Golf Club and Spa. Your $44 entry fee includes golf, cart, and lunch (chicken, barbeque, slaw, hush puppies, and tea). Throw in another $6 for prizes and it’s the best $50 entertainment bargain in Wake County. Tee times start at 9:48am, and the outing is open to all HM&P staff, clients, friends, and friends of friends. More »
YouTube Now on TV?
If you’re a YouTube junkie like I am, you’ll be pleased to know that YouTube is now expanding its reach and allowing users to watch their favorite videos on their televisions. Yesterday, YouTube announced the launch of YouTube Leanback, a program that plays high-definition videos formatted specifically for your television set.
Old-School vs. New-School: Twitter Newspaper
It’s hard to scroll through my Google Reader on any given day without seeing some sort of debate on the merits of new media outlets such as Twitter and blogs verses traditional print newspapers and magazines.
While I subscribe to the Raleigh News & Observer’s physical daily, I also use Twitter as a real-time news source. (So do a lot of other people: According to this report, half of Americans say they rely on the people around them to alert them to news, and 44 percent of online news users rely on emails, automatic updates or posts from social networking sites to get their news at least a few times a week.) More »
Cambiando Vidas: Actions Speak Louder than Words
Last week I had the opportunity to travel to the Dominican Republic and volunteer with Cambiando Vidas (Changing Lives), a U.S. based non-profit organization “dedicated to the idea that every person should have access to the basics of life – food, clothing, shelter, education, and the chance to exercise his or her skills and ambitions.” The organization focuses on building houses, educating youth and encouraging sustainable economic development in rural towns throughout the region.
For a week I worked with a group of 16 volunteers (including my dad, sister and good friend from college) as well as members of the local community to build a new house for a deserving family. Though I enjoyed time away from technology and social media for a week, I was able to learn important lessons in communicating the old fashioned way.
Se habla español – Part 5
Now that you’ve decided you should advertise to Hispanics in Spanish, you just need to get someone to translate your English-language campaign, right? More »
Geocaching: Location-Based Technology Treasure Hunt
Interested in travel, networking and treasure hunting? Do you have a GPS device and Internet access? If the answers to these questions are yes, then geocaching is the location-based game for you! More »
Latest Version of Google Chrome Launches with Flash-Based Game
The latest version of Google Chrome is now available and comes standard with Adobe Flash. To make people aware of this new feature, Google launched a Flash-based YouTube game called FastBall.
The goal of the game is to get a ball through an obstacle course in the fastest amount of time, but instead of the typical “manipulate the ball through the course” routine, players must answer a series of questions to advance the ball. Questions are all web-based and include challenges that use Google, Twitter and, of course, YouTube. Some examples of questions are “Choose the fastest method of transportation between points A and B using Google Maps” and “Search for three things that have decreasing results.”
