Very creative – just wish I was over there able to take part!
We are proud to announce the MSF Treasure Hunt 2009, taking place in Clapham on Saturday 20th June. Adventure, excitement, questions and clues, prizes and raising money for charity – what a great way to spend a Saturday!
Last year we raised £6,827.75. This year will have more fun, more clues, more prizes and more for Médecins Sans Frontières.
This year we are supporting MSF’s Refugee Camp in the City campaign, for the 42 million people around the world who have fled wars and conflict. Find out more here.
So why not do something great, join in and donate. We look forward to seeing you at the MSF Treasure Hunt 2009!We are proud to announce the MSF Treasure Hunt 2009, taking place in Clapham on Saturday 20th June. Adventure, excitement, questions and clues, prizes and raising money for charity – what a great way to spend a Saturday!
Last year we raised £6,827.75. This year will have more fun, more clues, more prizes and more for Médecins Sans Frontières.
This year we are supporting MSF’s Refugee Camp in the City campaign, for the 42 million people around the world who have fled wars and conflict. Find out more here.
So why not do something great, join in and donate. We look forward to seeing you at the MSF Treasure Hunt 2009!
It’s hard to believe that it was just 5 days ago that I sat down at my computer with 3 cameras hooked up and prepared myself to launch into a 24 hour long marathon for the Doctors without Borders. The idea spawned back in December and I finally picked a date and launched the blog and announcements on my show – I was ready!
The original goal picked was $500, and within 30 minutes $160 had been donated online and $200 offline and I had not even started the marathon yet. A few hours later I raised the goal to $2000 and decided to hope for the best. I had given myself a few weeks time from first announcement to actual live broadcast and thus began calling, im’ing, tweeting, and emailing folks to find others who might be interested in participating (to help take the load off of me and maybe give me a few minutes breaks here and there). The responses to help were immediate and the video clips and scheduling began!
It was an exciting time and many began to ask, “Why”? I did my best to answer this…
The Friday Morning Report, for it’s first ever 24 hour Marathon starting on April 23, 2009 at 15:00pm CET (Central Europe) has signed up to accept donations on behalf of Doctors without Borders. We look around the world we live in and realize that it’s not a perfect place, we know that it has problems and that we as a community need to be more aware of the problems and do what we can to help provide critical care to those living amid armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition and natural disasters around the world.
Thanks to our support, Doctors without Borders is at work right now saving the lives of women, men and children in more than 60 countries where people would otherwise not have access to medical care.
Donating through this website is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to support Doctors without Borders.
So join us during our 24 hour marathon and help make the world a little bit better and please take a moment to share your comments and thoughts of the show here for everyone to share in!
I even snagged a audio snippet sharing my thoughts as well,
Shortly before the planned event in February I suffered a back injury, yes I know many think I did it just to have a better understanding of how doctors work and all, but really it was a painful experience and was not until April that I was I able to reschedule and proceed with the marathon.
Again the excitement starting to grow, I mean just the idea of putting so much of yourself into any single event can be overwhelming as well as breathtaking. On top of that add the total support of family and friends, especially my wife, a huge thank you goes to my wife for supporting me and helping me make this happen. We discussed it for a long time, should I do it? Was giving money every year enough? What can we do more and how can we set a positive example for our growing children? Our final decision was for me to do what I spend so much time doing anyway, be online and do it for a good reason something more than my hobby, interest and career but to help those who are helping others.
The marathon I associated with my Friday Morning Report show, an experiment in technology and social networking in itself I’ve become very fond of doing the show and so it made sense to associate the two together.
The program developed as such,
15:00 – 15:30 Kicking it off and tuning in 15:30 – 16:00 Laying out the program and activities for the remaining 23 hours 16:00 – 17:00 Doctors without Borders, Who they are and what they do. 17:00 – 18:00 Girls Day 18:00 – 19:00 Sneak Peek – FlyCam 19:00 – 20:00 ASUG Simulcast – Community, CSR 20:00 – 21:00 smeepe 21:00 – 22:00 The Day of German Beer 22:00 – 23:00 Tom Raftery, GreenMonk, Sustainablity 23:00 – 00:00 Product Review: LiveScribe 00:00 – 01:00 Doctors without Borders, Who they are and what they do. 01:00 – 02:00 Earth Day 2009 02:00 – 03:00 ITSInsider interviews Tina Williamson – Women Worldwide 03:00 – 04:00 Product Review: Acer One Netbook 04:00 – 05:00 Geeks and all nighters 05:00 – 06:00 Doctors without Borders, Who they are and what they do. 06:00 – 07:00 Ginger Gatling, Our book and Doctors without Borders 07:00 – 08:00 Starting your day off positively 08:00 – 09:00 Using Tech to optimize your day 09:00 – 10:00 Homecamp crowd 10:00 – 11:00 Doctors without Borders, Who they are and what they do. 11:00 – 12:00 12:00 – 13:00 13:00 – 14:00 14:00 – 15:00 Where we stand, what we learned and who we meet! 15:00 Say goodnight!
I did my best to record each hour and capture it as we proceeded, however there were unfortunately a couple of times where the recording simply did not work but for the most part I managed to capture 23 hours of show, if anyone actually watches all 23 hours I’d love to hear how long it took you and what you thought.
Almost becoming our official commercial during the show was this little piece from Jim Spath.
Of course what action would be complete without having it’s very own cartoon made about it? Thank you Blag!
Also throughout the show I made the point that if silly, irrelevant or even crass things can reach such unexpected heights within the various “social” tools we have available today why can things that need to be share not reach the same heights? Therefore we tried a little experiment, around 6pm (about 3 hours into the show) we picked a video from the Doctors without Borders from their YouTube site that had around 70’s, when then encouraged everyone to “tweet” about it and ask others to retweet it. As of writing this post it’s about doubled the number of views.
I also had two other videos made, both having made big impacts on the audience. The first was from Ginger Gatling about a new SAP book where each author has decided that all proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Doctors without Borders and the second was from Susan Scrupski and an interview she did with Tina Williamson from Women Worldwide (see Part 11).
Some of those that joined me via remote video were Abesh, Graham, Marilyn, Tom, James, Dennis, Chris, Andy and many many more! Some even wrote about my little adventure afterwards like Eddy. Many many more shared their thoughts on Twitter which @eventtrack tracked beautifully (it helped of course that I encouraged the use of the tag “fmr24”)!
In particular Jim (mentioned above) also organized a “simulcast” through ASUG which had roughly 40 participants. The setup was quite straightforward yet complex. My camera was pointed at my monitor which was logged into a remote session with Jim and I was dialed in via voice to his session as well. The end result was that both audiences were seeing the same presentation from Jim and both were hearing both myself and Jim – it was quite interesting and worked very well.
Broadcasting, as I mentioned earlier went very well, there were only 3 specific times that I had to break the “endless” broadcast and restart a process or two as my system got overloaded so viewing the stats of the show proved quite easy.
6:00am on Apr 23, 2009 until 9:14am on Apr 23, 2009 Broadcast Length: 3 hours, 10 minutes Viewer Hours: 48 hours, 9 minutes Unique Viwers: 82 Total Viewers: 172 Avg Viewers: 15.2
9:57am on Apr 23, 2009 until 8:53pm on Apr 23, 2009 Broadcast Length: 10 hours, 53 minutes Viewer Hours: 195 hours, 32 minutes Unique Viewers: 180 Total Viewers: 410 Avg Viewers: 18
8:59pm on Apr 23, 2009 until 6:04am on Apr 24, 2009 Broadcast Length: 9 hours, 1 minute Viewer Hours: 182 hours, 33 minutes Unique Viewers: 161 Total Viewers: 311 Avg. Viewers: 20.2
All of these activities generated (as of time of writing) $4,400.10 with many more offline donations I’ve yet to totally calculate. Not to mention how many actually took my show challenge and “dropped a coin” after each hour of watching?
The question that became apparent after spending the weekend offline and relaxing and recovering was, “did I achieve something?”, and I have to say that I achieved several things. I learned something about the technology I use, I learned something about people, about friends and associates, I learned something about my family and I certainly learned a lot about myself and at the same time I learned a lot about the world out there that I am often shielded from.
The question also arose on whether I and the Friday Morning Report would do this again, the answer is a clear and definite YES (just not so soon).
My plea from throughout the show as well as now is that everyone please take a few minutes from your day, week and/or month and share a story, link, video, etc. from a group or organization that is doing good in this world and share it with your own social networks.
The Friday Morning Report (FMR), will be hosting a 24 hour marathon starting on April 23, 2009 at 15:00pm CET (Central Europe). FMR which is hosted by Craig Cmehil, a British American living in Germany since 2001 and covers a variety of topics such as “Work Life Balance”, “Virtual worker technologies”, “Enterprise Software”, development, web and online services. Moving into its second season, FMR has been broadcasting weekly from its main studio in a small town close to Lippstadt, Germany since May of 2008 with an average of 150 viewers per show.
The planned 24 hour marathon is to support Doctors Without Borders, and will cover various thoughts and ideas from multiple individuals from around the world.
“Myself and many others in my social and work circles spend endless amounts of time working and taking care of what we consider to be important activities in our lives. We are all dedicated, respectable and good hearted people. I applaud my friends and co-workers for their efforts day in and day out, having a family and successful careers in this day and age are not an easy task and many on top of that give of themselves daily to help others less fortunate. For 2009, I decided that it was time I took another step, over the years I have always given time and money to certain activities local to my community to help but recently it has been reduced to simply “money” it became easy to just enter my credit card info or reach into my pocket and pull out some change or bills to drop in a bucket. Now though, I have decided that I will start checking locally for some ways I can help my community more with my own two hands and I very much want to put some of the energy that I use for my various online activities behind helping another group of professionals who spend enormous amounts of their time and energy doing amazing work all around the world.” – Craig Cmehil (24 Hour Marathon for “Doctors without Borders”) January 16, 2009.
Der Freitag Morgen Report (FMR) wird einen 24 Stunden langen Marathon, beginnend am 12. Februar 2009, ab 15:00 Uhr MEZ (Mitteleuropäische Zeit), veranstalten. FMR wird von Craig Cmehil, einem Britisch-Amerikaner, der seit 2001 in Deutschland lebt, moderiert und beinhaltet eine Vielzahl von Themen wie z. B. “Ausgleich Berufs- und Privatleben”, “virtuelle Arbeiter-Technologien”, “Unternehmens-Software”, Entwicklung, Web- und Online-Dienste. Nun bereits in der 2. Saison, sendet FMR seit Mai 2008 wöchentlich aus dem Hauptstudio einer Kleinstadt nahe Lippstadt in Deutschland, mit einem Durchschnitt von 150 Zuschauern pro Show. Der geplante 24 Stunden Marathon hat das Ziel, die Organisation “Ärzte ohne Grenzen” zu unterstützen und wird unterschiedliche Gedanken und Ideen von verschiedenen Personen aus der ganzen Welt beinhalten.
“Ich selbst und viele andere in meinem Sozial- und Arbeitsumfeld, verbringen endlos viel Zeit mit dem Arbeiten und kümmern uns um das, was wir als wichtige Aktivitäten in unseren Leben betrachten. Wir sind engagierte, angesehene und großherzige Menschen. Ich applaudiere meinen Freunden und Mitarbeitern für ihre täglichen Bemühungen, heutzutage ist es keine leichte Aufgabe, Familie und Karriere erfolgreich unter einen Hut zu bringen, obendrein helfen viele von ihnen täglich den Menschen, die weniger Glück haben. Für das Jahr 2009 habe ich entschieden, dass es für mich an der Zeit ist, einen anderen Schritt zu gehen. Im Laufe der Jahre habe ich immer Zeit und Geld in die Unterstützung bestimmter Aktivitäten meiner Gemeinde investiert, aber kürzlich hatte ich dies nur noch auf “die Abgabe von Geld” reduziert, es war ein leichtes für mich, einfach die Daten meiner Kreditkarte einzugeben oder etwas Wechselgeld aus meiner Tasche zu ziehen und in einen Eimer zu werfen. Jetzt allerdings habe ich mich dazu entschieden, vor Ort zu prüfen, wie ich meine Gemeinde besser unterstützen kann, indem ich mich selbst einbringe und die Dinge in die Hand nehme und ich möchte gern einen Teil meiner Energie, den ich normalerweise für meine verschiedenen online Aktivitäten einsetze, zurückstellen, um einer anderen Gruppe von Fachleuchten meine Unterstützung zu geben, welche sich mit enorm viel Zeit und Energie einsetzt und fantastische Arbeit in der ganzen Welt leistet” – Craig Cmehil (24 Hour Marathon for “Doctors without Borders”) 16 Januar 2009.
Lippstadt, Germany