New Pictures

Since you're all on facebook and I didn't want to upload twice, here are just two pictures to let you know that I uploaded all our zoo pictures and the rest of Keil's presentation pictures on facebook.

And Action...

Earlier this morning, Keil presented on his REACH project.  He presented on Steven Spielberg. Jennifer and I were both there and we think he did a fine job. He had great posture, good voice, eye contact and was confident.

Included here are some of the pictures from his presentation and we'll post several more another time including the prep work that went into doing everything. 

He had fun with his project and it inspired the girls to do a similar project on someone they'd like to know more about.

The teacher thought it was cool how he came and presented as Steven Spielberg and not just "tell" about his person. The best part was when he ended with "I'd like to thank the Academy..." as he held up his Oscar Award. Credit to Jennifer for working on his speech with him and for the ingenious way she came up with the Oscar. You can see the picture here of him spray painting his gold Oscar :)

LDS Techies = Online Missionary Work

During the first session of conference today the lds twitter community came alive. For almost 2 hours, the keyword "ldsconf" was the buzz on twitter. That is amazing from my standpoint. As an interactive marketer, this drove a lot of "visits" and interactions and "buzz" about the church. But from an lds member perspective, what a tool for missionary work. 

During the same time, lds.org (see screenshot) was the #1 trend on google.com/trends. But looking even closer, one will see that numbers 4 and 8 are also attributed to the lds church. We might look and say, we are only 13 million. But I choose to say, we are 13 million STRONG with influence. One of my fellow twitterers said "lds are techy people" and I totally agree. Why?

If one breaks down the 13 million, one will see that that's not a big number to begin with but to carry the trends and sway worldwide (6 billion) analytics and tools (e.g. twitter and google) is a feat. We tried to accomplish that in the Oct 08 Conference but didn't. Amazingly, in just 6 months, more LDS folks have embraced twitter.

Last Summer, I created twitter accounts for Keilani and Keil for their summer journal project and they've been enjoying it. Now they are part of the twitter and ldstwitterers.

Masina's Artwork

Masina loves to draw so I wanted to showcase some of her artwork. She wanted to ensure everyone sees it.