Tools We Love: Periscope

Recently on a project with Peacework, we were introduced to Periscope.  If you haven’t heard about it yet, let us have the excitement to introduce you to it.  Periscope, similar to Meerkat, is a new social media platform that allows you to broadcast an event, meeting, conversation, or whatever, live for a much wider audience. The app also allows viewers to become interactive in the conversation by adding insight, asking questions, or just emoticons. We suggest you play with it and begin sharing it because we see it as an amazing vehicle to build bridges among diverse communities.

Here are some tools to help you better utilize Periscope: 

  • Here are two videos to help you a little bit. The first video comes from ‘Here is Your Guide‘.

 

 

Causes We Love: Race Together

Yesterday, March 16th, Starbucks announced that they have invited their partners (employees) to begin inviting customers to have conversations about race.  We think this is awesome and is a fantastic step towards getting our entire country to actually identify that an inequity and prejudice exists in America between races.  We must discuss these issues if we are to overcome them and become a better society. We here at Project Kinect could continue to discuss this historical decision by Starbucks, but everyone else already is.

Below are some great references if you want to know more about exactly what Starbucks is doing:

First, check out the Starbucks Website:

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Think Progress put it most perfectly:

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Looking Back: People Met in a Year

This entry was about Diane, a woman who road the bus the same route I did at four in the morning.  Just a reminder that you’ll never know who you will meet where ever you are. 

Diane on the Bus

 For the last couple weeks, I’ve been staying at my friend Dina’s house while I finish up my last month at Starbucks.  Since then, I’ve become mesmerized by this woman that rides the bus with me at about 6:30am.  She gets on the bus, says the brightest hello to the driver and continues this until she finds herself comfortable in a seat where she then continues to address the person next to her like they were childhood friends.  I can talk to pretty much everyone, and make them feel at ease when I do, but the technique that this woman displays is magnificent.  Yesterday, I finally said hello.

I learned that her name is Diane and that she is a crossing guard for a school in Westwood.  In addition to that she is going to school at night so she can become a CNA in order to make a little bit of money while the schools are closed for the summer.  She laughed when she told me because it isn’t so much that she needs the money, but just wants to have something to do.  Diane is 60 years old and she insists that in order to know she is still alive, she just wants to keep moving.  She feels that the only thing that you can do in life is keep moving forward and remember that if you’re not fighting things, then its time for a reality check.  If you’re not fighting, then you’re not challenging yourself and you’re not finding the spice of life.  You are then just living the motions of each day until you crawl into a hole.   Diane made my day that morning, and I imagine that she makes it for majority of the people who ride the bus with her…. Even if they think “Why is she always so happy?”

Sitting with Carl, Suzi and Adriana

This last week I hosted a BBQ for the restaurant I have been helping out this summer so I could earn some more funds to finish out the year of travelling for Project Kinect.  Well, this end of the summer BBQ got a slow start but that gave me a chance to sit and get to ask Carl, Suzi and Adriana questions.  Suzi had just graduated college and Carl and Adriana are just entering their sophomore years.  It is so important to listen to every one of all ages because all of our perspectives are important.  We all bring something different to the table, literally, and that creates the most versatile educational buffet that any of us could ask for. 

This video is just some edits of what we talked about.  Not to serious, we still learned a bit about each other and some good points were made about different topics in their lives.  I do apologize about the wind though. Where we were sitting, it was sort of wind tunnel off of the lake.