Live From The United Way Campaign Kickoff

I am sitting in a room of more than 500 people from agencies and the local private sector as we kick off the 2008/2009 giving season.

Placer County Sheriff, Ed Bonner is talking about how services supported by United Way are positively impacting the lives of children and families in our region. He mentioned that we all know some who needs the 3 H's: Needs hope, needs help, needs hand.

It's grarifying that even on tough economic times to see support from so many in our community. There are more families and children in need due tough financial times.

I am proud to contribute and co- lead Women in Philanthropy with our focus on Foster Youth and am Looking forward to a great campaign!

See http://www.yourlocalunitedway.org

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Joining the mobile bloggers

Well, this is an very small blog entry as it is being created on a small device - my iPhone 3G. I am enjoying this device for the most part. However, due to the fact that I wear nails long, speed typing is still sometime in the future. Getting faster all the time... But it does beg the question of why I would bother to try and blog this way.

Well, the truth is I love technology and am happy to see progress in content creation for small form-factor compute devices. The overall explosion of innovation around apps for iphone has been a true delight to see! Games seem to lead the way but other catagories are flush with useful tools. Some of the richer apps are extensions of existing content repositories and many have taken advantage of iPhone capabilities to enhance the experience. Urbanspoon does a fantastic job of this.

Have to get ready for work so signing off for now. More soon!

- Maven

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