Sigma!

So I finally picked up myself and did the Sigma run last Sunday, and if I say so myself I did very well for a first timer, 42:31!!


In all of this Sigma excitement, I realized something while looking through some of my lecture notes. Mr lecturer had a saying up on a slide "because encouragement sweetens labour and fattens the pocket" and I thought, Pan Caribbean did just this.


Participants both internally and externally, were pretty much on the same page as to the reason for doing this race as well as the goal they set out to achieve; raise $50 million for the Cardiac Unit at the Bustamante Children's Hospital. It was evident that this triggered a sense of altruism among all participants, so much that Pan Caribbean went WAY! over capacity, about a week and a half before registration closed.


What I'm getting at is this; the run served a far greater purpose than just charity. It provided an opportunity for many corporate entities to get involved in giving back to the society (corporate social responsibility), as well as it provided a MASSIVE avenue for NETWORKING! While I was wheezing for dear life, just trying to finish, I passed so many people talking business along the way, and I thought, yup! there goes a deal, it just doesn't happen on the golf course people! It can even happen during a simple.. well not so simple jog!


"Fattens the pocket" you say? Think about it. Sigma was a win win situation  because it provided a platform for trade. Many of the non-corporate and corporate entrants, saw many businesses participating that they never thought would. This in turn, may resonate with these potential clients in a positive way, which could act as a magnet pulling them to do business with whatever corporate entity they saw, which in the future could result in more shareholders, resulting in possibly more $$$!!!
See for yourself http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120220/lead/lead3.html

The Parallel Universe

In today's world, we have so many avenues through which we communicate, and it is amazing how instantaneous it can be. Although we may not really pay attention to it, information really travels fast when you think about it.

My prime example is Twitter. Lets talk about the "fight" that happened on the UWI Mona campus this past Thursday. I wasn't even at school, but hey, I'm always on twitter, and I was in the know of this fight within SECONDS of it happening. Better yet, I knew about the fight before it was finished!

Tweets upon tweets upon tweets about this "life changing" box filled my timeline, I mean seriously, I don't think I missed much by not being at school. I got full on multimedia coverage instantaneously. Thanks to my generation, we act very quickly I would say; because the full video was streaming as it happened, of good quality too, and where else to post this happening but Twitter.

I have friends of mine who are in Trinidad for carnival, now one would think these guys were on campus based on their tweets about this fight.

Oh! and how about the UPDATED information about rumors that the recipient of the "life changing box" was threatening to press charges, and people I'm talking about these tweets popping up at 8/9pm in the night... WAAAY after this fight was over.

Think about it, a fight happened at UWI on Thursday, in the evening like around 5pm or so; within seconds, the video, BBM display pics, broadcast messages, twitvids, YOUTUBE! everything had it. Even the following morning, FRONT PAGE OF THE STAR!


Now if this doesn't depict how we communicate at the speed of light in modern day, I have no idea what else will.....well I mean DUH there are others but you get my point right?