Tag: Dallas

Recap video from Dallas/Rockwall Freeze Project

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I meant to get this vidoe/post up earlier today but alas, time wasn’t on my side.

This is the re-cap video from Thursday night’s Freeze Project in Rockwall ::

We had a decent response — 15 or so showed up to take part.

But in the midst of several hundred people (if not thousand) we were a bit over-shadowed. We plan to do it again towards the end of summer — so hopefully you’ll come out and join us if you’re in the Dallas area.

The key was raise awareness about modern day human trafficking (aka Atlantic Triangular Trade — argggh!) and we did that — so that’s what matters.

Find out more and learn how to hold your own Freeze Project at www.thefreezeproject.com

The Idea Camp – Justice edition

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Have I mentioned that I love the ideas behind The Idea Camp? It’s such a great un-conference, open and FREE (aka Pay What You Will) concept!

The event is based entirely around conversations with the “speakers” via interviews, Twitter and txt messaged questions, rather than a 45-minute lecture by some “expert” in his field.
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Slow to reject

…as Faenza likes to tell his staff, the more times a person has been in jail, been arrested or beaten up, the more welcome he will be at the center.

“We want this place to be very slow to reject anybody,” Faenza says. “You don’t have to be likable to deserve services. You can be aggravating and annoying and still deserve services….They are not going to act grateful. But you can’t lecture. You can’t coerce. You can’t shame people.”

This comes from a story about The Bridge – a homeless shelter in Dallas. I hope my home, my community group, my tribe, my communities of faith are the same way. I would hate to know a homeless shelter is more welcoming than the Body of Christ.

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Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.

When I graduated high school a friend said there were three P’s you needed as a business man in Dallas – a phone, a pager and a pistol.

Monday, six candidates for the Republican National Party Chairmanship took part in a “debate.” Two (three) of the questions posed to candidates where, “How many guns do you own?” and “Do you use Twitter and how many followers do you have?”

I guess that means that owning guns and using Twitter makes you qualified to be the GOP leader? I’ll let you decide.

*notice – no photographers or politicians were hurt in the shooting of this photo.

Jeff Brady in Brad Hawkins out at WFAA Channel 8’s Daybreak

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Jeff Brady

Jeff Brady is taking over for Brad Hawkins now on WFAA’s Daybreak.


Brad Hawkins

Brad Hawkins has left Daybreak for “corporate America” and former 5 p.m. anchor, Jeff Brady is taking his slot alongside Cynthia Izaguirre “for the time being.”

Hawkins posted a video blog on WFAA explaining the switch and seemed to really put an emphasis on “this is not permanent.” Sounded like perhaps he’s not too happy with the switch.

Been a crazy 12 months for the Daybreak team. First was the change of bringing in Izaguirre, next was the departure of Justin Farmer, who was replaced by Brad Hawkins, and now Hawkin’s departure. Will be interesting to see what happens next.

It’ll also be interesting to see what kind of reaction this gets – the original announcement about Justin Farmer remains one of the #1 blog posts on my site. Crazy!

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UPDATE (11/13/09): Jeff Brady has left WFAA as well. As of March 12, 2009, he left the station to start his own new media/PR consulting company – Brady Media Group.

In a Tweet from June 27, he suggests that folks aren’t interested in “appointment TV” anymore. We don’t rush home to watch the news at 5,6 and 10 anymore. He’s right – probably why I hadn’t noticed he was no longer with the station.

From his site:

My name is Jeff L. Brady. I’m the CEO of a new media advocacy agency called the Brady Media Group. We are journalists, photographers, creative digital architects and – in the end – professional storytellers. We have not formed an ad agency, production house or a traditional PR firm. We approach commercial marketing from several new directions. All focused on authentic, value-driven media content. All of them focused on the future.

So good luck to Jeff and his new venture! Hopefully he’ll start Tweeting again as he continues on this new journey.