404 City: March 2009 Archives

I was asked to join a group that would incubate ideas. An incubator facilitates the development of a business idea through networking, organizational structure, management, bank loans, whatever it takes to bring the idea to market.

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In honor of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage month, I am going to share an Asian Pacific Islander story of growing up with immigrant parents. I was at a dinner party last night where the conversation headed towards childhood memories; the subject of dentists came up and my mind zoomed back a whole mess of decades to the day I had a loose tooth.

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I am a Banana. Yellow on the outside, White on the inside. But not quite, I am more complicated than that.

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Who are you? Are you that profile on Facebook? That resume on LinkedIn? Are you the sum of your RSS feeds?

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But is it contagious?
I am online about 18 hours a day. I would say 95% of the time it is for work, the rest a bit of play, but once I am done, I fly off the computer and into a dark room with the television and the newspapers. The only way you will know I am not there is by the sudden lack of replies to your emails.

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I joined Twitter in the summer of 2007. I was an early user, so early that I actually got my name "ophelia". I played with it for a while, lost interest and went onto other networking sites. Then in 2008, I rediscovered it and went back and "tweeted" from dawn to dusk. I have met the most inspiring people on Twitter and those relationships have passed from online to offline.

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I logged onto the LA Vote Polling Place Locator , and got an address that wasn't my usual Polling Place, the Park Ranger's house down the street.

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The advent of Microcredit in developing countries, where the threshold of loan restrictions are low, is giving new entrepreneurs with low credit ratings and minimal or non-existent collateral a chance to apply for small loans to start a business. With the chance to better their families' lives, women are also taking on the role of income providers. However, their place in society is still the caregiver of the family and they must meet their families' daily needs with efficiency to free up a small bit of time to tend to their new businesses.

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