Personify – the origins of an idea: Part II
Howdy folks! Here’s where I started telling the story. There’s more to it than just one incident! Here’s more! As a direct consequence of my work at Nokia, I was a regular guest across the pond in Europe. At the height of my travels, I spent at least one week each month somewhere in Europe (mostly in Finland and England). It wasn’t all business, as I regularly mixed in pleasure with each trip. Sometime in 2008, I was on just another business trip in Finland. After the day’s work, I went back to my hotel for a rest, and afterwards went out to the bar to hang out with some colleagues. A quick scan across the room –regular folks, business folks, all seemed busy chatting and drinking. However, someone caught my attention. Someone I...
Personify – the origins of an idea: Part 1
Hello friends! This week marks the first public debut of our new platform for social good. We were featured at the recently concluded SxSW interactive festival, where we demoed the product to an “early adopter” audience of people passionate about making a difference in the world. We were also featured on CNN Live/HLN as well as several other tech blogs, and have seen an explosion in user interest as evidenced by the number of registrations on our landing page. Several people have asked the same question about our origins time and again, hence I thought it’d be good to share with you our story, the origins of the idea. In the fall of 2006, I got married to my college sweetheart after several years of courting a relationship across several state...
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Hello and welcome to our blog. Our mission at Personify is simple – we’re bringing the world together around social good. Personify helps you discover what you can do for good anywhere you are. 2011 will be remembered as one of the most tumultuous years ever. From the streets of Homs, Syria, to the mountains of Afghanistan, to the Occupy movement globally, people are clamoring for change all over the world. The reasons stem from similar needs – a quest for a better world. Our motivations at Personify is making the world a better place by focusing on our common humanity, the simple things we can do around us that make a difference. We believe that the surest way to make a change is to be that change. If we focus on our common humanity, we will...
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