Back from South Africa…

After nearly 2 weeks in South Africa, where we discovered the Garden Route and the Wine route as well as Cape Town, it is difficult to get back on track with normal life… We had a fantastic time and the kids just simply loved it – walking with Elephants, cuddle with baby lions, cheetahs, been with crocodiles, birds, monkeys, snakes… and here is a huge one … a safari of 2 days in Addo Park. A magic trip…. that we are not going to forget…

Think global Act Local

Well… it’s been a while since my last post and it has been a very interesting time indeed – First of all, IBM Super Women Group event in Raleigh on June 12 was great – Ruth Taylor and the team organised a first class event with so many great ladies, Jeanne Murray was one of the co-presenter – My presentation, “Create an electronic footprint – Social Media and you ” was I believe very well received. Quick flight to NYC on that afternoon, for IBM 2009 Social Media Marketing Summit – We had over 650 attendees, BPs, Customers and IBMers joined us for what was going to be one of the greatest social media marketing event I attended lately – Not that I’m biased as the co-chair of the event with Pauline Ores, but I have to say that the agenda was amazing … Best practices / case studies in the morning such as Intel or Pepsico – The afternoon was dedicated to vendors such as Cotweets, Linked-in and our agencies Text 100 and Ogilvy. The event was broadcasted in 5 cities (Stuttgart, Paris, London, Raleigh, San Jose) and over 300 people joined us on line via Lotus connections. Since then, I’m back in my little office down in London, and I have been so busy with running so many SMM education calls to the team across the globe, that I haven’t blogged  much since my US Trip. Watch this space, going to put some pictures of those events onto my blog … as soon as I can get my camera to work again ! Damn, I should have bought a new one on Times Square, I knew it…

Good Friday

Well… I feel good on good Friday and I am officially off for a whole week… so I am getting ready   to go skiing with my son Max for a week … Hopefully my James Bond will join us if he doesn’t get called away for a top secret mission flight… So that’s that, I am packing away and thinking do I need to take all this… certainly not, so I will unpack and repack… Max and I will be taking our little Eurostar to Paris, if it’s sunny I promised him to take him to the Eiffel Tower and then off to the French Alps. So Hasta la vista !