Community Builder | Speaker | Supporter
It’s official! We’re registered for the Kaiser Permanente Great Aloha Run on Monday, February 20, 2012. The 8.5 mile course begins at Aloha Tower and finishes inside of the Aloha Stadium. Every day we drive the course shuttling between work, paddling, and events. On this day, we’ve committed to the same route, but with healthier [...]
In everything I do, I always ask myself what value do I bring. If I can’t provide value, then I know that the project, relationship, cause, or business is not where I belong. Last week, I attended a meeting facilitated by the Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate Strategic Planning & Implementation Group deep in the heart of Kea’au [...]
According to Crowdbooster, the tweet below was my “top tweet” last week with more than 27K impressions. It was also featured in Civil Beat’s daily live blog coverage of APEC. I hope that people will heed the call to support Honolulu small businesses affected by APEC.
L.P “Neenz” Faleafine, community developer for Oceanit, said that a Chinese newspaper published a story on Oceanit. “That was very good for us,” said Faleafine. “But we also brought awareness to a lot of local people who had never heard of Oceanit. We’re a 26-year-old company, yet they didn’t hear about it. … [...]
For those of you that missed it (like me, I had a complimentary ticket, however the demands and deadlines leading up to APEC were too important too reschedule), here’s a digital copy of TEDxHonolulu 2011. It’s inspiring to see how much the Hawaii community for TED and TEDx has grown. My intention of bringing TEDxHonolulu [...]
This afternoon I had the pleasure of being a judge at the Country Stew Cook-Off. Fifteen amateur chefs prepared their unique stew recipes for a chance to win over $700 in prizes from Aiea Bowl and Oakley. A self-described eater, I purposely had a light breakfast saving my appetite for the homemade comfort food. I [...]
“Really, words cannot express the experience,” described L.P. “Neenz” Faleafine, on her blog after landing on and taking off from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, “so I’ll just quote the certificate that was presented to me for completing the embark mission: ‘This honorary naval aviator experienced deceleration from 105 to 0 [...]
I did make it a point to try town’s pig’s feet though, after being told by a couple of people, including L.P. “Neenz” Faleafine how good it was, “and I don’t even like pig’s feet!” she marveled. via Take a Bite – Hawaii News – Staradvertiser.com. I saw one of Hawaii’s top foodie [...]
In this quarter’s issue of Pacific Edge magazine, an article on TEDxHonolulu 2011 makes mention that myself and my two friends: Christine Lu and Traci Toguchi organized the first ever TED and TEDx event in the State of Hawaii. This year, there are many other TEDx, where x = independently organized events, that have either [...]
This year, Pacific New Media is celebrating 25 years of service to the Hawaii community. Have you taken a class? Well, this fall is your opportunity to dive into a menu of classes from some of the best and most successful faculty, and the newbie — me. On the frontier of social media, acclaimed Hawai‘i [...]
This photo captures an hour of my team’s work. During the brainstorming session, my team of five generated more than 60 solutions. Given another 30-minutes, we were able to prototype two ideas and receive feedback to improve upon them.
As I type this, I’m decompressing from a high positive energy filled day of permissible thinking. Have you ever participated in a brainstorming session that generated more than 80 new, fresh ideas in less than 15-minutes? I did, today. There are three factors that contributed to my experience: Without the tap on my shoulder from [...]
This week I began the process of becoming a design thinking coach for the Design Thinking Hawaii group movement that has been making its way through the islands. Led by Rich Crandall and his team from the Institute of Design at Stanford University, they landed at Honolulu International Airport from Palo Alto, CA and unleashed [...]
Through the power of social media, I’ve been able to experience many, many things that I otherwise would not. One of those is meeting and working with world renown Chef Roy Yamaguchi. Besides his cuisine, one thing I love about Chef Roy is that he is fo’ real, in the true local sense. He’s a [...]
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