As a part of my job running the Social Innovation Camp, I’ve been going up and back to Scotland, meeting people, drinking approximately 600 cups of coffee a day (it seems, at times), and getting people to submit ideas for our upcoming Camp in Edinburgh. I made it to Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, and Edinburgh. [...]

Social Capital Markets 2009 The SoCap conference is on, on my final few days in San Francisco. I’m here with an as-usual probably unusual perspective, as a for-profit worker in innovation but with a passion for development and social media. There’s been, so far, a few interesting themes coming out, the first of which is [...]

GhanziAfter crossing into Botswana, we made our way to Ghanzi, where we camped in a gorgeous dustbowl. This place seriously looked like a luxury resort, except that only us and a group of Afrikaaner tourists were there, and we were all camping. We did get in a good swim. San/Bushmen dance & walkThat night, we [...]

Exams start tomorrow. I’m feeling… I don’t know if I’m really ready or not for them as the scoring system here is… odd, to say the least. And on my first exam we don’t get the results of our work back until February, but one way or another it’s all (well, the first quarter) going [...]

Sorry for the lack of update; I’ve been futzing around and doing a bunch of stuff. I have arrived safely in the UK. I’m staying in Bournemouth with Jamie and Barbara and headed to London tomorrow. On an interesting note, the world keeps getting smaller and smaller: Alef who I know from Franklin back in [...]

I actually got my UK Visa today. They’re going to let me stay there until 1/2/2009 (That’s 1 Feb for those of you in the backwardsish US of A). Check it out: Other developments: I’m slowly making my way through my wine. And my house. And my stuff. Yay, stuff. It’s now T-minus 30 days [...]

Wheela, it’s all becoming very real. College selection and accomodation I’ve been accepted to Pembroke College, which apparently has better food, is a bit formal, was founded by James I (successor to Her Coolest Majesty Elizabeth I, the “Virgin” Queen. James I of England is also James IV of Scotland, which should make my Scottish [...]

Oxford! Assuming, of course, that they actually DHL me the promised paperwork and whatnot. After my pretty-good interview with Professor Westbrook, I waited with bated breath, chewing my nails to the quick (and beyond), thinking how much I wanted to go to RSM Erasmus. And I did. Quite a lot. I learned a lot about [...]

Well, I made it to DC, didn’t get lost in its confusing street system (though I’m really glad I went down a half hour early– 15th Street NW skips over a block, and it just happens to be the block the Metro station comes out on versus the block the Sofitel, and my interview, was [...]

I’ve been accepted to RSM Erasmus, which is really good. Now it’s time to get on with my scholarship essays… BUT The same day, I got an email from Oxford offering me an interview slot in DC, and I’d really planned on going there, but the prospect of gnawing on my nails for several weeks [...]