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Kenya Exposed More Than Just My Emotions

January 27, 2012 By Jeff Turner 42 Comments

I didn’t write a single word while I was in Kenya. I snapped over 3000 photos and videos. I updated Twitter and Facebook and Path in the morning or the evening when I had access. But I did not sit down to write like this at all during my 21 days outside of the United […]

Of Netbooks, Kenya And Perspective

December 27, 2011 By Jeff Turner 18 Comments

“Can I help you?” “Yes,” I said. “I’d like to buy this Gateway netbook” If you know me, that’s not a sentence I thought would ever come out of my mouth. But that’s the whole point of this story. I wasn’t buying it for me, I was buying it for Mary, the first of the […]

I’m Going To Kenya To Meet My Daughters

December 26, 2011 By Jeff Turner 29 Comments

“I’ve found two more daughters.” Those are the words I was greeted with when my wife, Rocky, returned from what we thought was going to be her “once in a lifetime” volunteer trip to Kenya with Global Volunteer Network in October of 2007. She had fallen in love with the girls at St. Monica’s Children’s […]

Deleting My Klout Profile: My Only Regret

December 23, 2011 By Jeff Turner 23 Comments

Last month I deleted my Klout account. The deletion of my account was a protest of sorts. My goal was not to get others to delete their Klout profile, but to make a statement about behavior. I believed then and I still believe that Klout has negatively “changed the way some people behave on Twitter […]

Curation As Story – The Importance Of Human Filters

December 21, 2011 By Jeff Turner 18 Comments

Curation is a form of storytelling. Curation tools need to support this truth. Collecting content without qualitative human judgement is aggregation, not curation. The best automation tools alone will never replace the ability of a human being to provide meaningful context. And the best curation, the curation I subscribe to via email, takes context to […]