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Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Gates: $10B vaccine program could save 8.7M lives
Bill Gates announced that the Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion dollars to the fight against a number of illnesses including AIDS. One word – AWESOME
Washington for Haiti
For those in Seattle and interested in helping the Haiti effort, there is an event tonight at the Pike Brewery you may be interested in. From the SeaMO blog: When/Where: January 28th, 6pm-9pm at the Pike Brewery, 1415 First Ave Seattle WA What: A Benefit to support the work of one of Haiti’s most well-established economic development organizations as they play a key role in emergency relief and long term reconstruction efforts. Who: Hear from Melanie Howard, the Secretary of Fonkoze’s board of directors and from Charlene Balick of the Grameen Foundation as they describe the current situation and their organizations’ efforts to hasten relief and recovery. Plus: Live music from Sunday Evening Whiskey Club … Continue reading
Q&A with Fred Wilson
It goes without saying Fred Wilson is my favorite blogger and I highly respect the work he’s done in the VC industry. Every entrepreneur should read his blog in my opinion. Anyway, here’s the video from his interview with NYC 3.0 where he’s asked several questions about entrepreneurs and what he’s looking for from a VC’s perspective: Fred Wilson talks trends, advice for startups from Vadim Lavrusik on Vimeo. [via A VC]
It’s Time for the Next Chapter…
This Friday is my last day at Zillow. I’ve spent the last 4 years with a fantastic team innovating in the real estate and mortgage industries. It’s been an incredible experience and I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished. So many people go through life hating their jobs, and I can genuinely say I loved (the vast majority of) my job. I’m extremely thankful for that, and frankly, wouldn’t have stayed 4 years if I didn’t enjoy my job. Of course, you’re probably wondering what is prompting me to move on. This was certainly a decision I wrestled with long and hard and did not make lightly. There were of course numerous factors that went into my … Continue reading
Amazing Open Street Map Visualization of the Planet being Mapped
Wow, this is way too cool not to share on my blog — it’s an animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008 and is a super cool visualization. OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo. [via Matt Lerner]
Sloane is the New MySpace Wall Street Journal Citizen Journalist
I want to congratulate Sloane Berrent for being selected as the new MySpace Wall Street Journal Citizen Journalist for Davos! For those interested, you can read more over on her blog. Sloane Berrent MySpace Journal Davos SubmissionSloane | MySpace Video I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Sloane over the past year as a result of helping with her Causeitsmybirthday fundraiser for malaria and have been thoroughly impressed with everything about her. So, congrats, and have fun in Switzerland next week!! I’ll certainly be following the trip virtually!
Two Tools to Help You “LISTEN”
I had to pleasure to attending Jeff Turner’s (Zeek Interactive and Real Estate Shows) session “Discovering the lost art of listening” today at Virtual RE Bar Camp. As usual when I listen to Jeff speak, I picked up a few great tidbits of information. Here are two tools I wanted to bookmark for myself for future use — Twazzup and Tweetgrid/IRC. I’m making it a 2010 resolution of mine to become more efficient and strategic in the way I approach building relationships via social media.
