Collaboration

Let me start with my focus as a patron.
The Facebook Causes App has become a useful tool that
I helped Glory Power Ministries begin to successfully use.
Oh, what I can see from here!
A chance for everyone to give a little, to spread the word...
a little and achieve massive results together.
Let the donors be trusted to organize themselves.
Just give them the tools; they are given genius and ideas by God.

Non-profits can either catch on to this vision or die a slow and
agonizing death.

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I was doing my market research for an information product as
outlined by Jeff Johnson. And I ran across what would be the
competition, but as I looked at her excellent sales letter and
observed that she was a student like me (or at least that was
her story) I decided to sign up as an affiliate.

Once I get my video promotion going.
(I have only cleverly designed the sales copy and saved it.)
And I finish my product.
I will seek her out for a JV.
Her product is excellent. Very professional looking, although
I did not learn many new things from it. I'm not very typical.

There's just some buzz with Ann Sieg and that Ferny guy
about collaborating with the would be competition. It doesn't
always work out, but it's much better to build together or in
larger industries buy them out instead of competing.

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I have a highly competitive nature.
In fact, it's the only thing that kept me at my sales job
a couple of years back. So when the last instructor, professor,
facilitator, teacher, whatchamacall'em advised the class that
part of our requirements was to review and comment on our
peers work to help them improve. I was like, "What?!!"

The textbooks I'm reading too: Brave New Digital Classroom
and Technologies in the Second Language Composition Class-
room both encourage this strange idea of students collaborating
on their assignments. With the onslaught of digital plagiarism
this one of the proposed solutions. Hmmm...

The world is really changing. I wish I could have gotten help
writing all those AP English papers back in high school.
And what now that students have the ability to hire a
freelancer to write their papers for them? We've graduated
on to new tactics for cheating!

The Journey of a Patron

I've decided that rather than seeking out different organizations to become involved with that I will instead increase my involvement with the organizations with which I am already associated. For me, right now this means putting energy into building Glory Power Ministries' online presence.

I was conducting an interview of a man that had immigrated to the States about nine years ago. After hearing my story the man said that America should not be involved in other people's civil wars or wars period. I suppose we are not God's sovereign hand and this country's people suffer because of the expense.

When he made the comment I actually started thinking about myself. There are many people that I have helped and sought to help over the years while ignoring myself in the process. This has slowly caused me to value myself less. The cause is important and the individuals behind the cause are more important.

I will have to remember as I am raising funds and helping to organize events for charities that I must first take care of myself.

Recounting my journey here

So I've started several books that I've never finished in my life. Perhaps the problem was that I did not have the resources to complete them. So, this blog will be about all the things that I have begun that I welcome input on. At one time I was afraid to share my thought, but now I just believe that if someone if helped in the process any amount of criticism I might receive for my words doesn't really matter.

There are three journey that I will write about here:
1) The journey of an Infopreneur
2) The journey of a graduate student
3) The journey of a patron

I have access, right now to all the information I need. But, hopefully as I write about each of these topics I will find those that know more about them.