LA Times confirms that Michael Jackson has died. Sad, sad, sad. MJ, RIP - We’ll always love your spirit, music and remember you.
MJ was certainly a massive influence on the music and video scene.

He was also a good fusion pioneer, bringing rock and soul music together.

Here’s one of my favourite tracks that suggests that we look at ourselves to make a change.
Change is what I constantly talk about. The potential that we have in all of us to make a difference to others.

Recently, someone said that some people live for themselves and others live for others.
MJ brought us great music to unify us. He also should be accredited with helping with the Live Aid / Feed the World / USA for Africa initative.

Lets remember him and keep in our hearts these messages:

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Here is the link to the episode that I recorded ‘live’ this morning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k54k0

Together we discussed:

• The UK Queen’s use of email
• The UK Prime Minister’s use of YouTube
• The growing use of Social media sites
• Should company’s offer employees ‘gap years’ And,
• My moment of Reflection, ‘The Trouble with Twitter’

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Its been an interesting week in many ways.
I’ve met with lots of people and explored the value of reflection.
The opportunity arose when I was invited coincidentally on the same day as St George’s day (Thu) to meet with some  business colleagues. They were welcoming, warm and willing to share ideas. Refreshing, especially as we live in a world where competition is rife and disharmony exists in terms of the gulf between the have nots and have yachts.

A few weeks back I was emailed the following video. The lines are especially true because of the darkened financial crisis that many are in.  Interestingly, back on Feb 14th I attended a comedy gig with 40,000 fans all paying an average of £40 per ticket. Let us also not forget that my car parking bill for 2 hours parking on the night was £22.

I believe because the media does not discuss or present it, doesn’t mean its not there.

Often we are quick to spend money on personal pleasures but think 100 times before contributing towards a worthy cause. The concept of the following video  focusing on how collaboration could be adapted for showing a world-view on reality. For example, half of the screen could show one city’s extravagant night life with the other showing a city in the same country as deserted. Another example could show the different living conditions from one hemisphere to another.

The message in the music should motivate us to do more than just hum along to it!

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I found the following very funny but also a sad reflection on the times that we live in.
For example:

1. Pirates stealing from those desperate for supplies destined to help the poor
2. The fact that we spend so much on ‘building a bridge the the 21st century’, yet we forgot that  the ‘18th century was building a canal’!
3. Where we really need to focus our efforts to address this issue, especially as these pirates not just small time crooks but command armies and ransoms that are worth millions of dollars:
4. Unfortunately, there were deaths involved on the pirate side. Any death is sad.

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