A school run by the NGO, Lwala Community Alliance encourages girls to stay in school, which helps strengthen communities. The lack of sanitary protection is one factor in girls dropping out of school because of embarrassment. Johnson & Johnson helps alleviate this problem by partnering with Lwala Community Alliance sponsoring local workers who supply the girls with re-usable sanitary pads.
After 19 years at Johnson & Johnson, I just finished my last day! It hasn't really sunk in yet, though I feel a wave of relief as its been a difficult year. There have been a lot of changes at work, and though I've accomplished a lot, our department was moving in a different direction. Not that my work wasn't appreciated - they threw me a really nice party last night and I received a lot of praise, hugs and presents. I'm going to just kick back for a while, but I already have some potential consulting/video projects in the works. I really do want to relax for a while, but while most people retire from work to do what they've always wanted to do - I've already been doing that! I'm very fortunate to have loved working in video, which I have done throughout my career, at CBS and J&J. So, while I look forward to not working, and certainly not commuting, I'm interested in seeing where this stage leads me.
Been a long time since I've posted. But social media is becoming hyper-social. You could spend all day on Twitter , Facebook , You Tube and I guess plenty of others. I think all those aforementioned platforms have become more popular than blogging, due to our obsession with multi-tasking, achievement, competition and measurement. You can only use 140 words in Twitter, and Facebook entries are similarly short. You can measure tweets, retweets, followers, likes, and now even your Twitter ranking on Klout. And of course you don't have to write at all with You Tube. And it's insidiously fracturing our lifes. It turns the riddle of "If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?", to "If I don't tweet about it, is it real?"
But what have I been doing? Working a lot. Producing video from a series of "Mom blogger" conferences for J&J, asking Moms, and some Dads, "How are you using social media for social good?" See highlights below. The last one, Mom 2.0, was held in New Orleans, where the weather was warm, the bread pudding superb and the mint juleps perfect! I even tried an interview myself with comically horrific results. It was good to laugh though. I promise that I will blog some more. In fact, I'll try again after I tweet the fact I blogged, post the blog entry on Facebook, pinged Technorati, and had my third cup of coffee!
I was out out at Blissdom, a leading women bloggers conference held in Nashville, TN. Johnson & Johnson had a booth there where we asked bloggers how they've used "social media for social good"
I recently had the opportunity to visit the Johnson & Johnson facility in East London, South Africa. They've instituted a program, run by their health center, to provide information and counseling to those employees and their familes affected by HIV/AIDS. I talked to both employees, some HIV positive, and personnel in the health center about the effect this disease has had on their lives.
This is an amazing story of how Janssen Pharmaceutica, a J&J company in Xian, China was able to work with the Chinese governement to help preserve one of the world's great archeological finds.
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