Get in Their Shoes Campaign

I'm participating in a charity fundraising event called “Get in Their Shoes.” This is a description of the program:

“The Get in Their Shoes Campaign is a call to action by successful business leaders, athletes, entertainers, and politicians to rally youth and aspiring leaders to lift themselves out of their limiting circumstances by proactively interviewing successful professionals within their own communities. Some of the most successful professionals in the world have donated a pair of their actual shoes and a 30-minute phone mentorship to be given-away or auctioned-off as part of this campaign.”

My auction item is this pair of Nike running shoes--I considered donating a pair of hockey skates, but I thought that would be too weird. The winning bidder get the shoes plus my PowerPoint coaching. Check this out and bid at:

http://getintheirshoes.imno.org/auction.asp?id=26

Comments

[Bapes]

You guys should checkout the shoes that came out from Nike with Ipod applications. Nike and Apple coming together is a perfect combination and if this can motivate a healthier lifestyle than more power to them.

[kily]

no comments

[pavan]

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)

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URL: http://www.sexyplatformshoes-lingerie.co.uk/
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If you have any questions or you'd like more information, feel free to contact me. And thank you very
much for your consideration!

Best regards

[Brad Hutchings]

Congrats to eiddwen for the win! I'm still 3rd in line if there are retractions. Hoping, hoping, hoping... I know that if I'd won and Guy saw my PowerPoint (well, Keynote) preso, he'd has laughed up a lung.

[Carlos E. Gonzalez]

Hello Mr. Kawasaki.
Well about Acrobat Reader Full Screen capacity vs MS PowerPoint, i found more transportable: Microsoft don’t have a free player/ viewer on OSX (yes it was for OS9); And Acrobat Reader is free.

And is so easy to make navegation buttons in Indesign and export to PDF, make jump page to page etc.. Acrobat Reader have 38 pre-defined Transition between the slices. And souport sound and video!.

Ok is just a preference, maybe im an Adobe fan.

And your fan too. ;^)
Carlos Gonzalez

[Ignacio Coloma]

Guy,

The advantages of using Acrobat AFAIK:

1) being OS-free, you know you will see the same output with linux, windows, OSX, whatever.
2) is more likely bundled with any PC/laptop you can think of.
3) forces you to not do anything funky like using animations or ActiveX stuff (well, I suppose you don't, but anyway)

On the other hand, you lose your annotations, but acording to Garr Reynolds you should already have them as printed handouts or something.

This being said, I use OpenOffice to compose the slides but carry them in PDF format. I have known people who exports the presentation to HTML. Each one has his own taste.

[Patrick Tedjamulia]

I am one of the founders of IMNO and the Get in Their Shoes Campaign. I would like to publicly thank Mr. Kawasaki for participating in the campaign.

My parents taught me to take off my shoes before entering someone's home. It is a sign of respect. You are honoring those around you.

Mr. Kawasaki is honoring all of us. He caught the IMNO vision.

I invite each of you to participate in the Get in Their Shoes campaign. Go to www.getintheirshoes.org/takeaction.asp

[Guy Kawasaki]

Carlos,

I never even heard of Acrobat full screen until you mentioned it.

I would still have to create the presentation in PowerPoint. What's the advantage of presenting it in this format?

Thanks,

Guy

[Jonathan]

"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. "
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And that is why I am bare feet all day :-) May the highest bidder win!

Jon
Founder of myfoodcount.com
Free & Anonymous Online Health Monitoring System

[Guy Kawasaki]

My shoe size is 9.5.

Guy

[Stephen Hayward]

Great idea. Sorry that it isn't the skates. As a good old Canuck that would have been fun.
How about you matching whatever is raised in the bidding process ;)
I tried to bid, but an issue due to shipping shoes to Canada.

[Carlos E. Gonzalez]

Sorry? Why Powerpoint and not Adobe Acrobat Full Screen command, is not more transportable than PoerPoint?...any way Mr. Kawasaki whats your size... (i need to made the translation in Mexican Foot measures.

[Stacy]

Having a powerpoint presentation ripped to shreds by Mr. G sounds fun, oddly enough.

Very cool charity event.

[Robert]

Move over Nike, here comes "Kawasaki"!! :-)

[Guy Kawasaki]

Yes, the money goes to the program.

Size: Smaller than your PowerPoint file. :-)

Guy

[Randy Bohlender]

Guy...

trying desparately to determine a value for the shoes....Quick question: What size are they?

:)

R

[John Vechey]

It's confusing who bids. I assume everyone bids, but the money goes toward youth, correct?

The way I read it now, it's ambiguous and may be interpreted as "the youth donates" which makes little sense to me.

[Smittie]

I don't think I have the money to play in that league. Best of luck.

aloha

[Harry Chong]

Neat.