I'm a bit late on this since I said I would pick the winner on July 31st. Sorry about that, I've been on a half-vacation/half-work trip. On to the important stuff though....
First off, thanks to everybody that entered and shared their desire for the Helio Ocean. It's tough because no matter who I pick I'll end up upsetting somebody else. Looking over all the entries there were a mixture of appeals. Some folks expressed their desire for the device, other talked about what they would do with the device. Some were funny, others were sad.
In the end though one entry appealed to me and to a few other people. What I mean by this is a few friends e-mailed me to vote for one of the entries. Alan Gutierrez has a plan for what he wants to use the Ocean for and it's a good cause. Congrats to Alan and thanks again to everybody else that entered. If I had a few more devices I'd send them your way, but all I had was one.
I'll be contacting Alan to arrange for shipping.
Perhaps some friends could help out with some service :-)
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Josh
Slow to respond myself. Thank you for the contribution to the effort.
I'm working for the New Orleans Housing Resource Center, trying to think of ways to employ social media where connectivity is low. People do have computers, but it's not universal and they don't spend much at the computer.
We purchased an Olympus digital audio recorder and mike and started to do Podcasts. Rather than distribute them through the web, we're using a robotic CD burner. The one digital medium that has saturated the market is compact disc. Distributing the CDs gets digital media out into Hollygrove. Riding around on my bike with the Olympus gets digital media out of Hollygrove.
I showed my boss, Paul Baricos, this post and now he's excited about the next social media endeavor, so you made me look good in to my employers to boot. This contribution is significant for our project. Budgets are tight in New Orleans.
Thank you very much. I'll be in touch off-blog.
Posted by: Alan Gutierrez | August 6, 2007 11:02 AM