Leasons learned from the last 7 days…

Posted on October 16, 2010 by admin

Leasons learned from the last 7 days…

  • You may check and test your texts, html codes and web pages as much you like. As long as your project isn’t going online, you won’t find all the small little typos, layouting problems or *bugs* of your code.
  • Sleep is overrated
  • The more platforms you have on which you propagate your content (Flickr, Facebook,Twitter, Blog, website, friends blogging about you), the more possibilities stand in getting your point through to different people.
  • Never estimate  family-connections :)
  • Do not delete a wordpress template over an ftp client, when you actually have it selected as default template in the administrator tool of your blog ;)
  • Have I already mentioned, how overrated sleep is?
  • It is always a good idea to repeat to yourself the aim of your project and stay focussed on it: Let the picture at friendswithvisions.com grow containing photos of all people sympathising with the root idea of ‘infinitely together is wonderful’: natural integration in our communities of people with special needs

Ok, now that we know all above, we are thrilled to see what we learn from the second week in our project.

Until then, enjoy the photos in our flickr and Facebook groups…

infinitely together is wonderful - View this group's photos on Flickriver

…and don’t forget to send us your photo at pictures@friendswithvisions.com and let the picture grow… blog for us, tell your friends… we count on you :)

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Uups… when stupid typos result in questioning acceptance

Posted on October 12, 2010 by admin

In our sprint on creating the online presence for the project infinitely together is wonderful we’ve tried to take very good care on how we explain our goals and beliefs.

So we have setup the pages, blog, groups and twitter accounts, invited our friends and were very happy to see people reacting on our request by joinging the groups and posting  their photos there.

Our live picture though.. at friendswithvisions.com was not growing as  we’d expect. At least not as quick as the group photos in Flickr and Facebook grew. So the question arises… why is that? How come people would join our group but would decide not to go all the way and send us their pictures per email? Where did we go wrong?

Well… the answer to this was in our case an… uups :) In some of our invitations mentioning the email address where you should send your photos we had a stupid title typo. Sorry :( So here you are once again. The email address: picture@friendswithvisions.com

(This time we’ve double and tripple checked it before posting… :)

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What a start:)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by admin

Wow, we are so excited… at day one of our ‘infinitely together‘ project going online we have 26 new members in our Facebook group, 30 in Flickr and more than 80 photos so far!  That’s wonderful… this is exactly what we mean by infinitely together is wonderful.

Thanks for participating, thank for sending us your photo or this of  your friend, relative, team mate, people with or without special needs.

Thanks for spreading the good news, thanks for helping us…

BTW… this way to the growing picture

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grenzenlos gemeinsam ist wunderbar

Posted on October 9, 2010 by admin

Jeder kennt jemanden der anders ist und wir lieben ihn… ob eine Schwester oder Bruder, ein Freund ein Nachbar oder ein Kollege. Menschen mit einem Handicap gibt es überall, sie leben mit uns zusammen und sind ein Teil von uns.

Wir sind eine kleine Gruppe von Freunden und Betroffenen, die versuchen zu zeigen, dass wir alle gemeinsam in dieser Gesellschaft leben. Gemeinsamkeit macht eine Gesellschaft aus, egal wo auf der Welt.

Hier in Deutschland setzen wir uns für dieses Ziel ein, entwickeln im Moment einen Bildband über junge Menschen mit Handicaps, um anderen zu zeigen, wie glücklich auch sie sind und dass sie zu uns gehören.

Manche sagten „wen interessiert das denn“ aber mehr und mehr unterstützen uns, weil sie wie wir die Integration von Menschen mit Handicap in unseren Gesellschaften als total wichtig empfinden. Wir haben hier in Flickr oder in Facebock diese Gruppen gegründet, um ein großes Bild entstehen zu lassen… ein Bild was zeigen soll, dass wir alle zusammen gehören, ob mit oder ohne „kleinen“ Problemen. Wir möchten dieses der ganzen Welt zeigen :) und dafür brauchen wir eure Hilfe.

Schickt uns ein Bild von euch selber , entweder um zu zeigen „ja ich empfinde auch so“.. oder ein Bild eures Freundes, eines Verwandten der auch ein Handicap hat…. denn wir leben alle zusammen.

Alle Bilder führen wir hier auf „friendswithvisions.com“ zusammen und hoffen, etwas großes entstehen zu lassen. Postet Eure Bilder hier in der Gruppe… ihr könnt auch was dazu schreiben… oder schickt sie direkt an picture@friendswithvisions.com .

Jeden Tag mehr Bilder und jeden Tag Menschen, die wie wir sagen: „wir gehören doch alle zusammen“.

vielen vielen Dank an euch alle:)

Renata, Dagmar, Rita, Joerg, Martina, Elke, Martin, Tina, Evangelia u.v.m

…eins noch dies ist kein Spendenaufruf… wir sind eine ganz kleine Gruppe von Menschen, die etwas mit ihren Möglichkeiten bewegen möchten. Mit euch zusammen, schaffen wir viel mehr.

Wenn jemand helfen möchte, freuen wir uns, schreibt uns einfach über info@friendswithvisions.com .

Vielleicht wird es auch mal Institution, und es gibt Menschen oder Unternehmen, die dieses Projekt finanziell unterstützen wollen. Auch das wäre toll, denn mit jedem Cent kann man etwas für die Menschen tün, denen es vielleicht nicht ganz so gut geht, wie uns.

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infinitely together is wonderful

Posted on October 9, 2010 by admin

Everybody knows someone who is *special*. A sister, brother, friend, neighbor or team mate. People with special needs are everywhere, they live together with us and are part of our life.

We are a small group of friends and people in question trying to show that we all live together in this community. Having things in common makes us part of the same community, no matter where in the world.

Here in Germany we commit ourselves to this aim. We develop right now a photo book about joung people with a handicap. We want to show how happy they are and that they belong naturally in our life.

While some say “who cares?”, our supporter group grows more and more. They are people who share our perseption and our believe that the integration of people with special needs in our communities is very important as we all belong infinitely together.

We founded groups in Flickr and Facebook because we want to create the big picture for our vision. A picture visualising our being and living together no matter with or without our all ‘small’ problems. A picture to be shown to the whole world :) and this is where we need your help.

If sympathising and want to say ‘yes, we all live infinitely together‘ send us a picture of you. Ask your friends, relatives, people you know with special needs if they want to send their picture too, or you may sent it to us.

All pictures will be put together and layouted at “friendswithvisions.com” Something wondefully great is about to happen. Post your pictures in this group, write in the comments, send an email directly to picture@friendswithvisions.com and don’t forget to tell your friends all about it.

Everyday brings more pictures. More pictures of people saying “infinitely together is wonderful”

a great thanks to all of you :)

Renata, Dagmar, Rita, Joerg, Martina, Elke, Martin, Tina, Evangelia and many others…

…one last thing

this is not a donation call… we are a very small group of people wanting to do a change by the use of our own limited means. We can do even more together with you.

If you want to help, just send us an email to info@friendswithvisions.com

Maybe there will be people or companies wanting to support this project financially. This would be wonderfull. Our possibilities of helping people in need grow Cent by Cent.

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