Better World Books Podcast: Warren St. John
Posted by Dana on 10.07.2009 at 11:14 am
Did you ever have one of those days? The kind where everything comes together and you know you are doing what you are meant to be doing?
That’s how I felt when I finished reading OUTCASTS UNITED and knew that I would have the opportunity to meet and interview author Warren St. John and help get the word out about this great book.
The book tells the story of coach Luma Mufleh the soccer team of refugee boys she founded and the town of Clarkston, Georgia that wasn’t sure they wanted them… or their families.
Once I finished reading the book, I knew it would be a perfect fit for The Better World Book Club. And once again that perfect day stuff starting happening. I think they call it serendipity. When I called Warren to let him know his book had been chosen for the December 2009 read for The Better World Book Club – now going live at Whole Foods Markets in Atlanta, he let me know how perfect that was, as he had written a good bit of the book IN the Whole Foods Market at Ponce. I think I actually got chills. Read more…
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Flabbergasted: Coffee Shop Strangers
Posted by Chip on 11.20.2008 at 2:10 pm
Hello my name is Chip. I am an account representative for Better World
Books. I moved to Alpharetta, GA to begin my journey with Better
World Books. Yesterday, I went to a coffee shop for two reasons:
1) They had free wi-fi
2) I wanted to make some new friends.
My plan went sour when I was informed by the coffee house wi-fi server
that I was not allowed to go to my intended website. Apparently, the
company is against online dating. I like online dating.
Online dating saves money. (That is if you use a free dating site)
I am a bit of a value fan. Some people say I am cheap but I
am not cheap. I am efficient. I’m not going to say what coffee shop I
was in but I’ll give you a hint. It is everywhere.
Plan A to meet people didn’t work.
Plan B
I was forced to attempt Read more…
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Congratulations to Irving Steel!
Posted by admin on 07.12.2007 at 12:49 pm
Mr. Irving Steel from the University of Georgia. Irv went above and beyond for the ‘Book Drives for Better Lives’ Program on campus. As you can see from his summary below he is most definitely deserving of this Leadership award!
…I started to gather group support for the project through my fraternity of almost 100 men. I posted messages on bulletins for large classes through our online system, WebCT and I posted messages to the different list serves
…After the fall drive, I recruited other groups to help make the spring drive bigger and better. I organized what each group was going to do and divided the campus for our groups to have a better drive. I wrote an editorial piece for our student newspaper that has a huge readership. I spoke at several meetings throughout the year to promote the drive. I was in contact with the assistant to the President, I was in contact with the head of Residence Life… I put up posters in high traffic areas and I was able to get our informational/planning meeting on the UGA front page.
The planning meeting was great to facilitate brainstorming for the drive and we presented a powerpoint to student volunteers. I contacted a member in our student government to help me with the facebook event to get many student government leaders involved and help them to spread the word.
I learned a tremendous amount from working on the book drive and I feel extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to help others. I believe we have a great opportunity at UGA to create an extremely large drive which could turn into a campus movement. I have been mentoring some freshmen TEP to take over the drive and I made sure to thank all those who helped our drive so that those who helped will be inclined to do so in the future.”
-Irv Steel
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