Frank P. Diaz Furniture opens Digital Doors

In 1939 my grandfather Frank Polanco Diaz from the Dominican Republic opened the doors of what has been know for over 70 years as Frank P. Diaz Furniture Store located at 818 Westchester Avenue.  Ever since I can remember, my dad had always worked at FPD.  After gramps passed in 2008 and some other life stuff happened, we closed our doors in August 2009…

Today, 2011, my dad and I have decided to OPEN our Digital Doors. We jointly agreed that bringing his “old” school charm and salesmanship, mixed with my “new” school social media management and even production experience to the 4th generation clients that our family serviced for 70 years was the right  thing to do…

So here we are… Merging OLD and NEW across a broader platform with a great story to share.

Check it out. www.frankpdiazfurniture.com – still a work in progress….

Rock of Changes

Chris Bahara, my heart goes out to your dedication and vision.

Chris Bahara, President of TenThousandMeans, along with Michelle Diaz, President of theMADMEDIAGROUP organizing Rock of Changes, a concert benefit, at Joe’s Pub on October 19 at 9:30 p.m. benefitting Love 146 an organization that works toward the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation through prevention and aftercare. Rock of Changes was a musical inspired journey with the following cast of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages; Rebecca Faulkenberry, MiG Ayesa, Dan Domenech and Michele ‘Maisey’ Mais.

Love146 was founded in 2002 and has grown immensely since its first few months. Love146 has safe homes, survivor reintegration programs, training as part of the aftercare and aftercare research and many other programs in Asia, Europe, and in the United States. According to Love146 reports “Across the globe, 2 children are sold every 1 minute.”

One of the most core beliefs Love146 stands for is that after being rescued from child sex slavery the victim needs a safe place to live while recovering. Love146 Round Home is one of the many powerful efforts made possible through donations and proceeds from their benefits. The Round Home is not only a safe shelter for the newly liberated, but also a place of hope, love and an opportunity to be reborn into a new life.

Love146 has a Certificate Training Program in Aftercare (CTPA) where caregivers are trained on the basic restoration processes for the child sex slavery victims. In order to keep the CTPA up and running Love146 needs a total of $30,000 per year and for the Round Home a colossal $306,800 per year.

Love146 has benefits all year round. However, Rock of Changes is a unique musical journey with several prominent Broadway stars. The concert benefit is brought through the joint production of TenThousandMeans and theMADMEDIAGROUP. Both businesses have sought to emphasize on the truly beautiful results that charity benefits can produce. Rock of Changes is backed by the strong belief that modern slavery is an abomination.

A Tribute to Steve Jobs Flood SoMe Platforms

I must confess, I am a PC gal… I love my PC and its crashes and most of all my right CLICK – however, I am in LOVE with my ipod… I don’t have an iPad, or IPhone, but I have so much RESPECT for the vision, determination, resilient world Mr. Steve Jobs lived. He not only believed in himself, he believed in those around him and made part of his world.  It is a great loss for us all.  I believe in Apple Inc., and truly believe that Apple Inc. will not only continue to innovate, but will continue to change the world bigger and better than before.

FROM THE NY TIMES October 6, 2011, 9:36 pm

Tributes to Steve Jobs Flood Social Media Platforms

The tributes to Steve Jobs continued to flood social media platforms from around the world on Thursday with millions of 140-character messages on Twitter, more than 3,000 videos uploaded onto YouTube and tens of thousands of people sharing news links and making comments on Facebook.

A video of the commencement address that Mr. Jobs, a co-founder of Apple, delivered at Stanford in 2005 drew more than 1.5 million views on YouTube starting shortly after his death was announced Wednesday night and into Thursday afternoon, a spokesman for YouTube said. Already the most viewed graduation speech on YouTube, it now has more than five million views.

By noon on Thursday, people had uploaded more than 3,000 videos tagged “Steve Jobs” onto YouTube. In many of the videos, people are solemnly sharing their sadness and reflections about Mr. Jobs.

Others are proudly displaying the Apple products they love and use.

There were also multiple mash-up videos, where people combined music, video and photos as tributes to Mr. Jobs and the impact his work has had on their lives.

At 8 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, shortly after news broke about the death of Mr. Jobs, Twitter counted 6,049 posts per second, making it one of the most discussed news events ever on the micro-blogging platform, exceeding the 5,008 posts per second recorded moments after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden on May 1. But the volume did not break the record set for conversation last August during the MTV Video Music Awards, when there were 8,868 posts per second recorded, according to a Twitter spokesman.

Here’s a link to a collection of Twitter posts gathered Wednesday night from @nytimes users with people sharing their thoughts about Mr. Jobs and the contributions he made to the personal computer world.

Crimson Hexagon, a social media analytics firm, counted almost five million posts on Twitter from Wednesday night until 5 p.m. on Thursday. Its analysis showed there were more than seven million posts from the time that Mr. Obama made the Bin Laden announcement on a Sunday night through the following day.

To show how the conversation spiked about Mr. Jobs, there were 50,016 mentions of him on Wednesday, rising to more than 879,000 on Thursday, which was the single largest volume of conversation about him since he resigned as Apple’s chief executive, according to General Sentiment, another firm specializing in social media analytics.

On Facebook, some people changed their profile picture to the Apple logo as a tribute. Others found their way to this official Steve Jobs Facebook page that now has more than one million fans with more 7,000 people posting comments and sharing items on the wall.

Many memorial pages were created for Mr. Jobs on Facebook and what appeared to be a record number of people were sharing news links and making tributes.