C.C. Chapman's Blog, page 41

Visiting the Boston Marathon Memorial

Yesterday, I had to go into the city to speak at MUSE 2013, so I hit the road early with the plan to walk over and visit the Boston Marathon Memorial.

Laura and I had been at the finish line two days before the Marathon,but I had yet to see the memorial and felt it was my duty to do so before it is gone (if it ever goes).

I wasn’t fully prepared for the wave of emotions. The mix of sadness tinged with anger and a heaping of local pride. While I knew it would be asolemn walk with my camera, it w...

Social Media Spring Cleaning

While it may be snowing in parts of the country, for most of us spring has sprung and many an hour will be spent cleaning up our yards, homes and offices.

This is also the time of year that I always spend time cleaning out my feeds, friends and follows.

Here is my personal approach to social media spring cleaning. Hope it helps you.

Get Rid of the Feeds You are Never Reading -We all have feeds in our readers that we hold on to and never read. The blogs are not going todisappearso if you want to...

Happy Birthday Shot@Life

I’m a proud UN Foundation Social Good Fellow so I’m very happy to wish a happy birthday to Shot@Life.

For their first birthday, they asked some of their supporters to profile some of their active Shot@Life Champions and I have the pleasure of introducing you toPriya Desai. She is the young lady on the left hand side of the photo.

1. Tell me about yourself. What do you do on a daily basis?

My name is Priya Desai and I am 26 years old. I have my bachelor’s and my master’s degree in social work wit...

Ghana – A Look Back ONE Year Later

A year ago today I stepped off a plane in Accra, Ghana to spend five days in a country I knew very little about, but that would change my life forever.

The ONE Campaign invited me to witness the country-wide rollout of two important vaccines that would change the lives of the children of the country.

You can read my travel journal or view my photos from the trip.

One thing, that no one has seen until now is the video I shot while on the trip.

A few weeks before we left I purchased a Canon EOS 5D...

It Was a Rough Week

As I tucked Dylan into bed last night I could tell he wasn’t in the mood to go to sleep yet. After a week of vacation, I knew he needed it and would pass out immediately but he was stalling.

“So how was your week?”

I paused for a moment and responded, “Absolutely horrible buddy.”

This wasn’t quite the answer he was expecting and with a glaze of confusion on his eyes he asked, “Why? What did you do?”

“Nothing. Nothing at all and that is the problem,” I began.”I spent every hour of this past week e...

Making Sure to Remain #BostonStrong

Instead of writing today, I decided to power up the microphone and hit record.

I’m doing my best to remain #BostonStrong and I encourage everyone to do the same today.

Make it a great one.

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A Minute of Peace

With all the horrible things that have happened here in Boston and around the world this week, I thought we could all use a minute of peace.

Filmed on Tuesday in the White Mountains of NewHampshire.

I hope you enjoy.

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A Day Away From It All

School vacation week means that I rarely travel and I keep my calendar light so that if the family and I want to do something we can.

Clarence and I had planned on taking Tuesday to go out and shoot photos. We didn’t know what, where or why but we hadn’t taken a day like that in a long time so we locked it in.

Then the attack on the Boston Marathon happened. We pondered going into the city, but as we sat at the counter of a local diner eating our bacon and making plans, he mentioned getting as...

Gut Reactions to a Horrible Day

How do we react at a time like this? When once again we are reminded that no day should be taken for granted and that bad things happen in every corner of the world.

The news is still breaking, details emerging, numbers rising.

I’m only writing because I can’t stand to watch another second of the news and the endless loops of the same videos. I can’t stand to hit refresh on my Twitter account. To see people already pointing fingers, making gross assumptions and don’t even get me going on the st...

Treehouse Wants to Teach the World

My past two days were spent at the offices and in the studios of Treehouse.

Yesterday, they announced a new round of $7 million in funding.

Sure, the timing was pure coincidence, but the teaching by Team Treehouse and their approach to business left me truly inspired.

The official mission of Treehouse is:

“to bring affordable Technology education to people everywhere, in order to help them achieve their dreams and change the world.”

It is a lofty mission, but one that if you know me at all, you’ll...