2011 Year in Review

We had a great year this year.

The kids had a lot of fun, with tumbling, dance and school.

Mom and Dad had fun too with a trip to Jurassic Park (well, close enough).

Book Thomas Read:

• The Science of Advertising
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
• Purple Cow by Seth Godin
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
• Poke the Box by Seth Godin
• The Alchemist
• Tell to Win
• The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice
• Blue Ocean Strategy (reread)
• All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin
• Free Prize Inside
• Verse by Verse The Four Gospels by D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner
• We are All Weird by Seth Godin
• Read this before your next Meeting
• The Book of Mormon

Media we Enjoyed:

• Jurassic Park (because we flew there…sort of)
• Food, Inc.
• Waking Sleeping Beauty (Documentary about the Disney Animation Renaissance)
• The Coat: A Story of Charity
• Wise Men Still Seek Him
• The Annoying Orange
• AngryBirds (all for the kids of course)

World Events:

• Widespread unrest in Arab and African nations overthrows governments in what is called the Arab Spring
• The war in Iraq finally comes to an end
• Osama bin Laden is killed
• Tsunami triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake devastates Japan and causes a meltdown situation at the Fukushima nuclear reactor
• Steve Jobs dies