Bitten by the fitness bug due to my ever growing paunch, woke up at 6:30 am for a lovely long jog around the apartment with the rest of the bunch. Most of the roads on this side of the city are like grids and it was not too difficult to find out way around.
Had breakfast, caught a glimpse of the royal wedding on TV and left for the conference. Today's agenda was to conduct another set of demo pods, attend the break out sessions to understand what Google's doing in the sub-saharan African market, and conduct a session for the Google campus ambassadors. Demo pods like yesterday was the highlight of the morning. I loved the curiosity and their quest to learn more about Google's products.
Post lunch the team sat down to plan our event with Google's ambassadors in Ghana Universities. The team being highly creative and diverse in expertise came up with a kickass plan in under an hour. The session went very well and for me this was the highlight of the day. These students were the brightest, most talented on their campuses and it was so evident. They were cravving to learn more about Google's products, technology, thinking of starting AdWords agencies etc.
We divided the group into 2 teams with each team spending time to brain storm on how to conduct events in their colleges to encourage students to use of Google's products, how they would create a buzz etc. It was wonderful to listen to their ideas, observe the way they thought which was so similar to the college students I've worked with in India. It's the same tricks like teasers and the swags that work - world over! The session ended with a Q&A which was predictably sprinkled with some very intelligent questions. one particularly interesting question was : 'What are the challenges we face as Googlers'... I'd never thought of that before..
Post the session, we all went to a really nice Jazz club called '+233' (which btw is the country code). Bacon cheeseburger with a really good Jazz music and a lovely ambience is a perfect dinner story. :)
And then...crashed happily.
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