I spent most of today in the Google Ghana office, a small office on the 7th floor of a building. Most of the handful of Googlers working here are visiting from other offices while working on projects in the sub-Saharan African market. The entire team split into groups - 1 group had their session at Busy Internet while the 2nd group to meet their client - The Tourism Board. Since Camfed staff was away on a training program, I didn't have any meetings and hence spent the rest of the day in the office.
By afternoon the team returned and it was evident they were royally exhausted. They'd prepared really well for their meetings/trainings - but it didn't go as well as they'd planned. We had a quick de-brief on their afternoon experience @ busy internet and set corrective action items. The team who went to meet the Tourism Board went to the meeting with the AI of setting up a Youtube channel, Analytics account and get them started on AdWords. However, they faced several roadblocks in the process from internet going down to identifying malware of their website and so had to submit it for review before they could start an AdWords account. These sessions were a reality check for all that no everything will go according to plan and that expectations & plans may need to be changed mid-way.
Seth Marbin had arrived yesterday , so we went out for a team dinner which was also de-brief session for a quick rain check and get everybody's thoughts. It was interesting to listen to each others views on the program so far. Zanzi-bar is an awesome restaurant. The food was really amazing - I feasted on some sea food!
By afternoon the team returned and it was evident they were royally exhausted. They'd prepared really well for their meetings/trainings - but it didn't go as well as they'd planned. We had a quick de-brief on their afternoon experience @ busy internet and set corrective action items. The team who went to meet the Tourism Board went to the meeting with the AI of setting up a Youtube channel, Analytics account and get them started on AdWords. However, they faced several roadblocks in the process from internet going down to identifying malware of their website and so had to submit it for review before they could start an AdWords account. These sessions were a reality check for all that no everything will go according to plan and that expectations & plans may need to be changed mid-way.
Seth Marbin had arrived yesterday , so we went out for a team dinner which was also de-brief session for a quick rain check and get everybody's thoughts. It was interesting to listen to each others views on the program so far. Zanzi-bar is an awesome restaurant. The food was really amazing - I feasted on some sea food!
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