WanderingSalsero

Twitter Discussion on Dave Letterman

Do you Twitter?

I really don't but I do have a Twitter account.  I couldn't even tell you for sure what my 'handle' is.  I suppose it would be 'wanderingsalsero'.  I might be curious enough to delve more into it if I was back in the US but, far as I know, being on the Korean phone system over here sort prevents me from effectively interacting with Twitter.  Thus.......I don't.

But I read a lot about it and just last week I even read something about some IM guy (that's "internet marketing" to you who don't know) whos' figured out a way to make money from it.

Anyway.......here's a funny video of Dave Letterman discussing Twitter with Keven Spacey.

Very interesting info via my Kizombiera friend, Ana

Iris De Brito

wroteon February 15, 2009 at 1:42pm

Dance evolves, so it will naturally fuse with the world currents, migration, society and artistic fluidity. Probably, one of the few dances that has maintained it's basic chore the most is Ballet. But we’ll get back to that.

Click through to continue this excellent article.   The point of it that struck a chord with me was that dance form musical interpretations of it evolve.  And it's to be expected and OK.  I've been saying that for years.

This writer, Iris De Brito......I have no idea who she is.  But it's pretty obvious she knows her stuff on this subject.

Thanks to Ana....one of our kizomba experts over on www.kizombadancer.com .

Once again......the "V" Hour......right now.

Once again, it's the WanderingSalsero Vereconference Hour.  I'm here in my command post at International WanderingSalsero Headquarters and I'm logged into my space age communication tool.....Vereconference.

I'd very much like to chat with anybody from the US or Europe.  Just log into:

http://atw4.vereconference.org

Use any name as an ID and the word "guest" as the password.

The Salsa Club Surfing Network?

I'm still thinking about the idea of social networks. 

You know, the concept of a 'social network' might be something that could be either bigger or more specialized than we maybe think of in relationship to the present, well known networks like Facebook, MySpace, etc.

In the case of the salsa community (or the bachata community), I'm wondering if there could be something comparable to the CouchSurfing network. 

What's new with your buddy.......(that would be me :-)

I'm paying more attention to my Facebook account lately.  In the past I've gotten invitations and, mostly because I wasn't that familiar with the interface, I've pretty much ignored them.  I'm paying more attention to it now.

Thanks to Simona (www.rumbanana.org) up there in lovely Corvalis, OR and also to the www.streetsalsa.com diva, Sandra for keeping me on their list.  And Sofia Jasso too.

Also........I've started another blog on another platform.  I'll not reveal the name of it yet as I still need to buy the domain name but.....this particular blogging platform is probably not one you're familiar with.  But I toyed with it in the past back when I wasn't quiet as competant at this stuff as I am now.  It's gotten a lot prettier, more versitile and a lot more powerful since then and I'm curious to see if it'll give me the flexibility I've not quiet had with Typepad.

Also.......I'm not sure I'll do it but I was thinking today about the idea of a website that would allow any of you who think you've got some teaching skills to upload any teaching videos you wanted to it.  It might be sorta like a YouTube but strictly for salsa, cha-cha, bachata and maybe kizomba and zouk-love....just for dancers.  There might even be a way to monetize it too.

Does that idea sound interesting to anybody?

And......I'm not sure what'll come of it but "Suki" is over here now.  You might remember I mentioned her before.  She's one of the casino salsa gals that I met, online, in my early blogging days back in Houston.  A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then and she has recently come over here to teach English like I am.  Matter of fact, she's only about 30 minutes away....just a tad closer to Seoul than I am.

So there's no telling what we might be able to put together in the way of activity to liven up the salsa scene around here.  I don't even know what she looks like but I've chatted online with her several times.

Other than that...things are fine.  I've been attending Bachata Night regularly at Bahia Salsa Club in the Hongdae area of Seoul.  I'm telling ya......you guys wouldn't believe the salsa scene over here in  Seoul.  Imagine having not 3, not 4, not 5 , not 7, 8, or 9...but over 10 excellent salsa clubs to go to!! 

Seoul's really got it happening as far as salsa.  I'm really amazed that more of you salsa 'stars' don't come over here to tour.  Spring is coming up real quick and that would be a great time to come over if you could.

And the situation is still great for anybody wanting to come over here to work.  The demand is still huge.  You can get more info on that opportunity here.

If you do think you could make it over to here on a dancing tour, I've got a friend at the only American-Korean dance studio in Seoul (the same place Jorge Elizando did his workshop when he was here) who very probably would sponsor a workshop for you.  Jorge had upwards of 28+ people at his when he was here.

I can tell you that Korea would not be a market you'd come into and conquor overnight.  Koreans are kinda....I don't know the correct words.....they have a unique way of just ignoring you sometimes regardless of your objective merits. 

That is....until they really get to know you or until you've actually been introduced by someone they know and respect.  They're real big on 'community'.  That's the Oriental way too, I guess.....actually.

But I can guarantee you that if you've got something to offer.....like for example Troy and Jorjet or Claudia Vasquez or Salsa Eddy or the Rumbanana people......I think they could do well getting established here if they gave it some time (and of course....if they had some real products to sell it would help too :-)

Happy Birthday Michael Whitmire

If any of you who don't live in Houston ever need any legal help in Houston, Texas, I'd recommend Michael Whitmire. 

In addition to being an attorney for several years, Michael is also one of the nicer regulars in the Houston salsa scene.  Over the last few years Michael has been doing some teaching to.  He has a unique style to be sure but that's because he's not limited his interests to the narrow focus of straight L.A. style 'on1'.

This week Michael is having a birthday party at one of Houston's few surviving 'old school' salsa joints, Club Tropicana.  If you're anywhere near Houston and you haven't made plans to go by there....I'd recommend you consider it. 

Here's the info:

Your next couchsurfing 'world tour'

You've heard of a 'working holiday', right?  And you remember just yesterday I introduced you to my friends, kindred spirits and honorary 'wandering salseros' Winton and Debi of www.barefootconsultants.com.....right?

Well, do you perhaps remember a couple of years ago I wrote about 'couch surfing'?

Couch surfing is the fine art of travelling and availing yourself of an informal network of individuals who will allow you to sleep on their couch while you're in their town.  Somebody in Sioux Falls could take a trip to Guatemala and sleep on the couch of somebody there who they met through a couch surfing network.  Basically it's just a bunch of cool guys and gals who like to help each other out by facilitating each other's 'wunderlust'.....(I think it's a German word).

I first read about couch surfing a few years ago and I did post about it back then.  Matter of fact that post might even have been back on my original WanderingSalsero platform on blogger (which you can still see at http://wanderingsalsero.blogspot.com).

As far as I know, the original and perhaps largest couch surfing network is http://www.couchsurfer.com .  I actually joined it myself and came close to using it the time I flew up to Tulsa (from Houston) to take my weekend accreditation course from iTeflonline.com .  I need someplace to stay the Friday and Saturday night I was going to be in Tulsa but as luck would have it, the person on the couchsurfer network that I contacted in Tulsa didn't get my email in time plus there was some terribly cold weather in Tulsa witch thoroughly messed things up....so I stayed in a hotel.

What got my attention about the couch surfing networks though were the stories about people 'hitting the road' and staying on the road for weeks, months and even years at a time.  Lots of people even go aboad and manage to find jobs in these other countries they pass through.

which brings me to the point of this post (finally :-)

Wouldn't it be cool to have a talent, like Winton and Debi talk about at www.barefootconsultants.com , buy a Ural sidecar motorcycle, and hit the road? 

With some planning, perhaps using resources like Craigs List (which apparently does not have a apostrophe in it!!??) and/or some of the linking resources like Winton and Debi teach in their course, I'll be you could line up work in lots of different places.  In fact I'll bet such a road trip could develop into an all expense paid multinational business promotion tour of you and some of your skills. 

If you had an online base of business, AKA: virtual office, of some sort you'd be like Johnny Appleseed.........travelling around the country planting little seeds of revenue wherever you went. 

How cool is that?

Winton and Debi at www.barefootconsultants.com teach you how to do that.  And more.  Also, if you Google their name you'll find that their business is starting to generate a lot of buzz on the internet.

FYI re: Grouply.com

Sometimes I sign up for stuff that looks cool but then encounter something, in the registration confirmation process or the profiling process or the 'user' process, that baffles me.  In that case I usually just blow it off.

www.grouply.com is something I signed up for a few months ago and frankly haven't used hardly at all.  I don't know exactly why unless it's simply the fact that I'm really not active in any groups.

Tonight I got in invitation to approve a 'friend' in the Philippines.   A few months ago I was surfing some Yahoo Groups relating to living there and somehow a few of the people in the list found out that I was a Grouple member and requested to be on my list.

Point is.......in going through and reviewing some dormant friend requests tonight I discovered that Grouply does seem to have a friendly user interface.  So if you're active in any Yahoo Groups (I don't recall if it works for Google Groups...I think it does), I think you might like www.grouply.com.

The idea behind Grouply is to streamline your 'group' activity with one site that aggregates all your group activity.  If you need it......you know it. 

Thought you might like to know.

"Healthy Sofi" has good taste in cats

Notice the cute young lady, "HealthySofi" on my bloglog?  She has a cute cat, doesn't she?  I like cats too.

P.S.  I'm really liking the 'world' channel on AOL radio.  Most US types have no idea what cool music comes from foreign countries.  Especially the Middle East, North Africa, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

P.S.P.S.  I'm adding a new category of posts........."iFriends".  We'll see what I can do with it.