Vol 01 Issue 01 March 2013
TELCO TALK
Mobile Broadband Technologies
BIZ
Are you a freelancer or business owner?
LIVING EXAMPLES
Lauryn’s horrific accident & miraculous recovery
HUMAN CONNECTIONS
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Contents
March 2013 2. Upfront 3. A Healthier You
5. Living Examples
5. Living Examples
7. AppStroll 8. Strange but True
12. Mind Games 14. Telco Talk 16. The Walkabout 17. Connections
8. Strange But True 9. The Business 10. Greening Kenya
19. Thinking Aloud 19. Thinking Aloud
20. The View
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Editorial
Upfront Hello, and welcome to the first edition of Complitly Connect Magazine (CCM).
realize that his approach is exactly what informed the victims of the dot com crash that happened slightly over a decade ago. This disaster saw the demise of many, but NOT all, Internet businesses that were started then.
So what made some survive? The most enduring example of a We are dot com company that survived and excited to finally present this March continues to grow is Amazon. This 2013 issue which we hope, will set the is singularly because its founder and pace for all we have in store for you in CEO, Jeff Bezos, started Amazon. subsequent monthly editions. com and immediately decided to take the long-term route with it. A letter Back in 2006, an affluent businesshe wrote to Amazon shareholders in man, who was then a senior executive 1997 [PDF 85KB] attests to this. in a local media house, told me that By connecting with it’s impossible to successfully run a what matters, and harmagazine on the Internet. He went on to tell me how the Internet only nessing our individual works for those who are in highly strengths and insights, connected markets, such as Europe we can better ourselves and the United States. I keenly lisas well as positively tened to him... influence our peers. At the time, I had teamed up with a group of highly motivated, forward That in essence, is the approach CCM thinking young persons who wanted has decided to take. We are here for to make a difference. We had started the long term. We are more driven by publishing ‘BE Magazine’ online, passion than by profit, the same thing guided by the fact that if we began that informed the late Steve Jobs’s and continued to believe, we would vision upon his return to Apple in invariably become. 2004. BE Magazine, it turned out, was an idea that was well ahead of its time. CCM has had numerous false starts, since 2010. You see, we didn’t want The aforementioned businessman to just come up with a good online believed a return on investment on publication to beat deadlines and fulthe Internet had to happen fast, I fill promises to eager readers, partners guess because things on the web also and advertisers. We however deemed happen in real time. it more important to start with a Looking back on his advice, I sadly great, worthwhile product.
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It should be noted that our stated objective to carry original, useful, local and highly relevant content has in no way changed. We decided to delay launch until we had the right team. We also predicated our guiding principles on The Hedgehog Concept - an understanding of what we are passionate about, can be the best at and is economically viable. (The right team and Hedgehog Concept are fully explained in Jim Collins’s ‘Good to Great’ book). That said, Complitly Connect Magazine will offer reading that adds value for those among us who are young or young at heart and progressive. It is intended for those in institutions of higher learning, those on their first job, those who’ve recently started their own business or simply transitioned from formal employment into entrepreneurship. We strongly believe that we can, by connecting with what matters, and harnessing our individual strengths and insights, better ourselves as well as positively influence our peers. Our best days are ahead of us, that is why we have started here. Now. With time, unrelenting effort and your support, we shall eventually get to where we initially envisioned. Say hello to human connections that’ll without a doubt make us all better, together. It’s time to complitly connect with what matters to you. Cheers.
Health
A Healthier You
The very foundation of a life well lived is good health. Your lifestyle - what you eat, how active you are, your water intake among other routine practices hold the key to a healthier you, says health coach Kate Kibarah. For you to be efficient, productive and progressive, you need to be more than just alive. You need to be fit and strong. Being in great health is depends on your lifestyle. It is how you live that determines your diet, how physically active you are, how much water you drink, and other routine practices that have a direct effect on your wellbeing.
You can reduce your risk of developing some of these diseases by adopting a healthy lifestyle. All aspects of life, including work, travel, home, and leisure, carry risks and benefits to health. You need to balance these risks and benefits by lifestyle choices that enable you to enjoy your life while staying healthy. Sedentary lives have often been blamed for predisposing people to many con-communicable ailments, often referred to as “Lifestyle diseases.” Any practical lifestyle ways/changes of reducing the risk?
All aspects of life carry risks and Complitly Connect benefits to health, which you need to Magazine recently balance through lifestyle choices that caught up with Kate Kibarah, a health coach enable you to enjoy your life while staying healthy. who is a clinical nutritionist and a colon hydrotherapist.
To what extent does how we lead our lives determine how healthy we end up? The decisions we make everyday in relation to out health shape your health destiny. Health is in your hands and you determine your health destiny. Just like in the computer adage ‘garbage in garbage out’ the same applies to your health. Health is not the absence of disease as disease is a process. So if u build your health foundation with unhealthy lifestyles, poor eating habits, sedentary lifestyles you are at a higher risk of losing your health with time. Research has proven that such lifestyles lead to obesity linked to diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancers and so on.
Very simple, leading a healthy lifestyle and exercise. Get yourself into a workable regimen. Go to the gym, Walk more, don’t be a couch potato.
Without getting into laborious exercise regimes, how can one ensure that they live a physically active life? Be on the move, practical examples walk more, use the lift, play with your children, park your car the furthest if at the shopping mall, do house chores, every time the phone rings stand up when answering, don’t use the tv remove etc the list is endless. Anything that makes u but to sit. What effect on health do locally grown, non-processed foods have on health. What are the best examples you’d recommend? Our locally grown foods, non processed are of course very healthy and nutritious. Nutri dense as you find most processed foods have been depleted of the vital vitamins and minerals and or added chemicals and preservatives that
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The View
Our country has amazing views. Kenya: A Rediscovery of Wonder is our exciting series of panoramic shots to showcaseKenya;s breath-taking views. If20 you|have an original photo you’d like us to publish, simply send it to us and help us share the beauty of our beloved country. March 2013