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If you practice Teaming there is no need to put the symbol of the idea as big as I put here, but I love to see that a raising number of companies and other organisations put at their web “here we do Teaming” although very small as for example at the bottom of the portal of Creativat www.creativat.com I say this because yesterday I was interviewed from Argentina for the magazine Imagen and one of the questions was if I believe it is good or bad that companies (or even other teams like schools, sports clubs, etc.) are “using” Teaming as a PR tool. My answer was that it is extremely good both for the organisation and for Teaming. It’s positive when a company can show and communicate a kind of social and virtual Iso certificate as I sometimes call it. And it’s even better for Teaming because the only 2 things I always ask to everybody is doing and spreading Teaming because this way it keeps on growing!

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Yesterday I was at the sports club Europa where we have already worked on the first steps to develop a very nice Teaming case which for sure within a couple of months will be a model to follow for many other clubs and not only in Spain. I have this convincement because the succes of Teaming always has a lot to do with the energy a person invests in the idea. And in this respect it is incredible how the president of CE Europa Guillaume de Bode believes in Teaming and how he is moving his people to apply it soon. Guillaume presented me to various persons of his team and one of them was their ex captain and current director of their campus Xavier Lucas. It was very interesting talking to Xavier because he works with small children and he told me that he looks forward to doing Teaming with them because apart from generating funds for social projects they will choose there will be a great education value. By the way we are living in a very small world (or perhaps this is what it seems to me because Teaming is getting bigger every day?)  because Xavier told me that he already knew about Teaming through his wife Laura who I met 2 years ago in the company CAF Gestión where they already generated a lot of Teaming!

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I am about to leave and have a day full of meetings and presentations (amongst others at Football Club Europa to start a big Teaming with their members and players) and that’s why today I have only time for some quick words at the blog. Words of happiness I felt when this morning I read a mail from Lori Varlotta from the University of Sacramento, California who is developing Teaming with students and colleagues and planning an event in which together we launch this great example in the USA! To be continued…

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What an incredible woman! This is what I thought after talking to Maria Antonia from Almería. Her son Juanma has a degenerative disease called “Alexander” and she is doing absolutely everything to raise funds they need for the treatments that can save little Juanma. I talked to Maria Antonia because she is already receiving Teaming donations from the company Gaes and seeing the impact of the team micro donations logically she is very motivated to propose the idea to all the companies and groups (like schools, sports clubs, associations, etc.) she knows. It’s not the same asking to do Teaming rather than asking for an amount of money. María Antonia told me that she will even go a step further. This Summer she will travel with her family in a caravan through Spain to ask 1€ per person for Juanma because she has “the advantage” that a lot of media know her and support her. She is convinced that this way a very direct Teaming can be done for Juanma and personally I love to see how the idea is moving from one person to another. I recommend to visit their web to see how many incredible things Maria Antonia is doing for Juanma. What the love for a son can generate… www.ayudajuanma.es

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When last year I visited my friend Rob from London, my daughter África was only 3 months old. Rob is now living and working in Toronto and yesterday he wrote me to tell me that he saw a picture of África at the blog and he thinks it is incredible how Monica’s sister has grown in only 1 year! He also gave me some good news for Teaming which is growing even faster than small children do! First of all his company Quiksilver Translations is already applying Teaming and according to Rob it was really easy to do and there were only positive reactions from his colleagues and from the company that even offers to translate the web site free of charge into French and German! Aparte from this Rob is also spreading Teaming to his clients and friends and is convinced that soon he can send me more new Teaming cases from Canada. Fantastic! One more time I love to see the quantity of aid one single person is able to generate when moving Teaming. Many thanks Rob!

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The web site Teaming.info always has been and always will be a users guide to start the idea in any team. Nowadays this guide is used by more and more Teaming Managers in companies and other groups in different countries that are already helping many people without anybody’s effort. As the number of visitors has grown so much in the past few months there are quite some technical problems with the current web and apart from this I see that there is a need for more interactivity between people already applying Teaming and persons that just discovered the idea. That’s why Salem Samhoud of the company &Samhoud, that supports me financially and with their international structure, offered to build a complete new and more powerful web so that Teaming can grow much more. Great, many thanks Salem! In August I will be in Holland to work on the first steps and I would like to receive mails to jil@teaming.info from everybody who has suggestions and ideas for this new Teaming engine and space. Many thanks, Jil

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There are some technical problems with the web and the blog which will be solved soon. Thanks, Jil

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Today I was very happy to receive a mail from Lieke van Bussel from the townhall of Noordwijkerhout, Holland telling that she is already promoting Teaming with her colleagues. As for example Siscu de Souza who wrote me some weeks ago to tell that he proposed the idea to the mayor of Vilafranca, Spain after already having applied Teaming in his company Brose for the construction of a school in Quisqueya, Dominican Republic. Some years ago I would have thought that it could be difficult to start Teaming within townhalls for bureaucratic and even political reasons. But I finished with this doubt last year when during a radio interview at Radio Sabadell I was told that in the townhall of this city (to which this radio belongs) they are already applying Teaming without any problem. This is another confirmation that Teaming is a project of the people and not of the companies or other organisations that are only platforms to manage. That’s why Teaming doesn’t have limits, not even in townhalls! 

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Almost a year ago, 18 July 2007, I visited Rafa Carracosa from Doctors Without Borders Barcelona. I remember that we talked about Teaming being done often for concrete projects through small foundations where there is a personal contact with the Teaming Manager although there are also Teaming cases for the big ones in the third sector. For example Ignacio Pastor with his 25 colleagues and his company Eurochange in Alicante do Teaming and generate 50€ per month for Unicef. So as a foundation it always makes sense to propose the idea as another option to help. Yesterday I thought about this meeting with Rafa when I received a mail from Cesc Bordas, Marketing Director of PepsiCo Iberia, confirming that they are doing a big Teaming with many colleagues and that the company is matching the amount they are giving to Doctors Without Borders that sends them detailed reports about who they help with the Teaming donations. Great! Although people only pay a symbolic amount of 1€ per month logically they want to know exactly where these funds go to. But apart from this “control” I believe that the “emotion” factor is more important when the Teaming participants see for example a child with name and surname they have been able to save thanks to a mini effort by a team…

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If all the HR managers were like Carmen Jasanada Teaming would even grow much quicker than it already does right now! What she is doing can be compared with a full package or an all inclusive! I met Carmen some weeks ago in Barcelona after a presentation and immediately during the coffee break she asked me if I could come to Castellon in order to present the idea to her colleagues of the multinational Ferro where they already do many social actions and where Teaming will be another instrument to generate aid by a team without anybody’s effort. I answered yes ofcourse and thanks for the invitation! We already confirmed that by September the 22nd I will be in Castellon and sure that this will be another nice Teaming example that will automatically be spread to other persons in this region of Spain and (why not…) by the time perhaps even to her headquarters in the USA? And in the mean time Carmen also put Teaming at her personal web site where she talks about corporate tendencies and where she literally says “I love to share and learn”. Many thanks Carmen for doing the maximum for Teaming! www.carmenjasanada.com