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<p>All this, he says, is just the beginning of a long and slow journey. But in this forgotten corner of the world, it's what passes for hope.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with social media Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, Avapro over the counter, "should we be doing [...]]]></description>
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There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media">social media</a> <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, <b>Avapro over the counter</b>, "should we be doing that?" And so the lukewarm potato gets handed downward until a consultant like me gets a phone call.</p>
<p>But despite the mounting curiosity, there's still not much action on the part of mid-size to large companies.</p>
<p><strong>Waiting and seeing</strong><br />
I can see why some folks are taking a wait-and-see approach to social media, <b>buy generic Avapro</b>. If you wait, other folks <em>will</em> figure out some things for you. One or two leaders in your industry will make a big move and you'll be able to see whether they fail or succeed, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy no prescription Avapro online</b>, And eventually, some kind of broad consensus will emerge regarding how companies should engage with the user-generated Web.</p>
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<p><strong>An emerging consensus<br />
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<p><strong>Yeah, but what's my ROI, <b>where can i find Avapro online</b>.<br />
</strong>With some companies spending money is not the issue, but <em>justifying</em> the spend is. Consequently, I hear a lot about ROI: "What's the ROI of blogging?" "What's the ROI of being on Twitter?" And quite honestly, that's a tough one, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy cheap Avapro no rx</b>, For instance, I can't tell you if this blog has literally resulted in revenue for my business. But I do know that in some cases, we couldn't have won the job without it, <b>buy cheapest Avapro</b>. The blog was one of seveal critical pieces that contributed to the sale.</p>
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<p><strong>Give ROI a vacation</strong><br />
Ultimately, it's not for me or any other consultant to predict what ROI you should expect. The whole question of ROI is an evolving conversation that I believe needs to be left as a big question mark â€“ <em>for now</em>, <b>order Avapro no prescription</b>. And given how cheap it is to do social media, why put so much pressure on it to earn its keep.  <b>Avapro samples</b>, Your company's potted plant budget is probably ten times more than what you'll spend on social media...and what's the ROI on that.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, The danger is that if you approach this medium with an immediate need for gain, or to monetize it somehow, you might not have the sensitivity to see how online communities are driven not by taking so much as giving. Yes, it's a very hippie sentiment, but guess who's running Web 2.0, <b>buy Avapro in canada</b>. Grown up hippies and their philosophical offspring. The point is that in order to thrive in any medium, <b>Online buying Avapro</b>, you need to understand that medium's unique rules and mores. If you don't your marketing could come off as clumsy and self-serving and you won't be able to build a community around your product or service.</p>
<p><strong>One way forward</strong><br />
I know a number of marketing managers who are already familiar with social media and are eager to jump in, but they want to do so <em>thoughtfully</em>, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. They're looking for a framework that will lend some sense of professionalism and planfulness to their social media efforts. Fair enough, <b>buy Avapro without a prescription</b>.</p>
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<strong>Get help if you need it</strong><br />
Of course, you're not entirely on your own. Without spending a fortune, you could hire a social media consultant to shortcut your learning curve.  A consultant could help you clarify your company's social media persona and explore the many ways that could translate into actions, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. Or simply help you narrow the field and point you to some sites or networks that your company should consider first.</p>
<p>But ultimately, you have to take a first step, which might be as simple as bringing up the topic with your boss. Perhaps you need to lay out the alternatives:<br />
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	<li>You can wait until everyone else does it and be forced to jump in with little forethought. Because the landscape will be more defined and some of your competitors may have already set a high barrier to entry, you may not have the luxury of picking your battles. When we do achieve this "critical mass" I believe it's going to be a mad rush. To paraphrase wine and marketing celeb <a href="http://www.garyvaynerchuck.com">Gary Vaynerchuck</a>: You think social media is big now. Just wait until Oprah gets on Twitter!</li><br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

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<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

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<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

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<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

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<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

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<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

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		<description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with social media Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, Avapro over the counter, "should we be doing [...]]]></description>
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<p>But despite the mounting curiosity, there's still not much action on the part of mid-size to large companies.</p>
<p><strong>Waiting and seeing</strong><br />
I can see why some folks are taking a wait-and-see approach to social media, <b>buy generic Avapro</b>. If you wait, other folks <em>will</em> figure out some things for you. One or two leaders in your industry will make a big move and you'll be able to see whether they fail or succeed, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy no prescription Avapro online</b>, And eventually, some kind of broad consensus will emerge regarding how companies should engage with the user-generated Web.</p>
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<p><strong>An emerging consensus<br />
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<p><strong>Yeah, but what's my ROI, <b>where can i find Avapro online</b>.<br />
</strong>With some companies spending money is not the issue, but <em>justifying</em> the spend is. Consequently, I hear a lot about ROI: "What's the ROI of blogging?" "What's the ROI of being on Twitter?" And quite honestly, that's a tough one, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy cheap Avapro no rx</b>, For instance, I can't tell you if this blog has literally resulted in revenue for my business. But I do know that in some cases, we couldn't have won the job without it, <b>buy cheapest Avapro</b>. The blog was one of seveal critical pieces that contributed to the sale.</p>
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<p><strong>Give ROI a vacation</strong><br />
Ultimately, it's not for me or any other consultant to predict what ROI you should expect. The whole question of ROI is an evolving conversation that I believe needs to be left as a big question mark â€“ <em>for now</em>, <b>order Avapro no prescription</b>. And given how cheap it is to do social media, why put so much pressure on it to earn its keep.  <b>Avapro samples</b>, Your company's potted plant budget is probably ten times more than what you'll spend on social media...and what's the ROI on that.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, The danger is that if you approach this medium with an immediate need for gain, or to monetize it somehow, you might not have the sensitivity to see how online communities are driven not by taking so much as giving. Yes, it's a very hippie sentiment, but guess who's running Web 2.0, <b>buy Avapro in canada</b>. Grown up hippies and their philosophical offspring. The point is that in order to thrive in any medium, <b>Online buying Avapro</b>, you need to understand that medium's unique rules and mores. If you don't your marketing could come off as clumsy and self-serving and you won't be able to build a community around your product or service.</p>
<p><strong>One way forward</strong><br />
I know a number of marketing managers who are already familiar with social media and are eager to jump in, but they want to do so <em>thoughtfully</em>, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. They're looking for a framework that will lend some sense of professionalism and planfulness to their social media efforts. Fair enough, <b>buy Avapro without a prescription</b>.</p>
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<strong>Get help if you need it</strong><br />
Of course, you're not entirely on your own. Without spending a fortune, you could hire a social media consultant to shortcut your learning curve.  A consultant could help you clarify your company's social media persona and explore the many ways that could translate into actions, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. Or simply help you narrow the field and point you to some sites or networks that your company should consider first.</p>
<p>But ultimately, you have to take a first step, which might be as simple as bringing up the topic with your boss. Perhaps you need to lay out the alternatives:<br />
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	<li>You can wait until everyone else does it and be forced to jump in with little forethought. Because the landscape will be more defined and some of your competitors may have already set a high barrier to entry, you may not have the luxury of picking your battles. When we do achieve this "critical mass" I believe it's going to be a mad rush. To paraphrase wine and marketing celeb <a href="http://www.garyvaynerchuck.com">Gary Vaynerchuck</a>: You think social media is big now. Just wait until Oprah gets on Twitter!</li><br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

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<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

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<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

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<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

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<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

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<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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<p>All this, he says, is just the beginning of a long and slow journey. But in this forgotten corner of the world, it's what passes for hope.</p>
<p><em>If you enjoyed this story, please consider making a small donation to <a href="http://www.fundacioncomunidad.org" target="_blank">Comunidad</a>.</em>.</p>
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<p>But despite the mounting curiosity, there's still not much action on the part of mid-size to large companies.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501286/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2757501286_a18a837949_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2749493495/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2749493495_5328ed8b45_b.jpg" width=500 /></a>
<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

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<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

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<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

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<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The human junglew</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

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<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2749493495/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2749493495_5328ed8b45_b.jpg" width=500 /></a>
<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502556/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2757502556_72bd8ed6ff_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501658/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2757501658_1b0330539d_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502182/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2757502182_e92e1fe83b_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with social media Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, Avapro over the counter, "should we be doing [...]]]></description>
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There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media">social media</a> <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, <b>Avapro over the counter</b>, "should we be doing that?" And so the lukewarm potato gets handed downward until a consultant like me gets a phone call.</p>
<p>But despite the mounting curiosity, there's still not much action on the part of mid-size to large companies.</p>
<p><strong>Waiting and seeing</strong><br />
I can see why some folks are taking a wait-and-see approach to social media, <b>buy generic Avapro</b>. If you wait, other folks <em>will</em> figure out some things for you. One or two leaders in your industry will make a big move and you'll be able to see whether they fail or succeed, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy no prescription Avapro online</b>, And eventually, some kind of broad consensus will emerge regarding how companies should engage with the user-generated Web.</p>
<p>I believe a consensus already is coalescing, but it exists mostly among brand-me and small-business owners, <b>purchase Avapro online</b>, technology  gurus, forward-thinking marketers and their followers â€“ some of the same people who advised us that businesses should embrace the Web way back in the mid 90s.  <b>Order Avapro</b>, And boy were they right, even if we had a bubble and a hiccup along the way.</p>
<p><strong>An emerging consensus<br />
</strong>The emerging consensus on social media simply says that <strong>now is the time to jump in</strong>.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, Now is the time to play, to experiment, to make your mistakes and start to form your own professional opinions about which domains (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog">blogging</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblog">microblogging</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast">podcasting</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikis">wikis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service">social-networking</a>, etc.) are the most productive and instructive for your company. All while it costs you next to nothing, <b>rx free Avapro</b>. Think of it as a free or cheap form of education, since very few of these mediums require a huge investment.  <b>Avapro for sale</b>, In the same way that nobody questions the need for a company to have its own Web site anymore, I believe in a couple years we'll be at the point where nobody will question the need for companies to be engaged, in some form, in the millions of conversations taking place every minute on the social Web, <b>purchase Avapro online no prescription</b>. Not just because a growing number of customers will expect it, but because it could come to represent one of the lowest-cost means of connecting with people who are predisposed toward your products and services.</p>
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</strong>What might you expect to spend getting your feet wet in social media, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Order Avapro online c.o.d</b>, The good news is that participation is free. It doesn't cost you a thing to set up a blog (start with <a href="https://www.blogger.com/start">Blogger</a>), a <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> account, a <a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://www.myspace.com">MySpace</a> account or a <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> account, <b>australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay</b>. If you're reluctant to put your company's name out on Facebook, just set up your own personal account first and see how it goes.  <b>Where can i buy cheapest Avapro online</b>, Oh, did I mention.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, Unlike some forms of marketing research, it's lots of fun.</p>
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If you want to get serious and be prepared for the media of the future, you just might have to borrow a little from the media of the past.</p>
<p><strong>Yeah, but what's my ROI, <b>where can i find Avapro online</b>.<br />
</strong>With some companies spending money is not the issue, but <em>justifying</em> the spend is. Consequently, I hear a lot about ROI: "What's the ROI of blogging?" "What's the ROI of being on Twitter?" And quite honestly, that's a tough one, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy cheap Avapro no rx</b>, For instance, I can't tell you if this blog has literally resulted in revenue for my business. But I do know that in some cases, we couldn't have won the job without it, <b>buy cheapest Avapro</b>. The blog was one of seveal critical pieces that contributed to the sale.</p>
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<p><strong>Give ROI a vacation</strong><br />
Ultimately, it's not for me or any other consultant to predict what ROI you should expect. The whole question of ROI is an evolving conversation that I believe needs to be left as a big question mark â€“ <em>for now</em>, <b>order Avapro no prescription</b>. And given how cheap it is to do social media, why put so much pressure on it to earn its keep.  <b>Avapro samples</b>, Your company's potted plant budget is probably ten times more than what you'll spend on social media...and what's the ROI on that.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, The danger is that if you approach this medium with an immediate need for gain, or to monetize it somehow, you might not have the sensitivity to see how online communities are driven not by taking so much as giving. Yes, it's a very hippie sentiment, but guess who's running Web 2.0, <b>buy Avapro in canada</b>. Grown up hippies and their philosophical offspring. The point is that in order to thrive in any medium, <b>Online buying Avapro</b>, you need to understand that medium's unique rules and mores. If you don't your marketing could come off as clumsy and self-serving and you won't be able to build a community around your product or service.</p>
<p><strong>One way forward</strong><br />
I know a number of marketing managers who are already familiar with social media and are eager to jump in, but they want to do so <em>thoughtfully</em>, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. They're looking for a framework that will lend some sense of professionalism and planfulness to their social media efforts. Fair enough, <b>buy Avapro without a prescription</b>.</p>
<p>If that's you, let me suggest that your initial success and longer term ROI on the social web will hinge on these three things:<br />
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	<li><strong>Trial and error</strong> â€“ Since there's no script or formula to guide you, it's reasonable to expect that some things you try might fail or succeed underwhelmingly. Maybe you'll build an application on Facebook that attracts just 50 installs.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, Don't fret. Tweak it and see what happens. With your social media persona as your guide, look for another way to act out your company's role oline. You're making omelets, so just commit up-front to breaking some eggs!</li><br />
</ol><br />
<strong>Get help if you need it</strong><br />
Of course, you're not entirely on your own. Without spending a fortune, you could hire a social media consultant to shortcut your learning curve.  A consultant could help you clarify your company's social media persona and explore the many ways that could translate into actions, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. Or simply help you narrow the field and point you to some sites or networks that your company should consider first.</p>
<p>But ultimately, you have to take a first step, which might be as simple as bringing up the topic with your boss. Perhaps you need to lay out the alternatives:<br />
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	<li>You can wait until everyone else does it and be forced to jump in with little forethought. Because the landscape will be more defined and some of your competitors may have already set a high barrier to entry, you may not have the luxury of picking your battles. When we do achieve this "critical mass" I believe it's going to be a mad rush. To paraphrase wine and marketing celeb <a href="http://www.garyvaynerchuck.com">Gary Vaynerchuck</a>: You think social media is big now. Just wait until Oprah gets on Twitter!</li><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501286/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2757501286_a18a837949_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2749493495/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2749493495_5328ed8b45_b.jpg" width=500 /></a>
<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502556/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2757502556_72bd8ed6ff_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501658/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2757501658_1b0330539d_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

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<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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<p>All this, he says, is just the beginning of a long and slow journey. But in this forgotten corner of the world, it's what passes for hope.</p>
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<p>All this, he says, is just the beginning of a long and slow journey. But in this forgotten corner of the world, it's what passes for hope.</p>
<p><em>If you enjoyed this story, please consider making a small donation to <a href="http://www.fundacioncomunidad.org" target="_blank">Comunidad</a>.</em>.</p>
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<p>But despite the mounting curiosity, there's still not much action on the part of mid-size to large companies.</p>
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		<title>The human junglew</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501286/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2757501286_a18a837949_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2749493495/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2749493495_5328ed8b45_b.jpg" width=500 /></a>
<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502556/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2757502556_72bd8ed6ff_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501658/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2757501658_1b0330539d_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

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<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with social media Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, Avapro over the counter, "should we be doing [...]]]></description>
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There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media">social media</a> <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, <b>Avapro over the counter</b>, "should we be doing that?" And so the lukewarm potato gets handed downward until a consultant like me gets a phone call.</p>
<p>But despite the mounting curiosity, there's still not much action on the part of mid-size to large companies.</p>
<p><strong>Waiting and seeing</strong><br />
I can see why some folks are taking a wait-and-see approach to social media, <b>buy generic Avapro</b>. If you wait, other folks <em>will</em> figure out some things for you. One or two leaders in your industry will make a big move and you'll be able to see whether they fail or succeed, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy no prescription Avapro online</b>, And eventually, some kind of broad consensus will emerge regarding how companies should engage with the user-generated Web.</p>
<p>I believe a consensus already is coalescing, but it exists mostly among brand-me and small-business owners, <b>purchase Avapro online</b>, technology  gurus, forward-thinking marketers and their followers â€“ some of the same people who advised us that businesses should embrace the Web way back in the mid 90s.  <b>Order Avapro</b>, And boy were they right, even if we had a bubble and a hiccup along the way.</p>
<p><strong>An emerging consensus<br />
</strong>The emerging consensus on social media simply says that <strong>now is the time to jump in</strong>.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, Now is the time to play, to experiment, to make your mistakes and start to form your own professional opinions about which domains (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog">blogging</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblog">microblogging</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast">podcasting</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikis">wikis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service">social-networking</a>, etc.) are the most productive and instructive for your company. All while it costs you next to nothing, <b>rx free Avapro</b>. Think of it as a free or cheap form of education, since very few of these mediums require a huge investment.  <b>Avapro for sale</b>, In the same way that nobody questions the need for a company to have its own Web site anymore, I believe in a couple years we'll be at the point where nobody will question the need for companies to be engaged, in some form, in the millions of conversations taking place every minute on the social Web, <b>purchase Avapro online no prescription</b>. Not just because a growing number of customers will expect it, but because it could come to represent one of the lowest-cost means of connecting with people who are predisposed toward your products and services.</p>
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<p><strong>Yeah, but what's my ROI, <b>where can i find Avapro online</b>.<br />
</strong>With some companies spending money is not the issue, but <em>justifying</em> the spend is. Consequently, I hear a lot about ROI: "What's the ROI of blogging?" "What's the ROI of being on Twitter?" And quite honestly, that's a tough one, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy cheap Avapro no rx</b>, For instance, I can't tell you if this blog has literally resulted in revenue for my business. But I do know that in some cases, we couldn't have won the job without it, <b>buy cheapest Avapro</b>. The blog was one of seveal critical pieces that contributed to the sale.</p>
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<p><strong>Give ROI a vacation</strong><br />
Ultimately, it's not for me or any other consultant to predict what ROI you should expect. The whole question of ROI is an evolving conversation that I believe needs to be left as a big question mark â€“ <em>for now</em>, <b>order Avapro no prescription</b>. And given how cheap it is to do social media, why put so much pressure on it to earn its keep.  <b>Avapro samples</b>, Your company's potted plant budget is probably ten times more than what you'll spend on social media...and what's the ROI on that.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, The danger is that if you approach this medium with an immediate need for gain, or to monetize it somehow, you might not have the sensitivity to see how online communities are driven not by taking so much as giving. Yes, it's a very hippie sentiment, but guess who's running Web 2.0, <b>buy Avapro in canada</b>. Grown up hippies and their philosophical offspring. The point is that in order to thrive in any medium, <b>Online buying Avapro</b>, you need to understand that medium's unique rules and mores. If you don't your marketing could come off as clumsy and self-serving and you won't be able to build a community around your product or service.</p>
<p><strong>One way forward</strong><br />
I know a number of marketing managers who are already familiar with social media and are eager to jump in, but they want to do so <em>thoughtfully</em>, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. They're looking for a framework that will lend some sense of professionalism and planfulness to their social media efforts. Fair enough, <b>buy Avapro without a prescription</b>.</p>
<p>If that's you, let me suggest that your initial success and longer term ROI on the social web will hinge on these three things:<br />
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<strong>Get help if you need it</strong><br />
Of course, you're not entirely on your own. Without spending a fortune, you could hire a social media consultant to shortcut your learning curve.  A consultant could help you clarify your company's social media persona and explore the many ways that could translate into actions, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. Or simply help you narrow the field and point you to some sites or networks that your company should consider first.</p>
<p>But ultimately, you have to take a first step, which might be as simple as bringing up the topic with your boss. Perhaps you need to lay out the alternatives:<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

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<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

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<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502556/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2757502556_72bd8ed6ff_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

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<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

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<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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<p>All this, he says, is just the beginning of a long and slow journey. But in this forgotten corner of the world, it's what passes for hope.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with social media Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, Avapro over the counter, "should we be doing [...]]]></description>
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<p>But despite the mounting curiosity, there's still not much action on the part of mid-size to large companies.</p>
<p><strong>Waiting and seeing</strong><br />
I can see why some folks are taking a wait-and-see approach to social media, <b>buy generic Avapro</b>. If you wait, other folks <em>will</em> figure out some things for you. One or two leaders in your industry will make a big move and you'll be able to see whether they fail or succeed, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy no prescription Avapro online</b>, And eventually, some kind of broad consensus will emerge regarding how companies should engage with the user-generated Web.</p>
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<p><strong>An emerging consensus<br />
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<p><strong>Yeah, but what's my ROI, <b>where can i find Avapro online</b>.<br />
</strong>With some companies spending money is not the issue, but <em>justifying</em> the spend is. Consequently, I hear a lot about ROI: "What's the ROI of blogging?" "What's the ROI of being on Twitter?" And quite honestly, that's a tough one, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy cheap Avapro no rx</b>, For instance, I can't tell you if this blog has literally resulted in revenue for my business. But I do know that in some cases, we couldn't have won the job without it, <b>buy cheapest Avapro</b>. The blog was one of seveal critical pieces that contributed to the sale.</p>
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<p><strong>Give ROI a vacation</strong><br />
Ultimately, it's not for me or any other consultant to predict what ROI you should expect. The whole question of ROI is an evolving conversation that I believe needs to be left as a big question mark â€“ <em>for now</em>, <b>order Avapro no prescription</b>. And given how cheap it is to do social media, why put so much pressure on it to earn its keep.  <b>Avapro samples</b>, Your company's potted plant budget is probably ten times more than what you'll spend on social media...and what's the ROI on that.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, The danger is that if you approach this medium with an immediate need for gain, or to monetize it somehow, you might not have the sensitivity to see how online communities are driven not by taking so much as giving. Yes, it's a very hippie sentiment, but guess who's running Web 2.0, <b>buy Avapro in canada</b>. Grown up hippies and their philosophical offspring. The point is that in order to thrive in any medium, <b>Online buying Avapro</b>, you need to understand that medium's unique rules and mores. If you don't your marketing could come off as clumsy and self-serving and you won't be able to build a community around your product or service.</p>
<p><strong>One way forward</strong><br />
I know a number of marketing managers who are already familiar with social media and are eager to jump in, but they want to do so <em>thoughtfully</em>, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. They're looking for a framework that will lend some sense of professionalism and planfulness to their social media efforts. Fair enough, <b>buy Avapro without a prescription</b>.</p>
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<strong>Get help if you need it</strong><br />
Of course, you're not entirely on your own. Without spending a fortune, you could hire a social media consultant to shortcut your learning curve.  A consultant could help you clarify your company's social media persona and explore the many ways that could translate into actions, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. Or simply help you narrow the field and point you to some sites or networks that your company should consider first.</p>
<p>But ultimately, you have to take a first step, which might be as simple as bringing up the topic with your boss. Perhaps you need to lay out the alternatives:<br />
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	<li>You can wait until everyone else does it and be forced to jump in with little forethought. Because the landscape will be more defined and some of your competitors may have already set a high barrier to entry, you may not have the luxury of picking your battles. When we do achieve this "critical mass" I believe it's going to be a mad rush. To paraphrase wine and marketing celeb <a href="http://www.garyvaynerchuck.com">Gary Vaynerchuck</a>: You think social media is big now. Just wait until Oprah gets on Twitter!</li><br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

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<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

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<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

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<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

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<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

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<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501286/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2757501286_a18a837949_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2749493495/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2749493495_5328ed8b45_b.jpg" width=500 /></a>
<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502556/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2757502556_72bd8ed6ff_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501658/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2757501658_1b0330539d_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502182/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2757502182_e92e1fe83b_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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<p><strong>Yeah, but what's my ROI, <b>where can i find Avapro online</b>.<br />
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<p><strong>Give ROI a vacation</strong><br />
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I know a number of marketing managers who are already familiar with social media and are eager to jump in, but they want to do so <em>thoughtfully</em>, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. They're looking for a framework that will lend some sense of professionalism and planfulness to their social media efforts. Fair enough, <b>buy Avapro without a prescription</b>.</p>
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<strong>Get help if you need it</strong><br />
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<p>Perhaps they're on to something. Imagine what your meetings and sales pitches could be like if you truly felt grateful for the opportunity. How would you prepare for such meetings. How would people perceive you. And how might you grow personally from such postive, generous interactions.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with social media Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, Avapro over the counter, "should we be doing [...]]]></description>
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There's a fair amount of hand-wringing on the part of marketing execs over what to do with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media">social media</a> <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, (aka Web 2.0, Social Web). It's on the news and in the papers, so the CEO hears about it and asks the CMO, <b>Avapro over the counter</b>, "should we be doing that?" And so the lukewarm potato gets handed downward until a consultant like me gets a phone call.</p>
<p>But despite the mounting curiosity, there's still not much action on the part of mid-size to large companies.</p>
<p><strong>Waiting and seeing</strong><br />
I can see why some folks are taking a wait-and-see approach to social media, <b>buy generic Avapro</b>. If you wait, other folks <em>will</em> figure out some things for you. One or two leaders in your industry will make a big move and you'll be able to see whether they fail or succeed, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy no prescription Avapro online</b>, And eventually, some kind of broad consensus will emerge regarding how companies should engage with the user-generated Web.</p>
<p>I believe a consensus already is coalescing, but it exists mostly among brand-me and small-business owners, <b>purchase Avapro online</b>, technology  gurus, forward-thinking marketers and their followers â€“ some of the same people who advised us that businesses should embrace the Web way back in the mid 90s.  <b>Order Avapro</b>, And boy were they right, even if we had a bubble and a hiccup along the way.</p>
<p><strong>An emerging consensus<br />
</strong>The emerging consensus on social media simply says that <strong>now is the time to jump in</strong>.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, Now is the time to play, to experiment, to make your mistakes and start to form your own professional opinions about which domains (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog">blogging</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblog">microblogging</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast">podcasting</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikis">wikis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service">social-networking</a>, etc.) are the most productive and instructive for your company. All while it costs you next to nothing, <b>rx free Avapro</b>. Think of it as a free or cheap form of education, since very few of these mediums require a huge investment.  <b>Avapro for sale</b>, In the same way that nobody questions the need for a company to have its own Web site anymore, I believe in a couple years we'll be at the point where nobody will question the need for companies to be engaged, in some form, in the millions of conversations taking place every minute on the social Web, <b>purchase Avapro online no prescription</b>. Not just because a growing number of customers will expect it, but because it could come to represent one of the lowest-cost means of connecting with people who are predisposed toward your products and services.</p>
<p><strong>Price to play<br />
</strong>What might you expect to spend getting your feet wet in social media, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Order Avapro online c.o.d</b>, The good news is that participation is free. It doesn't cost you a thing to set up a blog (start with <a href="https://www.blogger.com/start">Blogger</a>), a <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> account, a <a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://www.myspace.com">MySpace</a> account or a <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> account, <b>australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay</b>. If you're reluctant to put your company's name out on Facebook, just set up your own personal account first and see how it goes.  <b>Where can i buy cheapest Avapro online</b>, Oh, did I mention.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, Unlike some forms of marketing research, it's lots of fun.</p>
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	<li>For the cost of producing and buying a print ad in a trade pub, you could hire a consultant to establish a passive presence on all the major social networks â€“ or, <b>buy Avapro online no prescription</b>, better yet, an active presence on a couple of select networks!</li><br />
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If you want to get serious and be prepared for the media of the future, you just might have to borrow a little from the media of the past.</p>
<p><strong>Yeah, but what's my ROI, <b>where can i find Avapro online</b>.<br />
</strong>With some companies spending money is not the issue, but <em>justifying</em> the spend is. Consequently, I hear a lot about ROI: "What's the ROI of blogging?" "What's the ROI of being on Twitter?" And quite honestly, that's a tough one, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.  <b>Buy cheap Avapro no rx</b>, For instance, I can't tell you if this blog has literally resulted in revenue for my business. But I do know that in some cases, we couldn't have won the job without it, <b>buy cheapest Avapro</b>. The blog was one of seveal critical pieces that contributed to the sale.</p>
<p>As you think about what kind of return you might expect from social media, <b>Avapro pharmacy</b>, keep in mind that the ROI could be entirely qualitative.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, Comcast maintains a Twitter account, <a href="http://twitter.com/comcastcares">@Comcastcares</a>, staffed by a real guy, Frank  Eliason, which they use to monitor conversations about Comcast and then to intervene when a disgruntled customer needs personal service. The ROI. Probably pretty lackluster from a pure financial point of view. But then again, <b>buy Avapro no prescription</b>, what is their reputation worth to them. And how is that reputation built, <b>Online buy Avapro without a prescription</b>, if not one conversation at a time. So, what is it worth to Comcast to have thousands of influential technology aficionados â€“ the same people you ask for help when your computer or high-speed Internet goes on the blink â€“ see that Comcast is staffed by real people who actually appear to care, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>.</p>
<p><strong>Give ROI a vacation</strong><br />
Ultimately, it's not for me or any other consultant to predict what ROI you should expect. The whole question of ROI is an evolving conversation that I believe needs to be left as a big question mark â€“ <em>for now</em>, <b>order Avapro no prescription</b>. And given how cheap it is to do social media, why put so much pressure on it to earn its keep.  <b>Avapro samples</b>, Your company's potted plant budget is probably ten times more than what you'll spend on social media...and what's the ROI on that.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, The danger is that if you approach this medium with an immediate need for gain, or to monetize it somehow, you might not have the sensitivity to see how online communities are driven not by taking so much as giving. Yes, it's a very hippie sentiment, but guess who's running Web 2.0, <b>buy Avapro in canada</b>. Grown up hippies and their philosophical offspring. The point is that in order to thrive in any medium, <b>Online buying Avapro</b>, you need to understand that medium's unique rules and mores. If you don't your marketing could come off as clumsy and self-serving and you won't be able to build a community around your product or service.</p>
<p><strong>One way forward</strong><br />
I know a number of marketing managers who are already familiar with social media and are eager to jump in, but they want to do so <em>thoughtfully</em>, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. They're looking for a framework that will lend some sense of professionalism and planfulness to their social media efforts. Fair enough, <b>buy Avapro without a prescription</b>.</p>
<p>If that's you, let me suggest that your initial success and longer term ROI on the social web will hinge on these three things:<br />
<ol><br />
	<li><strong>Your social media persona</strong> â€“ Do you have a clear understanding of <strong><em>who</em> your company is </strong>and what it stands for in word and deed.  <b>Avapro from canadian pharmacy</b>, Perhaps you've explored this territory in a recent branding effort.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, If so, dig up the dusty brand book and see what it tells you. Ultimately, you want to determine whether your company is a teacher, a helper, <b>order Avapro from mexican pharmacy</b>, a connector or a [insert a personality type here].</li><br />
	<li><strong>Your imagination and sense of play</strong> â€“ This is all fairly uncharted territory with very few precedents and formulas to latch onto. You might see that as a curse.  <b>Where can i order Avapro without prescription</b>, I see it as a blessing. It means that the playing field is fairly level. Are you a small bank, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. You have just as good odds of beating out the top banks to become a real player in social media. There are many right answers and many ways to capitalize on this sea change in online behavior, <b>where can i buy Avapro online</b>. But you've got to explore and find them.</li><br />
	<li><strong>Trial and error</strong> â€“ Since there's no script or formula to guide you, it's reasonable to expect that some things you try might fail or succeed underwhelmingly. Maybe you'll build an application on Facebook that attracts just 50 installs.  <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>, Don't fret. Tweak it and see what happens. With your social media persona as your guide, look for another way to act out your company's role oline. You're making omelets, so just commit up-front to breaking some eggs!</li><br />
</ol><br />
<strong>Get help if you need it</strong><br />
Of course, you're not entirely on your own. Without spending a fortune, you could hire a social media consultant to shortcut your learning curve.  A consultant could help you clarify your company's social media persona and explore the many ways that could translate into actions, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. Or simply help you narrow the field and point you to some sites or networks that your company should consider first.</p>
<p>But ultimately, you have to take a first step, which might be as simple as bringing up the topic with your boss. Perhaps you need to lay out the alternatives:<br />
<ul><br />
	<li>Your can  jump into social media now while there's still time to experiment, learn and lead.</li><br />
</ul><br />
OR<br />
<ul><br />
	<li>You can wait until everyone else does it and be forced to jump in with little forethought. Because the landscape will be more defined and some of your competitors may have already set a high barrier to entry, you may not have the luxury of picking your battles. When we do achieve this "critical mass" I believe it's going to be a mad rush. To paraphrase wine and marketing celeb <a href="http://www.garyvaynerchuck.com">Gary Vaynerchuck</a>: You think social media is big now. Just wait until Oprah gets on Twitter!</li><br />
</ul><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501286/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2757501286_a18a837949_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2749493495/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2749493495_5328ed8b45_b.jpg" width=500 /></a>
<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502556/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2757502556_72bd8ed6ff_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501658/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2757501658_1b0330539d_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502182/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2757502182_e92e1fe83b_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I never would have step foot in the Amazon rainforest were it not for a failed trip to the mountains two years ago with my daughter. We went to Cusco, with the hope of making it to Machu Picchu, but instead met up with a case of soroche, or altitude sickness. Except for the World Cup match between U.S. and Italy, for which we dragged ourselves down to the city's only English pub, we were pretty much confined to our beds. After three days and gallons of coca tea (which turns your urine brown, did you know that?), we gave up and high-tailed it back to sea level.

It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501286/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2757501286_a18a837949_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2749493495/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2749493495_5328ed8b45_b.jpg" width=500 /></a>
<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502556/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2757502556_72bd8ed6ff_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757501658/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2757501658_1b0330539d_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ptegonzalo/2757502182/in/photostream/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2757502182_e92e1fe83b_b.jpg" width=500></a>
<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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<p>But despite the mounting curiosity, there's still not much action on the part of mid-size to large companies.</p>
<p><strong>Waiting and seeing</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Give ROI a vacation</strong><br />
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I know a number of marketing managers who are already familiar with social media and are eager to jump in, but they want to do so <em>thoughtfully</em>, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. They're looking for a framework that will lend some sense of professionalism and planfulness to their social media efforts. Fair enough, <b>buy Avapro without a prescription</b>.</p>
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<strong>Get help if you need it</strong><br />
Of course, you're not entirely on your own. Without spending a fortune, you could hire a social media consultant to shortcut your learning curve.  A consultant could help you clarify your company's social media persona and explore the many ways that could translate into actions, <b>Buy Avapro Online Without Prescription</b>. Or simply help you narrow the field and point you to some sites or networks that your company should consider first.</p>
<p>But ultimately, you have to take a first step, which might be as simple as bringing up the topic with your boss. Perhaps you need to lay out the alternatives:<br />
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It was my cousin Rosa who suggested a trip to the Amazon as a way of salvaging our vacation. I was hesitant at first. For some reason, the jungle never appealed to me nearly as much as the mountains. With all the ancient ruins and adorable Quechua-speaking villagers, the mountains are a dream come true for the frustrated anthropologist and archaeologist in me.

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<em>Women of the Bora tribe, performing for tourists. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Yet, as I learned two years ago, and was reminded on our trip last week, the "story" of the Amazon jungle is very much a human story. As amazing and abundant the wildlife is, what fascinates me even more are the families that live along that Amazon, Napo and countless tributaries, eking out a living from the water and the forest.

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<em>Floating houses along a backwater of the Amazon. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

There are very few roads in the South American jungle. For instance, Iquitos, a city of 500,000, is not connected to the rest of Peru by pavement. If you want to visit or escape Iquitos, you have two choices: plane or boat. Since virtually nobody can afford to fly, boats are the preferred mode of transportation, whether the destination is Lima (a few hundred kilometers upriver to Pucallpa and then 20 hours by bus) or just to the next village.

So, in essence, the rivers <em>are </em>the highways of the jungle. And like any road, the rivers of the Amazon basin are busy with traffic, from large, double-decker steamships (well, they're not steam powered anymore, but have changed little in form since the days when they were!) to long, motorized canoes called peque-peque because of the sound they make as they sputter up and down the river. The humblest river craft is a dugout canoe, that even the poorest jungle dweller owns. It rides very low in the water. When laden with an entire family, it looks like it is on the verge of being swamped or capsizing. But knowing how to balance in a dugout canoe is an essential life skill that is second nature. As our guide explained, children in the jungle learn to canoe, swim and handle a machete at a very early age.

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<em>Boy playing in dugout canoe. Photo by Sarah Guagliardo</em>

At first glance, you might think that the banks of the Amazon are solid walls of forest. But as you near the shore, you discover that the river is lined with villages, towns and farmsteads of varying sizes. One dead giveaway: clumps of shiny, broad banana leaves. presence of banana plants, which usually indicate a current or recent homestead.

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<em>The day's catch: catfish and sugar cane. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

Along the river, people are can be seen nearly everywhere, fishing, washing clothes, cutting wood, tending animals or simply hanging around. In bigger towns, some people live in luxurious concrete homes. But that's an exception, as the annual flooding of the river will inundate any home that isn't on high ground. Thus, the vast majority of homes are fairly open structures made of wood and raised up on stilts.

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<em>Girl with sloth. Photo by Sarah Gillespie.</em>

As a parent, I can't help but to the notice the children. They are nearly all adorable, with beautiful, dark brown skin of many shades and with different looks that hint at differences in tribal origins. Unlike the mountains, where the primary indigenous language is Quechua and most people of native origin call the Incas their ancestors, the people of the jungle come from dozens, if not hundreds of different tribes, each with their own language and customs. Except for the fact that they share a common waterway, similar foods and a country called PerÃº, many jungle dwellers are foreigners to each other.

<strong>A note about the photos:</strong> Sarah Gillespie and Sarah Guagliardo are two American women that we met at Heliconia Amazon Lodge. They kindly consented to let me use their photos for this post. I would have wanted have used my own, except that when reviewing my photos I noticed that I didn't have a single usable photograph of people from the jungle. How odd, given the very premise of the post. But upon some reflection I realized that I am rather gun-shy with my camera and reluctant to thrust a camera in front of locals. Of course it's all in how you approach it. There are polite and appropriate ways to take pictures of strangers. It's something I'll have to work on next time!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Some things you don&#8217;t see every day</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ad campaigns starring strange men in shimmering tarpaulin suits. Manhole cover advertising. Grass advertising. Scholarly books at Starbucks. Urgent appeals against public urination. (The sign reads: "PLEASE Respect the house of God! Don't paint this wall. Don't post bills. Don't urinate on this street. Thank you.")]]></description>
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<em>Ad campaigns starring strange men in shimmering tarpaulin suits.</em></p>
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<em>Manhole cover advertising.</em></p>
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<em>Grass advertising.</em></p>
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<em>Scholarly books at Starbucks.</em></p>
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<em>Urgent appeals against public urination.</em> (The sign reads: "PLEASE Respect the house of God! Don't paint this wall. Don't post bills. Don't urinate on this street. Thank you.")</p>
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