The digital home of Dennis A. Smith
IT Entrepreneur
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Dennis & Debbie at Aggie Grey's Lagoon, Beach Resort & Spa
It's great to have you visit. I trust that you will nosey around and find some gems within the 100,000+ words here!
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I am a Samoan-based IT Entrepreneur, a Kiwi born and bred - a.k.a. a New Zealander - who relocated to post-Tsunami Samoa 2009, following a unique set of circumstances. You can read more about this at: IN SAMOA.
Samoa is a challenging country to live and work in:
- it takes a while to adjust to the tropics
- understanding Fa'a Samoa (the Samoan way of doing things) takes time and requires patience and cultural sensitivity
- cross-cultural issues abound, and Paradise can be 'not' for a Palagi off-the-beaten-track
Getting established here has been a roller coaster experience, but I am attempting to weave some Internet Marketing magic here!
The September 2009 Samoa Tsunami has decimated the small tourism industry in Samoa. We hope to make a difference with our ideas and activities.
Wherever you are, whoever you are, we welcome you to join us in Paradise, any time you want!
SWAP Samoa – help post-Tsunami Samoa
The SWAP Foundation is a Samoan registered charitable trust Debbie and I established to assist with post-Tsunami Tourism recovery.
We bring volunteers to Samoa to help with blogging, photography and Internet Marketing, providing food, accommodation and airport transfers for short-term real-life experiences.
Why not join us in Paradise and help make a real difference in the world?
Just slip on across to www.swapsamoa.com and we’ll see you there!
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Samoa Story
Currently in development, this website is a community developed resource, developed by SWAP Ambassadors and built on MediaWiki (the same platform as Wikipedia).
In time we hope that this portal website will become a major source of quality information for enquirers and visitors of and to Samoa. It will complement websites created and maintained by Government, Samoa Tourism Authority, and private enterprise.
Slip on over and tell me what you think: www.samoastory.com
Initiana Konese – NZ 2012
We are currently developing a Samoa-style, themed bus and (Lord willing) we will have it touring New Zealand in 2012. It will be a “powered by Social Media” marketing machine used to help sell Samoan products as well as used by NZ businesses to assist their own marketing.
Called the Initiana Konese Bus our character will be a cross between Tarzan, Corcodile Dundee and Indiana Jones.
Slip on across to: www.initiana.com to see more and learn how to get involved.