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Crowdsourcing: Getting Attention is the Key to getting the message out | socialmedia.ne... - 0 views

  • inancial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • l, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on. Instead of an old style news editor sitting in their office deciding what hundreds of thousands of their readers are going to read about or what millions of viewers are going to watch on their televisions we now have random individuals coagulating around an idea and creating content simply because other people are willing to pay attention to it. Instead of the world being presented to us through the filters and 'judgment' of a relatively tiny amount of editors and their editorial teams we now have the world being shown to us by content creators who have managed, by whatever means, to bring attention to their work. Loading comments... Problems loading Disqus? Like Dislike Community Disqus Login options About Disqus Glad you liked it. Would you like to share? Facebook Twitter Share No thanks Sharing this page ... Thanks! Close Add New Comment Post as … Showing 0 comments Sort by Popular now Best rating Newest first Oldest first   Subscribe by email   Subscribe by RSS Trackback URL View the discussion thread. Social Media, Views 78 reads Follow socialmedia.net conten
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  • tributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on. Instead of an old style news editor sitting in their office deciding what hundreds of thousands of their readers are going to read about or what millions of viewers are going to watch on their televisions we now have random individuals coagulating around an idea and creating content simply because other people are willing to pay attention to it. Instead of the world being presented to us through the filters and 'judgment' of a relatively tiny amount of editors and their editorial teams we now have the world being shown to us by content creators who have managed, by whatever means, to bring attention to their work. Loading comments... Problems loading Disqus? Like Dislike Community Disqus Login options About Disqus Glad you liked it. Would you like to share? Facebook Twitter Share No thanks Sharing this page ... Thanks! Close Add New Comment Post as … Showing 0 comments Sort by Popular now Best rating Newest first Oldest first   Subscribe by email   Subscribe by RSS Trackback URL View the discussion thread. Social Media, Views 78 reads
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on. Instead of an old style news editor sitting in their office deciding what hundreds of thousands of their readers are going to read about or what millions of viewers are going to watch on their televisions we now have random individuals coagulating around an idea and creating content simply because other people are willing to pay attention to it. Instead of the world being presented to us through the filters and 'judgment' of a relatively tiny amount of editors and their editorial teams we now have the world being shown to us by content creators who have managed, by whatever means, to bring attention to their work. Loading comments... Problems loading Disqus? Like Dislike Community Disqus Login options About Disqus Glad you liked it. Would you like to share? Facebook Twitter Share No thanks Sharing this page ... Thanks! Close Add New Comment Post as … Showing 0 comments Sort by Popular now Best rating Newest first Oldest first   Subscribe by email   Subscribe by RSS Trackback URL View the discussion thread. Social Media, Views 78 reads Follow socialmedia.net
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • Instead of an old style news editor sitting in their office deciding what hundreds of thousands of their readers are going to read about or what millions of viewers are going to watch on their televisions we now have random individuals coagulating around an idea and creating content simply because other people are willing to pay attention to it. Instead of the world being presented to us through the filters and 'judgment' of a relatively tiny amount of editors and their editorial teams we now have the world being shown to us by content creators who have managed, by whatever means, to bring attention to their work. Loading comments... Problems loading Disqus? Like Dislike Community Disqus Login options About Disqus Glad you liked it. Would you like to share? Facebook Twitter Share No thanks Sharing this page ... Thanks! Close Add New Comment Post as … Showing 0 comments Sort by Popular now Best rating Newest first Oldest first   Subscribe by email   Subscribe by RSS Trackback URL View the discussion thread. Social Media, Views 78 reads Follow socialmedia.net http://socia
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • Instead of an old style news editor sitting in their office deciding what hundreds of thousands of their readers are going to read about or what millions of viewers are going to watch on their televisions we now have random individuals coagulating around an idea and creating content simply because other people are willing to pay attention to it. Instead of the world being presented to us through the filters and 'judgment' of a relatively tiny amount of editors and their editorial teams we now have the world being shown to us by content creators who have managed, by whatever means, to bring attention to their work. Loading comments... Problems loading Disqus? Like Dislike Community Disqus Login options About Disqus Glad you liked it. Would you like to share? Facebook Twitter Share No thanks Sharing this page ... Thanks! Close Add New Comment Post as … Showing 0 comments Sort by Popular now Best rating Newest first Oldest first   Subscribe by email   Subscribe by RSS Trackback URL View the discussion thread. Social Media, Views 78 reads Follow socialmedia.net http://socia
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
  • All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on.
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    "All this suggests a mechanism for ideas to bubble up through oceans of data and set the public agenda begins with contributors being rewarded by attention being given to their work, the subject of which could be shared beliefs of a political, financial or of any other nature. As more attention becomes centred on these ideas the more motivation the contributors have to create more product along the same lines and thus create more attention and so on. "
william doust

ChangeThis :: Learning to View Your Customers as a s connected - than Powerful Tribe - 0 views

  • As a business it’s tempting to think of a 'tribe' as a 'customer base.' That’s wrong. People aren’t part of a tribe simply because they buy a product or service. What qualifies them as a tribe are their connections. Tribes of customers are connected to an idea, each other, products, services, employees, etc.—creating a network of connections to the business as a whole."
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    "As a business it's tempting to think of a 'tribe' as a 'customer base.' That's wrong. People aren't part of a tribe simply because they buy a product or service. What qualifies them as a tribe are their connections. Tribes of customers are connected to an idea, each other, products, services, employees, etc.-creating a network of connections to the business as a whole."
william doust

ChangeThis :: Don't Script, Improvise! - 0 views

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      This article - I just discovered and supports the "open services" visual document I created for Bunny @ BAC - and which I shared with CLP's fab dynamic duo ;0) - it's all coming together my Charity Chums ;0)
    • william doust
       
      WOW! - synchronicity! - synergy!
  • "Businesses built to operate in the Networked World are as different from the Industrial Age models as a computer is from a multi-plane camera. Networked organizations are more biological than industrial. They resemble their employees more than their employees resemble them. They are highly adaptive, mobile, open, sensitive to their environment, and ultra-responsive. They continuously evolve, nurtured by a steady stream of intelligent input from inside and outside the organization. In a networked organization, where good ideas originate is not half as important as how–-and how frequently—those good ideas become reality. Good managers don’t try to control their brand’s narrative but, rather, to foster an environment in which it can be liberated, expanded and unleashed across networks. The emphasis is not on following a script, but on improvisation."
    • william doust
       
      dedicated to: Bunny, Chris & Eliz: my lovely Charity Chums ;0)
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    in a networked environment where good ideas come as much as from your connections as from your staff - improvisation will help & release stress & creativity! check out the free pdf article. Links nicely with Visual doc I shared.
Elizabeth Borg

Family Learning Festival - 34 views

I especially enjoyed the Mosaic Report - as research for our FLF funding application.....and it's also an inspiration to CLP of how using data etc can be soooo effective in making your case... will...

FLF family learning festival family learning funding

william doust

Free media just as valuable as paid-for | CharityComms - 0 views

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      free media and its value acknowledged...
  • Free media just as valuable as paid-for
  • Free media is as valuable as its paid-for equivalent
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  • The event, held at the British Museum, was hosted by the editor of thelondonpaper, Stefano Hatfield, who spoke of the value of free media, highlighting the prominence of brands such as Facebook and Google
william doust

Kenny Kellogg: Raising Money the Right Way - 0 views

  • it feels impersonal. I love hearing stories, it's what I respond to, and that is especially true when donating.
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      power of story when donating - just asking without sharing is cold! - not only according to this guy! - rapport building and setting backdrop needs to work way ahead of campaigns!
  • Lately though, I've been a little bummed out by the way people have been asking for donations. Folks have been using new tools like Facebook and Twitter and mass email to broadcast their fundraising needs.
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    Power of Stories, fundraising & rapport! Raisign money on the web: tell your story and build rapport way before you need people to reach into their pockets. Technology can as cold and as impersonal as you going up to somone shaking money tin! - who are you? what's your story - what stories can you show me to move me?
william doust

/Message: Twitter Supports 'Tracking' But Not #Hashtags? - 0 views

  • Today we're releasing a tiny feature to do just that, and we're calling it "tracking." If you've set up your phone or IM on Twitter, you can send a command like: track NYC When someone (anyone who updates in public) mentions "NYC," you'll get it on your device in real-time. From there you can send "whois username" to find out more about that person, or "follow username" to follow his or her updates. Don't want to receive anymore about NYC? Toggle it off with: untrack NYC You can create as many of these as you want, so send "track drinking tea", "track iphone", "track walking san francisco" and you'll receive matches for all. Want to get a list of what you're currently tracking? Send "track" alone (or "stats"). Turn them all off by sending "track off". We love this technology, and hope you do too. We're continuing to refine and play with it, so please send your feedback! What will you track?
    • william doust
       
      Productivity tip for twitter. I'm going to practice this and make a vid tutorial my charity chums ;0)
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    see description- about tracking keywords on twitter and finding them later.
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    How to track topics on twitter by keyword - bit like saving keyword searches in google Today we're releasing a tiny feature to do just that, and we're calling it "tracking." If you've set up your phone or IM on Twitter, you can send a command like: track NYC When someone (anyone who updates in public) mentions "NYC," you'll get it on your device in real-time. From there you can send "whois username" to find out more about that person, or "follow username" to follow his or her updates. Don't want to receive anymore about NYC? Toggle it off with: untrack NYC You can create as many of these as you want, so send "track drinking tea", "track iphone", "track walking san francisco" and you'll receive matches for all. Want to get a list of what you're currently tracking? Send "track" alone (or "stats"). Turn them all off by sending "track off". We love this technology, and hope you do too. We're continuing to refine and play with it, so please send your feedback! What will you track?
william doust

Raising the bar: Positive Futures' guide to accreditation - June 2005 | Home Office - T... - 0 views

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    Raising the bar: Positive Futures' guide to accreditation - June 2005 This guide offers a step by step guide to practitioners who are considering accreditation as part of their work with young people in non-formal educational settings. The approach is not just accreditation for accreditation sake but of ensuring that everything from 'planning' through to 'completion' is an opportunity for practitioners to engage with young people as well as enhancing young peoples' personal and social development. The guide clarifies what can be a confusing context and array of awards and directs you to sources of further information and assistance. Date: Mon Jun 27 10:57:41 BST 2005
william doust

30 Artistic and Creative Résumés | Webdesigner Depot - 0 views

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    wouldn't it be really funky to have "charity chards" done in as funky and as creative way as these lovely CVs?
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    wow! some of these are genius!
william doust

The Chronicle, 11/9/2006: Social Change and the Connected Age - 0 views

  • Social Change and the Connected Age
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      Social Media phenomenon harnessed for social change & charities... Please read this - as it has plenty of examples of the tide shifting to connected individuals who want active participation! - not passive purse and pocket trawling! - forward thinking charities are harnessing people's existing behavioursa and passions with social media.
  • Connectedness does not come from technology but is facilitated and strengthened by it. The greatest challenge for nonprofit organizations and their leaders in the connected age is recognizing that using social-media tools is easy compared with adopting a new mindset for social change. Today, nonprofit groups are part of a larger network or ecosystem of people, organizations, resources, and information. Relying on old-fashioned, top-down management approaches for setting activist agendas and designing fund-raising and volunteering efforts will lead inevitably to disappointing results. Power is shifting from institutions to individuals throughout society. We have seen what happens when people can barter and sell goods without a middleperson on eBay, and when we can watch what we want, when we want, through YouTube. The same sorts of shifts are happening quietly in the nonprofit world. Anyone can create and post a video of what they think their Congressional representatives do all day as part of the "Congress in :30 Secs" campaign organized by the Sunlight Foundation. Volunteers can document the connections between campaign contributions and legislation as part of the Genocide Intervention Network. Donors can pick a school and a specific project to support as part of the DonorsChoose Web site. Successful connected-age organizations are those that facilitate broadly representative networks of social activists — not necessarily organizations with the biggest membership lists or the most money in their coffers. These days, young people, in particular, are not likely to join behemoth membership organizations. Instead, they go online to express their views and instantly connect with individuals and communities interested in their issues and concerns. They also self-organize for social action as so many did in joining the immigration marches last spring.
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    INSPIRATIONAL - ABOUT THE SHIFT OF POWER TO THE NETWORK: not passive participants. It's like the "coming of the angels" CLP - from the real world to the virtual world. B-INSPIRED ;0) My lovely charity chums
william doust

Meals on Wheels Charity widget | ifood.tv - 0 views

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    a poor execution of a good idea: how you can get others to share info about you on the web. It is better as a widget. Will do tutorial about this!
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    a poor execution of a good idea: how you can get others to share info about you on the web. It is better as a widget. Will do tutorial about this!a poor execution of a good idea: how you can get others to share info about you on the web. It is better as a widget. Will do tutorial about this!
william doust

AFCPE | Journal Articles - 0 views

  • This article demonstrates that there are substantial costs to employers caused by the stresses associated with poor personal financial behaviors of employees. Approximately 15% of workers in the United States are currently experiencing stress from poor financial behaviors to the extent that it negatively impacts their productivity.
  • The Negative Impact of Employee Poor Personal Financial Behaviors on Employers
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      some UK figures are banded as higher!
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    The Negative Impact of Employee Poor Personal Financial Behaviors on Employers Author: E. Thomas Garman, Irene E. Leech and John E. Grable This article demonstrates that there are substantial costs to employers caused by the stresses associated with poor personal financial behaviors of employees. Approximately 15% of workers in the United States are currently experiencing stress from poor financial behaviors to the extent that it negatively impacts their productivity. The proportion of workers experiencing financial problems that negatively impact productivity for a single employer could range as high as 40 to 50% depending upon certain factors. The costs of reduced employee productivity because of poor personal financial behaviors are substantial. The full extent of the costs to employers is unknown. Key Words: absenteeism, employee assistance program, employee productivity, personal financial behavior, stress, substance abuse
william doust

Brand Building + Social Media = Zappos Example and Employee Advocacy - Fast.Fwd.Innov@tion - 0 views

  • Brand Building + Social Media = Zappos Example and Employee Advocacy
    • william doust
       
      Very inspiring change context - and see it with community building eyes - from the philanthropic sector ;-) enjoy
  • every year a culture book including testimonials of employees about how it is to work at Zappos.
  • Zappos tends more on spending money on employees than on media planning.
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  • We invest the time and money into hiring and nurturing the right people, as many other companies do in their media planning - Brian Karma, Zappos director of creative services and brand marketing
  • the strategy is just smart: empowering people so they keep on being accurate and engaged with their customers to provide them with the best-in-class customer care, making people comfortable with buying shoes online and spreading the word thanks to the customer support.
  • It’s one strategy that would work for any company,
  • not a company culture that many can afford to develop
  • you’ve got it in you DNA, whether you don’t: being able to implement the community management at all levels of a company, the 360 degrees process communities as Ross Mayfield explains, is more like an utopia for many companies that won’t be able to master the social media channel as Zappos do right now.
    • william doust
       
      This is sooo inspirational. Can we build charitable organisations with this view on a budget? - mmm. Anything is possible for those who persist ;-)
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    Check this out really inspirational - link etrategy to employees values in serving community. Well, this is what i read between the lines as I take the business concept into a community context ;-) It also links to the publishing element we've discussed time and time again. You'll love it ;-)
william doust

Free Online Radio - Internet Talk Radio | BlogTalkRadio - 0 views

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      fab example of blogtalkradio widget - embed: http://blog.ogilvypr.com/
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    This is a free fab tool to start your own internet radio slot. Fab tutorials - pre-recording and free training too. As well as ad-share! check it out for future. UPDATE: I have an example of an embedded "widget" - blogtalkradio - in a web page. Yellow sticky note, check it out!!!
william doust

video players for Xtine to check out ;-) - 6 views

Web Video Widgets... allows you to embed group of videos in webpage, blog or social networks (or all) Video Wall (from preselected).... http://www.blinkx.com/ Vodpod many video widgets (create vi...

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william doust

Internet: Social Value, Social Internet, Digital life-styles!!!! - 2 views

Reflections on seeding in socal design: building connections with communities, design and use in social technology projects http://www.slideshare.net/pennyhagen/reflections-on-seeding-in-socal-des...

social intelligence social media digital lifestyle

william doust

Work - Human Centered Design Toolkit - IDEO - 1 views

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    "Human Centered Design Toolkit Close For years, companies and other organizations have used Human-Centered Design to arrive at innovative business solutions. Funded by IDE as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and in collaboration with non-profit groups ICRW and Heifer International, IDEO relied on this approach to improve the lives of communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The resulting HCD Toolkit helps NGO staff and volunteers understand people's needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind. The free kit is divided into four sections that bolster listening skills, running workshops, and implementing ideas. The HCD Toolkit contains the elements to Human-Centered Design, a process used for decades to create new solutions for multi-national corporations. This process has created ideas such as the HeartStart defibrillator, Cleanwell natural antibacterial products, and the Blood Donor System for the Red Cross--innovations that have enhanced the lives of millions of people. This process has been specially-adapted for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and compiled into a Toolkit available for download here or for order at cost at www.blurb.com."
william doust

Classroom 2.0 - 0 views

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    "Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues. Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network. We especially hope that those who are "beginners" will find this a supportive comfortable place to start being part of the digital dialog. If you feel that you are a beginner and want some extra help, please click here to join the Beginner Group as soon as you've registered."
william doust

Logic+Emotion: Getting Passionate About Passion - 0 views

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    Another fab one here - getting passionate about passin - audio file embeded. Putting passion into work, employees, as employers, as customers. VG.
william doust

Let them write columns « Policy and Performance - 0 views

  • Let them write columns
  • The digitally illiterate Yes, there are people who don’t have access to the Internet and there are people who don’t know how to use it or use it effectively.   But I’d argue that these people won’t be increasingly disenfranchised because much of the real digital engagement is an as well as and not instead of .  However, there will be a real and widening gap between those who weren’t already connected in and those who have new channels of access via the Internet. Of course, as public servants we must find ways to help people get engaged and use new and existing paths to empowerment.   We will never reach full success, and we must never stop trying.  But whatever we do, we must not ignore tools because some people don’t have them yet.  And we definitely must not ignore those citizens who are already gathered online and ready and willing to engage, critique, join-in and collaborate on the services and issues that matter to them.
  • The digitally empowered Last night,  James Cousins, a councillor, was Tweeting from a Wandsworth council meeting.  That’s where I live.   I thought it was kinda cool to get a glimpse, 140 characters at a time, of what was being discussed about my local area.  It’s certainly more than I’ve ever had before.  I’ve never attended a local council meeting even though it’s a public meeting.
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    • william doust
       
      Eliz - what we discussed - remotely - highlighted.
    • Elizabeth Borg
       
      Yes, and we can use this in our 'cyber community' bid. And the point is, as the author says, we can help people to work towards being able to access and use the internet.
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    Digital literacy and white hall - local govt. Check it out towards the bottom. One sentence reminds me remotely of something discuss with Eliz.
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