Untitled. Skye Gellmann, right, with Kieran Law at rehearsals for Blindscape, which benefited from crowd funding. Picture: Aaron Francis Source: News Limited BRISBANE artist Jason Bray is happy to report he may never have to apply for a government arts grant again. The filmmaker was one of several people sharing their experiences in Brisbane at a public forum last week on crowdfunding -- the increasingly popular practice of securing pooled donations online.
Organised by Australian creative crowdfunding website Pozible, the event forms part of the platform's push to redefine how Australians think about and fund the arts. Pozible co-founder Alan Crabbe says crowdfunding has turned the tables on the passive exercise of waiting for grants as almost half of the website's traffic is generated by social media use. Bray's documentary Street Dreams, about southeast Asia's prostitution trade, is one of about 500 Australian projects that have secured $2 million collectively since Pozible's launch in May 2010. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing ? THE HARVARD LIBRARY. Do Your Own Thinking: R. Buckminster Fuller. Untitled. Untitled. In March, I sat on a panel at SXSW Interactive with three fellow nonprofit community managers to discuss personnel/personal boundaries in online community management.
Organizations and community managers are grappling with this currently, and the active Q&A (documented here) during the session was a testament to this fact. Idealware and Darim Online, with support from Balance Interactive, have just released a free Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook for nonprofits trying to figure out how to get a handle on the personnel side of social media. Why do you need a social media policy? The workbook introduction sums it up clearly: “A good social media policy will provide clear guidelines as to what staff should and shouldn’t do when posting and interacting with the community on a day-to-day basis, freeing them up to think more strategically.
When I was an online community manager, I was left to navigate the world online community without guidance. What I love about the workbook: Researchers find time in wild boosts creativity, insight and problem solving - KU News. LAWRENCE — There’s new evidence that our minds thrive away from it all. Research conducted at the University of Kansas concludes that people from all walks of life show startling cognitive improvement — for instance, a 50 percent boost in creativity — after living for a few days steeped in nature. Ruth Ann Atchley, whose research is featured in this month’s Backpacker magazine, said the “soft fascination” of the natural world appears to refresh the human mind, offering refuge from the cacophony of modern life.
“We’ve got information coming at us from social media, electronics and cell phones,” said Atchley, associate professor and chair of psychology at KU. “We constantly shift attention from one source to another, getting all of this information that simulates alarms, warnings and emergencies. Those threats are bad for us. The researcher said that nature could stimulate the human mind without the often-menacing distractions of workaday life in the 21st-century.
Untitled. While Facebook prepares to go public, Apple Pings into the void, LinkedIn focuses on resumes & recruiters, Myspace circles the drain, Twitter becomes more complex, Pinterest distracts, Google+ goes around in circles, and Instagram loses focus, the next big Interests & Passions network is being built... under the radar. Amazon, with their public/private highlights/notes from Kindle readers is creating a knowledge & interests ecosystem that will aggregate what the world is interested in, and what the world finds important... and what the world wants to buy more of. And, of course, they are making it social, by connecting to many of those they will eventually replace (mentioned above). It is not just the also-bought data that matters (which books bought by same customer), it is what we specifically find interesting and useful in those books that reveals deep similarities between people -- the hi-lites, bookmarks and the notes will be the connectors.
Untitled. We now live in liminal times—a highly uncertain period of “betwixt and between” (as Victor Turner called it). This means, on the one hand, that familiar practices and expectations have lost their reliability while, on the other, the next new thing has yet to arrive. Others are certainly noticing this. For example, last January, Fast Company’s Robert Safian published this piece introducing us to Generation Flux; this is a group the title refers to as “The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business”. These Generation Flux-ers, Safian reports, are dynamic, solution-oriented movers and shakers who are completely comfortable shifting from one career or industry to another in the blink of an eye. In short, they’ve people who have learned to adapt and thrive in times of continuous disruption.
I read this and thought “Great!! Someone else sees it too!” Great news! I thought there had to be a better way. See you soon! @};^o) Like this: Like Loading... Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Full text of papers presented at last week’s Collective Intelligence 2012 conference at MIT are now online and available for downloading. Dhiraj Murthy, an assistant professor of sociology and founder/director of the Social Network Innovation Lab at Bowdoin College, was among the presenters at last week’s Collective Intelligence 2012 conference. Image courtesy of Bowdoin College’s Social Network Innovation Lab. Familiar examples of collective intelligence such as the vastness of user-generated Wikipedia and the way Google has collected web pages to answer user queries “are not the end of the story but just the beginning” writes MIT Sloan’s Thomas Malone. Malone co-chaired the Collective Intelligence 2012 conference, which was held last week at MIT.
His co-chair was Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor in School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. Here are the titles and authors of the papers that were presented: Analytic Methods for Optimizing Realtime Crowdsourcing (Michael S. Untitled. Humans are motivated in their actions to satisfy needs. Needs are what drives people. People’s needs should also be what drives the economy. Starting from the needs of individuals and not starting from the needs of an economic theory or the needs of a financial system. So, what do we need? Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist studied the human needs and is most remembered for the hierarchy of needs. The hierarchy of needs is most commonly presented as follows: The more basic needs like housing and food are at the bottom of this hierarchy.
Progress brings economic efficiencies that make it possible to create more with fewer resources and less time ( e.g inventions like the wheel, the engine, the computer and productivity gains in general). For instance, technologies like the Internet have transformed access to information, music and communication and have created many options for our creative needs. NO LIMITS TO GROWTH (no limits to personal growth - no limits to people prosperity) Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. This post is cross-published from NTEN. Read the post and join the conversation on the NTEN blog. Normally, I stay away from assumptions: We all know the saying about what assuming does to you and me! When it comes to managing or building communities, online or on the ground, the work can seem overwhelming and sometimes even never-ending.
Wherever you are, and whatever the kind of community you are wrangling, there are some general lessons that I recommend. 1. I don’t say this to offend you, but just as a good reminder. All that you can really assume are the things that aren’t assumptions; give your community the chance to tell you their preferences and interests, and track what you can (from email opens and clicks, to actions taken) to be sure you are responding to the facts whenever possible. 2.
There are mind-boggling reports and stats our there that show just how much time many of us are spending [wasting?] 3. 4. This is a big one. 5. Trolls are real, it’s true. JESS3 / The State of The Internet. Untitled. Invalid quantity. Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your message or comments. Please enter the code as shown on the image. Please select the date you would like to attend. Please enter a valid email address in the To: field. Please enter a subject for your message. Please enter a message. You can only send this invitations to 10 email addresses at a time. $$$$ is not a properly formatted colour. Please limit your message to $$$$ characters. $$$$ is not a valid email address. Please enter a promotional code.
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This research is summarised and drawn together in the article, along with other thoughts on conversation, change and social media. Untitled. Presentation – The Idea Monopoly? Keith June 25th, 2010 “Nearly 60 percent of projects aimed at achieving business change do not fully meet their objectives.” – IBM, 2008. Why does this happen? As many working in Knowledge Management and related fields understand, it’s all about people and complexity. Organisations are increasingly dependent on people and what they know in order to operate successfully in today’s environment. This is the topic of the presentation I delivered last Wednesday night at the Melbourne KMLF. I have posted on this topic here before, and delivered an earlier version of the presentation at trampoline.
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