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The 6-week seed project for the Emerging Leader Labs has now come to a close.

Above is the final video in a series produced by participant Ben Brownell, providing a glimpse into the happenings on Open House day, where the local community in Chatham was invited to ELL to find out what the initiative is all about and to meet the makers.

It’s been fun for me to bring a bit of attention to this worthy initiative during its early stages, and to have had the chance to spend time with the source team and participants who worked hard to get this vision grounded into reality. I’ll be moving on now to some exciting new projects for the fall, but will keep an eye out for what happens next at the ELL!

Below are a few links to the participant projects, in case you’d like to follow their development.

Gameshifting – Kyle Sykes

Culture Craft – Connor Turland

theMAKE – Pritha RaySircar

Beauty Mirror – Rubén Alvarado

COMMON StoryWorks – Benjamin Brownell

Reality Sandwich blog – Emory Mort

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check out previous videos in the series:

EBD TV: Intro to Emerging Leader Labs

Video: Unfolding the Story of the Emerging Leader Labs

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Last week we posted an Intro to the Emerging Leader Labs, an initiative in upstate New York to demonstrate that worldchanging projects can get incubated and launched while being supported by a gift economy instead of typical startup capital.

This week, a video has been prepared by Ben Brownell, one of the participants in the current seed project of the Labs, giving a taste of what the experience has been about for him.

It’s quite inspiring!

Ben’s intention is to support the launch of the ELL (and similar eco-social venture projects) through media production and storytelling. The hope is to attract the resources needed, via sponsorship or gifting, so that he can continue developing his projects.

Current projects include:

Common Storyworks: “Leverage web video storytelling to garner support for early-stage social ventures in the conversion of their documented “common good” achievements into tangible assets and diverse liquid capital for the global transition expedition.”

BrowsEarth: “an open web protocol for aggregating, rating and navigating multimedia content from the Great Transition”

His current requests include:

– digital equipment
– artist’s residency
– food & fuel stipend
– aligned contract work
– patronage gift flow

Offers include:

– media design
– crowdfunding campaign mgmt
– physical site design and build
– community / project organizing and development
– innovation, strategy, coherence consulting

He’s interested in getting involved with projects at the ground level that are focused on sustainable and regenerative living models, like ecovillage design and permaculture. For examples, check out One Community Ranch, AppleSeed Permaculture, Avalon Springs, and Neshobe Farm.

If you’d like to get in contact with Ben, he can be reached at commonstoryworks [at] gmail [dot] com, on twitter @v17us, updates on g+, and you can watch the Vermont video series and VEDA Collective projects he created while working at Neshobe Farm earlier this year.

Stay tuned for a final update about the Emerging Leader Labs seed project coming in the next few weeks!

I like to talk a lot about building social fabric, relationships and trust. Now I’ll be directly experiencing it, with the “Chewbaka Project.”

Turns out my 80 year old grandmother needs fulltime care, and will be moving in with me now.

Here’s my chance to really flex my creative muscles, and figure out how continue to build the foundations of my career and life while dealing with this new challenge.

I’m determined to continue spreading the messages of a new cooperative economy and world, to educate and inform others of the tools and resources available to us, and to be inspired to keep bringing forth more love and light.

And I might be asking for some help. 🙂

Onward

This is my first experiment with a webisode. I’d like to develop a weekly “show” <EBD TV> where I interview via skype or visit innovators in person and find out what they’re up to. I’m already doing this anyway, traveling around the country almost weekly. I might as well be recording it so others might get inspired too.

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more about the project:

Pop Up Burlington: Create an Online Matching Site between Empty Spaces and Creative Citizens

Pop Up Burlington (alpha) site

code on github

to find out more or offer help, contact amy.kirschner [at] gmail dot com, or on twitter @amykirschner

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Facing fierce competition, Facebook is working nonstop to gain users, add features, monetize more effectively, and embed its platform anywhere and everywhere.

The “Future of Facebook: Technology” is the fifth video in a six part series exploring the implications of social networking technologies on our lives.

Using the Open Foresight model, we’ve generated forecasts by combining expert opinion with insights from the public. All content is licensed under Creative Commons, making it free to remix and reuse, with attribution.

Add your voice to the mix by creating a video response on the futureoffacebook youtube channel, sharing your thoughts on twitter with the hashtag #fofb, posting on the Facebook page, or putting in your 2¢ on our Quora questionnaire. Follow the full project at futureoffacebook.com.

Featuring (in order of appearance):

David Kirkpatrick – author, The Facebook Effect
Alex Howard – Govt 2.0 Correspondent, O’Reilly Media
Chris Arkenberg – Innovation Strategist
Kevin Kelly – author, What Technology Wants
Nova Spivack – founder, Lucid Ventures
Jamais Cascio – Research Fellow, Institute for the Future
Stowe Boyd – Web Anthropologist
Valdis Krebs – Social Network Consultant/Researcher

Produced by Alvis Brigis, Venessa Miemis, Sean Park, Shane Valcich and Innotribe.

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Here’s a short video assembled from some clips I took at the unMoney Convergence unconference in San Francisco in April.

I’m trying to get into the habit of filming and interviewing wherever I go now, with the intention of getting into more video-based production. This might evolve into a once a week ‘show,’ highlighting cool stuff happening and emerging ideas on the edge. I welcome any feedback on the concept, and if you’re a patron of the arts, let me know if you’re interested in sponsoring upcoming videos.

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thanks to Shane Valcich for help with video editing!