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.
Here’s an interview with Jim and Michele McCarthy, authors of the book Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision.
If you’d like to meet the McCarthys and learn how to hack workplace culture, join us at the Culture Conference in Philly or Boston this September.
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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!
How long will Facebook be around? Is Facebook prepared to defend against clever new startups? Can Facebook successfully transition to mobile? How will Facebook cope with Augmented Reality?
Open Foresight and The Future of Facebook team are pleased to announce the completion of the Future of Facebook interview and video series featuring the likes of David Kirkpatrick (author The Facebook Effect), Kevin Kelly (author What Technology Wants, co-founder Wired), and science journalist Rita J King. The Kickstarter- and patron-funded project, launched in early 2011, has generated a volume of open source Future of Facebook content including 6 Expert Focus Videos, 150 Vision Clips and hundreds of user-generated predictions on Quora. All the material has been made available to academics, students, businesses and other organizations via the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 license. Continue reading →
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.
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.
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.
Will the distinction between the online world and the offline world soon dissolve? Might our physical world soon have a Facebook-powered augmented reality layer? Will we become nodes and sensing objects in a new kind of location-based web experience? And what role will social networks play in climate change?
The “Future of Facebook: Environment” is the fourth 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.
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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!
