“You are what you do”…a wonderful, thought provoking and totally intimidating truth. Now suppress regrets and think of it this way – “you are what you do – from this day forward”…then we can move on with this blog effectively…
Answer the question – “If you ran the world, what would you do?”
Walk yourself through an action plan and then you may find yourself asking the inevitable – how do I pay for this?
Marketing veteran Cindy Gallop and software developer Wendell Davis’ take you a long way to answer with the creation of If We Ran the World http://ifwerantheworld.com/.
Described as a crowd sourcing project to better the world, If We Ran the World, has the ability to match corporations and causes. After years crafting Sponsorship packages “the old fashioned way” – well this makes me really really wish I’d thought of it first!
Unlike Facebook “causes” which by nature encourage people to join (only a click away); If We Ran the World promotes action. Especially significant for those of us that can often carve out time before we can carve out budget.
Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/03/yes-we-plan-how/#ixzz0iNEOx4IC
“IfWeRantheWorld.com breaks even the largest goodwill projects (“feed Darfur”) down into discrete tasks, which it distributes to members through a commercially supported, socially networked environment. When people have the urge to act on something that irritates them about the world, they can actually do something. Their plan (more below) not only impressed us, but also Dyson, who said it will create “a liquidity of goodness.” Former Google executive Katie Jacobs Stanton, who joined the Obama administration as “director of citizen participation,” heard about the plan from Gallop at the TED conference last month.
Here’s how it works. A simple, Google-like search box on the site will greet first-time visitors with the partially-completed sentence, “If I ran the world I would….” Their entries join a database of action platforms, which platform originators and community members break down into discrete tasks — irreducible atoms of action. Members complete these tasks, assign them to friends, offer kudos for jobs well done and offer advice to various action platforms. Completed tasks and kudos appear on your profile page, which lists everything you’ve done — a little different for most people than everything you say you support.”