When You Find Something Good, First Thing To Do is Share

As some of you know, I’m work­ing on start­ing a non-profit that will improve people’s lives through char­i­ta­ble liv­ing. My idea is to bring peo­ple together around global events and gen­er­ate infec­tious pos­i­tive energy that will give par­tic­i­pants a sense of ful­fill­ment and pur­pose. The rewards we’ll receive by par­tic­i­pat­ing will rein­force our place in the com­mu­nity, rather than our cur­rent mate­ri­al­is­tic habits. I believe our cul­ture is chang­ing, and we’re going to lead the charge.

Big dreams, I know, but I’ve already men­tioned how I’m sorta like a viral infec­tion (you’re going to click on that link just because you’re curi­ous), so maybe this isn’t such a big step.

You’ll have to stay tuned for more on my project, as I’m lit­er­ally just get­ting it off the ground (with lots of awe­some help, I might add!).

I’m doing a ton of research, as I know almost noth­ing about non-profits, or frankly, doing any sort of char­ity work at all. The best way to learn, and in fact keep me moti­vated, is to con­nect with peo­ple. Not sur­pris­ingly, I’m gen­er­at­ing quite a bit of pos­i­tive energy in my life, and in those of the peo­ple help­ing me get started.

I want to share some of that… in fact, I came across a beau­ti­ful Amer­i­can Indian say­ing:

When you come on some­thing good, first thing to do is share it with who­ever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go.

In that spirit, I want to share “World­shapers ’09″, an e-book recently pub­lished by Jas­min Tra­gas (aka Won­der­webby on Twit­ter). Jas­min and I met very periph­er­ally on twit­ter, not even sure how. I must say, I would have described tech­nol­ogy as a man’s world. Espe­cially tech­nol­ogy evan­ge­lists. I’m sure I’ll get killed for say­ing that, just as sure that there are some awe­somely smart and tal­ented woman tech­nol­o­gists out there… just that they are seri­ously out­num­bered by the guys!

World­shapers show­cases the work of women around the world who are work­ing to shape, influ­ence and change their worlds.  You’ll find their sto­ries, plus links and con­tact details for the projects they’re work­ing on – as well as sug­ges­tions for things that you can do to help shape the world you live in.

Please read World­shapers ’09. You’ll feel bet­ter just by read­ing it! And, imag­ine how you’d feel if you could get even more involved?

I find it to be a very impor­tant exam­ple of how the power of com­mu­nity tech­nol­ogy enables a unique fem­i­nine per­spec­tive to use tech­nol­ogy heal and inspire, to bring peo­ple together. It really is about the pur­pose, with tech­nol­ogy as a means to the end. Just as it should be.

Purpose-driven tech­nol­ogy, I like that phrase.

Back to World­shapers. I espe­cially like page 18, it’s Eileen Clegg’s visual story. Bril­liant. That sort of pre­sen­ta­tion seems to res­onate with my mind. Inter­est­ing how she men­tions visu­al­iza­tion tech­nol­ogy as an ancient wis­dom. My com­pany, will also tie into an ancient prac­tice. That of com­mu­nity, sit­ting around a camp­fire and weav­ing a story in honor, and cel­e­bra­tion of life. More to come!

PS We’re close to start­ing a newslet­ter. If you are curi­ous about what I’m doing, please leave a com­ment and I’ll add you to the email list when we do start the newsletter.

PPS I orig­i­nally didn’t use such good phras­ing around the “man’s world” com­ment — I’m say­ing it jok­ingly and with a light heart!!! Laugh, please. Don’t be angry. Please.