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.