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prayerworks — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:17:52 -0000

I agree, trans, and when you sign-up for the "do-not-resuscitate" registry, I'll believe what you say. Until then, compassionate, other-minded folks and gov. cost cutters are going to subject an overdose to expensive triage and behavior control measures. Various layers of collective behavioral filters limit such a selfish choice by the overwhelming majority of us. Conforming to these once one's become a self-abusive individualist is a "REAL" hard-knocks education that's never worked for more than %50 of addicts anyway. The formula might be a daily dose of "less-self/more-other", a practice which normal folks take much for granted and by which hyper-egos might have saved themselves by dosing daily in this manner before going all Ayn Rand and denying others' rights to intrude helpfully.

Re: Returns on your time investment to date

prayerworks — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:48:59 -0000

Well done analysis, Simon. It gets better every time. I hear "value add" as the key variable, a spectrum from personal learning to institutional benefit. The personal being readiness to see, risk/invest in opportunity; the willingness quality to do what it takes for leadership synergies to realize collective force. Learning on the personal end is always it's own reward and can walk away or build/grow into leadership of collective value. Parsing out share in collective value for personal initiative toward its success makes for vital community in the midst of optimistic enterprise. How my own optimism shapes me makes well worth while whatever level of participation I can manage. namaste, Pierre

Re: The Human Dynamics

prayerworks — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:25:44 -0000

Been thinking hard about technology since reading the Kelly essay on Ubiquity you shared on Thursday. Especially about his assertion of a fundamental "technology of place", how human society inherently shapes its environments, leaving its mark everywhere as hunter-gatherers. I'd like to believe he's correct, and that what we're experiencing now is a mediascape version of the same. This macro-view, then, may build from your point about adapting tools to our personal use, and this use being shaped toward relational quality.

I wonder if we can imagine the learning community of Social Traffic becoming a force of social will and model for this and, in its own modest way, of course, contributing to the shaping of the mediascape as a sustainable economic environment? An intentional commitment to the "self-correcting" nature of the web, if you will. Am I just catching up with your vision here, Simon, or the probability that we can realize it? Are others feeling the potential of our community to influence the collective learning curve in this digital environment? Looking forward to your thoughts on social media ethics. namaste

Re: 02 - Friend Connect - Communities

prayerworks — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:54:00 -0000

Can't get enough of this stuff Simon.....your strategic enthusiasm must be contagious. Good advice to build my site around the gfc widget....as its capacities will be the primary sharing vehicle in months and years to come. Also to seek out the players in each community....does that mean I have to become one myself?? ;-> namaste

Re: What practical experiences can teach you - which no school ever can

prayerworks — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:01:51 -0000

Powerful ideas, Simon....maybe truer now than ever about STI because some high value failure stands behind us, risks have been paid and the operational formula of project-based learning is better set and directed as a community. Coordinating private risk into collective operation is our common experiment, and we're following you because you've honed this learning method to a science for yourself and have the vision of how it can be achieved and magnified in impact through collective activity, as troublesome as phase 1 proved this is to do. The STI opportunity has many dimensions and our excellent social media training is just the opening to the treasure house. namaste

Re: OneWorldOneGift

prayerworks — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:34:51 -0000

Right behind you Shane......although ready is a relative term,,,,I'm getting goose bumps now. I like this page too.....makes the whole affair look so simple and orderly....a contemplative walk in the woods, maybe....aahhhh, maybe not. {;o(=K In any case, there's opportunity, motive and incentive to stretch a bit on a very special occasion. namsate, pierre phf.edbd

Re: Our beautiful earth, how much are we indebted to you?

prayerworks — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:55:12 -0000

OK Simon......I'm feeling...Real-Time History....Now....and the trust, confidence, shared competence and commitment to make, lay, integrate and direct the necessary track and energies to achieve it. What a beautiful mysterious outcome to imagine....and exciting catalytic opportunity to be part of. Set your pace bro.....the dance list is long and hungry!
namaste, Pierre
phf.edbd

Re: Social Traffic Inc.

prayerworks — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:18:52 -0000

Greetings Fellow EarthKids,

Nothing deserves to keep us all from celebrating together on Earth Day Birthday! My name is Pierre and my Brand Coordinator role in this emerging marketing tribe is to identify the most powerful reasons to attend the biggest birthday party in history and to preserve their force until we release them to the viral potency of the web. Big is good, but not nearly deep enough to capture the forces already mobilized by Earth Day, nor to touch the life giving energies that each of us is guided by. I'll be grateful and attentive to any who wish to support this role in our Earth Day Birthday and future campaigns.

What brings me here is a heart for others and a lifetime of serving on the front end of not4profit causes. Believe me, I've paid dearly for it, but not without rewards that deepen my conviction that every expression of life is as precious as my own. Beyond this, my faith in the promise of a web-based economy grows firmer by the day. What keeps me here is that Mirror Simon speaks of and, I must say, does an excellent job of holding up for anyone willing to face it. The caliber of participants gathering here shows this and assures me that the all-aloneness I see and fear in that mirror-face is a silly fiction of my own design.

You'll join us for all the excellent reasons voiced in this post and comments or, with motivations we already committed will be deprived of if you don't. You'll join us because you can or must. And if you do, you will be welcomed, encouraged, challenged and loved, but most of all, blessed, by residual strengths of your own imagination and courage, just because you did, which may be the best reason of all to join our celebration of Earth Day Birthday.

namaste, Pierre
phf.edbd
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Re: A Paradigm Shift

prayerworks — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:01:29 -0000

Ahhh "Failure", life's best teacher, if one really wants learning value. I've appreciated the wisdom it's brought me, but perhaps humility is what I've really been struggling for, my "life story" change Simon graciously notes above. The deep personal side of the "paradigm shift", if you will, from 'me first and alone' to 'us together for the cause."

Yes we can do this start-up gig, because we're digging deeper than our discretionary monies and even time to do so. New priorities are being demanded and shaped, by the times and for this venture to succeed. Priorities of "cause", "trust" and "communication" as my new mates Alex & Shane identify.

"Our biggest challenge", I believe, will be in remaining open to the new questions, gifts and energies brought in by those motivated to join our emerging marketing tribe. And honestly, we need you all in order to remain truly committed to our revolutionary vision of making business about the people doing it.
PHF.EDBD

Re: A Toddler’s Capacity to Forgive

prayerworks — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:53:11 -0000

Thank You Rob. What a wonderful insight and illustrations. I believe literally in the rabbinic wisdom that birth begins our forgetting of God's secrets. Hence our spiritual task to remember so far back and before, and a strong correlation between the forgiven and forgotten. "The forgiving sound of their breathing....a shawl being knitted in the darkness." Absolutely precious imagery. I can't help but wonder how vulnerable our adult(erated) hearts must become to appreciate the intimate ways God speaks to us through others? namaste

Re: The quality of what you do…

prayerworks — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:50:45 -0000

"I am not blaming the humans here. I hold the machine responsible, please tell me what you think?"

OK Simon.....What comes to mind is the shift from offline to online, that is, an emerging interactive complexity that can adequately mimic complex potentialities of complex human events/enterprise. Shepherds, goats, sheep, and maybe a few Silverbacks thrown in for creative chaos.

I'm thinking of America's new Pastor, Rick Warren, and his Purpose Driven model for Church and Life. His secret, I believe was gracious relations with everyone and focused service practice that offered more to those who sought. Listening deeply he saw specific levels of interest in those invited to join his enterprise and allowed them to determine what level of penetration or filter they felt appropriate for themselves. After many years he had a congregation of 20,000 which he identified with 4 concentric circles; seekers, followers, participants and fellow servants, orders of leadership and also levels of comfort, understanding and training.

Setting a deep tone of purpose he kept the enterprise growing through this development without demanding more than anyone was willing to give. The gracious nature of the whole program was tangible to all at their willingness to engage. The closer one moved inward, the more leadership in teaching, training, facilitation one undertook with gratitude, and seekers continued to come and go. Then he taught 20,000 pastors to see/do it this way and many of their churches grew this way or experienced astounding renewal. Then he wrote the book for individuals, Purpose Driven Life, from closer observation of the faith as a self leadership journey through these self-filtering levels of congregational engagement. It was wildly popular not just because the ready appetites of his 20,000 students' thousands of members. More than this was a working practice of gracious relations and understanding of folks being where they're at and still included and welcome. The general public saw success and now his congregation has 100,000 members and the presidential candidates seek his blessing.

So how does this happen online? Most of it you've said already; inviting, listening, engaging, training, building the core necessary to hold the deep gracious purpose of the whole together for everyone at their own level of comfort and interest. Facebook seems to offer substantial tools to engage in multiple ways, and I believe your own gracious, listening learning activities are the key. Modeling and training effectively in whatever degree of perpetuity you desire will write the book. And all the similarly minded folks who join in this long-term enterprise will achieve accordingly. The moral maybe....don't sweat the sheep, but use every tool in the chest to engage them.

Re: Why listen to me?

prayerworks — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:16:25 -0000

Well Simon......

I'm not all that surprised, knowing you to be a close observer of natural behavior, actions, feelings, relations, community. The Silverback's monitoring behavior was interesting though, especially how well you've translated into your digital family role. I trust you're similarly positioned to note distress within your emergent social networking tribe, and suspect you've got a Silverback's instinct to protect us. =)

Re: Why listen to me?

prayerworks — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:32:11 -0000

Quite informative Simon....I'm wondering if your learning curve didn't begin watching the gorillas. ;) Your mentor's 'Shepherd, Goats & Sheep' strategy is as simple and effective as it gets, and I believe you've got it down to a science with proper incentive of natural leaders. Translating this into online communities, facilitating the essential dynamics in a context of increased components & diminished containment qualifies as high art. This may be your masterpiece! However, underlying everything else, what impresses me is how willing, even eager, you are to learn what's really happening. For this alone, you've got my attention looking forward.