October 2011
1 post
a bold new red
: candidate 4 canada liberal party pres @_mike_crawley to use @ifwerantheworld as a part of open, inclusive rebuilding party
We are thrilled to announce that, today, Mike Crawley is kicking off his candidacy for President of the Liberal Party of Canada. Why so thrilled, you ask? Well - this dashing chap has decided to harness the power of the Liberal Party membership in the...
August 2011
1 post
learning, growing & showing up for more
:: newness has launched at long last :: http://bit.ly/bgczg0 ::
At long last, we’ve pushed greater simplicity, transparency and performance out into an improved IfWeRanTheWorld. When you check it out, you’ll see that we have:
de-cluttered actionplatform design that better showcases what needs doing and why
greatly simplified microaction. These atomic units of action are now even...
July 2011
1 post
#statusupdate
:: #boomnessontheway ::
we’ve been working on a face- & functional-lift to ifwerantheworld and it is alllllllmost done. it will be a wholesale re-build of the application (so we have something a lot more flexible to work with) as well as new functionality and ux enhancements that reflect conversations we’ve had with our users. we’re really grateful to all of you for...
April 2011
1 post
Microactions + skillset match = easy-peasy
The single biggest pool of untapped natural resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action. Have you been thinking that you would really love to do something to help other people…to give in some way…to feel that you are doing something meaningful and worthwhile…but somehow never gotten round to actually doing anything about it?
Here’s...
March 2011
1 post
magnificent
:: #TEDActive #TED #TEDache
TEDActive was luminous - I’ve never been at such a well-produced event that celebrated & drew out & made room for the wholehearted, creative, intense, magnificent passions of the attendees. I am gobsmacked with love ;)
More on what came out of the TEDActive Project experiment soon once i’m not gibbering from a lack of sleep.
February 2011
2 posts
doing a TED Walk
: ideas worth doing | TEDActive Blog http://bit.ly/dW1RCc : #iwrtw @TEDActive
There will be at least two ‘firsts’ at this year’s TEDActive.
The first ‘first’ is that I am attending my first official TED event. Everytime I think about it my toes get to tapping with excitement.
The second ‘first’ - and arguably the more important of the...
oh YES SHE DID!
:: @giovannasc launches Mingarelli&Co :: http://bit.ly/gnGJww :: #raisingthebar #sexypeople #microact #justsaying
IWRTW & Giovanna have been entangled in a knot of love for a long time now, but this week it reached an exquisite peak when she launched Mingarelli&Co, a crowdsourcing & communications firm.
We look forward to lots of shenanigans together :)
Congratulations...
December 2010
2 posts
level up
:: tweet, like, act > #socialmedia meet social action :: http://bit.ly/fTTJgA > #Twitter #Facebook #microact @jocava
it was just a matter of time, but let it be known that thehotspring.net got there first > what they do (and how you can act with them) as important as what they like, tweet, say, etc.
(and don’t we look great in the social media stack?)
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we know
:: #iwrtw loves #pantone 2010 color of the year > ‘captivating, stimulating…gets the adrenaline going’ :: http://bit.ly/gYrxH2
i can’t imagine why we would like this color so, can you? lemme see…
hmmmm.
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November 2010
2 posts
exceptional use case
:: invite to #microact what @facebook poke would have been if designed by women #justsaying :: http://bit.ly/9uidfr
kaisha thompson recently sent me this invitation to microact and it floored me - because while this is an invitation to microact for her, it is ACTUALLY a reminder to me (and the rest of her girlfriends she invited to microact on her platform to be exceptionally stylish) to be...
deciphering government data
:: openData=good & openUnderstanding=magnificent > http://bit.ly/cZJtp5 > @craigslist_fndn #iwrtw #gov20
In the wake of the Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp in August, a small group came together around an actionplatform to “create a wikipedia like resource for interpreting government data”. Six microactions. And they were off to the races.
We are just now catching up -...
October 2010
5 posts
cupcakes :: food of superheroes
:: this #omnomnom moment brought to you by @GiovannaSC :: http://bit.ly/b1l9z0 #microact #iwrtw
Giovanna Mingarelli & her band of merry mischief-making world-changing smoking-hot fembots are amongst the most awe-inspiringly active on IfWeRanTheWorld.
They’re doing great stuff.
A recent favorite - and reminder that microactions come in all shapes - reminding all of us to eat cupcakes...
IWRTW Kiwi Tim Gregory's Down Under Dispatch ::...
http://bit.ly/bHh2tq :: http://on.fb.me/celQlW
We Westies are a fierce lot - fiercely passionate about Waitakere and with an unwavering faith in our collective ability to make anything happen.
Which is no small part of the reason why IfWeRanTheWorld is flourishing here.
Ours is a renowned model of council and community working together for maximum social and environmental benefit, and has...
Authentic From the Start-Up
4 Tips from @cindygallop1 and @IfWeRanTheWorld ::http://bit.ly/cP4mWS
A piece by CV Harquail on AuthenticOrganizations.com.
Being authentic as an organization starts with deliberate choices — some big, some small, and some micro. From the very start-up, designing your organization to demonstrate the power of your product, and to demonstrate the power of your business purpose, builds a...
Elections & IWRTW
Ladies & lads, may i introduce you to Oni Joseph, aka THE FUTURE, who is using IWRTW to get elected to public office in Canada. http://bit.ly/cL9uWc
I tell you, this woman could not be hotter.
We Are All Workers
Join forces with Levi’s to reinvigorate The Braddock Carnegie Library | http://bit.ly/d3Qfcb.
When Levi’s looked to find today’s frontier and the ‘new’ pioneers who populate it, they found struggling communities like Braddock, PA and the bold, generous, creative people who are working to bring them back. The ‘We Are All Workers’ campaign tells...
September 2010
3 posts
Get your beer, bike & bamboozle on
The SDMBA needs volunteers for their 2nd annual Tour De Fat ‘Bike Awareness Festival’ on 10/2 | http://bit.ly/bAHfbM
The San Diego Mountain Bike Association is gearing up for their second ever Tour De Fat ‘Bike Awareness Festival’ at San Diego’s Balboa Park on October 2. Costumes, beers, and a great attitude are all that’s needed to enjoy the festivities...
Boot Camp > we have liftoff
Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp’s actionplatforms are all up & ready for you to rock.
How, you ask?
Here’s how:
Go here, take on a microaction (and do it) or suggest a microaction (and invite someone, do it.
Easy McPeasy.
Why, you ask?
Here’s why (as described by Mat Dryhurst, Community Manager at the Craigslist Foundation and the deliciously, devious superhero who...
let's get emotional
Jon Pincus asks ‘What does emotional software look like?’ in a recent post on his Liminal states blog. Jon is a ‘writer/strategist/activist’, previously of Ad Astra and Microsoft’s Online Services Group (where he was General Manger for Strategy Development).
This is a conversation we absolutely want to have - not only what does emotional software look like but - more...
August 2010
14 posts
“Civic value rarely comes from sudden social conversions; nor does it bubble up...”
– Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus
kicking intention into action, taking names at...
Cindy & Craig, tearing it up at the 2010 Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp*
Last Saturday, IfWeRanTheWorld completed a microaction for the organizers of the 2010 Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp - a microaction that, as it happens, speaks to one of the very challenges IWRTW looks to change. The CLF crew didn’t want their conference to go the way of many (most?) others in that they...
so that we know that you know that we know
In start-ups - as in life - ya gotta go with the flow. You lay great strategic plans, but the only constant is change, so you bend and flex and do the best you can. And when you are only 1.3 designers and 1.2 developers (seriously kick-ass) strong, well… let’s just say you learn to bend pretty far.
We regularly get emails & tweets from folks filled with ideas & suggestions...
'Cindy turns the West on to people power'
A nice weekend piece from the New Zealand Herald on Cindy & IfWeRanTheWorld, with a companion piece on Mayor Bob as the inpetus for change. (Saturday, Aug 7 2010)
Our Naughty By Nature Microactors of the...
Hip Hop Hooraaaaay Hoooo for our Actionplatforms and Microactors from the week of July 19 through August 1.
PULL YOURSELF UP BY YOUR OWN BOOT! CAMP!>
If the Craigslist Foundation ran the world, they would work with IfWeRanTheWorld to turn Boot Camp good intentions into action.
In a couple of weeks, Craigslist Foundation’s ‘Boot Camp’ event will gather over 1,000 people...
days 2-5 down under / falling for Waitakere
Aaaaaaand we’re back! A few days of spotty internet connectivity have driven us to drink, albeit at the beach and with Mayor Bob Harvey in his newly-finished ‘batch’ at the beach in Karekare (which, if you saw The Piano, you might recognize). Oh how we suffer for IfWeRanTheWorld ;).
Bob has been the Mayor of Waitakere, one of the ‘cities’ surrounding Auckland...
July 2010
13 posts
day 1 down under / on the fringe of heaven
Cindy, Jason and I arrived at the crack-of-buttocks today in Auckland, landing in a pea-soup fog so thick that it impressed even the imperturbable Tim Gregory (who is, as it turns out, 6’7” - something that deeply impressed the IWRTW team).
The flight was remarkably easy - we slept like babies and arrived on the other side of the world (if that isn’t a kind of magic, I...
Shout-outs to the Creme de la Creme
Let us stand, remove our head garments, and salute our microactors and actionplatforms that rocked our world during the week of July 12.
LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX, BABY, LET’S TALK ABOUT YOU AND ME>
If Minh Luu ran the world, she would promote sexual education
Minh Luu’s platform is provoking enough for a pornstar with microactions such as: attend Venus Envy’s...
Rundown of the Most Impressive
Let’s hear it for our smokin’ hot microactors and actionplatforms from the week of July 5. Holla Holla Holla
MICROACTION STUD OF THE WEEK>
If Kaben Kramer ran the world, he would provide equitable access to potable water for all people.
Kaben is a University of Pacific faculty member, in Stockton, CA, and he’s pumped about making drinking water accessible to everyone. ...
What I did with my cognitive surplus over the July...
Here at IfWeRanTheWorld, Clay Shirky is our god.
A couple of years ago when I shared the concept of IfWeRanTheWorld with my friend Josh Klein, he said to me, a) you have to read Clay Shirky’s ‘Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations’, and b) you have to meet Clay Shirky.
I immediately bought ‘Here Comes Everybody’, and on every page I...
Roundup of the Mostest Sexiest
Give it up for our hottest microactors and actionplatforms from the week of June28th:
NEWLY CROWNED EMPRESS OF ACTION >
If Paroma Raychaudhuri ran the world, she would improve the internal structure of the student government | Carleton University | and make the most of what’s left of my summer | Toronto, ON | Ottawa, ON | Buffalo, USA | Atlantic City, USA | Dublin, Ireland |
These two...
gio & matt: how they are knocking our socks off
I am continually surprised and delighted by how people are using IfWeRanTheWorld - not only how but for what.* There are two epic standouts, however - Giovanna Mingarelli (from Ottawa, Ontario) & Matthew Smith (from Boise, ID).
to wit:
They are taking us to school on the small-but-powerful tactics of personal action branding: Gio includes a link to her IfWeRanTheWorld profile as a...
international sensations
Even before we soft-launched IfWeRanTheWorld at TED in Feb 2010, news of our venture sparked folks from around the world to get in touch, share their enthusiasm and ask how they could help make the platform a reality*.
Two of these people took on the challenge in spades, starting as volunteers and through their prowess, vision and assorted other mad skillz are making great strides at makeing...
Last Week's Sizzling Hot Actionplatforms
Most likely to be the next demi-God of Action: Paroma Raychaudhuri for these awesome, and brand spankin’ new actionplatforms…
1. encourage young women to get involved with national government | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada 2. strengthen student involvement in universities | Carleton University | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada
-Paroma is nailing a tremendously popular topic in her region and she’s...
June 2010
4 posts
brand spanking new: IfWeRanTheWorld is 1.0
Over the past 8 weeks, we’ve been trickling in updates & new features, but as of TODAY – sound the horns! – we are pleased to announce the birth of IfWeRanTheWorld 1.0.
Do come and adore our babe:
A homepage with a living news feed, hottest actors, and featured action platforms.
It’s easier than ever to create microactions & invite folks to do it – you can create recurring actions...
Badass Action Platforms and Microactors from the...
Drum roll…..
Most in need of a tweet: “Support and spread the knowledge about ifwerantheworld!” Point2point International! Hollerin’ at IfWeRanTheWorld on her brand new website! Thanks Antoinette McIntyre-Andersson, YOU RULE.
Worthy cause of the week: “Abolish sexual slavery, trafficking, and exploitation of women and girls across the globe.” This one is from an IfWeRanTheWorld rising star,...
"This is one of those ideas I have to make happen...
“Whatever anyone wants to do, wherever, it starts with a microaction. Which means it does actually start – and happen.”
The above two quotes are from a recent interview with founder Cindy Gallop* (done by the delectable Rachel Botsman on Shareable). As a whole, the interview is one of the best (written) articulations of what IfWeRanTheWorld is all about, the principles it was...
be still my beating heart
Even in these early days of IfWeRanTheWorld, we have noticed something about the folks who have jumped in to play: they are an attractive bunch.
OK, sure - everyone makes sure that their profile pic shows them to best effect. But there is a little something-something about our growing tribe of action-eers that makes my pulse race a little faster than it might otherwise:
These folks...