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Emerging Futures, Peace Tiles & Ned
Posted to: Community - General by Mark Grimes (4111), Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:53:00 PDT
Edited: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:57:48 PDT
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A note of thankfulness to Omidyar Network announcing today the selections of Emerging Futures Network, Global Peace Tiles, and Ned as the newest round of Community Favorites on April 16, 2007.
Thank you ON and o/net community members.
By Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30) (1914), Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:25:26 PDT
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Such extraordinary news! Congratulations to you all. This is so well-deserved. You are all such an inspiration. Many thanks to Omidyar Network for making these awards possible.
topBy Evonne Heyning (CCAL30) (2442), Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:41:38 PDT
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Go Ned Go! Excellent work; can't wait to see how it grows.
By Michele -> kids+art+charity (CCAL30) (1010), Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:41:46 PDT
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P-H-E-N-O-M-E-N-A-L!!!
I am so delighted for the selected wonderful projects and o/net people! Bravo for your amazing work.
By Christina (2984), Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:32:38 PDT
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yeah! doin' the happy dance in Uganda - three times over!
By Linda ทรัพยากร Nowakowski (CCAL30) (2530), Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:44:18 PDT
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Congratulations!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! If you listen carefully you can hear me celebrating all the way from Thailand!
By Anne Marie Bellavance (CCAL30) (2233), Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:45:30 PDT
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woohoo! epitome of the making good things happen ripples. thank you o.net and community favorites for the inspiration :D
By ted ernst (CCAL30) (2630), Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:23:24 PDT
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Thanks much, ON and Mark. :-)
By Rory Turner (CCAL30) (1114), Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:58:14 PDT
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Not only is this excellent great news for wonderful projects and inspired groups of people (yay!), it also seems to me to indicate an approach to support that is very cool.
Is one way to think of O/Net as a virtual incubator of social network enterprise, in much the way business incubators provide infrastructure and support for start ups in a specific place? This seems to be an emerging reality that strikes a pragmatic reasonable mark between ideas of O/Net as an aimless bramble or as a utopian dream.
If this were so, then a good question would be, what tools other than what already exists can serve the function of an online incubator of social networks that o/net could foster or develop?
By Haney Armstrong (CCAL30) (1784), Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:20:20 PDT
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Rory Turner said:
... what tools other than what already exists can serve the function of an online incubator of social networks that o/net could foster or develop?
The team that is working on developing new tools or features for omidyar.net will be focused on primarily on tagging for the next couple of months. Hopefully this will be useful for supporting social networks. We are quite open to suggestions of what should come after that.
By Josh Friedman (CCAL30) (112), Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:42:31 PDT
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Wonderful news indeed. Look forward to reading about the successful use.
By Mark Grimes (4111), Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:53:54 PDT
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Kind words everyone, very kind indeed.
Also, please welcome Josh Friedman (see the previous post). Josh is a friend and fellow entrepreneur from Portland, Oregon. He's done some amazing things already, and be on the lookout for more to come from him soon.
By Cynthia Gentry (CCAL30) (1914), Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:37:22 PDT
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Hi, Josh, and welcome to o.net. Any friend of Mark's is a friend of mine!
By nmw (1876), Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:41:08 PDT
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Good news around here.
I wish I could spend more time focusing on happy things.
So much of the world I find myself in is kind of like living in Europe 500 years ago and saying that the Pope and his Princes didn't have the right to "lord it over the land" -- it's a scary world, sometimes (but also one in which I feel -- and I feel that way rather vehemently -- that I am at least attempting to "make good things happen").
There is no doubt in my mind that all 3 projects listed above are certainly working towards such goals, too -- and I think it is great that they are receiving such community-wide support.
:) nmw
By Jean Russell (CCAL30) (3614), Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:11:51 PDT
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Yippee! So glad to see this! More and more good things happening, made easier with a little grease from our hosts. Thank you to all responsible for making this happen. And keep up the inspiration, dear project leaders!
By Julie Caldwell (CCAL30) (2317), Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:20:28 PDT
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Thank you Omidyar Network!!! I'm just back from Hawaii, what a great ALOHA!
In particular, as founder of Emerging Futures Network, it meant alot to me to read the rational for our award (to read the other descriptions for NED and PeaceTiles visit: http://www.omidyar.net/group/on/ ws/Community%20Favorites/):
Emerging Futures Network
URL: http://www.emergingfutures.net
Amount Funded: $15,000
Date Funded: 4-17-2007
Brief Description: Emerging Futures Network’s (EFN) mission is “To establish a comprehensive and evolving infrastructure to enable people and organizations to fulfill their visions for uplifting humanity and healing nature.” The group provides an interactive forum where information, expertise and contributions are exchanged and directed to projects working to make innovative ideas succeed for a better world. Focus areas include network weaving, reputation, identity and open data systems.
Rationale for Funding: With over 75 members, EFN has grown into one of the most active groups on omidyar.net. Their work is done with a great deal of transparency and collaboration. EFN projects include: Organizing a conference in Blaine, Washington: “Building an Evolving Infrastructure: Connecting Networks for Action” which was attended by over 20 omidyar.net members in December 2006.
Creating a bigger presence on the Internet by building www.emergingfutures.net and www.emergingfutures.net/wiki. Establishing a wider network by affiliating with: OGuild - people working in open source and open space technology, and Network Weavers – a group to make referrals, learn from one another, work together in a variety of ways, and create resources together.
Because the process of connecting people is central to EFN’s work, this funding should provide opportunities for omidyar.net members to collaborate within EFN’s broad network.
By Soren Gordhamer (1423), Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:57:37 PDT
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Congrats to all of you -- may the the award go a long way to helping develop and expand your work!