After seeing her grandma struggling to hold heavy pans, Celia Gates recruited an inventor as a mentor then designed ergonomic pans. Kayley Vincent and Jennifer Land created a cookbook that turned local business owners into foodie stars – and turned a profit for them. With churchgoers’ support, Henry Pearce raised money by donning a 1920s bathing suit. What sparked their entrepreneurial [...]
Have you adapted some object to better suit your purposes? Would your invention delight and inspire others? Get featured on TV, via computer and in a magazine, thanks to a new Me2We joint venture.
Make magazine invited American Public Television and Twin Cities Public Television to join them in launching “Makers.” Half-hour TV episodes, in [...]
Some people duct-tape small cameras to their dogs’ collars to see life from another perspective. (Dog is their co-pilot) Yet you can enlist human friends to co-cover the scenes of your lives. AmericanWinery, for example, sent Flip video cameras to their winery partners, inviting them to record “daily operations, tastings, harvest footage” and other glimpses at the back stories behind wine lovers’ favorite [...]
Shark and dolphin stories grab students’ interest but attention wanes when it comes to sponges, mollusks, starfish and their kin. A marine biology professor in Maine learned from his son on how to keep his students involved. A lesson that any teacher – or trainer, coach or speaker
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that Muslims, Jews and Christians and others around the world are invited to contribute to a Charter for Compassion? To collaborate and come to group decisions. Aided by social media tools. No anonymity for nasty
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Today many New Yorkers were given the faux-copies of The New York Times with that banner headline. Other stories concocted by this liberal cadre of volunteers announced that universities would now be free to attend, ex-secretary apologizes for W.M.D scare and Thomas Friedman was resigning. Even the ads are fake. Unlike the Onion, the issue [...]
Bill Murray said, “I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn’t make any mistakes, and you learned what
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When mentoring goes both ways it’s one of the richest experiences one can have, noted Ben Casnocha in his book, My Start-Up Life. Crediting a long line of wise guides, Casnocha, who founded Comcate at age 14, called today’s interviewee, Chris Yeh, a mentor’s mentor. We’ll also hear from Kristine Molnar at PBwiki, one [...]
Want concrete ways to become more successful with others than you can on your own? Then adapt a real life Me2We-captured success story and underlying method to your work or life situation.
Every few days you’ll find fresh examples here, taken from one of the blogs on Links, our blog roll. Here’s your first [...]
Give away downloadable, eco-friendly house plans – and make money? Others could adapt this startup’s healthy Me2We path to profitability, using their kind of expertise. Plus you could enjoy the camaraderie that comes from collaborating on projects that benefit people around the world.
Here’s the story. Working with the highest-rated makers of home [...]
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