Two Keys to Our Burgeoning Bottom-Up World

Monday, June 28th, 2010

If you’re new to MovingFromMeToWe.com, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Life is getting better faster. Food is more widely available; we live longer; more people have money and violence, disease and child mortality are down all around the world. Yet there will be turmoil. “The bottom-up world is to [...]

The Sum of Us is Greater Than One of Us…Sometimes

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

The sum of us can be more powerful (and fun) than one of us… sometimes. The confounding thing is exactly how we make it happen. Even when we have a strong desire to collaborate, we are  likely bump up against into each other because, as in love,  good intentions don’t always lead to mutually satisfying behavior. [...]

Books on How to Accomplish Greater Things With Others

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

A sign of the growing popularity of all kinds of collaboration is the growing number of books on some aspect of the topic.  What are your favorites? Here are some I’ve come across: Alone Together: Sociable Robots, Digitized Friends, and the Reinvention of Intimacy and Solitude by Sherry Turkle. The Big Sort: Why the Clustering [...]

How Pink Underwear Becomes Potent Symbol of Protest

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

When women and men were beat up in a Mangalore pub for “violating traditional Indian values” some decried it as “Talibanisation of India.”  Thousands have seen the video.  Yet even the National Commission for Women there, also condemned “the loosening of moral standards amongst young women.” To galvanize action against the right wing Hindu group that backs such incidents, journalist Nisha Susan involved bloggers to [...]

We Do Better Together – Books That Show Us How

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

I started this blog soon after The Age of Engagement morphed into a flood of  ideas on how “we” can accomplish more together. Here are the books I’ve mentioned and authors I have interviewed. Crowdsourcing (Jeff Howe), Here Comes Everybody Clay  Shirky), groundswell (Charlene

Get Slightly Famous? Where’s Your Tribe?

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Seth Godin’s promise to put 1,000 faces on the cover of his next book, Tribe, reminded me of two other crowd pleasers: • the top-of-heads photo on

Here Comes Everybody

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Just weeks before her wedding, Ivanna got out of a cab in New York, leaving her T-Mobile Sidekick cell phone behind. Her friend sent emails to the Sidekick account offering a reward for the phone’s return. No answer. So Ivanna bought a new phone. When she activated Sidekick she was startled to find that someone [...]

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