(competing with pepsi)

What word do we see a LOT?

let’s develop something cool

together

Lets start supporting each other and

helping each other

let’s help each other out

let’s connect for a better

future

let’s make a movie

let’s clean up the beach

let’s talk MS

let’s beat cancer

let’s jump out of a perfectly good airplane

let’s go green

Local Exchange Transaction System

This is what happens when

people self-organize

Use the internet to get off the internet

Babysitting,Cheryl,

DIH

Tapping the “cognitive surplus” & the hunger for

community, connection, belief,

belonging

de-personalizedsuper-industrializedover-anonymized

lonely, hurting, feeling powerless

and/or broke

waiting for a way to be

powerfultogether

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL

REAL COMMUNITYREAL COMMUNITYREAL COMMUNITY REAL COMMUNITY REAL COMMUNITY REAL COMMUNITY

LET’S LET’S LET’SLET’S LET’S LET’SLET’S LET’S LET’SLET’S LET’S LET’SLET’S LET’S LET’SLET’S LET’S LET’S

everything’s being re-invented,

by the people,self-organized

BUT WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO

WITH DEMOCRACY?

Tom Steinberg said to connect the

fisherpeople

What if the U.S. SBA connected SB people locally to support each

other?

Re-imagine Gov as a

platform for Connecting

People

THIS IS NOT WHAT THE MAYOR OF

BARCELONA WAS TALKING ABOUT

P2P = infinite scale & potential

P2P = gov’t saving $$$

de Tocqueville: "In democratic countries, the knowledge of how to combine is the mother of

all other forms of knowledge"

@heif: "in the 21st century, the technology for how to

combine is the mother of all awesomeness"

WHAT’S GOING ON HERE:Organizing the World’s Info

isn’t the only important mission

Information isn’t everything

Transparency isn’t enough

INFORMATION NEEDS

ACTION

YOUR RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH & INFORMATION

AREN’T YOUR ONLY POWERFUL

HUMAN RIGHTS!

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly

and to freedom of association at all levels

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European UnionARTICLE 12

FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND OF ASSOCIATION

The World’s People, Self-Organized

MEME

we have more power than ever to unleash collaboration & collective action

organizing isn't just to act against

"participation means lending your hands, not just your voices"

GOTFANS & FOLLOWERS?

FANS & FOLLOWERS ARE WASTED

GET THEM TO SELF-ORGANIZE

MOBILIZE THEM

MOBILIZE THEM TO HELP THEMSELVES

GIVE THEM PERMISSION TO KICK ASS

DISTRIBUTE RESPONSIBILITYNOT JUST INFO OR TASKS

THIS IS ABOUT

*DURABLE* MOVEMENTS

Would you help organize a PDF Community in your town?

SEE LEADERS EMERGE

WATCH PEOPLE BE POWERFUL

scott@meetup.com @heif

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