Build: Community, purpose & growth
Lessons from Traverse City
It’s been over a week since I had a conversation about social entrepreneurship with twenty like-minded individuals in Traverse City, Michigan–people who believe in the idea of "doing well and doing good." What I took away from that experience: Lesson One: Dive in, the water’s fine. A Bigger Voice sometimes requires that we act in…
Read MoreDora’s Big Adventure
I have this theory that communities provide three fundamental things that human beings seek: Comfort, Joy, and Empowerment. 1. Comfort. It’s that feeling of being with like-minded people, kindred spirits, people who “get me.” I know that I belong. When I did group coaching for boundary crossers last year, I heard this phrase repeatedly: “I…
Read MoreFounder of Flickr on Community
A quote from Stewart Butterfield, founder of Flickr: "A lot of our success came from George, the lead designer, and Caterina. Both of them spent a lot of time in the early days greeting individual users as they came in, encouraging them and leaving comments on their photos. There was a lot of dialogue between…
Read MoreA Cause Without a Community Means…?
Our first guest blog posting comes from Dave Murphy, who I first collaborated with on the Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving project. Dave has been a sounding board for A Bigger Voice since I started fleshing out the idea late in 2007, for which I’m grateful. Dave is a screenwriter who understands the medium of story…
Read MoreNever Eat Alone
I discovered the book, Never Eat Alone, when I listened to an interview with the author, Keith Ferrazzi. I originally wanted to blog about the book because it has so much good advice on networking. And after doing a bit more research, I could see that he also understands how to use branding and technology…
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