“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.” - unknown
While I’m not sure this is an all-encompassing definition of innovation, I do believe it belongs as a key part of discussing innovation.
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“Social Media” isn’t just a clever buzz term or another name for Web 2.0 technologies. It is a movement, a set of tools to organize people, talent, skill, money, and other resources in ways that were previously difficult if not impossible to achieve – and will be vital to the success of a project like Outstanding Club.
It seemed appropriate to share a few thoughts about the subject of Social Media, to frame the necessary discussion we all face around how best to use this emerging, synergizing, collaborative, boundary-erasing technology. What part will you play in the Social Media Movement?
“Wikipedia works because so many contributors figured out how to self-organize into a group that produced something far more useful than a traditionally organized document.” - from the Seth Godin blog
“Folks, you use social media to connect with people not to market to them.” - Josh Hallett
“Social media is a cult of generosity. Share everything you can with the world” – Shel Israel
“Everyone is, or soon will be, connected to everyone else, and all available information, through instantaneous, multi-way communication. This is ubiquitous connectivity. They will therefore have the experience of being immediately proximate to everyone else and to all available information. This is pervasive proximity…It is a world of entangled, complex processes, not content. It is a world in which the greatest skill is that of making sense and discovering emergent meaning among contexts that are continually in flux. It is a world in which truth, and therefore authority, is never static, never absolute, and not always true.” - Resonance Partnership blog
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“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs
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It seems counterintuitive, but for imagination-based companies to succeed in the long run, making money can’t be the focus.
Figuring out what you want in life is not about asking the right questions. It’s about taking massive action across a wide variety of domains and determining which activities you enjoy most.
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Some of you have requested the rules for the Group Writing Contest to exist in their own blog post, and if I am anything I am eager to please.
What is Your Mission Statement - Outstanding Club Group Writing Contest
The leadership of Outstanding Club is busily working away at refining the vision and mission of the group. A great mission statement is one that is succinct but thorough, simple but all-encompassing. It is a filter through which all things must pass to be considered a part of what the group is and does. If you intend to use it as that filter, it has to be, deserves to be, chiseled to near-perfection.
With that in mind, the challenge to you this month is to define your own mission statement. What are the things that define you to the core? With a clearly defined mission statement and vision for your life, it becomes far easier to know what to say no to, what to embrace in your life, and how to spend more of your time doing what is unmistakably “you”.
Write your personal mission statement and the process you go through to determine what it ought to be, and you might win one of two US $25 Amazon Gift Certificates! For an example, here’s a link to the Personal Mission Statement of one of the Outstanding Club members. Yours does not have to be as long, structured in the same way - heck, you don’t even need to succeed in coming up with one! The process of trying to develop one is the important part.
How to Win
Write a blog entry on your own blog describing what your personal mission statement is, along with a description of the process you went through to come up with it. Only one entry per participant! It should be recent and original (up to 60 days old is OK). You’re strongly encouraged (though not required) to link back to this blog to acknowledge your participation.
Contact us via a comment on this post (see the little comment link near the top of this newsletter) or via e-mail at iainhamp at gmail no later than Wednesday, April 30, at midnight Pacific Standard Time. Include your name and the URL of your list. On May 7, we’ll post a list with all valid entries.You have until Wednesday, May 14 to read the participants’ entries and post a list with your favorite entries in your own blog. You should pick at least 3 favorite entries, and as many as you like (all, if you are so inclined).
Note: While we certainly don’t want to discourage anyone from linking to their favorite entries, regardless of whether they participated, only those who submit entries and then vote on their favorites will be eligible to win.
On May 21 the winners will be announced. Every time an entry gets mentioned as a favorite it gets one point, regardless of position. The two entries with the most votes get the prizes (if there’s a draw, the entry that was submitted first gets ranked higher).
Prizes
As mentioned before, the two top entries in the group writing contest will win US $25 Amazon Gift Certificates! Good luck, and we can’t wait to read your entries!
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