SmallChangeNewsNetwork

[The sCNN Weblog] - connecting what we have and do to what we want and need.

The SmallChangeNewsNetwork is the latest incarnation of an idea that started as an off-hand comment that what we really need around this world is a "gBay" in which projects could be posted for donors to bid on them for funding. That idea morphed quickly into the GivingMarket, which is the name that this project travelled under for perhaps two months. In that time it moved quickly. Back to the [Weblog]

Here is how the GivingMarket evolved into the SmallChangeNewsNetwork:

Giving as Conference

• GivingMarket/GBayStoryMarket ...a crazy idea from out of the blue, be careful what you wish for.
• GivingMarket/ConferenceNotes ...from the GivingMarket breakout session at [GivingConference] in Chicago

Giving as Financial Transaction

• GivingMarket/OverView ...initially we assumed that we'd want to own the transaction processing
• GivingMarket/KeyWordsDefined ...keywords and assumptions matter when making a business case
• GivingMarket/SmallChange ...the beginnings of how this could work
• GivingMarket/BigChange ...and where it might lead on a grand scale
• GivingMarket/OpenQuestions ...and some things still wouldn't quite resolve into action

Giving as Moving Markets

• GivingMarket/WorkingModels ...we collected links to where pieces of this are already alive and working in the real world
• GivingMarket/KindredSpirits ...we noticed other people and sites that have something to offer/inform this project
• GivingMarket/MembersWebsite ...we wondered, do we need to capture a bunch of data about all kinds of givers and projects?
• GivingMarket/PublicFoundation ...and returned briefly to ask, maybe we do need to own the transactions after all? is that where to start?
• GivingMarket/WeblogDirectory ...could it be this simple? ...in the tradition of http://www.chicagobloggers.com

Giving as Inviting Relationship

• GivingMarket/GivingMarketBlog ...could the simplest GivingMarket/WeblogDirectory also be a weblog, itself?
• GivingMarket/StrategicGivingQuestions ...perhaps it's enough to just keep asking these big questions?
• GivingMarket/OneBigBlogRoll ...and make a place for links to individual weblogs and websites, owning none of them
• GivingMarket/GivingNewsBlog ...maybe it's enough to offer the questions and invite links and news?
• GivingMarket/NextSteps ...what if we build it out just a little bit more than it already is? ...small changes continuing.

...and when we went to build it, a weblog happened: the SmallChangeNewsNetwork

• SmallChangeNewsNetwork/WhatItWillBe ...a bit of vision, introduction and invitation to join this project
• SmallChangeNewsNetwork/WhatIsThis ...working definitions that help explain what is happening here
• SmallChangeNewsNetwork/HowToUse ...this space for your own news and information, connecting and contributing
• SmallChangeNewsNetwork/NextSteps ...what we know needs to be done next

SmallChangeNewsNetwork/InvitingFriendsAndPartners ...finishing the framing so that others can join in the blogging and linking

Individual Contributors

• [ChrisCorrigan]
• [PhilCubeta]
• [TedErnst]
• [JulieEvansCaldwell]
• [MichaelHerman]
• JillPerkins
• [JonRamer]
• [MicheleBaratta]
• [PennyScott]
• [LisaHaneberg]

Organizational Links

• [BALLE-BC]
• [EmergingFutures]
• [GivingConference]
• [InterraProject]

Comments and Questions

• Email... mailto:michael@michaelherman.com.
• Post here at GivingMarket/CommentsAndQuestions. Thanks!