{"id":458,"date":"2005-02-24T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/24\/wanted-small-change-blogging-partners\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T20:19:55","slug":"wanted-small-change-blogging-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/24\/wanted-small-change-blogging-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"WANTED: Small Change Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Originally posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/small-change-news\/\">sCNN &#8211; the smallChangeNewsNetwork<\/a><\/i><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>The last week of silence here belies all of the work I&#8217;ve been doing behind the scenes, mostly at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omidyar.net\/home\">Omidyar.net<\/a>, where that emergent online community of 5000 has been trying to decide what to do with $25,000.  Some just want to post up some projects and vote.  Others, like me, have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omidyar.net\/groups\/community-general\/news\/576\/\">designing<\/a> various ways of leveraging the existing eBay-style feedback points reputation system into a self-organizing, self-funding community micro philanthropy system.  Some fantastic people there and still not sure if it is a place to do real work yet.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on my last couple weeks of intense work there, I am more clear than ever about some things: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Small groups are the bedrock, clarity and funding will follow soon enough<\/li>\n<li>Smaller, immediate next steps will get us where we want and need to go<\/li>\n<li>Actors and Activities are more important than projects, proposals and organizations<\/li>\n<li>Tags are important, del.icio.us is amazing, and I&#8217;ve no clue (yet) how to use it here<\/li>\n<li>Whatever we create to support the kind of world we want, it has to scale to the largest whole<\/li>\n<li>Sleep is not a luxury.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">sCNN wants and needs to have partners! <\/span>This experiment wants to be a community project.  If you&#8217;d like to be part of a smallish (but growing) group of passionate and responsible Actors, blogging and tagging small change, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><a href=\"mailto:mailbag@smallchangenews.org\">email me<\/a> or just go start tagging!<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>technorati:  <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sCNN\" rel=\"tag\">sCNN<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/smallchangenews\" rel=\"tag\">SmallChangeNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted to sCNN &#8211; the smallChangeNewsNetwork&nbsp; The last week of silence here belies all of the work I&#8217;ve been doing behind the scenes, mostly at Omidyar.net, where that emergent online community of 5000 has been trying to decide what to do with $25,000. Some just want to post up some projects and vote. Others, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/24\/wanted-small-change-blogging-partners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WANTED: Small Change Partners&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallchangenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}