http://www.emergingfutures.net Doing together what we cannot do alone. Mon, 28 May 2007 06:51:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Emerging Futures Network recieves a 2007 Omidyar Network $15,000 community favorite award. In their award letter, Thomas Kriese, executive producer of Omidyar Network stated that the award was given to recognize Brandon CS Sanders, David Braden, Gerry Gleason, Laure Dillon, Julie Caldwell, Michael Maranda, and Ted Ernst for ... http://www.emergingfutures.net/2007/05/25/emerging-futures-network-receives-15000-omidyar-network-community-favorite-award/ We have had much talk of Guilds among the EFN: OGuild or the Open Guild, the emerging Network Weavers Guild and Network, and more. I invite you to take share in a Vision, articulating Guild in (r)elation to Networking and Commons Perspectives which are among core values of the EFN. Imagine a ... http://www.emergingfutures.net/2007/05/04/vision-guild-as-service-leadership-model-in-the-concentric-commons/ The Network as Movement (a social networking video) At the Recent Changes Camp meetup folks asked us "What is Emerging Futures Network?"  We discovered: THERE IS A MOVEMENT   .... THERE IS A NETWORK  .... made up of small, loosely linked parts that collectively define the mystery and evolution of human beings.EMERGING FUTURES NETWORK ... http://www.emergingfutures.net/2007/02/08/small-loosely-linked-parts/ Save the dates & buy your ticket: February 1: Emerging Futures Network meetup February 2-4: Recent Changes Camp open space event http://www.emergingfutures.net/2007/01/05/portland-or-meetup/ From http://www.omidyar.net/group/efn/news/38/: Define the 3 functions of EFN, structures and roles we need to deliver an integrative EFN launch. 3 functions: connection, reputation, identity Integrative launch: Uplifting a multiplatform shared community center with an open source directory, membership care, reputation and identity system. EFN Node and other Key Nodes doing together what they ... http://www.emergingfutures.net/2007/01/04/next-steps/ You are invited to RecentChangesCamp 2007. RecentChangesCamp is an un-conference (BarCamp) of, for, and by folks who want to ‘build communities worth having’ both online and off. We are coming together to make connections, write code, have fun, revise the CyberneticRoadmap, do as much good work as each and every one ... http://www.emergingfutures.net/2007/01/04/recentchangescamp07-portland-or-feb-2-4/ Blaine, Washington -- Dec 1-4, 2006 This is an invitation. Please join us! If you are engaged in making the world a better place via championing your own initiative or supporting others, jump in with a group of like-minded partners to develop something bigger than any one of us. Join ... http://www.emergingfutures.net/2006/10/20/invitation/ Are you going by skateboard, by bike, by hot-air balloon? Our current list of everyone's plans is here: http://www.omidyar.net/group/efn/ws/travel_arrangements/ Please directly edit that page, write in the comments, or email ted@chicagohumanist.org with your travel plans so we can coordinate rides from the airport and such. http://www.emergingfutures.net/2006/10/19/getting-to-blaine/