Funding Community-authored Television by Learning from KarmaTube.org

This morning I was reflecting...flowing energy... on how I could further communicate the power of the new television to facilitate positive social change, when BINGO!!... a new friend of mine sends me an e-mail about KarmaTube.org with just the right messaging needed. KarmaTube.org is a simple site with a simple idea, create good Karma by producing marvelous content that tells a compelling human story about the impact that small acts of kindness and caring can make in young people's lives, as they develop into tomorrow's leaders... with the same thing on their minds and in their hearts. 

The trailer for the Jennifer Arnold film, a Small Act wonderfully communicates that. Now my thoughts are on how content like this can be crafted to support domestic community-authored television right here in the U.S.  that uplifts communities right here. One message is to keep it simple and the other is make the content as elegant and as inspirational as the people your story talks about.

In the last few years, I have been fortunate to be able to work with at-risk, court-involved, youth of color, mentoring them, and teaching them how to craft and tell their own stories using the new television, but initiatives have been stalled due to lack of funding, and budget cuts across multiple government agencies, but perhaps communicating this idea to a broader audience by leveraging the power of the new television and can garner more support. 

Let's connect and discuss if you like and understand where I am going with this 425-780-6872

Some More Amazing Web Television...About the Power of Web Television...for Driving Innovation and Learning

This sacred Sunday morning... I am again in bliss after watching, reflecting, and co-resonating the wonderful energy, passion and desire for a better world that TED speaker Chris Anderson speaks about when he talks about how web video is powering phenomenal innovation across the planet. Rather than being freaked about the prospect of nine billion people plundering the world, he instead resonates with positive passionate energy when talks about the power of web video to create excellence accelerated by crowds of people watching web television, learning from it, and then raising the bar by emulating lessons learned, and then innovating themselves on top of that. 

He calls the phenomenon "Crowd Accelerated Innovation" and the three core components or "dials" to have the innovation wheel turn is what the new web television phenomenon involves: 1) a crowd...or massive audience, 2) "light" shown on the talent...by the crowd through comments and viral sharing, and 3) a human desire to innovate and do it even better. With the web television phenomenon... all three dials are ramped up full tilt. 

Anderson also recognizes the impact that this phenomenon has had on web video-based TED Talks themselves. Each consecutive speaker gets better, driven by lessons learned from other speakers and by a passion to be as good as or better than previous speakers. So now their next move is to expand and accelerate the learning by adopting "radical openess",  having members of "the crowd" author their own TED X ...extended content to have even more excellence..."bubble up" by people watching, emulating and innovating ..sitting two feet away from the best teachers in the world...individuals from "the crowd" that members of the The Crowd are already shining light upon... Even as stodgy old institutions with awful teachers are not serving their students well, students empowered by the new television can still learn from community-authored pedagogy and he gives us several marvelous best practice examples of this, leaving the best for last. Christopher Makau from Kibera, the African continent's largest slum. This brought tears of joy to my eyes as he provides a glimpse of some his accomplishments and as he proudly proclaims that "Kibera is a hot bed of innovation."

This is an exciting and passionate time to be alive as community-based content contributor...in the light of a world audience that is now self-fueled for dynamic radical innovation in a now 21st century world where 80 million hours of YouTube video are being watched each and everyday that's not all "puppies and porn." Let's connect if you too are being moved by the new world television phenomenon. 425-780-6872

Web Television and Social Media - Great Tools for Inspiring Achievement in Math & Science...Across the World

This morning I was sitting here in front my laptop... flowing my feelings and my energy about using the power of the new web television and new social media to make life better and wondering how to communicate that... when BINGO! after checking my e-mail from CurrentTV, I discovered youth video testimonials from the Connect-A-MillionMinds Project. Nice how the Universe responds...just by manifesting what I care about. The goal of the project is to use technology - web television and social media to connect up youth in top math & science performing countries with kids in other countries whose national math & science performance does not rank as high. 

This youths talk about their experiences within their culture and within the educational systems and they communicate a wealth of information and passion about what they are excited about.   Here are just a few "snippets" of various students comments from all over the world that Inspire the Next-Generation of Problem-Solvers on Current.tv. Evidently there also was a recent global online TownHall Meeting on the ConnectAMillionMinds.com site with videos to follow. 

For me personally, both the CONTENT and the DELIVERY of this model project are most "instructive" for me and for other learning and ommunity-based economic development stakeholders I am in the process of reaching. and empowering. Now that the technology as well as innovative applications for it are here, what's next to do ... is for all of us to step up to plate to fund and do important projects like this ...ourselves.  See the content and then let's connect about this. 425-780-6872.

This "Economy": The Challenge Really is the Opportunity

This morning after watching President Obama last night on 60 Minutes skillfully and responsibly manage the challenges and the negativity being thrown at at him ...and experiencing his grace and elegance... and most importantly, his sense of hope and resolve.. and how he flowed positive energy in a humble but strong way...even as he responded to his attacks... it made me think about this "Economy".. all over again... and what the challenge and the opportunity is as exhibited by Oback's remarkable leadership and sense of humanity. I then searched for an image on Google Images that communicated the spirit of this.. and BINGO...the Universe again responded.. This leaping goldfish ...transcending his crowded situation..says it all...President Obama is like that goldfish... and remains an inspiration to me. 

What President Obama continues to teach us.. is that "The Challenge"... really is THE OPPORTUNITY. Here's what I mean

• Seeing the Economy for what it is... a "crisis in confidence"... but get the sequence right...understanding and leveraging the Law of Attraction. Putting out a lot of negative energy because of our lack of confidence... only puts our more lack of confidence not more....so "The Economy"...which really is only a state of mind... our "crisis of confidence" ...gets worse.. not better.
  
  
• Instead of being a "victim" of  basically bad vibes that attract more bad vibes... Tea Partyers ....ignorant, knee-jerk folk like Sarah Palin are issuing in and enjoying a temporary reign of ignorance that momentarily makes them feel proud, but actually this is very bad for our country ...because it's only negative energy that they are putting out that begets more negative energy.. and lack of confidence... "The Economy" is basically a state of mind... and an energy field...if more negative energy is flowing than positive... then.. that's what you get.
  
  President Obama on other hand, for me personally, especially when the I see the way he responds, recover and move forward is still my shining star,  a positive change agent... just "learning" from the experience... and transcending it as the resourceful, intelligent and caring human being that he is....exuding confident, positive energy, ultimately and infinitely more powerful than that sea of ugly disgruntled faces...contorted by the their own ignorance that has nothing substantive to offer.
  
  
• President Obama said it last night on 60 Minutes, even while we was being attacked on the show. The economy in fact was tanking...before he even came into office, as the result of years of unregulated economic speculation allowed by, condoned by, a Republican-led administration that promoted this unregulated...unbridled... speculation that brought about the crisis. Much of the speculation was in fact...criminal in nature...with circles of speculators flipping houses buying low and selling high, and selling awful financial products, variable interest rate mortgages and second mortgages that put people under water. Listen to folks This American Life and the story NPR's Planet Money did about, "Toxie" the "toxic asset" they purchased.. to learn about. Their story about "Toxie" is excellent journalism.
  
  The banks that bought the paper which became "toxic" assets were all part of this agenda as well... an agenda which created a "crisis" of their brand of Capitalism that they so loved and cherished. It was then the banks that used their influence to have the government bail them with TARP under outgoing President George W. Bush. Obama did what he could with his team to execute TARP and actually repayment... at least on the part of the larger banks..under Obama's adminstration has proceeded quite well.
  
  
• The OPPORTUNITY then squarely has to do with COMMUNICATIONS and LEARNING and  how to create and construct our world in a way that makes more sense and that is more enlightened then what is fed us by corporate-owned networks. What's really new now is how the power of new Internet and World Wide Web tools & strategies can ...especially web television... web conferencing... and social medial... now be innovatively leveraged to create more confidence first...through enlightened communications and learning... and then have a developing, recovering economy follow... that even transcends party lines.  Notice the sequence here that adheres to the Laws of Attraction... exuding confidence first... attracting more positive energy... and flowing that energy into positive change... that builds even more confidence.. getting people spending and creating jobs... and wealth again...that is more authentic.. honest and helpful.
  
  We here at New World Communications realize that this will take time... but we intend to do this in "Steps" that add and leverage a virtual world toolset and that cultivate a hybrid world mind set. See what we are already beginning to bring to our plate for November 2010...for one of the best Thanksgivings yet.  I welcome any and all comments, let's connect ...as human beings and transcend the partisan politics fixing this economy and not making things worse  with our own bad vibes. 1-425-780-6872.

The New Television and Social Change - The Best Recipes for Learning Will Come Out of Grassroots Communities Themselves

This morning I am resonating with joy about the new television and social change, as The Conversation with my friends, colleagues and allies about education, technology and community-based economic development both widens...and critically deepens.  The fact is that the best recipes for learning are now coming out of grassroots communities themselves the world over, and these home-grown recipes both acknowledge,  leverage and celebrate the indigenous genius of people in the community... including children and progressive community-based educators themselves. Technology ... the new web television and remote web conferencing specifically can help get the word out. 

Suguta Mitra working with his Hole in the Wall experiments is a shining example. See his remarkable presentation on TED showing how slum kids teach themselves even with less than ideal technology access. This is some important work. British educator Charles Leadbetter also is acknowledging where the best recipes for learning are coming from... from grass-roots educational initiatives..the world over. Also see his TED presentation about "Education Innovation in the Slums".

As important is the home-grown grassroots work that has been going on right here in Seattle's Puget Sound region... Why "Wait for Superman" and all the fancy legislative lobbying with push from the not-so-slick commercial charter schools industry... when we already have excellent home-grown recipes for learning ...that we can produce home-grown television about ...that we can write home about, further promote and further support?

That's the thought, the feeling, and most importantly... The Conversation... that I via my blog and other initiatives have been snowballing...and deepening. Wow! Look at how powerful the new web television is... and in our own conscious hands, it can be even more so.  Community-authored television and grassroots web conferencing ...done well... and combined with other forms of social media...can be the way to get the word out... garnering more momentum and support for important work already being done... and changing the world.  Call me if you are interested in seizing this opportunity as well. 1-425-780-6872

Five Things To Do Now to Help Move Business Forward

This afternoon...existing and prospective clients are on my mind ... and in my heart.  Wow.. I am already feeling great about how I can help them all. Here are five things that I can help them do...now.. to move their business forward... even in spite of tough economic times:

1. Help them Get Their Heads On Right - All the economic analysts say that the cause of our "economic crisis" has to to do with a "lack of confidence"... that creates a chain reaction of negative energy that ripples throughout society.attracting even more negative energy...poverty. If we instead create "abundant confidence"... now...instead of lack of it.. this can create a chain reaction of positive energy that ripples throughout society...and throughout the Universe... that attracts even more positive energy...sending wealth on it's way.  Here's a great read about this called Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting that I recently blogged about. Once you understand how to flow your energy right... you can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too...instead of allowing you and your business to get blown around by negative economic "winds"... that are all around us....messing with your own "confidence"...and your energy fields...attracting "no wealth"...instead of it's opposite...what you need and want.
   
   
2. Help Them Strategically Plan - Imagine what it would be like...trying to build a house without a plan. I could sit down with them.. and have them get more intentional... about everything.... asking them pressing questions like, "Who is your customer? What does your customer actually need? ...and how do you intend to reach your customer..first? And how in a now 21st century world ...chocked full of new world communications tools & strategies...changing each and every day... do you intend to do this? Do you intend to try to take on all this by yourself... or just rely on one consultant? Or might it be better to work with a consultant who also collaborates...with a whole team of consultants who specialize in just what you might need...like search engine optimization (SEO) or producing compelling television programming... or instructionally designing a customer education curriculum .....or putting together a series of "critical conversations" designed to move your business ...phenomenally forward?
   
   
3. Help Them Do a Comprehensive Business Make-over from End-to-End - With a disciplined mental approach, and informed by a strategic plan that is also with it new world communications-wise that takes advantage of the latest tools & strategies, I could help them with "computing in the cloud" using Google virtual applications....I help could help by helping them design their print collateral ...and by designing an attractive website that builds their brand...with all the goodies..including their own web television channel....maybe even with affordable or free web conferencing so that they can meet with people... "inside" their website.
   
   
4. Help Them Feel Good About Moving Forward Now ... to make moving forward... way easier because of the positive energy they''ll be flowing out... and be met with... as we work together to move forward.
   
   
5. Help Them Feel Even Better..Now ...once they call and connect them about moving forward... with some of this.. or possibly...even all of it. 425-780-6872.

More info about Google TV... and What's in it for You

This morning, after receiving an e-mail from a friend and colleague reporting how traditional media ...ABC, NBC, Fox is "underwhelmed" responding to Google TV, I decided to post more info about Google TV and what's in this for you.  See this article about "Top Networks Not Yet On Board with Google TV" in the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal". What a hoot this article is.

What I walk away with is... is the fact that even though the major networks....ABC, NBC, Fox...who continue to dominate our consciousness supposedly are "underwhelmed",  the article goes on to say that Google TV...doesn't depend upon them. What the article didn't say is that Google TV depends on us to understand it... and to seize it.... to change the game... and change the world. 

So "What is Google TV?". The short answer...This brings Web to TV and TV to the Web. To learn more, see "What is Google TV?" on my New World Television Channel page. Also see this new Flash content about Google TV that Google just put on on their site that let's you browse main features.

Here is what's in Google TV for you, depending on what hats you wear:

• Personal/Spiritual Development Television ... content that we produce.. and content from others
• Health, Wellness and Wealth Television... content that we produce...and content from others.
• Creative Artists and Entrepreneurs Television...content that we produce and content from others.
• War Veteran's Television... content that we produce and content from others
• Peace Advocacy Television ...content that we produce and content from others
• Small Business Development Television ...content that we produce...and content from others
• Government Contracting Television ..content that we produce...and content from others
• Green Business Development Television...content that we produce...and content from others
• Community Action Television ..content that we produce...and content from others
• Immigrant Television ...content that we produce and content from others
• Native People's Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Gullah-Geechee Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Network Marketing Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Single Mothers Television ...content that we produce and content from others
• Families of Prisoners Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Prisoners Who Just Got Out Television...content that we produce and content from other
• Homeless Peoples Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Unemployed and Laid-off People's Television ...content that we produce and content from other
• Recycled Seniors Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Recycled Youth Television... content that we produce and content from others
• College-bound Youth Television...content that we produce and content from other
• Parent Advocacy Television... content that we produce and content from others.
• College Readiness Television... content that we produce and content from others
• Baby-Boomers Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Public Safety/Catastrophe Preparedness Television that we produce and content from others
• Education Change Television...content we produce and content from others
• Citizen/Voters Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Research and Development Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Innovation Television...content that we produce and content from others
• Political and Social Change Television...content that we produce and content from others.
• "The Network"... a prime-time television reality television show that I am putting together... with all of us starring in it. 

I can work with you and others to produce the communications and learning new world needs to produce the television a new world needs.. training and developing folks to create their own content... their own television "channels" and using low-cost almost no cost tools and strategies to do it. Call me and let's connect - 425-780-6872.

Reflections About Media These Last Few Days: What Sense Can Be Made of All This?

This morning, I am reflecting about the media... film and television these last few days... experiencing new possibilities for change in areas that really matter to me personally. Beginning with Oprah, the nation and the world was introduced to the Waiting for Superman film and school reform project with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Then there was the group view of the film, paid for by Stand for Children, a national interest group invested in leveraging the the films progressive charter schools message to mobilize a voting public, and putting all stakeholders on notice, including all teachers, their unions,  and principals, school superintendents...entire school systems. There were 600 people that showed up and filled the house... This is BIG.

The film debut downtown in Seattle was on Friday and there had other coordinated screenings...across the country... as well....then on Sunday nite on 60 minutes the public is treated to a rare glimpse of Bill and Melinda Gates at work... with a commitment of giving 60 billion dollars away... 90% of their wealth away for HIV, malaria, polio eliminations, and education... We see Bill Gates...again... this time as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates...team.. The message points were both philanthropic and human... as well as corporate...reflecting an enlightened understanding of our dependence upon one another...a good business to be in.

What I keep asking myself is "What Sense Can Be Made of All This?"... and why now?

What particularly speaks to me is the way that even commercial media is being leveraged to create a new reality that promises a better and more just world. I keep thinking to myself... how can I make the world better... with media that is now...in our own hands? We can produce films television programs ourselves.. and these programs can now be uploaded... to our own "channels"... There are also various business models that pay for television to study, learn from...and to practically apply..by those of us right here on the ground. Call me and let's connect 425-780-6872.

Waiting for Superman: Thoughts, Feelings and Next to Dos

I am blogging this morning, full of thoughts, feelings and next dos,  after watching and experiencing the film Waiting for Superman last night...with thousands of other people across the U.S. and across the world. Retrospectively, the film is a powerful statement about across-the-board failure of the nation's public education system and how most schools and school systems, urban, and suburban doom the majority of their students to academic failure and lack of opportunity. I and the entire audience were brought to tears, especially, when we had to experience parents and their children's hopes and dreams crushed by school lottery systems with only a few "lucky" winners able to get into better educational programs.

Before that however, the film did a good job of providing an excellent overview and insight on the difference a good teacher versus a bad teacher can make.  The teacher unions "brand" also did not fare too well because the film showed how teacher's unions and tenure system policy and contracts have tended to guarantee job security and a paycheck, even though some teachers aren't even doing their job. Some amazing "undercover" footage is included in the film that I am sure makes teacher's union officials cringe. Charter schools  presented in such a glowing, contrasting way, by focusing on some of the nation's best, will get public school systems and teacher's unions thinking about how to re-position themselves policy-wise and contract-wise.

So after all is said and felt about the film, what is there to be done about the situation? What I am walking away with is how powerful and effective good media can be used to facilitate broad-based social change starting with what's going on...right here in our own communities and state....and we can produce some of this media ourselves. I do media.. so I intend to outreach to the organization who paid for the screening, Stand for Children about doing some post-viewing grassroots television for them that can facilitate even more positive social movement.

What made me really feel good, is that I had already been to a grassroots community meeting earlier this week where powerful regional leadership was already in place and where action agendas were already being laid out. One stakeholder even had handout sheets on what each stakeholder: parent, teacher, student, principal, superintendent, concerned citizen could do to fix education... after the film Waiting for Superman.. has come and gone.

Wow, how hopeful I am, even after being brought to tears by this excellent film that most likely will be too overwhelming for many. Others may only just get angry, just putting out more negative energy. The point, however, was that we all need to come together to fix education for all of us.

Call me and let's connect about facilitating positive educational change.. and not "waiting for superman" in order to have that happen. What's really new is that we can now create our own grassroots, community-based learning channel to further educate learning stakeholders and we don't need a huge film budget to do it... See my New World Television Channel page and What is GoogleTV? for more info.  425-780-6872

Google TV...The Experience is Almost Like Having an Epiphany

Today is an afternoon publish ... after allowing more time... to have powerful ideas come tumbling forth as an outcome of deep contemplation of the phenomenal implications of the new Google TV.

Here's a nice little exercise and experiment to try. Watch this little well-crafted two minute and 21 second video ... What is Google TV?.. with nice female voice...on my New World Television Channel page... and then try to go about business as usual.. Then watch what comes tumbling forth to the foreground of your consciousness... in a few days.

For me personally, the experience because of my television systems and programming background...is close to having an epiphany ...close to my intellectual and spiritual core... as a communicator... as a educator... and most importantly as a living breathing 21st century... human being. Google's bringing Web to TV and TV to the Web...in such an elegantly simple way...completely changes "The Game" ...for me in my ability to serve multiple audiences from the smallest micro-business... to the largest nation-state.

And shared with other, minds, and hearts...and souls...it can positively change the world...in a marvelously powerful and joyous way. That's all I can say about this experience for now. What, after viewing this video.. comes forward for you... in a few days after trying this little experiment? Call me and let's connect. The entire world has already changed for me personally...resonating positively...thinking about... and now working with this stuff. 425-780-6872.

Peace

"Waiting for Superman" Film - Media can both "Instructive"...as well as "Prescriptive"

This morning after getting an e-mail from a friend and colleague about the new film, "Waiting for Superman" and watching how it is being promoted to raise national conversation about public education systems failure, I am elated to experience the wisdom, skill, good, and money behind the "Waiting for Superman" social change initiative. Here is a fine example where love for all the nation's children can fuel enough energy, momentum, support and resources to fund a mission-critical project like this. 

Media done this way can be both "instructive" as well as "prescriptive" ...raising consciousness and both the depth and breadth of the conversation about fixing public education to a national level. Great film can do that, getting us all to something about things that we deeply care about... the education of our children. I actually work with a social services agency and educational program that works with children from public school systems who are regularly suspended and expelled  each October, after these failing public school systems have included them in their "headcount" ...so that this public school district can get paid fully ...for not serving them well. This is criminal...yet is failed students who are criminally charged.. often times for the smallest behavioral issue..who are given the criminal label.. and increasingly taught to become actual criminals.  

As a media professional, I would use my craft rather flow my energy into positive ways to change routinely "criminal" institutions practices such as these, rather than flow and attract even more negative energy, especially when there are front-running progressive educators who are now modeling positive alternative educational strategies to learn about and to learn from..that most folks don't even know about Wow, does that very idea make me feel good as I experience folks involved with Waiting for Superman taking this higher ground approach.

Now all what I want to do even more is to create and tell more positive stories like these that can further change the world, and leveraging group viewing of this movie to get some local momentum going. Nice! Call me and let's connect if what you are learning from the Waiting for Superman experience is also now motivating you. 425-780-6872.