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Generosity Entrepreneurs, Feb 20, 2007
Generosity Entrepreneur creatively leverages new ideas and technologies to promote a gift economy. By personally living in a way that is congruent with the gift economy, a generosity e... |
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SmoothFeather Comes On Board!, Mar 27, 2007
, and 3) focus on the small. "Our main goal is to inspire others to create media within the gift economy," says Silas.
Hear, hear!
Have an idea to share, for arguably the first gift-ec... |
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How Our Gift Economy Magazine is Faring, Jun 17, 2008
After taking on conversations.org and converting work... |
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Berkana Heads Towards Gift Economy!, Jun 26, 2008
I've been a big fan of Meg Wheatley's writings for years. Her organizational design thinking is as much insightful as it is rooted in a deeper ... |
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Women and the Gift Economy, Dec 13, 2007
and the Gift Economy:
I believe that in discussing the gift economy we are naming something that we are already doing but which is hidden under a variety ... |
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SmoothFeather Hits YouTube Homepage Again!, Aug 18, 2008
Yup, that's right. SmoothFeather's Back in Life is on the YouTube homepage again! ... |
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Gift-Economy in India Currents?!?, Dec 13, 2008
I would imagine that practically everyone reading this blog knows about Freecycle -- a online forum for giving and receiving physical goods, for free.
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"The Gift That Will Never Be Re-gifted", Nov 25, 2008
Last month, I had the serendipitous privilege of sharing a flight with long-time Stanford professor Linda Hess and UC Berkeley professor ... |
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Potlach, Where Giving Knows No Slump, Dec 17, 2008
John Tierney ... |
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Lewis Hyde: Art and the Gift Economy, Apr 5, 2009
Poetry and all art are often clear examples of a gift economy. Lewis Hyde, in his seminal book -- The Gift -- talks about this very thing. Here's a quote from an ... |
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Local BayArea Update, Sep 15, 2008
Dear Friends,
It's been a while since I sent out a 'Local Events' update for the bay-area, but the wings of gift-economy keep spreading ... and there's much to share.
Last Sunday w... |
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RadioHead Goes Gift Economy!, Oct 1, 2007
In perhaps the most mainstream form of gift-economy, the multi-platinum band RadioHead has decided to try a pay-what-you-want pricing model. From the ... |
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Gift of a T-Shirt in Pomona, Oct 20, 2008
Last weekend, I was invited to speak at a Gandhi conference in Pomona. It felt like most of the leading Gandhian schola... |
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Grand Total, Less 100% Discount, Mar 11, 2009
own words:
There's a great story about the book order, which totally follows in the gift economy spirit we all know and love!
I phoned one of our contacts at... |
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How to Survive in a Gift-Economy, Jul 5, 2008
At just about every gift-economy talk I deliver, a timid hand raises itself half way, followed by a sheepish "Can I ask you a personal question?" remark, and then the million dollar ques... |
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Hangin' In, Generosity Style, Apr 11, 2008
In January 2007, we took on conversations.org and works &a... |
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Karma Clinic Stories, Jun 21, 2009
A few weeks ago, ... |
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After RadioHead, Paste Goes Gift-Economy, Nov 2, 2007
It isn't exactly gift-economy, but this pay-what-you-want idea is far more trust-based than the dominant economic syst... |
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The Mysterious Pull of Generosity, Dec 21, 2008
Last week, a Russian woman came to Wednesday for the first time. When we were chatting afterwards, she says, "So, what do you do?" You w... |
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Three Hurdles To A Gift Economy, Nov 15, 2008
spoken to thousands of people, it is no surprise that I find youngsters quickest in grasping the gift economy. While the elders and scholars will ask the scale question and adults will ask th... |
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Tale of Two Markets: Monetary and Social, Sep 23, 2008
No payment is better than low payment. That's an established point, a recent paper by MIT's James Heyman and Dan Arie... |
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Shopocalypse: What Would Jesus Buy?, Dec 3, 2007
Rev. Billy Talen wants God to "give us the power to stop shopping." His new documentary, What Would Jesus Buy, is a satire about our consumer culture, pegged to America's hol... |
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Farmers Market Comes to Karma Kitchen!, Oct 27, 2008
That may look like a shelf from the grocery store, but it's actually a photo from last weekend's ... |
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A Woman Named Free, Mar 3, 2009
[I just wrote this note to Richard, about an episode from last weekend.]
Hi Richard,
Yesterday, I was volunteering at Karma Kitchen... |
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Karma Clinic: Manifesting Gift Economy Healthcare, Mar 27, 2009
Last week, I had lunch with a young couple. At one point in the conversation, the woman turn to me and says, "Karma Clinic has changed our life,... |
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The Price-Placebo Effect In The Gift Economy, Mar 17, 2008
Eliot Spitzer, the former NY Governor, allegedly shared a $1,000-an-hour Mayflower Hotel tryst in ... |
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Seth Godin on Generosity, Dec 13, 2009
Seth Godin put together a free '... |
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Gift As the Primer Mover: Guest Post by John Bloom, Aug 30, 2009
I think I can make the case for this with two examples.
First, each of us is born into a gift economy; that is, our physical needs for nourishment and care are met through the gifts bestowe... |
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Five Emerging Ideas in the CharityFocus Ecosystem, Aug 16, 2009
I had recently sent out an email about the five new/bold ideas that are emerging from the CharityFocus ecosystem ...
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How Radiohead Experiment Fared, Nov 12, 2007
In September, Radiohead announced a radical distribution model -- no Hollywood middlemen, fans download the music directly from the web... |
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Gift Economy Grilled Cheese Sandwiches!, Aug 28, 2009
In 2004, on the campus of University of Texas, fiv... |
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Dakota 38 -- Upcoming SmoothFeather Film, Nov 12, 2008
Armed with a new website, and some new tools, Silas has currently planted the SmoothFeather anchors in South Dakota for a rather incredible project: ... |
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Jane's Gift Economy Art, Feb 21, 2009
In the most recent Conversations.org ... |
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Dama: A Vibrant Gift Economy in Mali, Apr 9, 2009
for thousands of years.
In its purest form, the gift economy is about the collective, allocation based on need, and abundance. Behind gifting is hum... |
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B-School Paper on CharityFocus, Jun 21, 2007
of the major paradigm shifters within this organization are the belief in a ‘gift economy’ and the belief that being the change changes the being. ... |
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Four Kind of Networks, and the Inner-Net, Aug 1, 2008
When Gil sent me an article on networks, it reignited my latest thinkin... |
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CommUNITYsweat dot org, Apr 27, 2008
There is a community in Los Angeles. In this community, people come together Monday, Wednesday, Friday's at 9:30am at a local community park and these people sweat. Together. The... |
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Greater Good and Daily Good :), Aug 6, 2008
At our last Tiger Team meeting, Christine Carter attended and shared a few words of inspiration during the DailyGood presentation. ... |
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Gift-Economy Lemonade, Video Version, Sep 6, 2007
Earlier this summer, the NY posse went out to Central Park to gift lemonades. Next week, they went ... |
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2007 CharityFocus Finances, Jun 3, 2008
In 2007, as our CFO Fred Hsu reports, we formally spent $22,086.19 in the following broad categories:
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Defining Gift-Economy For the Dictionary, Jul 10, 2009
of humanity at this time. And lo and behold, we were asked us to define the word "gift economy."
To share stories about gift-economy is easy, but to give a dictionary de... |
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Ripe Fruits Fall Naturally, Dec 26, 2008
A group of "organizational development" professionals were having an annual conference, and they invited me to give a talk. I agreed, almost eight months prior to the date.
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Power of Peer Production, Sep 4, 2008
The most recent time magazine has an article titled, "Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free." It notes tha... |
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Still Smooth Like A Feather, Aug 9, 2007
It's been a while since we got a formal update from the SmoothFeather posse -- our gift-economy film production crew, anchored by brother-man Silas -- but that's because they've been travelin... |
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Smartocracy: Collective Decision Making in Networks, Jul 18, 2008
Imagine if elders of Native American community voted on a YouTube videos or Digg stories. Clearly, we'd have a VERY different set of stories that made it to the top. :) So a reas... |
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Gift Cards Go Philanthropic!, Dec 9, 2007
As NY Times ... |
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Why Free Is the Future of Business, Feb 25, 2008
Chris Anderson's feature story at Wired this month: ... |
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Gift Economy Bicycles Make a Comeback, Oct 22, 2008
In 1964, ... |
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Michael Moore Enters the Gift-Economy, Sep 3, 2008
"This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans," Michael Moore says of his latest film -- Slacker Uprising. The documentary will be ava... |
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Last Month's Talk in Seattle, May 25, 2008
Last month, I was at the UnMoney conference in Seattle thinking of different ways to deal with money. Bunch of semi-famous economists, progressive thinkers,... |
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