(competing with pepsi)

What word
do we see a LOT?

let’s develop
something cool
together

Lets start supporting
each other and
helping each other

let’s help each
other out

let’s connect
for a better
future

let’s
make a
movie

let’s clean up
the beach

let’s talk MS

let’s beat
cancer

let’s jump out
of a perfectly
good airplane

let’s go green

Local Exchange
Transaction System

This is what
happens when
people
self-organize

Use the
internet to
get off the
internet

Babysitting,
Cheryl,
DIH

Tapping the
“cognitive surplus”
& the hunger for
community,
connection, belief,
belonging

de-personalized
super-industrialized
over-anonymized
lonely, hurting,
feeling powerless
and/or broke

waiting
for a way to be
powerful
together

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL
LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL
LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL
LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL
LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL
LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL

REAL COMMUNITY
REAL COMMUNITY
REAL COMMUNITY
REAL COMMUNITY
REAL COMMUNITY
REAL COMMUNITY

LET’S LET’S LET’S
LET’S LET’S LET’S
LET’S LET’S LET’S
LET’S LET’S LET’S
LET’S LET’S LET’S
LET’S LET’S LET’S

everything’s being
re-invented,
by the people,
self-organized

BUT WHAT DOES
THIS HAVE TO DO
WITH DEMOCRACY?

Tom Steinberg
said to connect the
fisherpeople

What if the U.S.
SBA connected
SB people locally
to support each
other?

Re-imagine
Gov as a
platform for
Connecting
People

THIS IS NOT WHAT
THE MAYOR OF
BARCELONA WAS
TALKING ABOUT

P2P =
infinite
scale &
potential

P2P =
gov’t
saving $$$

de Tocqueville:
"In democratic countries,
the knowledge of how to
combine is the mother of
all other forms of
knowledge"

@heif:
"in the 21st century, the
technology for how to
combine is the mother of all
awesomeness"

WHAT’S GOING ON HERE:
Organizing the World’s Info
isn’t the only important
mission

Information isn’t everything

Transparency isn’t enough

INFORMATION
NEEDS
ACTION

YOUR RIGHTS TO FREE
SPEECH & INFORMATION
AREN’T YOUR ONLY
POWERFUL
HUMAN RIGHTS!

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
ARTICLE 12
FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND OF ASSOCIATION
Everyone has the right to
freedom of peaceful assembly
and to
freedom of association at all levels

The World’s People,
Self-Organized

MEME

we have more power
than ever to unleash
collaboration &
collective action

organizing
isn't just to act
against

"participation
means lending
your hands, not
just your voices"

GOT
FANS &
FOLLOWERS?

FANS &
FOLLOWERS
ARE WASTED

GET THEM
TO SELF-
ORGANIZE

MOBILIZE
THEM

MOBILIZE
THEM TO
HELP
THEMSELVES

GIVE THEM
PERMISSION
TO KICK ASS

DISTRIBUTE
RESPONSIBILITY
NOT JUST INFO
OR TASKS

THIS IS
ABOUT
*DURABLE*
MOVEMENTS

Would you help
organize a PDF
Community in
your town?

SEE LEADERS
EMERGE

WATCH PEOPLE
BE POWERFUL

scott@meetup.com
@heif
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