HikeStorming was developed to offer people a new way to both get in better shape and develop ideas by creatively combining fitness (namely hiking) and brainstorming.
Presented at the BoardSource Leadership Forum October 2014
Social media is everywhere, and it’s here to stay. But how does it mix with governance? In this session, Emily Davis will discuss the importance of social media fundamentals, planning, and policies to effective governance. It may seem that governance and social media aren't connected, but what you don't know can hurt you. Social media is an asset to any organization, and, as a board leader, you need to be knowledgeable of the resources that will help your organization thrive.
Why is place so important?
Places condition our livesThey matter to human experience
Places condition our democracy
Good places attract - Failing places repel
Place is the physical ‘container’ for all the people, institutions and activities that occupy it
Place-making involves economy, society and environment
The This Place Matters team gave this presentation at “This Place Matters” in Cowie near Stirling. It was organised for us by Stirling Council and attended by local leaders from the Council, community and private sector.
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At the Meetup kickoff event, we introduced the concepts of social innovation and design thinking. The participants were taken through a fun and interactive exercise that served as an icebreaker as well as an introduction to some of the concepts in design thinking, empathy, active listening, and prototyping. We discussed how design thinking can be used in our community, referencing examples from other communities in the US as well as abroad. We also discussed the different types of events, how to participate, and volunteer opportunities.
Presented at the BoardSource Leadership Forum October 2014
Social media is everywhere, and it’s here to stay. But how does it mix with governance? In this session, Emily Davis will discuss the importance of social media fundamentals, planning, and policies to effective governance. It may seem that governance and social media aren't connected, but what you don't know can hurt you. Social media is an asset to any organization, and, as a board leader, you need to be knowledgeable of the resources that will help your organization thrive.
Why is place so important?
Places condition our livesThey matter to human experience
Places condition our democracy
Good places attract - Failing places repel
Place is the physical ‘container’ for all the people, institutions and activities that occupy it
Place-making involves economy, society and environment
The This Place Matters team gave this presentation at “This Place Matters” in Cowie near Stirling. It was organised for us by Stirling Council and attended by local leaders from the Council, community and private sector.
Weehawken/Union City Social Innovation Meetup KickoffSandy Sanchez
At the Meetup kickoff event, we introduced the concepts of social innovation and design thinking. The participants were taken through a fun and interactive exercise that served as an icebreaker as well as an introduction to some of the concepts in design thinking, empathy, active listening, and prototyping. We discussed how design thinking can be used in our community, referencing examples from other communities in the US as well as abroad. We also discussed the different types of events, how to participate, and volunteer opportunities.
This is the presentation we gave for a “This Place Matters” event in the Top of the Town in Stirling . It was organised for us by Stirling Council and attended by local leaders from the Council, from other public sector agencies, from the private sector and the community.
We gave this presentation at “This Place Matters” in the Vale of Leven. It was organised for us by West Dunbartonshire Council and attended by local leaders from the Council and the community.
This is a Stirling Council and Community Planning Partners project. We want to support our communities to be thriving, well connected and proud places to live and work. We want to work in new ways so that we can collectively identify local needs and priorities. We want to test community led solutions to local issues (tangible projects)
Strathfillan - This Place Matters presentationwmud
Nobody knows a community better than the people living and working there – need community focussed solutions
To move away from ‘one size fits all’ method of providing services and recognise the difference between our rural communities and the city
Challenging economic times - need to be more collaborative and innovative
This is a way of testing unique and forward thinking solutions to local issues
Impact is at the core of everything we do. Across our global network, we take our commitment to defining, understanding and measuring the impact of our work seriously. Each year we conduct an annual Global Member Survey in collaboration with the Social Entrepreneurship Centre / Vienna University of Economics, and publish the results openly. Derived from a global sample of 2,457 members in 44 Impact Hubs, our most recent survey paints a colourful picture of the impact being created across our network. For even further insights on the learnings from five years of analysing Impact Hub's data, read this article: https://goo.gl/72ykNj
All rights reserved. The Material may not be reproduced or distributed, in whole or in part, without prior written permission of Impact Hub Company. However, reproduction and distribution, in whole or in part, by current Members of the Impact Hub Association and by non-profit, research or educational institutions for their own use is permitted if proper credit is given, with full citation, and intellectual property rights are acknowledged. For further information, please contact: branding@impacthub.net
Hawken School, Cleveland, Ohio. High School seniors utilize Steve Blank's Lean Launch Pad and Alex Osterwalder's Business Model Generation to turn their ideas into ventures, which they pitch Shark Tank-style to local accelerators and serial investors. 131126
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Formatted as a letter-sized document rather than a slide deck. Combines all speaker's notes with visuals from the slides.
Also available as a web article on Medium: https://medium.com/@mrettig/culture-work-283223dce016
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Intentionally creating a well-crafted online presence, sometimes called a web presence, is important not only for recent graduates but for any professional in a community of practice that values technology use and innovation (e.g., information technology, computer science, digital and graphic design); also, professionals who work with external stakeholders (e.g., consultants working with clients, teachers working with parents, artists working with customers and funding sources) benefit from attention to their web presence. In this presentation, I will share why professionals need to attend to their web presence and share some strategies for crafting the components of a vibrant and dynamic professional web presence and digital footprint.
The Collaborative Startup Canvas - 7 sections to gather people around a passi...TheCollaborativeStartup
"Most of the startups forget to harness the power of the crowd" says Ross Dawson. We decided to create a framework, "The Collaborative Startup Canvas". Our goal is to help entrepreneurs on 3 issues: gather people around their passion, work with the members to create the best products and services for the community, and generate incomes to make the adventure sustainable.
When you combine the concept of outsourcing with the power of Internet-connected individuals, you have Crowd Sourcing. Companies are using crowd sourcing to raise funds for a start-ups, get product ideas for the next line of merchandise, and to solve problems that seem too big for the organization.
How can your company utilize crowd sourcing? In this workshop we will explore the following “crowd” topics and discuss how you can take advantage of this new technology-enabled workforce:
• Crowd Funding and Capital Raising
• Crowd Creativity and Idea/Content Generation
• Crowd Wisdom, Problem-solving and Decision-making
• Crowd Work
We’ll also discuss how to get your organization “crowd sourcing ready” so that when you find the right problem for this solution, you can jump right in with confidence.
Learning Objectives
What is CrowdSourcing and how can it apply to your business
How to use the “crowd” to get new ideas and designs for your organization
How CrowdFunding can be used to raise capital for research and development
This is the presentation we gave for a “This Place Matters” event in the Top of the Town in Stirling . It was organised for us by Stirling Council and attended by local leaders from the Council, from other public sector agencies, from the private sector and the community.
We gave this presentation at “This Place Matters” in the Vale of Leven. It was organised for us by West Dunbartonshire Council and attended by local leaders from the Council and the community.
This is a Stirling Council and Community Planning Partners project. We want to support our communities to be thriving, well connected and proud places to live and work. We want to work in new ways so that we can collectively identify local needs and priorities. We want to test community led solutions to local issues (tangible projects)
Strathfillan - This Place Matters presentationwmud
Nobody knows a community better than the people living and working there – need community focussed solutions
To move away from ‘one size fits all’ method of providing services and recognise the difference between our rural communities and the city
Challenging economic times - need to be more collaborative and innovative
This is a way of testing unique and forward thinking solutions to local issues
Impact is at the core of everything we do. Across our global network, we take our commitment to defining, understanding and measuring the impact of our work seriously. Each year we conduct an annual Global Member Survey in collaboration with the Social Entrepreneurship Centre / Vienna University of Economics, and publish the results openly. Derived from a global sample of 2,457 members in 44 Impact Hubs, our most recent survey paints a colourful picture of the impact being created across our network. For even further insights on the learnings from five years of analysing Impact Hub's data, read this article: https://goo.gl/72ykNj
All rights reserved. The Material may not be reproduced or distributed, in whole or in part, without prior written permission of Impact Hub Company. However, reproduction and distribution, in whole or in part, by current Members of the Impact Hub Association and by non-profit, research or educational institutions for their own use is permitted if proper credit is given, with full citation, and intellectual property rights are acknowledged. For further information, please contact: branding@impacthub.net
Hawken School, Cleveland, Ohio. High School seniors utilize Steve Blank's Lean Launch Pad and Alex Osterwalder's Business Model Generation to turn their ideas into ventures, which they pitch Shark Tank-style to local accelerators and serial investors. 131126
Culture Work: Organizational Becoming Made PracticalMarc Rettig
Notes and visuals from Marc Rettig's keynote talk at the 2015 UX Advantage conference. Marc seeks to deepen the conversation about fostering design culture in organizations by providing a process definition of "design," a layered definition of "culture," and insights about the interplay between design capacity and organizational culture.
Formatted as a letter-sized document rather than a slide deck. Combines all speaker's notes with visuals from the slides.
Also available as a web article on Medium: https://medium.com/@mrettig/culture-work-283223dce016
Jewish Innovation, Online and Off: Presentation to Sixth & I Historic SynagogueEsther Kustanowitz
A survey of what Jewish innovation is, what it represents to traditional Jewish institutional life, and how we can apply lessons from improv and social media to strengthen engagement.
Intentional Web Presence for Research and Technology ProfessionalsPatrick Lowenthal
Intentionally creating a well-crafted online presence, sometimes called a web presence, is important not only for recent graduates but for any professional in a community of practice that values technology use and innovation (e.g., information technology, computer science, digital and graphic design); also, professionals who work with external stakeholders (e.g., consultants working with clients, teachers working with parents, artists working with customers and funding sources) benefit from attention to their web presence. In this presentation, I will share why professionals need to attend to their web presence and share some strategies for crafting the components of a vibrant and dynamic professional web presence and digital footprint.
The Collaborative Startup Canvas - 7 sections to gather people around a passi...TheCollaborativeStartup
"Most of the startups forget to harness the power of the crowd" says Ross Dawson. We decided to create a framework, "The Collaborative Startup Canvas". Our goal is to help entrepreneurs on 3 issues: gather people around their passion, work with the members to create the best products and services for the community, and generate incomes to make the adventure sustainable.
When you combine the concept of outsourcing with the power of Internet-connected individuals, you have Crowd Sourcing. Companies are using crowd sourcing to raise funds for a start-ups, get product ideas for the next line of merchandise, and to solve problems that seem too big for the organization.
How can your company utilize crowd sourcing? In this workshop we will explore the following “crowd” topics and discuss how you can take advantage of this new technology-enabled workforce:
• Crowd Funding and Capital Raising
• Crowd Creativity and Idea/Content Generation
• Crowd Wisdom, Problem-solving and Decision-making
• Crowd Work
We’ll also discuss how to get your organization “crowd sourcing ready” so that when you find the right problem for this solution, you can jump right in with confidence.
Learning Objectives
What is CrowdSourcing and how can it apply to your business
How to use the “crowd” to get new ideas and designs for your organization
How CrowdFunding can be used to raise capital for research and development
HikeStorming was developed to offer people a new way to both get in better shape and develop ideas by creatively combining fitness (namely hiking) and brainstorming.
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active constituents are used for applied research. Medicinal herbs are significant source of hepatoprotective
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hepatoprotective drug, the herb E. prostrata was grown in the Periyar Maniammai College Campus, Vallam
and 1kg of the plant leaves were collected and shade dried. Dried and powdered maetria l of E. prostrata was
extracted with 80% ethanol. The active principle was isolated and identified by chromatographic technique. The
protective effect of E. prostrata on Carbon tetrachloride induced acute liver damage was also studied with male
wistar albino rats (180-230g). The protective effect was also undergone for histological studies.
Understand how to create great user experience which convert good intentions into action to mainstream sustainable innovations.
Are you a social / impact entrepreneur frustrated 😤 by the lack of real change in climate action and sustainable behaviours?
This is the webinar to understand the attitude - behaviour gap in sustainable consumption and how user experience tools, methods and best practices can contribute to scaling people and planet-friendly behaviours, products and services
SPEAKER:
Marie Geneste is the founder of The C Collective, a new purpose-driven consultancy helping people and planet friendly entrepreneurs scale their innovations through great user experiences.
More information on theccollective.com
Connexa is a community building tool with social features,
web and mobile apps, matching technology, administration
panel and customizable functionalities regarding
your objectives and the needs of your community.
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From the adoption of content management systems to the explosion of Web 2.0 features, museum websites have undergone enormous growth and change over the past decade. This session features three speakers who have been working in the museum website space during this critical period of rapid growth and change. Presented at the California Association of Museums Annual Conference in San Jose, CA, March 2010.
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Location (Online Only !!!) on Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Meeting will send you the link when you register.
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CST
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Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
3. A B R I E F H I S T O RY
The idea started sometime in 2012. There were two groups
that were both popular at the time. One was TEDx, which
offered participants the chance to meet other creative
entrepreneurial types. We would get together to watch
inspiring videos as well as organize local events featuring
dynamic, interesting speakers. The other was hiking Meetups,
which were attracting thousands to sign up for daily and
weekend hikes in the Sacramento foothills, Bay Area and
beyond. One provided great ideas and a positive open-
minded experience with creative and intelligent people. The
other provided scenery, great views, camaraderie, a challenge
as well as the opportunity to get in shape and lose weight.
I thought, why not combine the two.
4. A N D …
There is no doubt that groups of people already go out
on hikes, runs or bike rides to work on ideas. But, this
would be different — better organized, deliberately
divergent, utilizing the latest information on creativity,
brainstorming, cross-pollination and an actual
curriculum to get people talking, thinking and using
constructive targets for what to accomplish on each hike.
We would plan events for CEOs, visionaries, startups or
corporate or organizational departments, whereby
facilitators would guide members on a day hike to get
people out of “ruts” or to open up new pathways for
personal or group discovery. Set this in places like
Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles or any major
urban area, and you have a great recipe for full
participation and action!
5. T H E T I M I N G M A K E S S E N S E
• The Bay Area offers easy access to dozens if
not hundreds of trails, all within 30 minutes to
an hour from urban areas.
• A thriving, energetic startup and innovation
culture in the Bay Area.
• Wearable tech is on the rise and shows no
signs of going away. With apps like
• With apps like Evernote / audio & video
recording apps, it may not be too long before
entire workdays get moved to inspiring
outdoor environments.
6. W O R K S PA C E I S C H A N G I N G
The last decade saw a rise
in co-op and even
“virtual”work spaces,
proving that people want
new, more inspiring places
to get work done –-
perhaps even changing the
very definition of what
“work” is.
7. Plain and simple, no one wants to die from
heart attacks, diabetes, strokes or obesity
related problems. Sitting at desks all day
long restricts blood flow, stiffens muscles
and leads to back problems. We need a
solution and this one just makes sense!
Groups like those with PTSD are
using hiking to help them deal with
challenges.
H E A LT H
Physical
Mental
8. • Basic idea generation, startup discussion
hike
• Cross-fit sessions with brainstorming breaks
• Hiking / beach sessions
• Camping / hiking with structured facilitation
• Hikes with different themes, e.g., comedy,
philosophy, acting, business strategy, book
clubs, music, art, meditation, motivation,
emotional intelligence, app development,
engineering, writing, etc.
• Professional development workshops
Limitless Combination of Activities
9. B E N E F I T S T O M E M B E R S
• Improved health, i.e., possible weight loss, endurance,
stamina, muscle tone, improved cardio-vascular system, etc.
• Meeting like-minded, creative, intelligent and fellow health-
conscious people
• Promotion of ideas, companies, causes, etc., either on hikes,
through social media channels, YouTube, etc.
• Generating better ideas through cross-pollination and
random interaction with people of different professions /
occupations
• Recruiting team members / Co-founders and prospective
employees in a stress-free and healthy environment
• Testing out wearable technology and a possible alternative to
typical office work environments
10. I D E A S I N M O T I O N
Weekly upload of videos from monologues
as well as trail, car and workspace
interviews, and with innovators, visionaries,
artists, thinkers, fitness gurus and….
11. T H E B U S I N E S S
Note: numbers and rates subject to change
1. Membership dues ($20 / year or $40/year for premium members) — Premium members would get to a.) plan events for their unique purposes; b.) sponsor a page on the
site; c.) be able to post essays, press releases, etc. on HS Blog. d.) get free entry to otherwise paid events; e.) contribute to monthly newsletter (get link of project, event,
Kick Starter campaign or company website published).
2. Franchising: build out basic curriculum for HikeStorming (HS) sessions, recommended types of combinations, (hiking, running, Cross-fit, etc.) how to recruit, how to use
wearable tech, recommended apps, Newsletter framework, etc. Find leaders in each major city, train and offer 50% (?) of revenue from membership dues, or charge one
fee to get started and then require 10% of revenues, thereafter…
2. Build out YouTube channel (clips of great sessions, interviews with super interesting people, best ideas, compilations using Go Pro, or similar, with great, professional
quality editing and then find suitable sponsors).
4. Sponsorships: sponsors will offer discounts to members for their product or service (see types of sponsors below). In exchange for a yearly or monthly fee, they would get
name and link on Newsletter, HS website, T-shirt and Meetup pages.
5. Sale of T-shirts and other HS paraphernalia / memorabilia
6. Newsletter, blog and website advertisers
7. Special paid events, e.g., day hike retreats with facilitators to help individuals or groups work out challenges and brainstorm new ideas.
Note: numbers and rates subject to change
• Membership dues ($20 / year or $40/year for premium members) — Premium members would get to a.)
plan events for their unique purposes; b.) sponsor a page on the site; c.) be able to post essays, press
releases, etc. on HS Blog. d.) get free entry to otherwise paid events; e.) contribute to monthly newsletter
(get link of project, event, Kick Starter campaign or company website published).
• Franchising: build out basic curriculum for HikeStorming (HS) sessions, recommended types of
combinations, (hiking, running, Cross-fit, etc.) how to recruit, how to use wearable tech, recommended
apps, Newsletter framework, etc. Find leaders in each major city, train and offer 50% (?) of revenue from
membership dues, or charge one fee to get started and then require 10% of revenues, thereafter.
• Build out YouTube channel (clips of great sessions, interviews with super interesting people, best ideas,
compilations using Go Pro, or similar, with great, professional quality editing and then find suitable
sponsors).
• Sponsorships: sponsors will offer discounts to members for their product or service (see types of sponsors
below). In exchange for a yearly or monthly fee, they would get name and link on Newsletter, HS website,
T-shirt and Meetup pages.
• Sale of T-shirts and other HS paraphernalia / memorabilia
• Newsletter, blog and website advertisers
• Special paid events, e.g., day hike retreats with facilitators to help individuals or groups work out
challenges and brainstorm new ideas.