In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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VisionsUnite
"freedom of speech on steroids but still fact checked. It has to be free and open. To all people. By any means. Everywhere"
Sat, 2010/01/02 - 5:58pm — Benjamin MelançonContent has a life cycle of it’s own and the value of content is pretty much built up by it’s freshness (how breaking is the content), how unique is it, and how emotional the content is. Breaking news content will always be in high demand. The life time and stickiness of the content improves with supporting relevant material such as context, facts and opinions, together with providing the audience with the capability of interacting with the content with ratings, comments and topical forums.
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You only have to reach 99 people.
Tue, 2009/10/27 - 7:10pm — Benjamin MelançonYou only have to reach 99 people.
Well, once there are three million of us in the United States, and sixty million in the world. Us, in this case, meaning people who care enough about making things better to regularly, personally bring news and information about making things better to ninety-nine other people.
That is the larger us, because pretty much every person has something they would work to make better when given sufficient means, motive, and opportunity.
Barnraiser, Dutch, Roundhouse, Prarie, AroundMe
Thu, 2009/10/22 - 9:57am — Benjamin MelançonWe are a network of people that have come together to give you the tools you need to share knowledge and advance open digital society.
PWGD/VisionsUnite collaborator?
PWGD World Domination Plans
Sun, 2009/05/03 - 4:21pm — Benjamin MelançonGuide to World Domination
Copyright © 2008 ChrisGuillebeau.com
#1: What do you really want to get out of
life? The short summary is that you think
I want to radically shift the balance of power in favor of everyone.
#2: What can you offer the world that no
one else can?
The combination of self-importance and self-negation to pull it off.
Chris lists his first obstacle to changing the world in whatever way you want to as "Gatekeepers" -- which is just what we're out to destroy.
"expeRTiSe
A better way to promote awesome work
Sat, 2009/01/17 - 3:42pm — Benjamin MelançonKara
I need to start making calls to convince people to do an email blast for one of our stories
Benjamin Melançon
oof
People Who Give a Damn / VisionsUnite will provide a better way to do that sort of promotion... not a replacement for working the phones though
Kara
hmmm
such as...
Benjamin Melançon
well by having e-mail blast lists that aren't controlled by an individual or group
Kara
hmm
Benjamin Melançon
I make a living doing web design and development with a great team
The Agaric Design Collective
I'm trying to make possible a worldwide nonviolent revolution for justice, liberty, and making more good things doable.
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