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Here’s the audio from a talk I gave at the Ethos Roundtable last week, covering both the big picture and the immediate usefulness of what we have.
I started out by asking the audience for examples of how their nonprofits connected people in communities, and then, working from their answers, talked about the community metrics we will track and reward:
- Number of stranger-to-stranger real life connections
- Number of positive experiences caused within these connections
- Community assets made available to a larger circle
- People who’s ongoing lives have access to more resources
- Lasting trust created within a community
I explained how we can encourage community members to share resources with the organizations who do well on these metrics, and how simple that sharing can be using twitter and facebook, etc.
Finally, I got to the ground floor of demoing our availability and communications platform and how it can be used to make all this concrete and for both developers and community organizers to embrace.
