Its been long since I last posted. But have some updates that I’d like to share
1. Good Crowds is ready. We’re adding projects right now and are waiting for our bank accounts / trust registration to complete. Good Crowds will also launch in January with about 15 odd projects that will be put up for funding. We’re looking for projects that we can fund in disciplines such as technology, journalism, arts, demoracy, public interest litigation, large innovation programs. Would love to have you writing in with your project ideas that we can put up for funding.
2. Good News has kicked off: this is the umbrella under which we will be putting up projects in journalism that have a demonstrable social impact. Please read http://www.scribd.com/doc/24800527/Good-News-Crowdfunded-Journalism for more details and suggest story ideas that you or people you know would like to put up for funding.
While we are a few weeks away from the first MetaGood stories, here’s a video that I thought was quite good – by the founder of Change.Org.
Ben Rattray of Change.org @ Big Omaha 2009 from Big Omaha on Vimeo.
The Feast has this presentation on slideshare that talks about what is wrong in a set of 10 industries ranging from education, journalism, food etc and then gives 1 example of a social innovation intervention within that industry that seems to be working. Principles are derived from these examples.
I found some of the analysis to [read more ...]
About Inspiring Stories
Inspiring Stories is a MetaGood project (www.metagood.org) which seeks to unearth stories of inspiring individuals and groups who are doing work that is making a difference and enabling positive changes in our society. These stories would be captured through interviews, photo & video documentaries and would be disseminated over the MetaGood website [read more ...]
In parallel to Inspiring Stories, we’re launching a project called Good Bytes. This project will build collaborative technology based platforms enabling innovative social impact outcomes. The presentation below details how this project would work.
As a starting point, I’m presenting in an Open Source Technology Conference (www.osscamp.in) over the weekend and will try and enlist as [read more ...]
Ever since we posted the job description for the “Inspiring Storyteller” on different forums, the response has been overwhelming. An amazing number of people responded (and are still) expressing their keenness in this role and how it spoke to their true passions. The fascinating thing is, all kinds of people are writing in – people [read more ...]
The first project at MetaGood will be a website with regular stories on people who are doing inspiring work.
This project will be staffed with full time “Inspiring Storytellers” : who’d be responsible for identifying such inspiring people, interviewing them, taking pictures / videos and then writing stories about them. This team would be selected extremely [read more ...]
Hi All,
Am launching MetaGood – an initiative to document inspiring individuals and social innovators along with their projects. MetaGood will spawn multiple initiatives such as speaker series, catalyze social innovation projects, act as an infomediary between volunteers and organizations who need their skills and time.
Introducing MetaGood
View more presentations from Nirat Bhatnagar.
More details can be found [read more ...]
