Facebook was born to capture the social or off hours parts of school. Blogs are increasingly becoming a platform that functions as a springboard for product launches, paid membership communities and a tour on the speaking circuit — preferably with one’s own flavor of a program.
How much critical thinking is being developed racing to the popularity charts?
Learning is one of the ways in which the Internet is allowing more people to participate in the global economy, in addition to the conversation. And it’s giving creators and teachers the ability to build a platform to share what they know and attract students. A much improved — and needed — proposition.
Who says you have to give up being social to learn online? Why should you be able to learn only by paying top dollars?
You’re already familiar with TED. They make the talks people pay top dollar to attend available online for free — through a sponsorship model. There are more free resources out there for those who wish to learn and teach. Here are 3.
NOTE from Phil: What follows is a fantastic guest post from Carol Roth about something I am very passionate about: Entrepreneurship. I hope you enjoy it!
Aspiring entrepreneurs usually believe one or more of the following:
• Their idea will get them rich
• Their idea will get them rich quickly
• They can escape the corporate grind
• They can be their own boss and have the freedom to do what they want, when they want
• They can work shorter hours and have more free time for their hobbies, families and other passions
• They can be in control of their career path or their own destiny
• They can leave their mark on the world
• They can do more of what they love to do; and/or
• They should open their own business because they will “do it better”
However, most aspiring entrepreneurs don’t understand what it means to be an entrepreneur.
What you are about to read is a mostly lightly edited version of a conversation we recorded to put right here on this very blog. The parts where we talk about my desire to run away with her love interest, the gloriously bekilted Marty Whitmore, were heavily edited.
ND. Okay. Can you please explain in short words exactly what you do?
MEM. What an excellent question! For the purposes of this conversation: I run a positive impact network called Ideaschema. Ideaschema’s job is to provide as much support structure and as many resources as we can to help motivated people grow their ideas. To that end, I do a lot of consulting work, idea catalyst work for special lovely people like yourself — running IttyBiz, in other words — and putting together learning packages to pro-active-ize the mindsets of people with spectacular potential. And very recently, I’m helping people look at normal situations from creative standpoints.
ND. Those were not short words.
MEM. I thought you were kidding.
ND. I thought you knew me better than that. I will translate. You do idea generation, building, and putting projects together, and you either do that by helping people find ways to do their thing, or by actually getting your hands dirty and helping them do it.
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April 14th, 2010 by Stephen
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