September 07, 2016 at 04:57AM

Last week I was happy to be at the World Economic Forum Office in Geneva on behalf of the People Centered Internet with John Ryan of the Organizing Committee. Excited and energized about Internet for All and the 4th Industrial Revolution. It was an honor to hear Klaus Schwab speak passionately about this important topic.
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Down to earth advice about making money on the Internet

http://www.quora.com/Is-it-hard-to-build-market-and-maintain-a-web-app-that-makes-at-least-1-000-a-month


I really like the answer to this Quora question. Key points:

Engineering is not enough
Marketing and Maintenance are even more important - if you want a sustained income stream
You need to weigh the alternatives you have and make sure you are making a good decision
Make the numbers work for you

Read it and learn - I hope you'll enjoy it and find insight in it as I have

Mei Lin

Human-to-Human - it's back to the future with H2H

English: H2H logo1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Announcing the latest and the first relationship model:















Has it not been ever thus?

Before P2P, before B2B,
before Twitter, Facebook, Google,
before Microsoft, before IBM, Before HP
before DEC, Tandem, Honeywell, Burroughs
before World War 2 and World War 1
before the French Revolution, the American Revolution, before Cromwell
before the Ching, the Ming, before Confucius and the Chin
before the Moguls,  before Buddha
before the Greeks, the Egyptians, Phoenicians

We have had human-to-human H2H connections - gesturing, talking, exchanging, quarreling, hugging, thinking and imagining together. Forming tribes, kingdoms and countries together. Getting excited, working on things together that are bigger than ourselves.

Jeremiah Owyang gave a great talk at the Social ShakeUp in Atlanta on Sept 17 about H2H, the sharing economy, the collaboration economy, the participation economy. He asks:

 "What role do corporations play if people get what they need from each other? How can big companies benefit from crowd-based business models in the Maker Movement, Crowdfunding, and Sharing Economy? We call this the Collaborative Economy, an economic model in which creation, ownership, and access are shared between people and corporations. "

Go to the link and download the slides - also bonus! my detailed notes on his talk.
http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/keynote-social-shake-collaborative-economy
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Knowledge has a great trick! it multiplies when shared. So share your thoughts! 

Have a great October in 2014!

Mei Lin

Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at the 2014 MUM Graduation

This is really wonderful - the best expression of tapping the human potential



And then the beautiful mashup inspiring video forwarded to me by Bill Daul today.



Shorter and perhaps even more inspiring - see this below:



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Making a Small Difference: Ang Swee Chai at TEDxUCLWomen

A small woman can make a big difference - Ang Swee Chai was born in Singapore and became a political refugee in the UK. Think Big, she says, and do small things to make a difference. She tells her story and the difference she is making - and doing it each day. She encourages us to do the same. No one needs to give us permission. Go forth - make a difference!

Make health! #makehealth Fest- August 16th! University of Michigan

The OMEGA System - Renewable Energy explained in GREAT student video

From Broad Street to California - slide share from Alberta Scranzo

Click here to see Slide Share on using Geo-located information to build healthy communities

From Broad Street to California from alberta soranzo

The healthy communities movement is stirring

The Healthy Communities movement is beginning to stir....the opportunity to re-imagine health with geo located data is here. One example is described in the TV show I hosted last year on the work by the University of California at San Diego, Dept of Emergency Medicine - Professor Jim Killeen and head of department Ted Chan.

Franchise for Humanity - Come join us at Stanford University Feb 20-21

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, one of California's most famous landmarks. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

After 4 years working to bring together people to think about their aspirations for the future of health - I co-founded the California Health Corps with Bill Daul - human connector extraordinaire! For it comes down to us - do we care enough about our health and the health of our families, neighbours and those in our community - to do something.

Here in California, home of some of the most wonderful scenic beauty and the intellectual advances that have changed the world - Silicon Valley, Life Sciences, the Internet and more, some of us feel a greater sense of responsibility due to having received so much!

So we are organizing Franchise for Humanity as a place for dialog to move into action, for building relationships able to sustain us for the long journey "to a more perfect union" that is possible when human beings care for one another's ability and seek out opportunities for each other to thrive.

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area on Feb 20 and 21 in 2014, come and join us. Its a unique opportunity to interact with a select group of thinkers and leaders in Silicon Valley who deeply care about making the future one where resources can offer opportunity to the most disenfranchised.

Stanford (Photo credit: TitaniumDreads)

If the registration fee appears steep - write to me in comments and we will consider you for partial or full scholarships - we need to know what it is you want to do, and if we think we can help you, we will get back to you.

Free Access to MIT Entrepreneurship around the World - Course materials

Entrepreneurship around the world is a new course launched out of MIT, and the Baseline Scenario is letting everyone know about how to get access to to it.

Feel free, and feel greatly encouraged by me to

Spread the word!

Just Picture It - Visual Insight with Eileen Clegg

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@MIT.....reunion reflections on Time and Change

Coming back after many years, the MIT campus is both the same in some ways and different in others.
Meeting classmates and faculty makes me reflect on how they and I have stayed the same and how in other ways we have changed.

Sitting in the Stratton Student Center @MIT the TV screens are new (to me) and display "Congratulations 2013 Graduates"....some very happy families and friends saw the rain-soaked graduation last Friday. It was raining the day I graduated here, so this is a familiar story as we were soaked too.

MIT is rethinking higher education - and invites you to join the conversation at www.Future.MIT.edu

They have been doing so for many years, being the first to offer lectures online at no cost, through MIT OpenCourseWare ....and now EdX is another initiative investigating what the classroom of 2020 will be like. While in Singapore in April, I visited SUTD, the Singapore University of Technology and Design which is a collaboration by MIT and the Singapore government in setting up undergraduate education that emphasizes Active Learning. In brief, this seems to involve work-study all along the way  so that theory collides with practice, hypothesis meets reality.

I think its a good thing for students and faculty together to develop the tolerance that is needed to get things done in life and society.  Tolerance,  for human interaction in all its high and low points, combined with patience, compassion and perseverance will always be needed by those who want to do things at a high bar.

The thing that strikes me as MOST the SAME, in coming back to MIT, is the sense of highly intelligent, highly motivated people wanting to serve the world, by contributing the best they have been endowed with by genes, by family, by experience, and by luck.

It's great to be back, and breathe that air. After being away so long, I needed the refresher!

Homo Sapiens evolving to Homo Socio-Sapiens

Thoughts for spring..... we are evolving and this is a fast part of a long cycle

Humans have been evolving and its been happening over so long, the changes have generally been so slow, we mostly don't take it into account in the course of one human life.

When I compare how I grew up to how my daughter grew up - I biked around the neighborhood every day after school - for fun! She walked to Borders books with friends - and they missed it terribly when the store closed - so much so, they bought souvenirs for each other when they sold the store fittings.

My social circle was limited to the folks I saw in school, the neighbors and local cousins plus a penpal in New Zealand.

Her social circle is unlimited - she is part of a tribe she joined on the Internet: At a young age, she wanted to go to LA to be part of the first Youtube conference put on by the Vlogbrothers & friends! So I went and was part of it too. It felt like the average age was 16 years, .... 12 year olds accompanied by one of their parents. I think there were 2000 people there in that sold out conference at the Century City hotel on the Avenue for the Stars. It was fun for parents too!

We host people as part of the AirBnb network - its like staying at home and the world comes to visit! I realized how different a life we lead than most because our visitors tell us.... "I have never stayed in a house with so many magazines (Atlantic, New Yorker, Harpers, the Economist, etc) and the New York Times newspaper delivered daily"

My life is so different from my mother's that she has been saying for decades that she has no idea what I do for a living, but it seems to involve computers. She tried to learn but never could get the hang of it - she actually went to a class with friends - and for none of them would it "take".

Yesterday my sister from Singapore sent me photos that she'd taken during my visit home for my mother's birthday. They arrive in an envelope in a card, in the mail delivered by a postman - and my husband exclaimed "Nobody prints out regular photos anymore, much less mail them to anyone!"  I liked them very much, its nice to get actual photos that I can frame - thank you Sis!

 Just this morning, I woke up and signed up for an Indiegogo project and found one that my daughter might like so sent a link to her.

Thinking about how differently lives are lived in the course of 3 generations: my mother, myself, my daughter.... I think we have reached a speeded up part of human evolution.

When the first living animals crawled out of the sea onto land, they lived a different life from their parents.

Even my daughter was born before the mobile phone was prevalent - by the time the next generation grows up, they will not know what it is like to live without being able to contact anyone in the world - synchronously or via the Internet asynchronously - at any place, at any moment.

Are we crawling out from inside our own heads, into a shared head space with the rest of the world - connected by mobile devices?

Thanks to the folks in Singapore from "we are social" for creating the video below which triggered these thoughts on a beautiful morning in Spring.

We Are Social - Future Factors 2013 from We Are Social Singapore

 

Tribal Leadership - networking the tribes

Happy Chinese New Year - the beginning of the year of the snake seems a great time to talk about this book Tribal Leadership - read last night and found very powerful and useful.

So much so, I was moved to mention put forward ideas triggered by the book in a comment at the blog about horizontal leadership by Charlie Detar at the MIT Center for Civic Media


Here's the radical thought - Imagine if working with social networks and you were trying to figure out if they are strong and sustainable and growing, or weak and weakening and just hanging on.

What if you had a way to  track what was going on in participant's mind real time?

What if you had a way to track what was going on in participant's heart real time?


And then discovering that we already have a way to do this - it is not automated but we have a way which has been developed over millennia that is just the way we humans have operated for such a long time, that we do it unconsciously.

To know what is in a participant's mind - the best clues come from the words they use - - their words and language offer us a window. Do you think we might be able to make a first assessment about whether they are a surly individual, a rugged individual, an ocasional team player, a committed and competitive team player or someone motivated by the great civic good?

To know what is in a participant's heart - the best clues come from the relationships they form - the strength and length and depth of the relationships offer us a window. Do you think we might be able to make a first assessment about how open their heart is to other people, and whether they are the kind of person who likes to invest in long term relationships or believes only in being able to commit for a medium amount of time, or prefer to have a short interaction and that's that?

The book Tribal Leadership stimulated these thoughts - its a well researched book by USC professor Dave Logan and his consulting partners with an appendix about their research methods and how they came to these postulations about which kinds of tribes and tribal leaders perform "better".

Many parts rang true for me, I highly recommend the book Tribal Leadership - for me, it was one of the moments.... when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Where was I when I read this book? I was staying 25 stories above Central Park at the time of the February snow blizzard that brought 11.4 inches of snow to NYC - Yesterday I walked from 12th st to 110 st, visiting the High line Park, The Russian Tea House for high tea, and Lincoln Center to watch a great film Sound City made by Dave Grohl who played in Nirvana and Foo Fighters. Great music and great heart - a tribute to analog recording in a world gone digital. The picture below shows the Chrysler building in Mid town from the UN Plaza. Amazing place to visit. Simone DeBeauvoir said you couldn't sleep there was so much going on in Manhattan - I could understand why she said that - I'm tired but happy after my week in NY.

Happy New Year - 2013 - the year of mapping and meaning

When people feel overwhelmed by the amount of information now available, I think of what it was like in the East Coast of America when there was a physical "Wild West frontier" and it was overwhelming to understand what was possible over there in the "Wild West". Today, there are maps, news, stories, and the West is not so wild.

Our digital frontier reminds me of the Wild West of olden days. We are starting to make meaning and maps of the information wilderness. As we work together to acquire knowledge and understanding, I'm wondering if this is the year when we start mapping the frontier, so that we can compare notes meaningful ways that recognize each of us see and look for different things.

What's been happening

Attended the Knowledge Federation Conference at the Inter University Center in Dubrovnik Croatia - thanks to Dino Karabeg for the best conference organizing - we all arrived in Zagreb and took a 2 day bus ride through Bosnia which assured lots of serendipitous conversations - Sept/Oct 2012

FutureTalk - the community access TV show I co-founded and co-produce with Marty Wasserman the host of the show, is one of the 5 finalists at the CreaTV San Jose awards "Walk the Red Carpet" for our episode on the Maker's Faire. Our latest show tracks the latest progress in neuroscience. Nov 2012

TEDxBayArea - lead by the amazing Tatyana Kanzaveli put on "Ignite" a full day of inspiring ideas and talks for women entrepreneurs. Read all about it here. December 1 2012

This has been a truly rewarding 3 years on the organizing team for me and I want to encourage new talent to come on board the organizing team for the annual full day TEDx event, you can apply here.

Health as a Team Sport We have been  exploring how to encourage "many to many" connections in the service of better health for all. Thanks to Bill Daul and Ellen Lovelidge for co-hosting with me.

Great Mobile stats

• 25% of Americans use the mobile device as their sole source of internet access – On Device Research

• By 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the web via mobile devices than PCs or other wireline channels – IDC Research

Read more....

Seeing what is before you

A beautiful 38 minute video about seeing as artists do.

Why is this important? The amount of information flooding our senses leads us to use our eyes to filter - as they have always done for us to see. So non-artists can begin to cultivate the skills of artists to develop clarity as the info flood threatens to overwhelm.

The Colors of Well Being

Just a week ago, we went out camping and on Saturday morning, I wrote this blog post about beginning to recognize that there are so many colors for our health and well being, while we seem today to talk about this topic only in Black and White.

When I was growing up in a Chinese household in Singapore we visited my mother’s brother and sister’s homes every week or even more often. It is so different now for my daughter as my siblings and I live in 3 countries on 2 continents. The extended family support system that I grew up in  was essential for me to gain the strong sense of wanting to thrive. I sense that my feeling that I personally DESERVE to thrive, is deeply rooted in my early childhood experience where I was part of a loving extended family, a safety net in which we all rooted for each other. Today as my daughter grows up, we have an “adopted” extended family around us in the San Francisco Bay Area – our Reading Group which began in 1983 still continues to meet every 2-3 weeks to read aloud before or after dinner or occasional Sunday brunches. The sense of “belonging” to a group of people who know you over a long period, is something my husband and I wanted to be sure to give our daughter who is now heading for college this fall.

Last week, I heard a fascinating radio show about how the words for different colors might have emerged in the past. In Homer’s poems that began in the oral tradition 600BC, the Illiad and Odyssey the most frequent colors mentioned were Black and White, by far.   Read more