This week I am very excited to be attending two conferences devoted to bringing consciousness and social responsibility into business – the C3 Catalyzing Conscious Capitalism Forum in Austin, Texas and the Social Venture Network (SVN) conference in La Jolla, CA. (See my request below as I need some help for my panel!)
Both events bring together successful business leaders of well known companies, as well as entrepreneurs (like myself) whose "intent" is to create new paradigms in how we can create value and good in our communities and on our planet. It is inspiring for me to see a movement of leaders who are genuinely motivated to share their wisdom and successes, and empower and inspire entrepreneurs to create value driven ventures.
Our intent with this site, www.intent.com, was to create a vehicle to foster personal, social and global wellness by supporting each others aspirations – nurturing who we aspire to be as individuals, a society and as a planet. Its a lofty vision and always in development (thank you for your patience!), but I do believe passionately that we can use social media to create true connections and positive change. I have been blessed with angel investors who believe in our vision, and believe, with me, that we can create a successful business and deliver value – an ROI that includes monetary and social returns – through this vehicle. For Intent, we are doing it with a v. small team of people who believe passionately about creating a vehicle that touches peoples lives, and we are doing it slowly and consciously as our intent is to build a real, sustainable community.
I would love to hear about businesses that you admire who represent conscious capitalism at work, and what we can learn about them.
At SVN, I will be speaking on a panel about using social media for good. I pulling together some examples of how social media has and can be used to help others and our world – ie. kiva.org, the efforts to secure the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, causes on Facebook, the efforts of Causecast and HuffPo Impact, twitter and the Iran elections.
If you have some good examples and sites that are using social media to help others and stimulate social change, please do share in the comments on this blog.
I promise to share these in my conversations over the next week. Thank you, as always!
Mallika,
I am one who believes passionately about creating a vehicle that touches peoples lives, which you are doing slowly and consciously with your intent to build a real, sustainable community.
I wish all the best to you and believe you will have a wonderful inspiring presentation at bothe forums.
Rouzanna
First, I love your site and your vision for it. I love it when technology can move us forward as people–when it compliments rather than detracts. I have some background in social media starting back in 1997. My husband and I began sandiegoweddings.com with a discussion board for brides to share tips, ideas, and experiences. It brought together an amazing group of women. These ladies became a social group that would meet and have parties. Then in 2003 during the fires here in San Diego, our discussion board turned into a volunteer point of contact. These ladies got organized and put together care packages for our firefighters and used the board to share information on where these kids were most needed. I was so impressed. I was evacuated from my own house in Tierrasanta and was unable to help but I was so inspired by their generosity and willingness to help. I thought you might enjoy that story. We sold the sandiegoweddings.com site and now have sandiegonewlyweds.com and we've lost a few members but there are still a solid block of women who connect in meaningful ways on an old fashioned discussion board.
I love the NING communities now and we'd love to move our sandiegonewlyweds.com over there. I helped my friend put together the one called http://psychiclearningcenter.ning.com. My friend, Janet Lightstone, teaches people how to get in tune with their psychic abilities. So this is a community of people exploring their intuition and sharing experiences. All of her students are up there but we also welcome new people in to share what is going on with them. This is an excellent use of this social media to further our exploration into spirituality within an online community. Anyway, that's been my experience.
Thanks again for creating this site.
Melinda Pajak
http://www.themelindachannel.com
Oops! That was supposed to read "kits" not "kids."
FYI–now I teach instructors at UCSD Extension how to teach online. I've taken what I've learned from the early days on the Internet and moved it into the online classroom. My background in Educational Technology is perfect for this combination of learning in social environments. I think it's the wave of the future if it's done correctly. That's my two cents.
Melinda Pajak
mpajak@ucsd.edu
Mallika,
From what I've observed and learned from operating a social enterprise, I'm seeing more traction in the world of using businesses and online ventures to raise awareness, share information and take action than to simply raise money. In the beginning of the movement, there was a strong push to generate funds and hopes that social ventures would be the vehicle for generating philanthropic dollars. Now we've learned that the range of social venture is much more diverse than we thought and that information/awareness is a stronger currency than money alone.
Enjoy both conferences. Wish I could be there too!
Mallika,
I completely agree with the power of using social media to raise to promote wellness. BizEnligtenemnt.com is a conscious business directory online that might be worth checking out. It allows you to search businesses and companies across all industries that focus on taking responsibility for their impact they have on others.
Mallika,
I completely agree with the power of using social media to raise to promote wellness. BizEnligtenemnt.com is a conscious business directory online that might be worth checking out. It allows you to search businesses and companies across all industries that focus on taking responsibility for their impact they have on others.
Boy, I don't have many. There are a lot of BAD examples. But….
I recently shared some insights with a young business analyst I work with who's from India. Somewhere in the western part of that country. Of course, as usual, I had to talk about Kiva.org. I shared that spirituality, for some reason, begins with its roots in the ground (literally) for me. If feeding the dream isn't actually about feeding the stomach, it's somehow amiss on me. Fluff. It spoke to his heart, I think.
Kiva (oh here he goes again) is about taking the torrents of peer-to-peer networking and putting the power of money behind them. Rather than exploiting p2p to steal music, it's used, instead, to steel abundance, opportunity, to plant seeds in the most unlikely corners of the globe that are too often prisoners of the harshest exploitation. Most especially when it comes to women!
I think of it as a sort of bee colony that harnesses the humans' natural desire to feed one another in order to preserve the entire colony and make it thrive.
9-11, as tragic as it was, was a clear demonstration of what individuals with an unbending will and access to everyday things can do when working in concern to affect the whole of humankind, materially, socially, spiritually. Who can deny that the globe was forever changed?
Just imagine if we were to commit the whole of our lives to having just as significant an impact on others in the light of love? Who's to say what could occur if St. Francis had the power of the internet at his fingertips? And, furthermore, just imagine how many people possess the hearts of St. Francis?
More than most of us could possibly imagine.
BTW, 'concern' should have been 'concert'.
Dear Mallika,
Intent is awesome !!
You & all involved have done a wonderful job. I feel that Intent has been a event causing change. I am looking forward to seeing the development in the works.
I would recommend everyone that blogs at intent as people who represent conscious capitalism at work, but I suppose you already have written that into your speech.
I am sure you will be giving a wonderful talk, looking forward to hearng about it.
Love
Paul
Hi Mallika,
I am inspired by your focus on conscious capitalism because that is what my website Daily Grommet is all about. We are a social media e-marketplace that tries to add more joy to people's lives. We tell the story of products with meaning and the inventive, inspired people who make them. The Quest for Real, that's conscious consumerism for us and what we're about. I guess it
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