Gaia Community: Siona's Bookmarks

29 Gifts: CHALLENGE

Siona — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:50:58 GMT

29 Gifts: CHALLENGE

Give something away, for 29 days...

Tags: giving, challenge, gift, generosity, gifting, abundance

100 Acorns

Siona — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:29:10 GMT

100 Acorns

Yoko Ono's beautiful peace project

Tags: peace, acorns, yoko ono, life, love, art, instructions, seeds

The Co-Inteligence Institute

Siona — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:57:27 GMT

The Co-Inteligence Institute

"Not all communication is dialogue. Dialogue is shared exploration towards greater understanding, connection, or possibility. Any communication that fits this definition, the Co-Intelligence Institute considers dialogue. Communication that doesn't fit this definition, we don't call dialogue."

Tags: dialog, conversation, community, connection, wholeness, listening, realization, process, words, meaning

Basics - Mirrors Used to Explore How the Brain Interprets Information - NYTimes.com

Siona — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:51:07 GMT

Basics - Mirrors Used to Explore How the Brain Interprets Information - NYTimes.com

"Other researchers have determined that mirrors can subtly affect human behavior, often in surprisingly positive ways. Subjects tested in a room with a mirror have been found to work harder, to be more helpful and to be less inclined to cheat, compared with control groups performing the same exercises in nonmirrored settings. Reporting in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, C. Neil Macrae, Galen V. Bodenhausen and Alan B. Milne found that people in a room with a mirror were comparatively less likely to judge others based on social stereotypes about, for example, sex, race or religion."

Tags: mirror, behavior, science, psychology, mirrors, reflections, self, perception, brains

Web Social Architecture: Web Professionals: Social Media is about to Change Your Job. Are You Ready?

Siona — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:24:46 GMT

Web Social Architecture: Web Professionals: Social Media is about to Change Your Job. Are You Ready?

"Let me set the stage for what I mean to discuss here by sharing Ryan's Two-Minute History of Web Marketing:"

Tags: social media, web 2 0, online, internet, participatory web

Literature Review and Synthesis: Online Communities of Practice - Education Counts

Siona — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:50:49 GMT

Literature Review and Synthesis: Online Communities of Practice - Education Counts

"This literature review and synthesis aims at developing a knowledge base to inform the Ministry of Education on how to develop, implement, and maintain online communities of practice (CoPs), and how communication technologies can be used to support them."

Tags: communities of practice, community, online community, gaia

Community Lab | Designing Online Communities to Enhance Participation: Bridging Theory and Practice

Siona — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:45:44 GMT

Community Lab | Designing Online Communities to Enhance Participation: Bridging Theory and Practice

"Despite extensive experience, eliciting contributions in an on-line community is still largely a matter of trial and error. This project will develop theory to predict contribution behavior in on-line communities and will help transfer that theory into practice by using it to develop a set of on-line community design guidelines."

Tags: online communities, design, participation, interaction

Online Community Building Concepts

Siona — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:43:37 GMT

Online Community Building Concepts

" In response to questions about how to start a new community site, conference or set of related forums for an ongoing group, in 1994 I made this first draft of a list of principles to consider. This list is about attitude and approach to people rather than interface and economics. "

Tags: community building, online communities, community, principles

Online Community Toolkit

Siona — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:04:39 GMT

Online Community Toolkit

Thinking about building or hosting an online community? Looking for specific tips, tools and ideas?

Tags: community building, online communities, articles, resources, community

Community Builder's Purpose Checklist

Siona — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:04:07 GMT

Community Builder's Purpose Checklist

Checklist for online communities

Tags: community, online, community building, purpose

CharityFocus Blog: Best Advice Indra Nooyi Ever Got

Siona — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:21:52 GMT

CharityFocus Blog: Best Advice Indra Nooyi Ever Got

"My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. "

Tags: advice, communication, positivity, perspective

Marketing Metaphoria : Seven Giants

Siona — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:28:10 GMT

Marketing Metaphoria : Seven Giants

In some twelve thousand in-depth interviews for more than a hundred clients in over thirty countries, seven deep metaphors have surfaced with the greatest frequency in every sector- finance, food, transportation, and so forth- and in every country, regardless of the research team.

Tags: metaphors, thinking, balance, transformation, journey, container, connection, resource, control

Through Analysis, Gut Reaction Gains Credibility - New York Times

Siona — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:41:53 GMT

Through Analysis, Gut Reaction Gains Credibility - New York Times

Two years ago, when Malcolm Gladwell published his best-selling “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” readers throughout the world were introduced to the ideas of Gerd Gigerenzer, a German social psychologist.

Tags: intuition, thought, bodies, thinking, embodiment, wisdom

The Cultural Creatives: We Are Everywhere - The 'InnerView' with Paul Ray

Siona — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:03:33 GMT

The Cultural Creatives: We Are Everywhere - The 'InnerView' with Paul Ray

"What’s the connection between meditation, ecological sustainability, social justice, self actualization, and the protesters at the WTO Convention in Seattle? What were the 60’s all about and what’s the socio-cultural link to now?"

Tags: cultural creatives, paul ray, culture, integral, spirituality, environment, future

The Rise of Integral Culture

Siona — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:02:48 GMT

The Rise of Integral Culture

"Instead, let's consider an alternative point of view that runs against everything we read in the daily papers. The alternative is this: The opportunities before us are just as real as the dangers. Our future is not an inevitable slide into poverty and despair. But this does not mean celebrating our inevitable progress into a golden future of endless consumption as described by ad agency flacks. Life is harder and more upsetting than that."

Tags: integral, cultural creatives, paul ray, worldviews, future

A Culture Gets Creative

Siona — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:40:21 GMT

A Culture Gets Creative

An interview with Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson

Tags: cultural creatives, paul ray, emergence, future

Coca-Cola CEO's green mission. - Apr. 17, 2008

Siona — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:22:46 GMT

Coca-Cola CEO's green mission. - Apr. 17, 2008

Coca-Cola CEO E. Neville Isdell is an environmentalist, but making the company sustainable is harder than it looks.

Tags: environmentalism, sustainability, coke, green, business, coca-cola, corporations

Fostering High-Quality Connections

Siona — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:57:48 GMT

Fostering High-Quality Connections

"The key to transforming the workplace experience is to build and nurture what I call "high-quality connections" -- marked by mutual positive regard, trust, and active engagement on both sides. In a high-quality connection, people feel more open, competent, and alive."

Tags: working, workplace, colleagues, jobs, authenticity, sincerity

Aging Brains Take In More Information, Studies Show

Siona — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:10:36 GMT

Aging Brains Take In More Information, Studies Show

Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain

Tags: brains, aging, intelligence, wisdom, wise

Wordle - Siona

Siona — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:14:48 GMT

Wordle - Siona

My profile as art

Tags: siona, words, profile, meaning, art