I’ve talked a lot about marketers giving up control of content. I suggest allowing sales to be the conductors for social media in your organization. I also suggest allowing customers to take control of the website.
I figure that if I’m going to preach, I should probably practice. I’m going to hand over the reigns to you to create a blog. The only guidance I’ll give is the topic. You fill in the rest to create the story. However, the story is collaborative. You provide one to three sentences then the next commenter provides the next one to three sentences. At the end of collecting, I’ll pull everything together for a single blog.
I think of this as those games where one person says a word of a sentence, the next person adds one, and so on and so on.
Note: The comments are moderated, but I’ll only remove those that are inappropriate (bad language, sexual content, you get the idea). Comments that are supportive of the site or effort I’ll group onto another page for everyone to view. I’ll try to fix inconsistencies due to date or where comments come in.
I encourage you to not only to participate but, play tag with your friends (25 Things Facebook style). So, here it goes.
TOPIC:
If you could change the world, what would that world look like?
Ready, set, GO!!!
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–Excerpt. Full post on Improv Page–
It is now up to governments, companies and individuals to overcome the human barriers – distrust, isolationism, competitive profit seeking-vs.-world-welfare, etc. The world must collaborate to solve the world’s problems. Drug research companies must create co-operatives where they can combine resources to create solutions and share the profits. The same with energy production. The world is racing to free itself of fossil fuel dependency and the countries who are measuring their wealth in fossil fuel revenues must lead the way into new technologies, sharing solution building (and profit) with partners around the world, or they will find their own economies unsustainable once a cheap and steady method of sustainable energy production is achieved.
The internet has become a platform for collaboration to address every major world ill – global warming, health, pollution, energy, food production, etc. and it is now up to humans to utilize this platform to speed development and delivery of solutions on a scale never before possible.
Those of us who have been advocates of simply making social media a reality must now expand our own horizons and provoke the minds of people and the traditions of institutions to overcome their internal barriers to global collaboration and take advantage of the new tools that make it possible.
I wouldn’t change the world, or at least not very much. The thought of having the power to change people’s lives is scary, what if you change things in a way that people didn’t want? Who has the right to play God? But I doubt I’d be able to resist the temptation to try to help.. I think I’d bring knowledge and information to those who don’t have it, I believe education is the most powerful way to help people.