What would you do to improve the world through media?
What keeps you up at night? What brilliant ideas or conundrums woud you like to pursue with others who share a passion for innovation in a world connected by digital communications networks?
If you could collaborate with smart people representing a variety of professional experiences and perspectives - and put them to work on a problem or project - what would you DO to advance and inspire actions that improve the world through media? How would YOU connect business innovation with social innovation?
Are you into advertising networks, wikis, video, publishing platforms, blogs, translation, ethics, journalism, activism, politics, finance or launching new products?
Now that our Search Working Group is launched and active, we’d like to help others get started. We’re going to take your lead - literally. We need members to suggest and take on leadership of whatever projects iFOCOS takes on next.
(Not yet a member? Learn more and join here.
So: what kinds of working groups you would like to join or lead to help iFOCOS advance and inspire actions that improve the world through media? Contact us privately or share your ideas here.
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I don’t understand: I live in Nigeria, and feel if I am starting a working group, I would not know what to focus on in terms of work theme. I am a freelance media person though, and wish to know how this could play in starting a working group.
However I think my joining a working group based in the USA online would better enable me understand my priorities as a group member or leader, please clarify.
You could participate from Nigeria, with other members from the US or elsewhere.
As a first step, tell us a little more about:
- your work
- what kinds of challenges do you run into or think about?
- what kinds of people would you like to meet and connect with
- if you did have a group to work with, what would you want to talk about - or DO - with them?
Feel free to discuss here via comments, or send to me offline via email.
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