Volunteering Contribute to your community, learn something new, expand your social network, demonstrate your flexibility and willingness to be part of a team (for possible future employment).
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Posted 08-25-2008 at 08:07 PM by Keith Ranney
Updated 08-27-2008 at 01:57 AM by Keith Ranney
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As the volunteer coordinator for the Maui film Festival, each year (since 2001) I’ve had the unique privilege to study how 250-300 volunteers respond to the opportunity to put their passion for service to work on behalf of the whole community. Even though volunteers have access to generous perks, the majority put their time into assuring the festival’s success, even over their own preferences, comfort and movie watching experience.
One of the central themes of the 2006 festival...
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Social architecture is a field which looks at how best to engineer social systems. What constitutes a desired outcome varies considerably among social architects based on underlying values, attitudes and goals.
At this stage of our collective evolutionary leaping, we are witnessing the last throes of a dying system and the emergence of something far more sustainable. The old system that imposes control for the personal gain of a few is predictably in resistance to the re-emergence...
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