The Internet Society (ISOC)

The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 100 organization and over 20,000 individual members in over 180 countries. It provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

See The Internet Society (ISOC) and The Internet Society and Developing Countries for more insights into how thiscollaboration works.

December 1st: Checking In!

Greetings All ~ Well today is the 1st day of December and a busy day for a lot of people. Please forgive me for not checking in before. I am usually busy on one project or another with lots of work to do both online, offline and inline.
Some time ago Brother Phil S. first invited me onto this Blog after I posted something on the DDN List. I 'met' Brother Phil in the virtual reality of cyberspace via the DDN Group. One link leads to another and it took awhile for me to get the hang of this program. I also dig the Picasa Picture Program.

By way of introduction, my name is Peter S. Lopez {aka Peta de Aztlan} and I am 54-Earth years of Mexican-American-Native ancestry who lives in Sacramento, California. I am the Moderator for the Humane Rights Agenda Yahoo Group, created a related companion Blog and the other day started up a new DDN Community.

Links~ Yahoo Email~ sacranative@yahoo.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/ http://humane-rights-agenda.blogspot.com/ http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/Humane-Rights-Agenda

These times are interesting times, times of global troubles and times of global promises. Usually when I am online I post News about current events from a 'progressive perspective'. I love the Power of the Internet for helping to build bridges between people who come from a wide variety of geo-social situations and know that mass education is a key equalizer.

Today I caught the #38 Regional Transit Bus to go into the downtown area, hopped on and was going to seat up front when I saw a placard by the seat behind the Bus Driver that had a Picture of Sister Rosa Parks on it that said, "This Seat Reserved for Rosa Parks'. I thought that was really cool.

Click~
http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html

I told the ‘White’ Bus Driver that the idea was cool as I took a seat behind ‘Rosa's’ seat. He said that some people just sat there without respecting it. I told him maybe they were just ignorant or wanted to be closer to her memory.

After a couple of bus stops an elderly Black gentleman got on the bus and just sat in 'her' seat. After a minute he looked up and saw the placard, smiled, slowly nodded a his head a few times, then, strained his aging body to get up and take a seat across the aisle.

Then, after a few more stops a Chinese lady got on with her friend and plopped herself down in Rosa’s seat. During a stop downtown by the K Street Mall the bus driver told her that the seat was taken and could she sit elsewhere. The bus had plenty of room, but she was busy gagging in Chinese to her friend. Perplexed, she just moved to another seat.

I love the diversity of America as it is our curse and it is our blessing.

I just thought I would share that with you all and whoever reads these lines. Sharing is caring. In fact, a big part of our problems as an endangered life-species is our not sharing with others out of our greed, even when some of us have so much in great abundance and others have so little that they barely stay alive.

Today is the 50th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott sparked by Rosa Parks, the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.

I am watching Democracy Now right now, my Favorite TV Program on the one-eyed cyclops known as the TV.
http://www.democracynow.org/

Tonight is the David Letterman Show with Queen Oprah. Funny how people can hold onto grudges like a pain of old tennis shoes they refuse to give up when they don't even play tennis.

Good Health and Blessings To You All ~ Hermano Peta
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Are we posting any items?

I am curious to see more additions. Are we going to continue?

Our Common Purpose - ideas to explore

Thanks very much, Phil, for taking this initiative to start this blog. I am sure collectively we will all contribute towards utilizing our strengths, knowledge, expertise and vision to fulfill our common purpose. I was wondering if we all brain storm together to generate some ideas.

I came across this site called Chimpanzee Collaboratory
which is a 'collborative project of attorneys, scientists and public policy experts working to make significant and measurable progress in protecting the lives and establishing the legal rights of chimpanzees and other great apes.'

Similarly, we can try to identify a common cause or causes that we can all work together to achieve.

team blog continues the conversation of a book

one interesting use of a team blog would be to continue the conversation started by a book. a team blog could also allow readers of a book to inform the author of a book what the book is about, allowing the author of the book to see his or her ideas thru a wider angled lens.

stephen covey on synergy

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people. Stephen Covey

teamwork simply stated

Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.

Teamwork for the Masses

As we explore the depths of our existence we come across others that share our focus and passion. Let there be blogs to record our journy and provide a venue for sharing it with others.

thanks phil

Moodle can be used for community organizing

Gina Russell Stevens tells me that Moodle works very nicely as a collaborative community organizing tool -- even though it wasn't designed for that purpose.

Why this blog was started

This team blog was started to share ideas about the power of human beings working together in common purpose. Postings will include personal musings, inspirational quotes, and links to related information on the Internet.

This blog was inspired by the pathbreaking work of the Wikipedia.

After you've created a Blogger.com blog, here is a pdf explaining how you can add a team member.