Marcin Blog

Sun Sep 23, 2012

Week review. Planned: Ops manager search and followups with Collaboratorium contacts. No time spend on actual recruiting, but did spend time for Operations Manager Role Description. Rewrote pith - Recruiting Announcement Take Two

Fri Sep 21, 2012

Talked with Emily - week 2 meeting. Gerard Cox and I met on Nonprofit Infrastructure Checklist, and will get further review as we work on social media strategy for recruiting. Ops Manager, Advisory Boards, and Process are key.

Thu Sep 20, 2012

Started Biogas_Subject_Matter_Experts request for SMEs. Colby wrote first cut of MIT_Innovations_Journal#First_Cut article introducing Distributive Enterprise to the outside world for the first time.

Helen is making me think about about Ruthless Accountability to Core Goals - I need to clarify my Go/NoGo list that Katherine suggested. I get many offers for radical work where people want solutions from employment to freedom, but I have very little to offer because without the GVCS in place, we have no substance. So the only offers I can accept are low-risk offers of GVCS deployment according to Strat Plan and offers of strategic assistance on organizational scaling. So I told Sam Wells that We can collaborate on machine development and strategic organizational scaling at this point, as well as recruiting of Advisory Board Members.

Wed Sep 19, 2012

Began reframing My Story - leading with my personal story - as suggested by David Weaver initially in the SupporTED Collaboratorium. So we're refining the Recruiting Strategy - as the initial hit through job boards buried the lead of a compelling story of changing the world.

No response from Craig Campbell on the OSE fund, which was promised for early yesterday and now latest by today. Responded to Sohil on assistnace with immediate priorities of attaining $20k/month bootstrap funding levels.

Finishing Shuttleworth Pitch - 9.18.12. Got first ag feedback at LifeTrac Technical Review.

Talking to Margaret Cary about what it takes to be a great leader. Take-away: ability to control emotions will make or break your organization.

Ordered Stucco Sprayer and Renee recommended Emotional Intelligence 2.0, which I got for Kindle. So then I got a 1/2 hp Submersible Well Pump and a Pitless Adapter for well.

Tue Sep 18, 2012

Worked with David Weaver on introduction email for recruiting, see Haystack Email. Then invited Marissa Levin to help create a strategy for recruiting advisors and mentors/coaches. Checked in briefly with Sunny to follow up on contacts regarding recruiting. Renee also suggested touching in with Colleen Keegan on advisory board development, so I set up an appointment.

Reviewing cut of MIT Innovations Journal Article on Open Source Civilization. Starter Advisory_Board_Strategy.

Did not get much help yet recruiting from Encore, I don't think I did that right somehow. I did find Coming_of_Age_Kansas_City as a local org that helps organizations leverage 55+ talent. Dissatisfied with Encore results, i tried an Encore Message to Encore.

Monday Sep. 17, 2012

I am preoccupied with the Conxcorp opportunity - an offer to set up a large fund for removing OSE's current material scarcities. Craig Campbell, founding executive, knew about me for a long time, and I think saw the Master Prototyper Recruiting Video and my energy from TED Collaboratorium and decided it was time to contact me. His team was convinced enough by Strategic_Plan_2_Ambitious

I talked to Stephanie today to help refine the Operations_Manager_Role_Description, which Karien and I drew up over Karien's Saturday visit. Then I talked to Gerard Cox, and then Renee commented further on the Ops Manager description. I thought about how to expand coaching support to Social Entrepreneurship Fellows. Finished Shuttleworth Foundation Quarterly Reports (August), and started with Strategic Networking page, for which I started Category Tops.

Tomorrow morning David Weaver and I are reworking OSE Brand and I will be talking to Sunny and Katherine tomorrow. Including Levels of Openness in Human Enterprise in MIT Innovations Journal article. Having run into a former Ashoka-related contact - i wrote a Letter to Jim of Civic Ventures to recruit encore professionals.

Sep. 16. 2012

First Marcin Weekly Planning and Review - done at end of every week. Promised: followups with SupporTED Collaboratorium contacts, and rewriting Strategic Plan. Delivered: 7 follow up meetings including Karien visit, plan rewritten. Assessment: did not get time for construction duties.

Noticed OSE_Systems_and_Processes page outlining development procedure - useful for costing development expenses in strategic plan.

Studying Responsibility_Assignment_Matrix. Requesting Parker to finish all peoples' contracts on site. Doing Shuttleworth Foundation Quarterly Report - August.

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Sep. 13. 2012

Today i have reviewed my Marcin's_Proposed_Schedule with Emily Aiken and discussed my 2 week plan with Scott Blessing. Further, David Weaver proposed the second cut of OSE Brand and Craig Campbell is vetting the feasibility of setting up a fund for OSE. I requested Donna Karlin to serve on my Board of Advisors for Organizational Development - Team Dynamics. Created Recruiting Process page, and began OSE Microhouse Prototype page. I noticed my TED Talk has over 200k hits on Will Cleaver's YouTube channel and Practical Post Scarcity vid has over 100k on another person's channel. We should centralize the numbers for branding purposes. Also posted feedback from Mark Shuttleworth on Community_Development.

Epic night finishing first draft of Strategic Plan 2 Ambitious