In a time when the limits and boundaries in between us vaporize in a constant conversation and connectivety carried and enabled by the social web, and geographic dependency for "being in the flow" is equal to have "access to the cloud", wherever may be, maybe it's time to challenge the old presumption of "Think Global, Act Local". The time you go flowing into the streams online, by definition you are "global" wherever there is a Web Window.
Still, the offline "meat-world" aspect of knowledge and attitude transformation, in contrast to "virtual-world" in one dimension, specifically, should not be underestimated. Where there is no or little motivation to "get it" – there is one thing unparallelled – the face to face, spirit to spirit inspiration. With the power of replacing fear and prejudice with joy and curiosity.
With this insight in the core, and with a spirit to in the end create a flow where we educate-the-educators-who-educate-the-educators as my earlier triplet of articles on Global Digital Participation landed in, breathing the same message with different aspects, a truly "glocal" initiative will be introduced next week for real, offline.
Online, it's already there, for a week or so.
In short, it aims to be developed in five steps, creating global waves of understanding and engagement, beginning with a vibrant locality of Norrköping.
It's a collaboration in between the local chapter Social Media Club Östergötland and the local district of the people's education institution Sensus – Sensus Östergötland-Norra Småland (you can read about Sensus in general/in English here), in a joint venture to create and facilitate learning processes of the social web.
Yes, we aim to create a multi-translated Social Web Guide for global learning on Social Software/Media/Web!
Meeting the core of the Social Media Club mission – to promote media literacy and sharing best practices in a global learning process.
But we start with a local meetup Monday, April 4, at Sensus Norrköping, co-hosted by Social Media Club Östergötland – see the monthly update/newsletter from SMC Östergötland, in Swedish, here.
Next week, the national campaign on Digital Participation @digidel2013 / http://digidel.se that was prequelled with a sign for a call to action in December, launches in a bigger format next week, April 5. SMC Östergötland and Sensus are formal partners of the campaign, together with me as an "Eldsjäl" (in Swedish, literally, "fire spirit", or driving spirit), one of three pioneering Eldsjälar on stage, together with Anders Sporring and newly joined Pernilla Näsfors – all three board members of the interim board of Social Media Club – Chapter Support Association – Sweden as well! And in the office of the campaign, in the management, we also have another newly recruited board member of SMC CSA Sweden – Linda Sandberg. So all is set to have the missions leveraged with these collaborations!
And yes, you can contribute and help out, as an individual, organization or company. Go check the crowdfunding platform on http://bit.ly/socwebinfo-fundedbyme-en (Google Translated – and talking about translation, we need translators too, of course !
We're all getting better when everyone's included.
What do you want to do to make it happen?