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A guide to how you can donate toward China Earthquake relief efforts

Posted on May 18th, 2008 by Oliver Ding, filed in blogging, China Earthquake
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I just now back from local library. I printed out my slideshow Please Help Earthquake Victims in China and went to library to ask them post it on the public wall.

I also created a new showshow to expand the slide 6 which is about 24+ ways to donate.New slideshow was modified from a blog post which was written by Elliott Ng of CN Reviews.

The post provides a guide to how you can donate toward China Earthquake relief efforts. I’d like more people could spread quickly with easy way.



Link to the SlideShare here. Here is the short URL: http://is.gd/hZW

Elliott Ng embedded this slideshow in his new post. He also introduced me to his blog readers.Many thanks to Elliott Ng.

I’d like to continue spreading China Earthquake Donation campaign to the world with you guys and more people.

Please Help Earthquake Victims In China

Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Oliver Ding, filed in PledgeBank, NPOs, China Earthquake
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As you may have known, a massive 7.9-magnitude earthquake rocked central China’s Wenchuan County at around 14:00 5/12/08. The death toll was more than 19,500 by 16: 00 May 15th Beijing time, and much more were injured. The figures still continue to rise.

Many of the victims were children!! Children died when they are in school! Many of them are the only child in a family! The entire Chinese nation is fighting with the disaster!

I known a pledge about China Earthquake through one of my friend and signed it.

The creator, Rebecca MacKinnon who is co-founder of Gloval Voices Online.

Yesterday I donated through Jet Li One Foundation and back to the pledge page and found more people signed on this pledge.

Today I saw this pledge again and created a short slideshow to spread it to more people.



This is the short url for this slideshow:
http://tinyurl.com/5csmdo

I just now got an e-mail from Slideshare team:

Hey OliverDing!

Your slideshow Please Help Earthquake Victims In China has been selected as the ‘Slideshow of the Day’ on the SlideShare homepage.

Our editorial team would like to thank you for this awesome creation.

- The SlideShare Team

p.s. Why not blog/twitter this and let the world know about the masterpiece you have created?

Many thanks! I will spread this slideshow and this pledge to more people.

EIN is going to pioneer a new form of publishing

Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Oliver Ding, filed in books

I got some new books such as Forces for Good,The Power of Unreasonable People and Groundwell this week.

Now I am reading some reviews on The Power of Unreasonable People, and I found a guy recommended a book from Earth Intelligence Network (free at the website).

Then I visit www.earth-intelligence.net and found the book. In fact, EIN say they are going to pioneer a new form of publishing.

Books (Free Online)

EIN is going to pioneer a new form of publishing, in which books are prinited in in limited editions to be offered via Amazon, but also be available online, free, as one large searchable PDF document, and as a collection of chapters each with its own PDF, all with Creative Commons copyright that restricts commercial exploitation only. All others may do as they wish, including translation, providing they retain attribution and share. This is how we will help accelerate the development and dissemination of legal ethical public intelligence “best practices.”

That is a cool way:)

What is the book? Its name is Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (Hardcover)

– Amazon address for this book

– EIN address for this book

The era of collective intelligence has begun in earnest. While others have written about the wisdom of crowds, an army of Davids, and smart mobs, this collection of essays for the first time brings together fifty-five pioneers in the emerging discipline of collective intelligence. They provide a base of tools for connecting people, producing high-functioning teams, collaborating at multiple scales, and encouraging effective peer-production. Emerging models are explored for digital deliberative democracy, self-governance, legislative transparency, true-cost accounting, and the ethical use of open sources and methods. Collective Intelligence is the first of a series of six books, which will also include volumes on Peace Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, and Global Intelligence.

Robert D. Steele wrote on Amazon page as below:

This book is the first of a series of books from the Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 Public Charity incorporated in Virginia. As with all our books, it is available free online for inspection, digital search, and Creative Commons re-use at no cost.

We are of course very proud of the hard-copy and of being able to offer it on Amazon, and the 55 contributors, all volunteers, hope you will buy a hard-copy both for its ease of hand-eye coordination and exploitation, and to support our work in creating public intelligence in the public interest.

Here are ten other books I as the publisher personally admire, that lend credence to our proposition, hardly original in concept but uniquely documented in this book, that We the People are now ready to self-govern at the zip code and line item level.

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

The Wisdom of Crowds

An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths

One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All

Society’s Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People

Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and how it will change our lives

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

iA Summit 2008:presentation about presentations

Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Oliver Ding, filed in Conference 2.0, Career, Guide

This week I am reading many documents from iA Summit 2008. It is a great conference.I got many ideas form it.

Share the presentation about presentations to you.



Blogosphere spread Corporate Confidential

Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Oliver Ding, filed in Career, scrapbook, Vivid World

Today I know three new things below:

A guy: Cynthia Shapiro
A book:Corporate Confidential
A website: New Ladder To Success

I read an Interview with Cynthia Shapiro by New Ladder To Success, I found there is an interesting story within its publish process.

NLTS: What inspired you to write, Corporate Confidential? How long did it take you to finish the book and to get it published?

CS: The more I worked with employees, the more damage I saw being done, and the more I felt compelled to do something about it. I simply got to the point in my career where I knew too much about what was going on. I could see what it was doing to the employees, and I simply could not stay silent any longer. This book had to be written. Nothing would have stopped me (and many tried). I felt compelled to complete the process.

Oddly enough, the more obstacles were thrown in my way, the more determined I became. Each obstacle made me feel even more strongly that this information had to be brought to light so everyone could benefit.

The book was finished rather quickly. But then I began a four year struggle to get it published.

You see, I forgot that publishers are companies too, and there were two very large publishers that didn’t want this information out there. They basically tried to kill the book.

Luckily, I found St. Martin’s Press, and the fact that they were willing to go up against other publishers to make it happen says a lot about the type of company they are. (Yes, there are companies out there trying very hard to do it right. The trick is learning how to tell the difference.)

I also had quite a bit of trouble getting people to review the book, and getting the media to cover the book launch, for the same reason.

But a grass-roots movement started from people who were reading the book and talking about it around water coolers, and on the internet. Soon it became so big that the media had to take notice and that barrier was overcome. I still have some trouble with a few media outlets that continue to feel a little threatened by the information, but the word continues to spread.

Also embed some videos from Cynthia Shapiro website.

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