Hear is Visioning Story Number 2: (See Number 1 in Earlier Post)(These are fictional)

Headline: Oprah Helps Launch 14 Seconds to Change the World Movement Today

Brief: To kickoff the new initiative called 14 Seconds to Change the World, Oprah today distributed Flip video players to her entire audience with instructions to make a video, which can be no longer than 14 seconds about how they, a friend, family member or person on the street thinks they could change the world. Once the videos are done the Flips are programmed to automatically upload the vidoes to the website of 14Seconds where they will be displayed and viewed across the internet. Leveraging one of Oprah’s favorite things ‘Hope’ this initiative is designed to help world changers share their story, connect with other like minded individuals and aspire those needing inspiration.

A business partner of mine and I are working on a world changing web idea and one of the things we are doing is writing stories from the future that represent the impact our idea could have, sort of a long-range visioning type of thing. We like to really stretch our thinking in regards to what may be possible. You move toward what you envision.

Anyway, directly below is one of the future stories, I hope you enjoy it, if you would like to know more about the business idea leave a comment.

Year 2110 December 20thday

Virtual Bulletin Unit # 2110@7.2Lx

Official EarthWorld Leadership Council correspondence

From: Co-President Marianne Melitta

To: Our citizens of Earth

Beloved Citizens:

On the cusp of this new year; 2110, we celebrate 25 years of peace, globally. In spite of the friction, in principle, over the Mars Colonization Act back in 2099, our hearts are warmed that the resolution was reached, now 10 years ago, without physical or neuronal conflict. We continue to appreciate the visionary leadership of the Moon Resolution Team, lead by Barak Obama Ahmadinejad III. We owe the Moon Resolution Team our gratitude for their ability to avoid conventional brain-erasing neuron spike & Byte warfare. Due to this resolution, our Globe and Inner-ring Planetary Alliance is safe – and peaceful.

Today, we also celebrate and recognize the 75th year of the Improvidea14Sec Awards, a continued companion to the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a sometimes forgotten story of simple authentic innovations for the betterment of the citizens of our World; Earthanians… and the People of our Planets.

But 100 years ago, in 2010, we still lived in a world of fear, economic struggle, inequities, suffering; and hard to believe; starvation. Back then, we believed it was all about people… and our Planet was at an environmental pivot point. In that day, our World was an arcane assemlance of 100’s of countries and governments; all fighting for resources, power and domination…. This was a time when disease still existed. As hard as it is to believe, many humans died well before their 130th birthday, and in many cases, actually suffered prior to their expiration.

It is also little known that in 2010, humans struggled to communicate through the now long-defunct Internet, ever since its collapse and the subsequent creation of the SynapseNet. Back then, a network of human-interface devices called “computers” were manipulated by “keyboards”. The keyboards were hit with fingers so they could type words. Humans would hit these keyboards and communicate in various languages, unlike today’s UnitarySpeak of real-time thoughts and gestures. Then, the concept of real-time one-to-many and many-to-many connection, globally, was a new idea.

We are now in the dawn of a new era.

Our SynapseNet & ThoughtBasis began with the vision of a small group of individuals who were originally from the Crater Region, which was once a rich area fueled by then-abundant H2O units. It was called the Great Lakes, a region of the then United States. We know little about these people due to the Global Byte War II, where all electronic information everywhere was erased in 2144. Thanks to the power of human will, and the oral tradition, now called “thought tradition”, we still know the basics of these people and their story.

…. Little did these people know what they started back then – - this group-of-few – - affecting so many in the future. This handful of individuals in those crude years had the vision to catalyze change through global communication in small chunks. A change that sparked deeper understanding & empathy across the Globe. The Improvidea14Sec founders had a simple idea: Connect people through the magic of “seconds” and “milliseconds” (i.e., the time-unit terms they used then). Our now-all-so-familiar ploik time-unit was created by them. The ploik was called “40 milliseconds” back then. For those of you who don’t know; 35 of our ploiks equaled “14 seconds”. That’s where the “14″ came from.

Thanks to these precursor efforts, the 4DBrainVision-ideo was developed in 2167.

Anyway – Back to 2010: The 14-second moving-images, called “videos” inspired a shift in our society. Today; our 4D brain-vision-ideo’s couldn’t have even been imagined by the producers of these 2D moving images which had to be viewed on a “screen”.

But the Improvidea14Sec founders and their predecessor to the 4DBrainVision-ideo knew they had something that could spark the minds and hearts of Earth citizens, through the tools & technologies that they had available at that time.

So; Earthians – I challenge you to think about every little thing you can do, even in the short time of a ploik, to continue to affect positive change.

Thankfully, we are peaceful globally & Inner-ring-Planet-ly… but we have much to still learn in our effort to protect the future.

Though we are on the cusp of ubiquitous time-travel and history-alteration entries, we cannot rest easy in this era of uncertainty – especially given the recent discovery of the Klargs in solar system LV34. They have made it clear they want our solar system, primarily because of the fact that our planets and colonized moons are friendly to their plant-like bodies. I challenge all of you as citizens to engage in a solution for how we can work with, and peacefully communicate with, the Klargs… for a better East-North Milky Way future, together.

Respectfully and in your service,

Marianne Melita

Co-President

EarthWorld Leadership Council

For years I have been a PC user, always wanted to have a MAC but never made the switch. Over the last 2-3 years I have really tried to push myself to use web-based applications so that maybe one day I would only need a browser as my computing technology tool. I thought I might write a bit about my progress for those of you who might be thinking of a similar technology work style. Remember I am on a journey here, I don’t use everything yet, in fact only a fraction.

Of course the clear leader in this movement is Google. I will also mention some other web-based applications I use in addition to Google’s. I like Google, love the way the try to operate as a business, harness and use brainpower and best of all bring to the market a real wealth of great, smart, always improving web-based applications.

If you have comments, suggestions or questions just leave a comment.

Here are the web-base applications I currently use:

Personal Productivity

Google Gmail – I find Gmail has all of the functionality of any email tool I have ever used in a corporate setting. I really like how historical emails can be managed  and that strings of one email are broken into separate slices making it easy to access just the content that is important at that time.

Google Docs – Document creation, spreadsheet, presentations, forms and folder and file management is all done very well with this application. The key feature I like is I can share folders and documents with non-Google people. They can view and edit various documents without having to email them around.

Google Calendar – Easy to use, full featured calendar that again is shareable and I can also view or even integrate other calendars into mine, for example I have the Green Bay Packer schedule calendar integrated with mine.

Google Contacts – I use this as my contact management tool.

Google Reader – I use this to aggregate all of the various RSS feeds I follow into one location.

iGoogle – Not a big user here yet, kind of a way of creating your own web portal in an effort to get your arms around the incredibly large stream of content that is flowing. Probably will replace Google Reader for me.

Google Chrome – this is my web browser of choice, it is fast, easy to use and is continuously improved and extended.

Project Collaboration

Google Site – Build a simple personal website, enable others to share and contribute, a simple way to aggregate communication and elements of a project.

Google Wave – Brand new, I just started learning this tool this week, this is designed to enable live collaboration integrating any type of content or communication form that you can think of, looks promising and once developers starting writing extension applications this will be very powerful.

Box.net – This is another web-based document sharing site with a widget that will display within Linkedin.

Multimedia

Google You Tube – Aggregate all of your various various videos into your own channel or for personal sharing with family or to serve as your personal portal to all things video.

Google Picasa – Image management that connects your desktop with web-based image locations, I use it for keeping my family updated with all of our kids pictures and things. Nice image editor included and the ability to make movies and publish DVD’s from within the tool itself as well.

Flickr – A non-Google application that is like Picasa that I used early on to provide images for some other websites I started for some friends and organizations.

SlideShare – A non-Google application that lets you share presentations with the public including audio if you choose, so sort of like presentations as a movie.

ScreenR – A web-based tool that lets you make screencasts, record your screen and voice and share it with others, easy integration with iPhones, Twitter and others. Simple to use.

Networking

Twitter - I try to follow people who contribute value in my areas of interest and try to provide information and links of value as well. Some interesting global connections can happen here. Need something, anything, ask Twitter.

Facebook - I primarily use Facebook as a personal communication tool to family and friends, fun easy to use and has enable discovery of friends I haven’t seen in decades.

Linkedin – This is more like a business networking event, or facebook for business. A great tool for connecting, marketing yourself. I find Groups as a function in Linkedin is a very powerful way to connect with those in your industry or to do research on a topic.

Hootsuite - This is a tool that let’s you manage your content, track the results of your entries into the tools above, kind of like a dashboard for your various online networking tools.

Website

Wordpress – I am a big wordpress fan, this site is managed with Wordpress, it is free, open source and continously gets easier to use with new functionality.

Awstats – I use this tool through my web-hosting provider, almost all do. It is an excellent way to obtain stats about your website.

Conclusion

I never realized until writing this just how many different web-based applications I already use and I know there are thousands more out there to be discovered. Note: This movement is so pervasive that Google will be launching Google Chrome OS, a browser based operating system.

So if your thinking of diving into web-based applications, I say come on in the water is fine.

For years I have believed that this title was accurate. I haven’t always practiced it well but the belief is still there.

One of the things I have done during my current career transition is to do more self-discovery and self-analysis so that moving forward I can be my best self and represent myself effectively to whomever I might work with.

During this discovery and analysis a friend on Linkedin suggested that I check out the book ‘The Secret’ which I did. I also acquired the book ‘The Answer’ which expounds the principals of the The Secret as applied to business.

The main premise behind the secret is that our thoughts are literally physical, material things in our brains and as such they create the opportunity to interact with all other matter within the universe. As it turns out this explanation resonated with me and I have been pursuing some of the tenants of the book.

As it turns out you not only move toward what you think about but that other things move toward you that you think about. I know many people are skeptical of this whole line of thinking but our minds are powerful devices and it may behoove us to spend portion of our time better understanding how they work.

The video below is one basic affirmation piece that can be used to shape our thoughts, because the one thing we are the master of is our thoughts.