When we asked where all the mentees would come from on the pledge list we got lots of great suggestions..more later. One though was refeshingly simple from pledger Ian. He thought there would be people out there who would jump at the chance so experiemented with a random approach like the [...]
Someone explained the anthroplogy of who was sitting at which tables at the TED lunch for our global mentoring project …but after the event! The main questions were around structure and process, what was our consitution, would the service be open to anyone and everyone, or would mentees be nominated etc. These are [...]
Love the idea of meeting everyone on the pledge list, but how on earth to do it? So grateful to the generosity of the organisers of the TED Conference this year who hosted five lunches on one day of the conference and posed a difficult choice to all conference goers. Think too about [...]
Pledgebank did a lot of work for us, but so did the support and help of bloggers, people with great email lists, word of mouth. First TED and the people lucky enough to have been to a TED conference got a couple of great emails from Chris. Soon to be joined by early [...]
Fascinating to see how lists grow and communities grow! Phds are being written on the subject, but for what it is worth I want to thank the people who really pushed the pledge in the early days. There are a few. First and foremost Chris Anderson, Curator of the TED conference who [...]
First post-itis is a terrible thing! It has stopped me from starting for weeks. But here goes…
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