The external call
How much attention are you paying to your life and what invitations are present in your life right now?
I feel that I am one to pay a lot of attention to the opportunities and invitations that pop up and make themselves known in my life. Right now I am entertaining some invitations around moving cities to Wellington perhaps next year. I also find that many friends and colleges are always coming to me with technical questions which I always see as an invitation to share some knowledge or perhaps teach someone something new. Perhaps the most exciting invitation that has surface recently is that an off-shoot of the popular TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference held in the US is looking to be held in Auckland this year. It would be great to be selected to attend so it looks like I will be filling out a registration pack soon!
What is the unique contribution that you can make?
I want to make the way we work on the web easier and help businesses get online and use all the great tools and technology that I enjoy. I want to encourage a move toward more conversation and community around organisations online.
If you were to write a paragraph describing your calling doing worked you loved & making a contribution what would be in it?
I would be including in this paragraph my passion for technology and the ways I can use it to help guide conversation online in the form of social networks and making interacting on the web for everyone a very easy task. I would also include building relationships with businesses and professional networks to find out common problems and barriers they find while doing business online or attempting to move to an online business model. I am hoping that my calling will allow me to find solutions to these problems.

I ended up running a little late to get my application in for TEDx but hopefully they will live tweet, blog or put some videos up of the speakers after the conference…
Next year!! I will be there!!
The speakers have been announced too check them out!
Scott Gilmour – Dreamer
Brenda Frisk – Learning Technologist
Nigel Parker – Technologist
Michael Henderson – Corporate Anthropologist
Dr Robin Kelly – Doctor, Author
Ray Avery – inventor, Scientist, Humanitarian
Billy Gammon – Adventurer
Wendy McGuiness – Reluctant Futurist
I don’t agree with everything in this post, but you do make some very good points. I’m very interested in this subject matter and I myself do alot of research as well. Either way it was a well thoughtout and nice read so I figured I would leave you a comment. Feel free to check out my website sometime and let me know what you think.