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Resources for Essential Skills: Chapter 6

6. Leverage and Communicate

Get Heard and Noticed
Change Happens One Conversation at a Time
Scale and Leverage
Don’t Waste Opportunity
The Value of Small Events
The Internet Is About Connection
Self-talk, Stories, and Reflection
Build Assets
Boost Your Critical Reading Skills
But It's Scary
Curiosity
Courage
Commitment
Dancing on the Internet
Signposts
A Distributed Asset and Economic Model
From Personal Change to Systemic Change
Personal Risk and Courage
Same Words but Different Frames
Scaling Outward through Connected Networks
Leverage through Reuse, Replication, and Sharing
Reflections on Chapter 6

Discussion

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Endnotes

1 Tech for Good: The Role of ICT [Internet Communications Technology] in Achieving the SDGs. https://sdgacademy.org/course/tech-for-good/

2 Bumping spaces are less controlled than the third spaces thought of as places to build community connections: coffee shops, parks, clubs. See article: Community Building https://shadylanesproject.substack.com/p/community-building

3 Appreciative Inquiry uses questions to explore how groups and organisations might use their existing strengths and situation to imagine and realise a shared future. David Cooperrider originated the theory. This concept is a core part of Strategic Doing.

4 ACF Community Brisbane Northside hold monthly verge visits with casual coffee, and then post a story, or stories, online https://acfcommunitybrisbanenorthside.substack.com/s/verge-gardens

5 The open Internet allows free movement of the user via links and browser controls. Some corporate sites including most social media, search engines, and artificial intelligence, attempt to capture users on their site by restricting links, disabling browser back buttons and history, and reproducing content rather than leading the reader to primary sources.

6 How to start a movement, Derek Sivers, TED2010, February 2010. https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement

7 Regen Brisbane signposts https://regenbrisbane.substack.com/p/vital-role-of-internet-communications

8 https://regenbrisbane.substack.com/