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Resources, Tools and Collectives

Today’s political, social, environmental, and economic landscape is confronted with challenges that are not addressed, or solved sufficiently by policy-makers using known methods. Despite increasing calls, current systems for social change seem to also lack knowledge and skills to collaborate effectively. However, new platforms and resources grow in numbers, spreading new thinking to solve old problems. Here are some sites we like, use, or draw upon as inspiration. Please add more in you comments!

Collaboratories
The Hub: http://www.the-hub.net
OpenIDEO: http://www.openideo.com
HCD Connect: http://www.hcdconnect.org
Jovoto: http://www.jovoto.com
Wreck A Movie: http://www.wreckamovie.com
Skillshare: http://www.skillshare.com
The Civic Crowd: http://www.theciviccrowd.org
COLAB, Sydney: http://www.colab.com.au

Online Collaboration Tools
Trello: https://trello.com
Mindjet: http://www.mindjet.com
Basecamp: http://basecamp.com
GitHub: https://github.com
My Experiment: http://www.myexperiment.org
Figshare: http://figshare.com
Amazon Mechanical Turk: https://www.mturk.com
Future of the Book: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/complextelevision

Hubs and Events
U-Lab at the University of Technology Sydney: http://ulab.org.au
General Assembly: http://www.generalassembly.com
Hybrid Platform, Berlin: http://www.hybrid-platform.com
Copenhagen Game Collective: http://www.copenhagengamecollective.org
Insight Labs: http://www.theinsightlabs.org/
Global Service Jam: http://www.globalservicejam.org/
Groundbreaker: http://www.groundbreaker.com
We make it, Switzerland: http://wemakeit.ch
Union Docs Collaborative, New York: http://www.uniondocs.org/uniondocs-collaborative

Resources
MEDEA Malmo: http://medeamalmo.tumblr.com
HASTAC – Humanities, Arts. Science And Technology Advanced Collaboratory: http://hastac.org
P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net
Change – a Massive Open Online Course: http://change.mooc.ca/week01.htm
Appropedia: http://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia
Businessmodelgeneration: http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/book
Transmedia resources: http://www.transmediaresources.com
Open Space: http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?ResearchActivities
Co-Working News (mostly German): http://www.coworking-news.de
Stanford Social Innovation Review: http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/channeling_change_making_collective_impact_work

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A resource for the future

LEARN DO SHARE is an exploration into participatory systems, collaborative spaces, share culture and self-propelled creativity. Written and designed by volunteers, the aim is to spread storytelling and playful collaboration as a way to learn, do and share. Working within an open design environment both locally and globally, we hope to have a positive effect on creative communities, building a knowledge base around collaboration as a path to experiential learning and social innovation. If you’re interested in helping, drop us a line at collaborate@learndoshare.net.

LEARN through projects and case studies to understand how people collaborate to leverage collective creativity and to harness possibilities for creative entrepreneurs. We’ll provide a toolset for open designs, prototyping and experimental storytelling as well as a network that touches into projects that are open to collaboration.

DO by collaborating on projects or taking part in our labs. Together, we want to explore social innovation by blending storytelling, co-creation and experiential learning.

SHARE your skills, experiences and projects. “What are you working on what do you need?” is the guiding principle. We’re building a collective of highly skilled creatives who support each other as friends with the added benefits of learning, community and opportunity.

As a whole, we think of this as a social innovation engine grounded in reflections on co-creative practice. Our goal is to find ways for creatives to sustain themselves through collaboration and to shape the efficiency and positive impact of participatory culture.

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