bif 6: jacob colker

presenting:  

have a minute?  

change the world
@jacobcolker

When he left the world of politics to co-launch The Extraordinaries, a crowdsourced micro-volunteerism venture, he sensed a mass of human potential waiting to be tapped. 

“We saw an opportunity, we became obsessed with it, and we chased it down,” Colker says.

“If not us, then who?”

The idea behind The Extraordinaries:

1) we all have a lot of downtime that we spend doing value-neutral activities (neither work nor play); 

2) many of us have an urge to volunteer, but about 75 percent of us do not. With an iPhone and The Extraordinaries new app, we can change that.

Colker explains that we can “micro-volunteer” in small chunks of time—15 minutes standing on line in an airport, for instance—by performing a few tasks on our iPhones. Those tasks would be based on our personal skills sets that match the needs of a non-profit group.  

loving it... this could be part of a 24/7 ish convo between student and expert ind tutor.. yes?

sept 15 & 16

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