!deation Conference

Great ideas are the first small step towards making a difference; execution is the journey. Or as Thomas Edison famously put it, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

That's why my friend Charles is launching the !deation Conference this April. His vision is a gathering of innovators and practitioners coming together to envision and execute new ideas. And the first conference is focused on the humanitarian non-profit world.

He's queuing a great line-up of speakers including Scott Harrison, Ben Keesey, and Jake Harriman, and just as importantly for this venue is the network of folks in the audience. Charles brings together a community of people who are out to change the world, and when they get together in the same space, sparks fly.

Check out the conference website and connect with Charles on twitter. Drop my name or jamestravels in the referral box when you register and I might see you there.

The Decade of Reinvention

Welcome to the future. That's what I think to myself every time I remember that it's 2010. There was so much Y2K buildup 10 years ago that it didn't seem strange when we made the jump to 2000, but I remember thinking even then that 2010 was impossibly distant, shrouded in sci-fi mystery. And now here we are. In the future.

As I look ahead to the next 10 years I can't help but think that this is a perfect time to take everything we've learned, all the paydirt of scientific progress and globalization and the communications revolution and put it to work building the world that we want to live in. So I've christened the new decade for myself as the "Decade of Reinvention." And you are welcome to join me.

Read the Decade of Reinvention anthem on Plywood People.