Free will participation motivations: see, hear, think, say, pain & gain

This is a different way of looking at motivations or reasons for people's free-will participation.

It starts with the individual, and an empathy map, and the six categories of: See, Hear, Think, Say, Pain and Gain..

It might be useful when seen alongside the Social Attitudes survey - in our motivations in collaborating on otherness..

Bottling goodwill - olympic lessons for every brand..

Bottling Goodwill: Olympic Lessons for Every Brand from Jack Morton Worldwide

What can we learn from parkrun about self organising groups..?

What can we learn from parkrun about self organising groups..?


Parkrun:

1. Its essentially a franchise model so they know exactly how much it will cost: (about £6,000 including VAT). This includes all the equipment costs, the additional web and hosting costs and all the internal costs required to create the event. 
2. And they know how it will be funded. They look to the councils, NHS, and other commercial bodies to fund 50% of the start-up costs for each event. 
3. Its also quite a fixed process, so you can know your time commitment before jumping in to volunteer to set one up: "Our experience shows that we can get a new event up an running in about 6 weeks from the start of your enquiry depending on many variables. We also know that within 12 weeks of starting a parkrun, you will have over 50 volunteers to call on
4. They have a list of commercial sponsors who are aligned to the health message (addidas, locozade, pruhealth) which means its sustainable once its up and running.
5. They have 14 members of staff supporting who support this process, making it cheap, easy and deliverable.

Volunteering:
So that gets us to the point where someone wants to come forward to set one up. Why would someone do that without being paid? Well, we do things all the time without being paid (don't call it volunteering, with all that baggage..). its cool to set something up, you get the kudos and you are one of the users of the product.

Then we start to look at people's motivations for what we currently call volunteering: altruism, do-gooding, obligation. Not inspiring stuff.

So how could we make the latter more like the former? (the guardian had a good article looking at this from the Olympics motivations here and from the Third sector research centre here)

There seems to be a gulf between these two stories, one which i think its worth exploring. More structure, planning and franchising might help us get more people involved and get beyond the emotive stories good or bad..

Oh, and i think cold hard data is the way we get there..

On the Relationship Between Sound and the World

This is a little off my normal topic, but i think it has merit both on its own account, but also to draw a parallel between how the social sector selects talent, and how the music industry selects talent.

There are interesting bits in there about change vs conservatism, use of data in something which sounds organic and the difference between what we hear and what we think we hear..

On the relationship between sound and the world from Casey Morrison

Inter-relational mapping a city..

A few people have been working on interrelational mapping for a number of year (most notably @davidwilcox).  This is an example we worked on in York. it shows the interrelational map between statutory organisations and voluntary sector groups

I'm hoping we could do the same thing for BigLocal areas, esp round where i'm living, to map capacity and skills as well as relationships,.

Future Scenarios - Joseph Rowntree questionnaire on social trends to 2030

This is a presentation on future scenarios for the social sector. It was the result of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation open forum on the future of the social sector. 

We were all asked to imagine the challenges for 2030 and this is what i pulled together..

Jrf 30 yr questionnaire march 2011 from Casey Morrison

The story of change - why citizens (not shoppers) hold the key to a better world

The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world. http://storyofchange.org
 

Emulating Consumerist Behaviour in Community Involvement

Evaluating how the private sector is looking for consumer action could be a great way of thinking about how we incentivise prosocial behaviour and social action..

The presentation below focusses on involvement in advertising campaigns, moving from passive consumption to sharing and doing.

The language is different but could ring a lot of bells with the social sector..?

Briefing for Participation from PatsMcDonald

Top 10 mistakes in behaviour change

Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change from Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford

Why people choose NOT to engage with social issues

This is an interesting presentation looking at why people choose not to engage with social issues. The last 20 years have prioritised information & research in order to force action.

Maybe there is a way to short-cut action on some of our most pressing social issues..?

Maybe we need to turn live-aid on its head..?

It's been a long time coming from Jon Howard

Eight steps to transforming your organisation

100 Words on Community involvement & Civic Technologies..

What is it..? Civic technology is the use of digital technologies and social media for service provision, civic engagement, and data analysis. A bit more detail below from Civic technologies.

Improving quality of and accountability in public service delivery

1. Help city residents more effectively access and track responsiveness of public service delivery
2. facilitate resident engagement with government around service delivery issues
3. streamline resident access to public services. 

Facilitating resident-driven improvements to neighbourhood quality-of-life 

1. Enlist city residents to provide new data to support or inform government efforts
2. to organise community-based efforts based on that data
3. to participate in the development of strategies and policies to address these issues more effectively.

Deepening participation in public decision-making 

1. Developing more effective ways to collect meaningful resident input (especially from low-income people)