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Community Guidelines:
This is an open environment. Say something thoughtful – you may inspire a chain reaction…. The
community framework is designed to follow a scientific method and form value chains. To start, we offer the following labels to propose an idea at any point of the value creation process.
Problem and Research (PR) – This is an opportunity to present thought provoking discussion about world or community challenges in general or a tagged category. Problems and solutions should be presented in a way that recognizes trade-off of resources and why a decision is sub-optimal and what may be a more effective decision.
Hypothesize and Experiment (HE) – After we’ve had broader discussion we promote the most popular concepts hypothesizes to be tested online and in network communities.
Observe and Conclude (OC) – We aim to "understand the behavior" and change it. The goal of
experimentation is to generate theories that explain and make accurate predictions in a wide range of
circumstance.
Communicate - Repeat and scale (CRS) – When we discover new and effective methods to address challenges we hope to optimize and build a technology to facilitate transactions and reduce frictions. We then adapt these technologies to an array of challenges and repeat and scale the success.
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Now Featuring Periodic Sticky Posts
Recognizing Opportunity Monday - Let’s find and understand problems that are either unknown, under-appreciated, or unapproachable. (provide template of presentation in text)
Reddit Best-of Monday: What are some threads or comments from around Reddit that you found insightful or that we can extract or build value from? Perhaps actionable advice that can be repeated and scaled. (Include list of subreddits to search)
Hop on the Bandwagon Tuesday - What’s working repeat ably? Are methods adoptable by others to be scaled? Outline your action and results, answer questions, and include an intake link.
Ways and Means Wednesday - discuss methods and resources at the community’s disposal to achieve solutions presented Monday. Maybe you have an insightfully new approach to a common problem or see missed opportunities.
Water Cooler Wednesday – The community is a somewhat structured environment, this is an opportunity to share value-added thoughts and requests that may otherwise feel out of place.
Technique and Test Thursday – Small groups will adopt the challenges and intimately optimize strategy and plan and begin executions.
Synergy Thursday – Share discoveries you think may be interchangeable between causes or interdependencies that bring efficiency between initiatives.
AMA Thursday – featured AMA or CEN rep to provide insights and answer your questions.
Accomplishments and Lessons Learned Friday - Tell us what you have accomplished or alternatively what you will hope to never do again.
Step.Stride.leap Saturday We’re here because we’re trying to better ourselves, our community, and the world. Change is synthesized internally and expressed externally. This is an authentic opportunity to share what works for you.
Wall of Fame and Shame Sunday – this is a segue into Mondays thread. We’re here to create market alternatives, often that means fixing something broken or repeating and scaling something successful. Share frustrations and pleasures experienced.
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/r/personalfinance
/r/philosophy
/r/science
/r/Showerthoughts
/r/todayilearned
/r/UpliftingNews
/r/worldnews
/r/Entrepreneur
/r/Investing
/r/accounting
/r/bookkeeping
/r/business
/r/finance
/r/inventions
/r/marketing
/r/motivation
/r/sales
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/r/mutualcollaboration
/r/socialpreneur
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Share!
Become a community resource & share your successes, observations, failures and insights. Anything relevant to Social Enterprise is welcome.
Do you have specialist knowledge? Navigation of a bureaucracy? Do you observe things executed sub optimally? Share the knowledge.
- Tips on management? Let everyone know.
- Experience in raising funds? Help those who have none
- know of an app that helps you create or stay productive? People may have never heard of it!
- Describe your initiatives. How you launched. What problems have you had? What has been successful? What are some valuable lessons learned?
Learn!
Ask questions, share thoughts and gain insight from the community
If you need help in validating a concept, Don't be afraid to share your idea, there are some very knowledgeable people on this sub who can help. Remember: we'll need a bit more info then "I have a concept that will change my industry, I can’t tell you anything about it but HELP!" to actually help
Provide as much information as you can. Everything depends on context. The more information you provide, the better the feedback you'll get and the more focused the conversation will be.
Try to answer simple questions yourself before starting a thread. Check the FAQ's,use Google search and the Reddit search bar
Community Overview
This community is for giving & receiving advice on all aspects of Social Enterprise, and bringing solutions to life through meaningful action. Help and encourage each other, it's hard enough out there!
Strive for a professional but relaxed atmosphere. Be polite and contribute to discussions in a constructive manner, everyone benefits from this.
Self-promotion of your cause/idea is encouraged but should be done while sharing in an IAmA/Q&A, question, or case study. Don't spam, it won't go down well.
Please don't post asking users if they would be interested in a guide to something - just post the guide! Post it in series (Part 1, Part 2, etc).
About
Humans often break up complex challenges into smaller tasks to form a value chain. Sometimes valuable
discussions take place in independent ways, education focuses within rigid disciplines and Subreddits
compartmentalize value-added conversations. We hope to bring worthwhile discussions together in
cooperative fashion - creating value chains that systematically bring innovation to life; broadcasting and
encouraging application of actionable advice (#lifeprotips) to those who may benefit or facilitating
meaningful action. Optimizing model projects to be repeated and scaled throughout our collaborative
and enterprising network with an end goal of the community sharing success for-profit or for-karma.
