The Key to Social Evolution

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The future of Social Evolution is here and now, people.
So listen up, peeps, its real simple.
We here at Mission Control have seen it working, and i'm not just talking about our little part of the New Social Frontier...i'm talking about all around us in many different communities.

Here are some of the distinguishing factors we've not only identified but successfully embraced-
.....and lets keep the dialogue hot!

FACT:
First, give people amazing, fantastic, lovely, meaningful, fun, sexy and rewarding experiences and they'll want more...give 'em a taste of paradise and they'll never want to leave.
Give them the chance to get involved and help maintain these amazing experiences and they will...
Give them a chance to have real ownership in the community well-being and they will step up in inspiring ways as Stewards...
Show them through DIRECT EXPERIENCE that taking an active part in your own evolution and being acountable to others and yourself is not only worthy of commitment, but in fact, a pleasureable, collaborative goal!

Simply put, give people the chance to shine and they will.

Give anyone and everyone the chance to be creative and they'll take it.
Creativity is not just for some of us, its innate to every human being, some folks just need a bit more encouragement.
Give people the means to share their wisdom, stories and value and they will jump on the chance.
We have found that everyone has an incredible wealth of talent and wisdom within them waiting to be shared.
No matter how much you may not be able to connect with someone at first, sit down, share your stories and pretty soon you will start to see just how much you have in common.

FACT:
People don't need to be saved.
Communties don't need to be saved.
Society does not need to be saved.
Everyone is looking for the chance, the support, the tools and the space to lift themselves up-
to find their own unique Power and thus save themselves!

TOTALY FUN AND REWARDING IS THE NEW SUSTAINABILITY!
INSPIRATION AND INVITATION!

There are so many thriving dynamically cool social models and communities around today...ones that display abundant patterns of social behaviour.

So why do we SOCIAL TOOL BUILDERS AND NETWORKERS think we need to re-invent anything? If we are not getting dirty playing in the rich soil of others communities, how can we even call ourselves SOCIAL tool builders?

Lets humble ourselves just a TINY BIT and be open to receiving the genuis of others.
(reminder to self!)
We will not lose our own in the process, promise.

Lets create more empty space in our tools and our networks to allow for the wisdom of our fellow innovators to co-mingle with our own.

Lets collaborate with others, foster working dialogues and cocreative relationships with other organizations by creating open and inviting tools and networks that reflect this.

and one last observation and Fact:
The healthy evolution of any system or organism relies on a continuous dynamic process of feedback influencing its development.
This includes people and communities.

Hey- community leaders, tool builders, social networkers, 'experts' and innovators!
Have you built in feedback mechanisms, structures and agreements for supporting an ongoing evolutionary feedback process to inform your efforts?
(more on this point later)

So, what are the results of applying these observations of abundant social behaviour?

STATEMENT:
The result of spreading tools which support fantastically self-empowered individuals and communities, who have learned through direct experience their own innate value and the value of honoring others....will be a Society thats more of a mind-blowing, mutually harmonious, energy radiating, radically collaborative art project than the frightened, addictive, disfunctional fragmented creature it is today.

Lets harness the infrastructure and desires of consumer culture for our own, selfishly altruistic means and show them where true value is born, in the individual!

And we pray:
May ALL our social tools and networks embrace a dynamic proces of cocreation for every individual and community and functionally encourage synergy, friendly interconnecteness and inspiration for collaboration.
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All these previous statements, observations and functionally applicable truths form the foundation upon which the DESIGN and STRATEGIES of The Beauty Engine and Superstar Avatar been crafted.

Build your tools so that you communicate clearly to the users that they come first and their input, their ideas, their enthusiasm and effort is an inherently valued part of the network.