New day, new job, same work, same passion

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So here is the latest update. We have accepted a position with Leadersource, which goes to places where the church is growing fastest and trains leadrs to design their own contextualized leadership development program to grow healthy leaders. Their leadership material seems to fit perfectly with our swarming methods. We are looking forward to what the future holds!

I will continue to blog here and post items to Twitter. Keep following swarming here!

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Web-savvy refugees in Kenya
Fast Company reports how Samasource is bringing digital economy jobs to camp dwellers in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp (pop. 300,000). (Comment)

Think like a statistician
FlowingData has a good little piece on how to “think like a statistician, without the math.” (Comment)

Quotable: on Continuous Improvement
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” —Henry Ford (Comment)

Women: hungry food-makers
The World Food Program reports the majority of chronically hungry in the world are women, but they produce 50% of world’s food: http://bit.ly/ajoI9N (Comment)

Crowdsourcing: Jobs for $5
What would you do for $5? Fiverr is a marketplace for jobs (e.g. installing WordPress, reading Tarot cards, writing sonnets) priced at $5 (fixed). Great example of crowdsourcing. (Comment)

Google Chrome 5 auto-translates web pages
A new feature – currently only the development version of Chrome 5 – will automatically detect the language of a web page and translate it without opening a new page. Now you can read all of those Spanish language mission pages by COMIBAM. (Comment)

Swimming in seas of data
Statistics from the Economist and IDG highlight how much data we are creating: 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005 alone, and 1,200 exabytes in 2010. How do we use this for mission? (Comment)

Technology: feeding the world
Bill Gates reviews a provocative book, Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, about agricultural biotechnology. (Comment)

How to hold a 22 minute meeting
No one likes meetings. But what if you took out all the waste and left only the useful parts? Scott Berkun summarizes Nicole Steinbok’s 22 minute meeting concept. (Comment)

Quotable: most people are other people
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” -Oscar Wilde. (Comment)

Crowdsourcing case studies & manuals
Amanda Hickman has written a post that contains many useful, practical links on crowdsourcing: So You Want to Try Crowdsourcing? (Comment)

The ability to say no
The Dutch cut teen pregnancies by focusing on empowering respect by teaching kids how to say no. “This has nothing to do with abstinence; it is about dealing with pressure.” via Guardian. (Comment)

Water Stress in Syria
Hundreds of thousands of farming families are moving to urban areas, with economic and political implications. via NYT. (Comment)

US & North Korean doctors create TB lab
A public health project is said to represent “an unprecedented level of cooperation” between doctors from the United States and North Korea. via NYT. (Comment)

China's Cyberposse
NYTimes.com – a swarmish movement where Chinese work together online to track down people who have done something wrong. The “human flesh search engine.” (Comment)

Kenya at center of Chile rescue efforts
BBC News: a Kenyan-based online mapping tool is being used to collect and plot reports coming in from Chile. (Comment)

Google: Desktops Irrelevant in 3 Years’ Time
European Director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they’ll become more important than desktop PCs. via Mashable. (Comment)

From 1995: why the Internet will fail
A failed prediction: “No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.” – Clifford Stoll, Newsweek, Feb 27, 1995 (Comment)

Online news more popular than newspapers
Which is why I said “no” to our local newspaper. I can get so much more news than they cover. What is the impact on mission journals and books? via BBC News. (Comment)

Google: Star Search Sites
Official Google Blog says you can now star sites that appear in searches, and in future searches those sites will be prioritized. (Comment)