Idea Offer and Community Involvement Ideas

IdeaOffer can help Mix Santa Fe by marketing to the group so that not only will they be able to share ideas and collaborate once per year during their annual mixer, but they can now get paid for sharing ideas year round. The idea here is to utilize IdeaOffer to take Mix Santa Fe to a everyday thing, and not just once a year. IdeaOffer can help keep the people of this city connected and collaborating daily, and on many different projects. And at the same time, people get paid for ideas, and pay for ideas. It stimulates their economy a bit, as well as incourages collaboration and ideas. Residents of Santa Fe can use IdeaOffer to keep connected at all times, and gear up for the annual Mix Santa Fe event, but at the same time, have been collaborating all year long.

This is something that IdeaOffer can do to become involved in my community as well as many others. Helping bring communities together, and incubate ideas, as Wasabi Ventures does. In a sense, IdeaOffer can become its own microincubator. Almost such as Twitter has done with turning blogging into microblogging. Incubate small ideas, and collaborate on projects all over the world, and users get paid as an incentive for being creative and collaborating.

Perhaps idea offer could provide a platform for the group to not only keep track of the ideas generated but also allow for the conversation to keep going. This platform would also allow users to add new ideas whenever they come up with them instead of waiting until the next Mix outing.

As far as Idea Offer becoming involved in our community we really need a good way for ideas to go from the public to those who are able to make changes. We've tried some town hall type meetings and while they are poorly attended, people do voice opinions there. A way for people to give ideas online would be great! Especially if community leaders could participate in the conversation.

I really like the communal aspect in this video. Being in a place in person is what people have done since ancient times. Now, it's easy to meet with people online by pooling them to a chat area, doing forums, or creating a place like Idea Offer. Still, I think going out to conventions and setting up a booth and getting the kind of exposure where the company has faces to show will really put the name out there. I'm not sure where exactly Idea Offer is located, but even branching people to go to big cities and represent the company with the projects at hand, and "advertising" it via facebook, twitter, here on this website, will get other's to link to the project, and the whole process spreads thru people by people.

Hope this helps! :]
-JAC-

I really like this video and what they are doing to help each other out. Keeping people and local governments connected are very important. Without getting political connecting to the community is hard.

In small communities there's only so much to offer, there's usually one big manufacturing business and that in turn supports 5-6 medium to small sized businesses with trickle-down economics.

The common complaint is that there's nothing for young people to do. What young people like to do, is they like to gather, they like to do something fun & interesting. They like things like clubs with flashy lights, they like small romantic spots, places they can pick up icecream & play minature golf, they like gardens with benches, they like places where they can try new foods, they like bands playing, they like quiet areas with comfortable tables and chairs where they can gather a group of friends for a game of Risk. They like wifi hotspots so they can check internet. They like multi-line DSL hotspots so they can all bring their computers and play WoW and DotA together.

They love arcades, haven't seen any youngsters that didn't flock to, and fill-up a good arcade. I only know of 3 arcades left in the country but, I guess I was lucky to be within a 15 mile drive of one. Would be nice if the arcades didn't cost $3.00 or more per game.

Young people may like to ride a carousal, it would figure under the romantic stuff to do with that special someone.

Hmm, young people are also into dressing up and LARPing or participating in SCA events. But often it can be difficult for a 16 year old to attend such events because it often requires driving to get to.

Young people like to buy paint ball guns and I know a group of 25-30 that drives 60 miles to a special course where they can pay $60 to get in for the day and operate paintball cannons in box cars and simulated tanks.

Young people like to barbeque, they like to impress girlfriends or just have a fun time with their friends and bbq's usually need to have beer on the premises too. It would be nice if there were parks with bbq grills set up in them.

That's about all I can think of.
~Diana from New York.