Jeff Trexler

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  Jeff signed the petition | 9 months ago

  Help Pass California Legislation that Will Allow Businesses to Do Well and Do Good
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  Jeff commented on the article | over 1 year ago

  Eye on Acumen: New Documentary Examines Social Enterprise

  PBS is also now streaming the whole documentary online:

  
  

  http://video.pbs.org/video/1522507636

  
  

   

  
  

   

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  Jeff commented on the article | almost 2 years ago

  The Five Horseman of the Coming Conference Reckoning

  @Rosaldo As he did w/ Tribes,* Godin is applying one of Marshall McLuhan's core insights re the effects of electronic media--in this instance, turning education into entertainment.  In McLuhan's own words:

  
  

  I would suggest that if you were to put the TV in the classroom, it would blow the classroom to bits. The teaching processes would be completely transformed: it would be exactly like bringing the Trojan horse inside the walls of Troy. It would not be an incidental teaching aid, it would simply alter the entire pattern and procedures of the classroom and create an altogether new educational form. 

  
  

  *In his work on the global village, McLuhan argued that electronic media would spark a revival of tribalistic identity.

  
  

   

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  Jeff commented on the article | almost 2 years ago

  "Why Not?" to "Hell Yeah!": How We Planned A TED Event In 32 Hours

  I agree w/ Manuel--a model of how to distill useful lessons from organizational experience. 

  
  

  And I'm equally impressed by your ability to spell Eyjamxyzptlk or whatever the #&!! folks call that volcano!

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  Jeff commented on the article | almost 2 years ago

  Get Yer Kumbaya-yas Out

  I wholly agree re boundary formation.  It's been fascinating to see how a movement that ostensibly stands for transcending traditional boundaries has been creating new boundaries of its own.  One unfortunate by-product is that even as such boundaries give social enterprise a more distinct identity, they also make the movement easier to marginalize.    

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  Jeff commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Beyond Good Intentions and Thinking About Systems

  Well, from a historical perspective . . .
  
  Seriously, spot on.  I've found the Beyond Good Intentions series to be a refreshing corrective to a tendency to view programs as innovative & effective with precious little evidence of either.  The same spirit of sympathetic critique animated my own writing on the social enterprise bubble in "Is Social Enterprise Sustainable?"  Believing that everything we do is wonderful is businesslike in the worst sense.
  
  Hogan's fear of blowback is something the SE community should note--work remains to be done in creating an atmosphere where critical assessment is perceived as welcome as opposed to a betrayal.