7gen Bloc

Nicco Mele from Echoditto is getting married this weekend - happy day, man! He was here at 7th Gen last week guiding us through a 2.0 experience. It was a good thing and he dropped many a poem, this one I caught on video tape. WR

So I am a little behind in my vid-edits. Caught Michael from Echoditto (the guys that help us with this blog) two weeks ago in an inspired moment just coming off the Stepitup2007 event. Here are his reflections. WR

Peace is something the world could certainly use a little more of these days. Or a lot more depending on which direction you’re looking. So today, along with a bunch of other people and organizations, we’re thinking about peace and encouraging peace and just sort of ruminating on the idea as way to tap into whatever universal mind there might be and send positive signals into it. The occasion, ostensibly, is the publication of a new book called Where Peace Lives by Debbie Robins. But really peace doesn’t need a day or a moment. It should live and be everywhere always.

Our Convenient Truths contest may have ended last month, but as things turn out it’s impact is still going strong, which is great because that was kind of the point of the whole exercise. I got an e-mail from Jessica at Treehugger with some cool news and numbers. According to the statisticians, There were over 150 videos made 200,000+ people watched some or all of them 15,000 votes were cast There were more than 20 media mentions from Britain’s Globe to Martha Stewart to Slate magazine. We made 15,000 myspace friends

That was the central question posed at our internet charette, which was held Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

In case you missed this hot in-house news item… If you’ll look to the immediate left here, in the Captivating Column of Divinely Inspirational Thingamabobs (apologies for the technical jargon), you’ll see up top there that (cue thunderous applause and raucous cheering)... That's right. The Inspired Protagonist has been nominated for the Blogger’s Choice Award for Best Corporate Blog. Now I know it’s a honor just to be nominated. But if nominations are an honor, what's it like to win? Let’s find out, shall we?

It’s with pleasure that we introduce today’s inspiring guest blogger, Alyssa Kobriger from True Botanica.