My experience as a MiX contributor, as well as a practitioner who has perused the MiX for answers to some of my pressing, practical issues, is that there are a great number of great ideas on the MiX, but very few real, practical tools or solutions that I can leverage...
This is an adaptation of a sophisticated, perhaps patentable framework that I have painstakingly developed and implemented over the years to bust silos and build community. I've taken my 326-page dissertation on the subject and boiled it down to these five easy steps, customized specifically for the MIX:
I think you're hitting on this with the idea of creating TEDx-like events (MIXx? MIXt?), but there should be other opportunities too. So much of the MIX activity is pointed up. We submit ideas to the one site. We listen to the Mavericks. We admire the prize winners. Even at...
In my experience, really good content comes from the back and forth conversation among the content creators. I guess this is my bias as a blogger. But I find the Mix posts, with their rigid structure, and sources, etc. to come across as very finished projects. I read them, and...
Invite MIX users to select several categories of preferred participation. Introduce intermediate step for new item acceptance, based on announcement sent to relevant category participants, prior to appearance of the new item on the site -- or alternate short term delay in permitted appearance of new item without peer review....
I’d like to have extended contact with some of the mixers. Perhaps we could have “zip code parties” or some gatherings by region or we could develop a MIX four square. When I was lost in Israel, I discovered “Waze” a somewhat annoying ap that gives you directions and also...
While submitting our M-prize entry was an incredible experience for my team, I would have loved more interaction with other finalists. The stories were incredible and I would love to learn from the awesome contributors. Perhaps the judges could do a little match making by pairing finalists and encouraging them...
Make Collaboration not only the cornerstone, but also make it the part and parcel of the Mixer’s DNA and motivate MIX’ers and help each other in all dimensions. One such collaborative idea is Create a collaborative platform with “nothing is non discussable type mindset”, where anyone can post a question...
Having attended the MIX Mashup I just wanted to make a quick observation. Seth Godin writes about how we now live in a society of spectators. I felt that way about my experience at the Mashup. I wanted to talk and discuss and create and collaborate, but instead found myself...