http://thinkersparty.org/blog Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:56:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the holidays approaching it's a time when people are hypersensitive to their communities.  Charitable donations increase, and food drives become ubiquitus in many places.  Particulalry in a year like this one when the number of jobless and homeless people is on the rise and food pantrys are hard hit, ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=23 Today marks the passing of a month since the official founding of the Thinker's Party.  We've been busy in that month, and we have a lot more planned for the upcoming month.  Let's take a look at what we've accomplished and we we're working on. In November Created the Thinker's Party blog.  ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=20 The beta version of the website and forums are up and ready for use over at the new main page. Check it out, let us know where you find bugs, if there's content you think is missing, or if the layout gives you trouble. If pertinent, please ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=17 To cap off this week we'll introduce you to one of the founding members of the party. We'll do this periodically to give you an idea of who's working with the party. This time around we're introducing the Blog Maven. Hi all. I'm the Thinker's Party's official ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=16 Having a knowledge of previous projects similar to your own, or previous attempts to solve the same problems is always useful in your own work. But you don't have to limit yourself to looking at direct analogues in order to find lessons worth learning. One story that is ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=15 Yesterday we gave some tips for how to successfully get a salon going. Today we're offering tips for how to make the most of the salon.1) Listen, and take notes. The note taking is particularly important if you are doing a series of salons because it will make ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=14 What does somebody interested in joining the party and helping out do? The first thing we'd recommend is let us know, either by commenting on the blog or sending us an email. Tell us a little bit about yourself, who and where you are, and what you're interested ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=13 In a comment to our last post, square pegs said, "I would like to start telling people about the Thinker’s Party. I would love to be able to point to it and say, “This can be the real mechanism for positive change!” But right now, I’m just not sure what ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=12 It is now a week after we first addressed the idea of spending time with the Thinker's Party as the selfish choice. Much of the argument left off at urging you to run your own cost benefit analysis to determine the value of supporting the Thinker's Party for you. ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=11 Earlier today a Thinker's Party member received this question from somebody who'd just discovered the party: If people expect the government to administer social programs and solve social problems and our plan to push them out of that role is to do it ourself, won't people just think that the ... http://thinkersparty.org/blog/?p=9