Blog: Neal Gorenflo

Kicking off Mesh2013 at a niftty Airbnb rental in San Francisco. Credit: Kevin Krejci.
Imagine an event where every conversation is interesting, where everyone you meet wants to help you. That was Mesh2013. And because of this quality, it was a rare success as a social experience.
Inspired by the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Program, the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation and City Hall Fellows (CHF) recently launched the Mayor’s Innovation Fellowship Program. San Francisco’s Mayor Lee welcomed the city’s inaugural class of innovation fellows last week.
About to graduate? Don't get the post-graduation blues. The flowchart below is from Shareable's free online book, Share or Die (#ShareOrDie on Twitter), which offers life-changing strategies to ease the transition from college to the real world.
Google is shutting down it's Google Reader product on July 1, 2013. That means your account will disappear and all that hard work assembling your fave sites to read in one place will be gone...unless you switch to another RSS reader before the deadline.
I recommend @feedly. It only took two clicks and 15 seconds to migrate. It was super simple. Just go here to get started: http://ow.ly/j9bMH
Are you interested in starting a sharing project, or know someone who is? Then you should apply for a seed grant from Shareable! This brand-new pilot program offers small grants and technical support to students and young leaders under 30 to help them catalyze a sharing project in their communities.
This IndieGoGo campaign for the Gravity Light is also an eloquent reason why crowdfunding, with all it's youthful troubles considered, is so important. It lets everyone fund their own skunk works to solve problems that are important to them.
Shareable donor Beverly Markiewicz had the brilliant idea to gather other donors to shoot a quick video about why Shareable is important and worthy of your financial support. She also did the video pro bono through her company, Tree Ring Productions. Thank you Beverly!
I bumped into Sunil Paul, CEO SideCar, at Hub SoMa in San Francisco last Wednesday and we shot this impromptu interview about the progress of his real-time ridesharing service, which is currently in the process of working out significant regulatory challenges.
I'd be surprised if you haven't heard that this Friday is the end of the Mayan calendar. Whether you believe the world will end or not, it’s given many an excuse to reflect on where the human project is and where it should be headed. My friends at New Society Publishers are doing exactly that kind of reflection through a blog carnival.
Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing. As a former market researcher, stock analyst, and Fortune 500 strategist, Neal is perhaps an unlikely voice for sharing. An epiphany in 2004 inspired Neal to leave the corporate world to help people share through Internet startups, publishing, grassroots organizing, and a circle of friends committed to the common good.
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