Follow Your Bliss

So finally I’ve decided to pull together the disparate parts of life into one location, using WordPress as my vehicle to communicate with the world.

One this day last year, I knew nothing about blogging, web apps, search marketing, social media or Web 2.0 technologies. I had only the nagging sensation thatI needed to leave the nonprofit world and develop my marketing skills in the technology sector. I spent nearly a decade exploring the world, travelling, working on social justice projects and engaged in environmental activism. I thought that I would spend the rest of my life trying to save the world, because the world needed a lot of help.

I worked on interesting projects, projects related to themes I encountered during my travels around the world. Globalization, human rights, environmental activism, indigenous cultural preservation. I had numerous life-changing experiences, working with the Tibetan community in exile, living with the Zapatistas, journeying deep into the Amazon Basin to meet with indigenous medicine men.

What I found in the nonprofit sector was a great deal of goodwill, an equal measure of disorganization, and, at the grassroots level where I was working, a pervasive lack of funding. I got an MBA in order to get a better grasp of business strategy organizational efficiency. During this time, I discovered the world of social innovation and entrepreneurship.

I love innovation – discovering faster, cheaper better, more powerful ways to positively impact society. And because I thrive on constant change, I find myself irresistibly drawn to the world of technology innovation.

Over the last year, as I explored a career transition into the world of technology and Internet marketing, I ran smack into a phenomenon that many were referring to as “Web 2.0″. It took me almost a year to even begin grasp what Web 2.0 technologies are, and only recently did the realization of why now is such an exciting time to be playing in the Internet space truly sink in. With the development of new social media technologies, we are experience a democratization of the web, where, never before, have so many people been able to express themselves, discover themselves, connect with each other, and create community in cyberspace.

I also know that the term “Web 2.0″ is so misused and disputed, that interpretations abound. My understanding is still novice, but grows each day, and as with the many explorations of my life, I intend to enjoy this one to the fullest.

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