The Extraordinaries

• 74% of Americans don’t volunteer
• Volunteering has a high barrier of entry
• Most people say they don’t have time to volunteer but there are spots in the day where you can volunteer, but these are small chunks of time
• When you add up all the time between people it equals billions of hours
• What we currently do in our free time is mainly advertising based; pod casts, ‘video snacking’, music

• Allow groups to harness the power of the crowd
• Allow users to scroll through a list of things to do in small bursts of time
• Able to complete in a small amount of time

Examples
Record Audio

• What did Obama’s speech mean to you?

• Upload that to a server
• NPR uses on air

GPS

• Upload pictures of failing schools to show how the stimulus package isn’t working

Image recognition

• Differentiate between craters for NASA

Audio

• Help speak to an Immigrant for 10 minutes to learn English

Brainstorming Session

• Their Theory of Time; 3 Forms of Time

• Spare Time: lunch break, set time (under hour)
• Ad Hoc; miss a meeting, stumble into time (under hour)
• Leisure; a block of 4 hours or more, Sunday afternoon

• Most nonprofits require Leisure time of 4 hour blocks

• As a result volunteering is episodic

• • ? Do people volunteer partly for the social aspect of it

• ? Do people continue to volunteer b/c they develop relationships with their organizations

• ? How do you see the impact of what you are doing

• ? At what frequency should you get a thank you
  • When nonprofits reach a certain goal ‘we collectively win’
  • Zango.com you can see what you’ve accomplished individually, and what the organization does
  • Gigapet or bling model giving people milestone items
  • How do you bring in a personal connection with the people the nonprofit are trying to reach
  • Need to be able to talk with the other people doing the tasks
  • Need to have a quality assurance mechanism and provide a useful service

• Game Mechanics
  • The game of Twitter is to get more followers
  • The game of YouTube is to get the most followers
  • The game of MySpace is to make the ‘coolest’ page

• Social components
  • Shows how well teams/groups are doing across your feed
  • Use GPS to find things to do in your community

• ? What are motivators and rewards needed to volunteer
  • GPS, show people close by that are on the system
  • Collaboratively work on projects
  • Need to filter by desires
  • Need ability to make actions private

• Work Flow
  • Video intro, Narrative, Bigger Picture, Then begin real work, repeat until bored, Thank you page with points, Opportunity to donate or get further involved

• Is a Social Business enough?
  • If you’re transparent, it doesn’t matter

• Funding ideas
  • Premium service
  • Custom apps
  • Taking tasks and breaking them down
  • Donation premium
  • Revenue sharing with users

• Action Ideas
  • Show potholes
  • Citizen journalism
  • Frog watch, worm watch
  • Policing, recycling
  • Amber alerts
  • Missing children
  • Usage reports for trails
  • Local governing, submit complaints to

How You Can Help:

• Vote for the Extraordinaries in the NetSquared Mobile Challenge by registering at netsquared.org and clicking the plus sign (+) here: http://tinyurl.com/d43pk5
• Send Jacob and Ben your feedback:

Jacob Colker
Co-Founder and Project Lead
Jacob@BeExtra.org

Ben Rigby
Co-Founder and Technical Lead
Ben@BeExtra.org

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photo by @peterlamotte