Personal Growth

YouthBuild USA spent several years using a closed, proprietary content and relationship management service (CMS/CRM) that seemed like a great leap forward at first. However over time they realized it wasn't nearly as user-friendly as hoped for, nor as open, with regards to data, as they needed. In the end, the proprietary system was unable to incorporate all the unique aspects of YouthBuild's data regarding their programs and contacts.

Over a series of training sessions and periodic consulting we have worked with Good Food Strategies to develop social media strategies involving Twitter, a listening program using Google Reader that feeds into a weekly news headlines communication for the organizations stakeholders and clients. Gregory Heller continues to provide expert consulting to support Good Food Strategies' team in their important mission to promote good food policies at the local, state and national level.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) wanted a way to share and promote brief kernels of wisdom with potential subscribers to their ShiftInAction.com website. The idea was that in just a single minute a nugget of higher awareness could be enjoyed, even during a busy day. IONS wanted to open hearts and minds using simple technology and easy to use sharing tools.

After the successful launch of RealitySandwich.com in 2007, the editorial team behind that project came back to CivicActions with a plan for a site that added more social networking functionality and user generated content -- Evolver.  Evolver is a social network for conscious collaboration. It provides a platform for individuals, communities, and organizations to discover and share the new tools, initiatives, and ideas that will improve our lives and change the world. Evolver promotes sexy sustainability, yoga glamour, and shaman chic.

In 2007 Ken Jordan came to us with an idea for a new online magazine for the time of great transformation the world needs now. The online magazine covers topics ranging from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies.

How does a mature organization completely transform itself in order to serve a new web-savvy generation, without losing their current base of support?

After more than 30 years as the leading research organization exploring the power and potential of human consciousness, the Institute of Noetic Sciences decided to take a revolutionary leap and extend itself fully into the Internet.