Global Culture

Over the last few weeks I’ve been daring to dream about taking the Global Culture project to the next level. For almost a year I’ve been blogging consistently while interest from the community has grown at a good pace, but can’t help but think that I could be doing more with this idea. From the very beginning I knew the blog would be an excellent medium to fine tune the idea and have it cross examined by people with far more knowledge on the subject. I believe that much has been accomplished: some of the ideas have been nurtured while others discarded.

But with so many good ideas being tossed it is a shame to leave their execution to chance. This is why I’ve been running a few experiments:

• polls to measure how much interest there is to interact with the blog, which led me to realize that people respond very well to trivia type of questions but hesitate to participate when questions are a bit more complicated
• the Global Culturati community which has attracted very few but very passionate people, already engaged in deep discussions about measuring cosmopolitanism and other digressions. The technology is a non-issue but fostering the community is a huge one
• the interactive world map aimed at making it easier for people to find articles related to a particular region, but also testing receptiveness to interactive features

I have a few more ideas for the next few weeks:

• a promotional video with the core ideas of the blog to be shared in YouTube
• leveraging websites such as change.org and GiveMeaning to explore the possibility of becoming a non-profit
• applying some of the principles of entrepreneurship to identify other options for funding this initiative at a larger scale. At this point I’m following with interest Ask the Wizard and The Post Money Value
• finding volunteers to scale up the marketing efforts
• exploring synergies with sites that target the “global citizens” such as Dopplr and FlyerTalk

It is all part of the process of finding the right path. Of course, you can still expect the posts to continue exploring the idea of Global Culture.