Golda Velez In Class Presentation

For this blog post I will be talking about the presentation in class that was given by our guest speaker, Golda Velez. Golda Velez is currently working on a website that will be called cooporation.org in the future when they get it completely set up. For now the website is being tested on goldavelez.com where it is being tweaked to be perfect while the cooporation.org gets finalized. The website is a platform for groups of people to use as a base for their campaigns to achieve many different types of goals. These goals range anywhere from doing one little thing a day to be productive, to spreading awareness about the Hydro Flask donations that I talked about in a previous blog post. I waited to write about this presentation because I wanted to use the website and see what it could do personally before I wrote about it. 


Golda's presentation was very interesting and provided some very good insight into how to achieve your goals. I thought that the biggest topic that Golda discussed with our class about the difference between membership and ownership when you are working on a project to encourage others to participate or join your cause. The importance of ownership can make the difference in creating a successful project. Ownership makes the people working on the project feel a better connection to their work and makes it more personal so that they are inspired to work harder and recruit even more people to join their cause. Membership on the other hand is more of just someone who is willing to participate and help out whenever they can. It is important to have both when you are working on a project like the ones on the future cooporation.org because you need people that are inspired by the cause and people that are inspired by the leaders of the cause.