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Martin Smith is changing the world. Can you spare a Peep? Marty Note Now we can see LAUNCH in our sites (October 11) and the grade is down hill instead of up. Amazing friend, amazing note and much appreciated. 
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Video Tour of my house in Durham, NC: My amazing employer, Raleigh software and web devleopers Atlantic BT, are creating Cure Cancer Starter and matching my investment. I'm paying for development with my salaray and cash is getting TIGHT so time to sell everything, time to sell out to help cure cancer :).
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http://tedxuw.com/speakers When you walk onto campus at the University of Waterloo, one of the first buildings you'll come across is the William M.
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Interesting idea on fixing health care from @Nexj CEO Bill Tatham.
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Crowdsourcing LOVE Via Guru.com
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Writing aswers to questions from Guru.com is the most fun I've had all week. What a great TOOL, what a great way to bring wisdom of crowds to any project. Fair Warning - the piece attached to the G+ post goes to GEEKY fast and never returns. May bore you to tears.
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Fastcompany reported Silicon Valley luminaries created a $3M Breakthrough Prize. Atlantic BT welcomes valley entrepreneurs to the cure cancer challenge.
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Tech Cures Cancer Movement
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Attn: It is best to read this entire post to have a complete understanding of why I chose this post topic. I thank you in advance. ~Carla Dear Readers, I’m writing this post today because I’ve be...
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Wonderful, generous and kind post from Carla about several things I KNOW is true: * Social media and the web will play an important role in the cure. * We cure cancer when we BELIEVE we can.
Carla is right. I'm all in because that what creating anything great always takes (at least for me). I've been so lucky and honored to know amazing people, a list that grows daily.
Carla Deter's comment,
June 13, 2013 7:14 AM
Marty, I love to write and therefore blog. This doesn't always come easy. This post was actually quite easy to write - nothing technical - the research had already been done just out of curiosity and interest the thoughts just flowed. I hope your sale and goals are reaching further everyday. Thank you for the inspiration to intertwine my social media profession with a topic of human interest. Because of your story, I will always seek to find human interest stories relating to my social media business. Hmmm...a new blog may be due. This has sparked a thought.
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment,
June 13, 2013 2:49 PM
Carla, thanks and glad to have you on our journey to cure cancer. Stories are so important to Internet marketing now. Stories are everything. Since the web starts FLAT our words and stories provide the fabric we weave with customers and friends. As Karen Dietz so accurately says, "He who tells the best story, WINS". Marty
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Fun Hanging out with Ally (from @Scoopit), Tim and Jonathan today. NOTE: We had some bumps and the conversation starts at the 6:00 mark.
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This ink to G+ embeds the video from our #CMGRhangout AND links to authors and ideas mentioned in the talk.
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May 24, 2013 8:33 PM
This morning's conversation was seriously awesome! Coming together, telling stories, and having a purpose is extremely inspiring. Check out the video to watch the entire talk!
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment,
May 25, 2013 7:03 AM
Fun to talk about my favorite topics (Internet marketing, community, saving the world) with such dedicated and smart fellow travelers. Appreciate the invitation and the company : ).M
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Swarms, Storms and Flocks As a Director of Ecommerce I became fascinated with swarms, storms and flocks. Things happen inside the world’s largest content network for reasons that are beyond logical explanation. As the founder of Cure Cancer Starter, a crowdfunding platform for cancer research, I am fascinated with swarms, storms and flocks again.
All Internet marketers are weather forecasters and swarm storm creators. The linked post is the first post on swarm creation from Swarmise, a new book by Swedish political activist Rick Falkvinge. His a piece from the post describing a "swarm organization": Excerpt
Working with a swarm requires you to do a lot of things completely in opposite from what you learn at an archetypal business school. You need to release the control of your brand and its messages.
You need to delegate authority to the point where anybody can make almost any decision for the entire organization. You need to accept and embrace that people in the organization will do exactly as they please, and the only way to lead is to inspire them to want to go where you want the organization as a whole to go."
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Robin Good's comment,
March 9, 2013 9:35 AM
Right on Marty.
I have something I wrote eight years back that you may like and that is quite relevant to this very topic: http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/19.BioteamingManifesto
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment,
March 10, 2013 8:12 AM
Robin, wow massively cool piece. I love the concept of BioTeaming. Specifically the recognition that a team is a force, an organic thing that must be managed, thought about, protected and curated with process, care, respect and trust. By calling out the goal of creating a high performance team and setting up a specific process to do so this piece increases the chances of that result (the creation of a high performance team) 100x. I also agree with your assertion that technology per se can quickly distane the goal of creating high performance teams. The idea that technology HELPS and doesn't HINDER is a priori and absurd. By starting with team architecture you provide a check list, an easy way to know if tech is contributing or not. Well Done and thanks for the SHARE. Marty
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Cure Cancer Starter is a crowdfunding platform connecting cancer patients, their friends and...
And suddenly Cure Cancer Starter has a quorum with four great cancer centers:
* University of North Carolina's Lineberger Cancer Center.
* Roswell Park Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York.
* University of Wisconsin's Carbone Cancer Center.
* Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, North Carolina.
Both of my treating institutions have signed on to be part of Cure Cancer Starter's pilot program. Cure Cancer Starter is our "Kickstarter for cancer research" platform to bring cancer doctors and researchers together into a common community with an important goal - curing cancer.
Atlantic BT, where I am Marketing Director, is helping create a platform for cancer patients. Cancer patients can take an empowering action by funding research.
The most devastating thing about hearing your name and "cancer" in the same sentence is how helpless you feel. You are sure your life is now beyond your control. The invisible hand is playing with your life like a marionette.
For a year I trained and then rode 3,300 miles on a bicycle I wasn't sick. No colds or sniffles despite riding 10 days in the rain. For 60 days I "cured" my chronic Leukemia.
I had to go back into chemo within weeks after Martin's Ride ended, but I didn't feel helpless until chemo kicked my butt again. Cure Cancer Starter is Martin's Ride 2.
This time, instead of a team of 3, I hope we can create a big "cure cancer" community, a community where doctors and researchers share their projects with people willing to donate and be a part of the cure for cancer. Can't tell you how much it would have meant to send someone $100 and be part of a team working on Leukemia after my diagnosis. Would have been MAGICAL and EMPOWERING.
Thanks to all my Scoop.it friends for help, ongoing support and best wishes. If anyone would like to help by reviewing beta designs, helping form plans and other foundational work for Cure Cancer Starter let me know. There are GREAT smart people on Scoop.it.
Please LIKE Cure Cancer Starter on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CureCancerStarter
Please FOLLOW CureCancerStart on Twitter:
https://www.twitter.com/CureCancerStart
This amazingly generous and helpful note from my friend Phil Buckley was inspirational. We are 11 days from launching the two most important projects of my life, two websites:
CureCancerStarter.org - Crowdfunding Cancer Research
http://www.curecancerstarter.org
CureCancerStore.org - Shop to cure cancer.
http://www.curecancerstore.org
All profits go to cancer research and we are working with some amazing cancer research partners. Hope you will join our #curecancer Buzz Team:
http://storyofcancer.org/cure-cancer-buzz-team/