I’m heading community and content in a new semi-private social networking tool for visual storytelling called Selfish. We’re about to launch our beta iOS apps in Russia and Canada, then in the US and Android a little later, along with our desktop component. Big, global stuff for socially savvy publishers! We’re looking for digital media […]
When lots of other people curate the stream of content you create, what image of you emerges? When other people curate your content for their own specialized communities, what emerges might be a multidimensional snapshot…a picture of your background, your interests, your training, your current activities, and, maybe, where you’re headed. Here’s what I saw […]
“It’s a community about possibility. I’d like to see this become a life philosophy.” ~ Tiny Habits coach and environmental engineer Shirley Rivera Just saw the rough cut of director Amit Raikar’s video about the GlobalNiche movement shot this spring. Such great questions, and so many distinctive perspectives to fill in the mosaic of what […]
Villa Langsat: I built this house outside Kuala Lumpur. My father designed it for me. I planted 100 plants in the garden and stocked the fountain with tropical fish. (This is the same fountain an Indonesian workman washed his latex paint brushes in, thinking it’d somehow just go away.) A tiny blue kingfisher took just […]
.@globalniche i am excited to be surveying, collecting, and sharing case studies of #globalniche experience. gotta love building #community — shirley r (@anthrocubeology) June 24, 2014 So excited, and grateful, Shirley, for you to apply your special skills to this massive task. pick me pick me RT @globalniche: coolest: @anthrocubeology will be collecting #globalniche […]
Had a great time today presenting SELFish, a social & visual storytelling mobile app in open beta for the next few months, to 30 MBA student-professionals from LG CNS visiting from South Korea, at RocketSpace. Thanks RocketStudios and LG! I created and delivered the company’s first live, public presentation. The event organizers asked each of […]
With this powerful handbook to transform what you do, how you do it and with whom, you'll learn how to use your online presence as a 21st century life & work s…
Thanks to RocektSpace for interviewing me for their Startup Spotlight series this month about SELFish, the new social network I joined earlier this year. We’re based at RocketSpace, a really fun coworking and office space for high growth tech companies. An excerpt from the interview (you can catch the whole thing here: What’s your favorite […]
Anastasia Ashman of tech startup SELFish discusses entrepreneurship, social startups, and what it's like to work out of coworking space RocketSpace.
Your entrepreneurship goals are your online presence goals and community is how you get things done. These are the slides from last month’s workshop for startup founders that Tanya Monsef Bunger and I conducted at the Women’s Startup Lab in Menlo Park.
Your entrepreneurship goals are your online presence goals. You don’t do entrepreneurship in a vaccuum, you do it with people. Where are those people you nee...
Anastasia M. Ashman's insight:
Here are the slides from a workshop Tanya Monsef Bunger I did at the Women's Startup Lab for women entrepreneurs
Last month we had a great day at the Women’s Startup Lab in Menlo Park, workshopping online community building for founders. (See details here.) The questions these entrepreneurs asked got us off to a good start: “How do I reach people I don’t know?” “Which tool can I use to bring together two communities and […]
Sneak peek what I’ve been working on as a community and content person at the Selfish startup since February… we go live in the Canada and Russian app stores this summer and the USA app store soon after! If you want to beta test this new social networking app for collaborating on your life stories […]
save the date #SF peeps! #globalniche meet up on april 24, hosted by @lifunfe pic.twitter.com/y3gx5gcLbV — GlobalNiche (@globalniche) March 20, 2014 Looking forward to the video interviews that Amit Raikar directed and shot along with his full production crew of Jeri Neves, James Pendziszewski, Mike Montoya. Amit asked each of the attendees to share […]
See on Scoop.it - GlobalNiche
Along with behavior design entrepreneur Pamela Day — who's a researcher at Stanford's Persuasive Technology Lab — and Amanda Barbara from the global crowd-fu...
Congrats to Wendy Jean Fox (you may know her as one of the original Expat Harem writers, her piece is Coming Clean In Kayseri [read it at that link] about a visit to an ancient hamam bathhouse in central Anatolia where Wendy was teaching). Wendy won the Press 53 award for short fiction for her collection, “The Seven Stages […]
