Crowdfunder About Town

I get excited about a lot of things. Crowdfunding is one of those things. 

What it's doing for society, for enterprise, for people, communities, you name it. It's doing it.

I got lucky - I got offered a job in the industry and I grabbed it, I shook it, I tried it on, gave myself a little wiggle and found it fit like a glove. It feeds my soul, my need to want to change the world. 

I've always wanted to make an impact. Create change, be change, make change, be a part of change, but I'd never found a niche. A place where I could do a bit of everything. Help a business here, fix a charity there, try and cure cancer here, or build a community there. Until now. Until crowdfunding came along. This is different, this is a place where I can jump into a community. I can become a part of a movement and be the movement, I can change the world - me and a million other people. Or a million other people and me. 

So, this is my blog, this is my home for crowdfunding. In ten years time we will be able to catalog what the crowd made happen. What? Yes, ok, so yeah, it's happening now, but it's the legacies that power me. The strength in what the crowd made a reality and what happens to that crowd. Their investment in society and where that leads our economic status - and believe me, it's about much more than the money. It's about the communities we are building. Weaving their webs through our online societies and not just funding the great ideas, but integrating themselves into the fabric - making it happen. 

They say we live in a fragmented society. I say we don't. Not anymore. We are building a new one.

I work in crowdfunding. I work in the present and I work for the future. I'm slightly obsessed with it, biased for the greater good. Where better to place the passion? 

Watch this space. I'll be chatting about what's rocking, what's not, some top tips from the world of communications and what it's like to work for one of the world's best crowdfunding platforms. Not just because of what they are doing, but because the team, the people I work with, my crew... they don't just rock the scene, they are on it like a car bonnet. Inside out, upside down and from a surf board in the middle of the Atlantic. 

@_Jessification_