Project Kinect Most Currently

Thank you for visiting Project Kinect.  For those who are new to this website and are not familiar to Project Kinect, please spend some time with my journey page.  Project Kinect was originally a year-long grassroots travel project to create a new definition for the word community.  From March of 2011 to February of 2012, I traveled the country discovering what different forms of communities are doing to better themselves while documenting these findings in order to share with other communities in similar circumstances.  The  website is built so that you can see what I did, who I met and other extraordinary things that were happening in other parts of the country.  If you would like to just watch some or all of the videos, please check out the Youtube Channel for Project Kinect.

For everyone who wants to continue following Project Kinect, please continue to check out the website.  I will continue to add great things I see that involves connecting and community as well will continue to respond to emails and posting your great events to the community boards in your different cities.  Also, make sure you continue to check current kinecting as well as the work in progress, The Norman Rockwell Project.

In the future, I have plans to create Project Kinect into a nonprofit that primarily works on assisting in community growth whether it is a community that needs to rebuild after a natural disaster or a neighborhood that desperately needs help and resources to regain it’s sense of community.  Until then, I will be getting my masters at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock.  I will keep all of the great things me and my fellow classmates are doing right here on the website so you can follow along as well as take any volunteer opportunities that may come up because of our activities.

Thank you all for the continued support and please email me with any additions, comments or events you would like to share with me and Project Kinect by emailing gregg@projectkinect.com.

A Years End And A Final Request

For the last month, I am completely locked in on staying in the state of Wisconsin.  I would like to reach my hands out into the world of technology and hear from as many people as possible in this last month.  How you ask?  With an email, a video, or just a simple facebook or twitter message. 

The largest part of my wanting to create Project Kinect was to explore connecting in this technological age.  In this, how do we still fulfill that human connection that we need when we aren’t necessarily physically face to face.  Through the exploration of connecting, are we really getting to know each other?  Over the last year, I have gotten the chance to see some really extraordinary ways we are connecting.  One of my favorites was in Austin with the Skype play, “You Don’t Know Her, She Lives in London: You Don’t Know Him, He Lives in Austin”, produced by the Hidden Room Theatre.  This play used Skype to share the experience of two characters in two different apartments in two opposite parts of the world. 

In this last month, I want to hear from you.  With the help of technology, I would like to get as many people as possible to connect in one forum.  I ask that each person that this post comes across takes a look at the questions and in a response to me via email (gregg@projectkinect.com), facebook, twitter, or a video , answers as many of the questions as they would like.  In the response, please tell me your name, age, where you’re from, what you do, and any other information you would like to share about yourself.  Please also add whether you would mind me sharing the basics of your input with the followers of Project Kinect.  I look forward to hearing and reading all about the lives and stories of everyone.

I do have one last request.  After you are done reading this post, whether or not you respond to it, please share it with your communities so that for this last month, I can truly hear from the largest group of people possible. 

Thank you for your involvement to an extraordinary year!

Sincerely,

Gregg Potter

How do you define community?

Where does your inspiration come from?

How much time do you give selflessly?

What great accomplishments have any of the communities that you’re involved with completed?

What have you been a part of in your life that absolutely amazes you?

What is something about yourself that you have always wanted to share but haven’t?

If you have hesitated from doing what you want, did fear or money scare you most?

When have you been motivated to get involved with politics?

What is the last great face to face conversation that you have had?

What was the last big risk you took?

 

Two Months In

Over the last week, I have had a whirl-wind of travel and experiences that have forced me to just take it in and accept that sometimes my universe won’t allow me to get the content uploaded to the website. I hope that while there was a moment of pause on new content, you took a chance to look back on what you may have missed.
This week, I am back in Los Angeles to take care of some other business priorities, but while I am here, I will get all caught up on what you are missing out on as far back as New York. I appreciate all the support and hope that this video gives you the excitement to keep watching as we get further into this ground breaking year.