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This post is dedicated to Cynthia Fedor , Bryan Person on his 33rd birthday, and Mr. Seth Godin for recognizing love where he finds it.

Every second of every day, a new world premier experience is born. Think about it: as you read this, a vessel, a life force, a consciousness, and a fundamental creative fidelity necessary to solving current and future, functional problems, globally, is born.

You, your Self, are a world premier experience: No one in human history, extant or extinct, for good, bad or otherwise has experienced life in quite the same way as you and no one ever will. For me, this is the gravity of a birthday and the number one cause to celebrate.

A World Premier Experience Deserves More Than Cake

The Social Media Phenomenon has, if nothing else, created a people-centric worldview: it IS the individual, not the brand, not the nation-state, not the institution, not the corporation, not the political party, not the publication, not the product, not the service front and center. It is you.

Twitter, specifically, has accelerated the velocity of your individual voice– a voice born from identity and purpose, friends fostered, enemies vested, preferences, opinions, thoughts, feelings–the canon of your journey, to date. This began the day you were born.

Sunday morning I had breakfast with my favorite person on her birthday. As ridiculous as it reads, I did not realize how much I take much for granted as she spread Nutella over a waffle (gross, right?). And maybe she did not realize how much she took for granted when I mixed and spread sausage gravy and blueberry/Pinot Noir jelly over a homemade biscuit (gross, right?). People and their unique preferences, voluntarily coming together, understanding and being understood, only to love one another.

We can find a litany of reasons to disagree and even dislike one another. But if we can agree on any one thing, perhaps we can agree there is Sovereignty in the unique world premier experience that gives rise to the opportunity to converse, to respect and to love. Sovereignty and opportunity: operative words.

In the spirit of Sovereignty and opportunity, an idea (that invites your thoughts and participation): Twitter, in addition to being an open, global preference engine, is unfettered velocity emanating from singular voices. We often take for granted that (more often than not (damn you spam bots)) there is a world premier experience on the ground, on the other side of that avatar skipping through the tweet stream.

We have the axiom: Sovereignty. We evidently have the will to vocalize and converse. We have the means to pay forward the axiom to bridge to opportunity. But do we have the will to create opportunity for others when celebrating individual sovereignty? After all, what is sovereignty if there is no one to share it with? How do we bring it all together? Project #IamSovereign:

• Send me the month and day (mm/dd) of your birth via Twitter to @JasonStoddard
• I will create a Twitter list based on this birthday data set (in this case, for today, @JasonStoddard/November3-birthdays)
• As more people with the same birthday send me their info, the ~365 respective lists will populate until each respective list reaches 500. (I’ll include February 29th in February 28th’s list, unless those cheeky bastards demand their own list.)
• For each birthday, I will ask three random individuals on the birthday list to designate a for-benefit/NGO/charitable organization/individual cause.
• A landing page with an embedded micro-donation widget will be created on this domain.
• The birthday list on that respective day will receive a message at in the early morning. If they choose to participate, cool. If not, that is cool too… it is your birthday. But as vocal as the twitter crow can be, maybe we can even have friendly competitions between birthday lists.
• 85% of the donation will go directly to the designated causes; 10% of the donations will go to twitter (executed ideas that create global opportunity are valuable and deserve to be supported financially… and who knows, maybe we’ll create a very small revenue stream/model for one of our favorite social media network pals (@Biz could buy alot of tea with 10% of donations from an ad hoc fundaraising campaign.)) 5% will support the overhead associated transaction fees.

Starting on December 3, 2009 (which happens to be my birthday,) we’ll give it a-go. In the meantime, I will establish a third party escrow account, configure the technology, and start placing people that choose to participate in Project #IamSoverign into their respective birthday lists.

Individuals make the difference,

Jason

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