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We’re 10 days into 2011 – how’s it going so far?! Are you mapping about what you want your journey to look like this year? Have you started seeking out people who inspire you?

Our year has started off with a bang, with the announcement of the Semifinalists for the 2011 Echoing Green Fellowship, planning for the Current Fellows’ Conference in Austin, and a new book in the works. We are being inspired by people like Cory Booker, who took to Snowmageddon with his own shovel; Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab who was recently assassinated for fighting religious injustice; and the people of Sudan, who are taking active steps to create and define their own futures; and

We are also thinking carefully about our own steps as an organization and how each of these steps has purpose and meaning and how, perhaps, they can influence movements, big or small, in all of us.

Just before 2010 ended, we asked you to ponder two ideas—living a purposeful life in the New Year and how you know a movement has really taken off. We wanted to share a few of the responses we received with you and continue to push you to consider these questions and how, perhaps, your own purpose can lead to a movement to positively affect your school, community, network, country, or world.

You know it’s a movement when:
@CauseTube: You know its a movement when the few first followers speak of it with immense passion.
@AmandaMcCormick: when social activism attracts top talent from world of gaming (was just watching @avantgame 's TEDtalk! ted.com/talks/jane_mcg…)
@Anextraeye: "You know it’s a movement when everyone walks in parallel for a common cause.”
@csnowflake: You know it's a movement when the rocks give you a dirty look for not following.
@jguemesac: people are talking about it...
@Zenovator: You know you have a successful product when it becomes a verb (such as swiffering your floor)
@RuthAnslow: You know it's a movement when... you get Kiva vouchers for Christmas" #socent #socialgood #innovation #susty #green
Dr. Michael A. Bengwayan: When Project PINE TREE, the Cordillera Ecological Network, is making an impact regreening Philippine mounatins with trees.
Amani Brasi ‎...public enthusiasm is uninhibited, roused, palpable, spilling. And again...
Aron Shelton You know it's a movement when the resounding calls for change become an amplified echo in the hearts of many
Martin Murphy: The people on the ground are driving it and instructing management.

Purpose in the New Year:
@woodmlc: Looking forward to a much better new year with nowhere to go but up!
@sonny6309: 4 the new year i talked 2 my principal 4 a recycling group; now we put recycling bins in every hallway
@ssaab89: Fresh start to inspire good RT @echoinggreen: In this #newyear /new decade, how will you live a more purposeful life? http://ht.ly/3vwdE
@isabelmax: #newyear #workonpurpose #purpose #2011: I'm leading Brand new Conf on Soc Ent in Israel, on Mar 17 2011 in #Silicon Valley;-)
@alexisfeliz: inspiration + motivation = purpose (2011 in a nutshell for me)
Edmilson Rodrigues This year I am going to start my own social enterprise which will become example to all young people that, like myself, are being the change we wish to see in the world.

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