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Are you a foresight advocate? GlobalForesight.org is an ASF initiative to find and connect foresight students and alums and foresight professionals, researchers, and educators, and steer them to the best current social networks and meet ups, events, orgs, and resources for advancing global foresight culture. [About this site].

Major pages on this wiki:

1. Foresight Social Networks and Meet Ups (Free or low-cost foresight networking opportunities)
2. Foresight Graduate Programs (English-language MS & PhD programs in foresight education)
3. Foresight Students and Alumni
(Currently at or graduated from one of the primary ed. programs listed above)
4. Foresight Professionals, Researchers, and Educators (engaged in long term (10+ year) foresight work)
5. Foresight Organizations
(Science, tech, biz, govt, policy, social, philanthropy, and other orgs)
6. Foresight Resources
(Scenarios, forecasts, audio, blogs, periodicals, books, conferences, and other resources)

Top Things You Can Do
1.
For general foresight discussions, join our GF Facebook group (presently 1,204 members). Visit Facebook on at least a monthly basis. Post to the GF wall, forums, share events, pictures, videos, etc. Facebook is presently the leading edge of global online community. Make it better by using it!
2. For business foresight discussions, join our GF LinkedIn group (presently 1,005 members), by clicking http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/3037/535E6A2B648E.
3. If you are a foresight professional or strategist, or want to learn to be one, join STFN (Shaping Tomorrow Foresight Network) (presently 2,313 members), and find or or start a group there for your interests.
4. If you are a foresight student,educator,or advocate, join Academia.edu, a global network for foresight academics (join the Futures Studies and Foresight research interest there), and join our FERN (Foresight Education and Research Network (presently 205 members, a group inside STFN), our group networking the global foresight education community.
5. You may contribute to this wiki by sharing info on quality foresight networks, programs, people, organizations, and resources that the world should know about. If you contribute regularly, feel free to add your profile (real name please) and picture, and start a wiki-related conversation in the discussion forum. Interested in volunteering on this project? Visit our About page and meet the rest of the GF gang. Send us an email and let's talk!

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Hejazi 14 Tips for Becoming an Active Futurist 1 Jul 7 2010, 11:59 AM EDT by MarkRiva
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Surely an informal opportunity for scientific cooperation with other futurists specially the open minded ones would be more valuable than attending a formal study program. My experience has shown me that this kind of friendship is more fruitful, because everyday you can learn new ideas from those professionals who think creatively about the future. This can be a good way for becoming a futurist.

Here are tips and my personal suggestions to become a futurist.

Read the ful article at: http://www.futuresdiscovery.com/Futures%20Studies/14%20Tips%20for%20Becoming%20an%20Active%20Futurist.htm
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