New Models for Content Creation: the Open Publishing Guide

Rachael Gootnick, Project Lead and Designer of Open Publishing Guide, Open Publishing Lab (OPL) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), describes the Open Publishing Guide as an important tool for civic leaders and their communities, organizations, and government to strengthen information sharing in education, economic, and workforce development.

The Open Publishing Guide (OPG) is an aid to people interested in self publishing. OPG is a repository of self publishing information such as: book templates to advice about self-publishing processes, an online coaching process of how to publish, an archive of print on demand services, and publishing resources available in the public domain.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/open-publishing-guide

Learn more about the Open Publishing Lab across these I-Open platforms:

I-Open http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net
Facebook I-Open http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35942064712&ref=ts
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/iopen/sets/72157623351094216/
Friendfeed http://friendfeed.com/iopen
Livestream http://www.livestream.com/iopen/
Posterous http://i-open.posterous.com/
Scribd http://www.scribd.com/I-Open
Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2
Twitter http://twitter.com/iopen2
Vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/user1999383
You Tube http://www.youtube.com/user/IOpen2

Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel http://www.betseymerkel.extendr.com/ and I-Open http://i-open.org/. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

The Village: A Microcosm Economy of Culture

Melissa Daubert, Experience Artist, Cleveland, Ohio, introduces us to local Zimbabwe paintings and provides a tour of "The Village" a collection of idealized architectural structures from her experience living in Zimbabwe as a Peace Corps teacher educating students in metal working.

Village pieces embody what is important to people, the community, and the economic way of life. From Melissa's experience, values and investments focus on health care, education, environment, commerce, gender equality and empowerment of women, and addressing daily living needs.

"The Village" is comprised of several works --

The Tongue Wagger, the Cooking Hut, the Pit Toilet and Bathing Space, The Sleeping Space, The Sausage Tree, the Look Out Tower, and the post-Zimbabwe piece, All American Ants.

Each each structure tells a story about its relationship to local culture and community. You can see objects close up and learn the story about each at this I-Open Flickr set http://www.flickr.com/photos/iopen/sets/72157623225592857/

Learn more about what's happening in Open Source Economic Development:

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Collaboration Accelerates Creative Innovation

Experience Artist, Melissa Daubert of Cleveland, Ohio, talks about the benefits of building personal relationships to develop new ideas, expand know-how, and access resources.

By having the opportunity of working with a local leader in digital technology at a near-by university, her opportunities to remix fine and digital art instantly went fast track.

This is a good example of the power of growing purposeful networks to advance place-based industry innovation.

Links to learn more:

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Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/i-open/sets/
I-Open http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net
Livestream http://www.livestream.com/iopen
Posterous http://i-open.posterous.com/
Scribd http://www.scribd.com/I-Open
Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/iopen2
Twitter http://twitter.com/iopen2
Vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/user1999383
You Tube http://www.youtube.com/user/IOpen2

Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

The Future of Publishing: New models for Content Creation

With more people making stuff than ever before, how do we free up things being produced and get them quickly into the different publishing forms we have today such as Kindle, e-readers, and others?

Matt Bernius, Co-Director, and the team of researchers at the Open Publishing Lab (OPL), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY address sea changes in the publishing industry with timely questions and innovative solutions.

In this video, Matt describes four successful models designed, developed, tested, and launched by OPL to address industry change catalyzed by deep, pervasive global economic and social shifts.

Innovation News is built on a Druple platform to report news and events from the field or to be used for community news papers. Stories can be submitted from any wireless device, collected, and aggregated via emailed stories, hashtags, wiki pages, etc. with GPS location visualization.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/innovation-news

Open Publishing Guide (OPG) is to be an aid to people interested in self publishing. OPG is a repository of self publishing information such as:  book templates to advice about self-publishing processes, an online coaching process of how to publish, an archive of print on demand services, and  publishing resources available in the public domain.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/open-publishing-guide


Page2Pub aggregates content from the Internet into a portable, print-ready format. Page2Pub is an open source software project that OPL hopes will provide others with a platform for research into this area.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/projects/page2pub/about


Social Networking Game meetu facilitates network building, accelerates idea to project collaborations, and talent and skills sourcing. Meetu leverages print and publishing in an actual event to  carry those social interactions online to various social networking sites.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/meetu

Learn more about OPL across these I-Open platforms:

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I-Open Analytics Offer a Framework for Building Civic Networks

This conversation and e-mail Matrix, designed by Betsey Merkel, Co-Founder and Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), is an example of how I-Open Civic Forum conversations were organized in Northeast Ohio from 2006 through 2009.

Conversations are informed by interviews contributed to I-Open by leaders in civic, academic, government and business. Interviews reveal new insights and innovation opportunities in both social and economic industry that can not only be shared, but improved upon in guided I-Open Civic Forum discussions.

Matrices are helpful to guide the intent and focus of new conversations in Open Source Economic Development exploring investment categories of the Innovation Framework, and topics representing citizen priorities affecting education, economic, and workforce development.

In the past, we most often associated "analytics" to mean measuring what we got out of any effort, in terms of profit. Today we still need to measure output, but we also need to organize how and where we are adding to change the results of our activities.

Conversations in the "Civic Space" - the space outside the four walls of any organization - build trust, and trust builds networks. These are the important starting points to build transformative initiatives and ultimately, new businesses.

This matrix points to the need for communities and regions to participate at higher levels of organization, process, and tools to identify, connect, and align creativity and resources for transformative, sustainable innovation.

The result of the efforts outlined in this matrix are described in the I-Open Press Release 01-18-10 posted to this blog at http://i-open.posterous.com/civic-networks-prepare-people-and-communities

You can learn more about I-Open at http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net

Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel http://www.betseymerkel.extendr.com/ and I-Open http://i-open.org/. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

Civic Networks Prepare People and Communities to Shift to Rapid Regional Innovation

I-Open Civic Forums build the open, neutral spaces for conversations informed by people's insights and innovations to catalyze transformative initiatives.

Civic Forum conversations begin to build the important civic networks between people, their ideas and resources.

This review describes the networks and opportunities generated by I-Open's activities in Northeast Ohio from 2006 through 2009.

The design (or "framing") of I-Open Civic Forum conversations is recorded in this I-Open Civic Forum Matrix 2006-2009; a model for an organized approach to a balanced investment of people's time, attention, and participation in dialogue as it relates to economic development.

View the corresponding Northeast Ohio Matrix 2006-2009 here.

You can learn more about I-Open, Civic Forums, and Open Source Economic Development at I-Open. Sign in and tell us about your work and the innovation you are building.

Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel http://www.betseymerkel.extendr.com/ and I-Open http://i-open.org/. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

An Introduction to the Open Publishing Lab @RIT with Matt Bernius, Co-Director

Matt Bernius, is Co-Director & Researcher of the Open Publishing Lab (OPL) at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.

Matt talks about the sea changes happening across the publishing industry and how OPL@RIT is responding by strengthening creativity and innovation by leveraging new Open Source approaches to empower individuals, businesses, and communities.

OPL is itself a new kind of economic model of production and distribution, and explores new ways of displaying identity and group knowledge.

Check back to this page on I-Open for additional updates about innovative practices at the Open Publishing Lab at RIT.

Links:

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OPL Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/16914646@N02/sets/72157621888188518/
Facebook I-Open http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35942064712&ref=ts
Livestream http://www.livestream.com/iopen/
You Tube http://www.youtube.com/user/IOpen2
Vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/8856916

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Innovating with Higher Levels of Organization, Process, and Tools

The 2003-2005 Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) Civic Forum Program Matrix was designed by Betsey Merkel while working with the REI team (Ed Morrison, Susan Altshuler, Matt Kozink, Dennis Coughlin) to organize Civic Forum conversations in Northeast Ohio from 2003 through 2005.

Civic Forum conversations connect people and their ideas to education, economic, and workforce development through the generation of transformative industry cluster initiatives.

REI.Tuesdays Civic Forums were convened from the Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI), Case Western Reserve University at the Weatherhead School of Business. Leaders from business, academic, civic, and government created new conversations about exploring civic priorities, shared ideas for industry innovation, and worked together to launch transformative initiatives. Learn more about REI Civic Forums.

The Civic Forum Matrix points to the need for communities and regions to participate at higher levels of organization, process, and tools to identify, connect, and align creativity and resources for transformative, sustainable innovation.

The REI.Tuesdays Matrix offers an example of a tool to strengthen the design of new conversations focused on aspects of Open Source Economic Development.

You can learn more about I-Open here.

Learn more about the I-Open Civic Forum process designed by Betsey Merkel and how your community or region can begin to adopt a sustainable practice of building networks, generating social capital, and collaborating to build transformative initiatives for prosperity.

Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel http://www.betseymerkel.extendr.com/ and I-Open http://i-open.org/. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

The Role of Colleges and Universities in Regional Transformation: A Model

The Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) Summary provides an overview of the important role of universities and colleges to strengthen innovation and enterprise for regional economic transformation.

The Center, originally created from a recommendation by the Rand Corporation to advise then Fortune 500 corporate leaders in Northeast Ohio, was first housed at the Cleveland Federal Reserve, Cleveland State University, and then at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Ed Morrison, Executive Director, working with Betsey Merkel, Susan Altshuler, Matt Kozink, and Dennis Coughlin as an open team, led the Center from 2003-2005. The report details what was accomplished, the alignment of Center activities with University strategy, and results of working with regional leaders to build networks, social capital, and accelerate transformative initiatives in education, economic, and workforce development.

The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) is the spin off of the Center and continues to develop and deploy new practices in Open Source Economic Development in Northeast Ohio and the world.

I-Open on Livestream: Saul Kaplan's story of building innovation networks in education, health care, and energy

Saul Kaplan, Founder and Chief Catalyst, Business Innovation Factory in Providence, Rhode Island, talks on I-Open's Livestream channel about his rich experience and present work identifying innovators, building networks and community for new systems to implement new solutions in education, health care, and energy.

You can download the transcription of the interview to your desktop from the I-Open library on Scribd or Slideshare.

Learn more about I-Open innovators like Saul Kaplan in Open Source Economic Development at I-Open's collaborative community space here.

Copyright 2009 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA