In the 21st Century of Work: Collaborate, Support, and Affirm

Gloria Ferris, Civic Leader and Blogger, talks about the importance of behaving in ways that build trust and respect when working together to build community and enterprise projects.

As we move forward in the 21st Century of work we must collaborate, support and affirm one other to build sustainable relationships and meaningful projects for prosperity. Sustainability means sustaining all of us so we can all move forward together.

Learn more from leaders building networks, collaborations, and innovative enterprise 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
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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 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 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/

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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

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:

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35942064712
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

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:

I-Open http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net
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

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

Peter Margolis MD, PhD Co-Director, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Cntr 08-05-09 Interview

In this 08-05-09 interview transcription, Dr. Peter Margolis MD, PhD Co-Director, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center shares updates about his research in quality health care delivery for children.

Dr. Margolis discusses the value collaboration and social networks bring to improving knowledge across health care systems. He also reviews Center projects focused on accelerating knowledge sharing and successful pratices for physicians and the patients and families they serve.

Currently, the Center is studying ways to advance knowledge sharing and adoption across multiple networks at scale to improve the health of populations, affecting demographics across states and regions.

You can listen to the interview with Dr. Margolis at I-Open (requires sign in).

This and other transcriptions are available at I-Open on Scribd.

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

Collaborative Healthcare: advancing sustainable knowledge systems for service delivery

My daughter and I visited Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director of the The Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center last July. Our visit was prompted at the recommendation of Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT, to learn more about the advancing practice of collaborative medicine in health care service delivery for children.

(Peter Gloor's research focuses on COINs - collaborative innovation networks.The study of COINs, or swarm creativity, offers us a deeper understanding of how to share information in large systems to advance knowledge aquisition by all participants and address distribution of that knowledge at scale. Be sure to visit and participate in the COINs global community here.)

With Alice's photos, we posted the slide show above. As you're watching, listen to Dr. Margolis's interview describing the value networks, collaboration and community bring to advance medical innovation and health care service, posted to I-Open and here to this blog.

We'd like to thank Dr. Margolis for generously participating in the New York, New England, New Jersey, Cincinnati July 2009 interview trip, co-sponsored by The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open). We'll be posting additional interviews from our trip to this blog and to I-Open in the upcoming weeks.

The photo set for the July trip is posted to Flickr. We invite you to visit more photos by Alice Merkel 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

Interview: Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Health Care Quality, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. talks about his work in collaborative medicine as Co-Director of the The Center for Health Care Quality at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He shares an overview of his efforts over the last twenty years to improve quality systems health care delivery for children.

Dr. Margolis discusses health care systems, and the value strengthening social network practice, mapping, and analysis bring to improving innovative practices and knowledge sharing. His research is discovering the value of networks, collaboration, communication and community to advance medical innovation and health care service amongst large networks of health care center staff, patients, and their families.

By discovering new collaborative practices, people and institutions can advance new forms of health care quickly.

As you listen to this interview [00:29:46] be sure to watch the slide show and videos on Flickr. Photos by Alice Merkel.

Related post at I-Open: Interview: Dr. Peter Margolis, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Health Care Quality, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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

 

IOpen2's Channel - Stop By and See Us!

Just a reminder that in the future we'll be posting regular I-Open community stories to our You Tube channel, "I-Open2", where you'll be able to learn more about some of the things you, and others, are interested in. 

If you haven't seen this story before, take a couple of minutes to enjoy the experiences of people coming together to share information about their work relating to the emerging Science of Collaboration at the October COINs 2009 conference hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD).

You can learn more about the COINs community focused on strengthening the practices of creativity, collaboration, and communication - essential behaviors and tools in Open Source Economic Development - on the Swarm Creativity Blog.

You may also be interested to visit and sign in to the global Swarm Creativity community - and perhaps sign up to participate in the next Virtual Brown Bag meeting!

Created and posted by Betsey Merkel.

COINS / I-Open paper published to KMAfrica - Knowledge Management Africa KnowledgeHub

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Colleague Steve Banhegyi, KMAfrica Knowledge Hub, posted the recent I-Open paper, "COINS: Open Source Economic Development for Education, Economic and Workforce Development" as a Group Discussion Topic for Emerging Technologies on KMAfrica.

"KnowledgeHub is a community platform for knowledge creators in African colleges and universities to role-model knowledge sharing using social media. There is know-how that helps expand the role of libraries in communities and KM professionals can keep current with a network of consultants and academics. Knowledge entrepreneurs will find useful know-how and ideas. It is by growing connections that communities emerge that make innovation and breakthrough possible."

Please explore the space and participate in the discussion, add your insights, and build your knowledge networks!

Posted by Betsey Merkel

COINS 2009 - a brief movie

This is a short film from my visit to Savannah, GA, October 8-11 for the COINS 2009 conference.

The film doesn't begin to capture the diversity of learning experiences from the conference but it does provide a sense of the quality interdisciplinary research presented, lovely surroundings, the collaborative and creative culture of the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), and caliber of innovative students SCAD is generating.

Thank you all SCAD organizers, participants, and partners. It was a pleasure to meet everyone. Enjoy the film!

Created and posted by Betsey Merkel.