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COINs 2010 Opening Conversation

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As a co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference, I-Open worked in collaboration with the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, and Wayne State University College of Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, in Savannah, GA USA.

This second international and highly interactive program presented training, workshops, paper presentations, and keynote conversations of research and industry leaders focused on creativity and collaboration for industry competitive advantage. 

Broadcast Conversations

I-Open introduced the concept of broadcast conversations and conference programming to the COINs organizing team to strengthen community interactive experience. Working pre-event and on-site with the SCAD E-Learning Dept. and student volunteers to optimize conference broadcast, Betsey Merkel designed, built, and published across a COINs 2010 social media infrastructure, connected virtual global networks on behalf of the COINs community, and presented "Contextual Transmedia Communications" a communication technique to strengthen innovation in Swarm Creativity.   

As a result of partnering existing network communities, pre-event on-line community development, use of social media tools, contextualized content sharing, and specialized communications, within less than 30 days of uploading content to the COINs Conference channel, programming had attracted over 100,000 viewer minutes. 

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Frameworks

The Swarm Creativity Framework is a heuristic model of investment generating creative economies. This is a transfer of the Innovation Framework, a successful model of investment in Open Source Economic Development.

I-Open designed and contributed the Swarm Creativity Framework to the COINs 2010 conference community in support of the emerging Science of Collaboration. The Framework is featured in the COINs 2010 Conference Instructions document below. COINs 2010 Conference Instructions

 

Specialized Communications

Contextual transmedia communications is a technique developed by Betsey Merkel to share Web 3.0 information across Web 2.0 infrastructure for enterprise development in complex open systems.

Shared knowledge informs Strategic Branding of collaborative communities and transformative initiatives in Open Source Economic Development. This technique has been applied to I-Open communications since 2003 to create knowledge and strengthen collaborative culture. (Click on the image for a larger view.)

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Workspaces

The Swarm Creativity workspace (screen shot below), sponsored by I-Open for conference collaborators functioned as a workspace to post communications, share resources, strengthen transparency, and organize project work. In Open Source Economic Development, workspaces sustain and amplify conversations between Civic Forum programs so that project development can continue.

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