Energy Efficiency Enterprise in Collaborative Innovation Networks

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James Flock, energy entrepreneur, Cleveland, Ohio, describes his enterprise solution - the socialization of energy - focused on personalized Energy Services (like the emerging personalized health care industry) in networked economies.

As an RF engineer, Jim's work experience is deeply rooted in MRI, Antennae and Radio Frequencies. He's applied his expert level skills to understand how communities can fine tune resonance to create signal and optimize energy delivery to only where it is needed.

Jim has thought through how value-based brands with services defined by community can lead to energy efficiency techniques. Understanding how corporations and homeowners prefer to experience energy as members of dynamic community systems, personalized energy delivery can be optimized and precise, efficient techniques developed. Ultimately, brands play a pivotal role in the embodiment of a service provider's energy efficient community culture.

In this in-depth and expansive interview, Jim describes project investment, construction methodology, and deliverables. In addition, Jim shares personal philosophies on information sharing, habits of collaboration, advice for youth working on the web, the value of sharing in networks for the purpose of "giving ahead", and how his enterprise will positively affect education, economic and workforce development, and sustainable communities 50 years from now.

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You can connect with Jim at his blog Global Definition and on LinkedIn.

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Free to Paid: embedding the creative industries in digital culture

The Free to Paid map visualizes the impact of the creative industries on experience and it's relationship to monetization of content and publishing.

As we build networks for service and enterprise in Open Source Economic Development, the creative industries and digital technologies play a determining role in how we interact with information.

Are you an entrepreneurial co-creator, or are you a creative consumer? New paradigms in experience and publishing offer multi-media innnovation opportunities.

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The Value of the Older Worker - IOpen2's Channel

Bonnie N. Dick, Employment Consultant, CGI Cleveland, was recently awarded the "Most Valued Older Worker" in the State of Ohio.

Bonnie talks about the value experienced workers of all ages bring to today's expanded, multi-generational workforce development system.

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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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