I-Open Civic Wisdom Library Index 2010

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The I-Open Civic Wisdom Library is an archive of video interviews contributed by entrepreneurial leaders in research and industry. Stories share individual perspectives and accounts of insight - civic intelligence - through the lens of the Innovation Framework, a heuristic model of investment in Open Source Economic Development.

Interviews are available at I-Open's channel on Livestream. Scroll down the broadcast channel page to access the Archive Folders. Share your favorite links on Twitter and Facebook and embed the player on your blog and website! Share Civic Wisdom Widely! 

I-Open Civic Wisdom Library Index 2010

Learn from the wisdom of civic leaders across I-Open communities:

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 Suite 301 Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

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Business, government, academic, and civic leaders have contributed over 10,000 minutes of knowledge, insights and innovations to I-Open interview and conversation research.

Each interview yields unique ideas, perspectives and discoveries to inform and guide leaders in education, economic, and workforce development.

Sharing information promotes higher levels of creativity and opens doors to unforeseen business collaborations. In the socially connected world of an innovation economy, sharing what you know increases your value to those you attract.

Interview information is published as video, document, image, and creative digital media and shared across I-Open social media platforms and their communities. You'll find a wealth of civic knowledge listed under "Libraries" on this blog's right side bar.

If you're a leader interested to know how to share your knowledge further, or just need a nice nudge to remember to share widely, we've assembled a how-to of simple steps for you to take below.

How to Share Your Interview Information

COINs2010: Conversations in Collaboration









 


  

 

The 2nd Annual International COINs2010 Conference  is coming to Savannah, Ga, USA  | October 7-9

REGISTER ONLINE at COINs2010.com

Registration rate is $180 (US Dollars) and includes pre-conference full day Coolhunting Workshop and Condor 3 month-trial.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Jesse Dylan, CEO and Creative Director, Freeform

Sandy Pentland, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Richard Buchanan, Professor, Case Western Reserve University


REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS

Networking 101 | Collaborative Change | Bodystorming | Coolfarming | Service Design | Virtual Global Teaming

 

BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS

Special Conference Rates are available through the COINs2010 Conference Website.

 

This is a DESIGN ETHOS Intersection Event

 

 

 

Join us for COINs 2010 Oct 7-9 in Savannah, Georgia!

I-Open is a proud co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference, connecting research and industry leaders to advance the emerging science of collaboration.

Keynote speakers and paper presentations will be streamed live featuring cutting edge research in science, design, and technology with an emphasis on creativity, government, health care, energy, education, government, and transportation.

Workshops focus on practices in collaboration, open platforms, and team building - all immediately applicable skills for leaders in education, economic, and workforce development.

Register for

  • social network practice, projects, and tool proficiency
  • collaboration skills
  • service design thinking
  • collective action and social change
  • collaborative global teaming
  • strengthening habits of idea creation

In addition, COINs 2010 Conference is cross collaborating with the Design Ethos Conference (program) resulting in a serendipitous gathering of global minds in filmmaking, technology, design, and sustainability.

Check in now to the COINs 2010 Conference site - an online destination designed by SCAD designer, Amit Bapat - to explore and connect your social networks into a deeper, wider, global COINs2010.

Get started and become more creative at COINs 2010!

Conference information and online registration is here.

Begin reading COINs 2010 Abstracts at Swarm Creativity on Scribd.

Learn more about Design Engineer, Amit Bapat's BioSand Filter Project, here.

 


How to Share Your I-Open Interview Information

I-Open interviews gather information through the lens of the Innovation Framework, a heuristic map for thinking and doing in Open Source Economic Development.

This document offers starting points to share your interview information with your networks.

You can learn more about industry innovation by listening to I-Open interviews and conversations and reading transcriptions on Scribd.


 


Coolhunting Academy 2010 Invitation

Invitation to Half-Day Coolhunting Training Course -– Afternoon of Thursday, October 7, 2010

What is it that distinguishes Apple, LEGO, and P&G from their competitors? Why are they launching one killer product after the other? This is because they are taking a huge page from the playbook of creativity. They organize their business as a swarm business, applying the principles of swarm creativity by listening to and becoming a member of their swarm of loyal users, immersing themselves into their swarm. This swarm tells them what’s going to be cool, and how to make it even cooler.   Knowing where in the swarm the collaborative innovators are allows them to determine what’s going to be cool, too – before everyone else. The art of coolhunting involves zeroing in on the fresh idea that will be the genesis of a hot new trend. It also involves finding the people responsible for the idea – the trendsetters who will cause others to jump on board.

Practical applications of Swarm Creativity and Collaborative Innovation Networks are

  • Discovering cool trends for your field by tapping into the collective intelligence of your audience and potential customers (coolhunting)
  • Finding the trendsetters who convert an innovation into a trend
  • Run with the new trends you find and tap their business value through coolfarming
 The Coolhunting and Coolfarming framework developed at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and field tested at dozens of fortune 1000 companies, offers a novel way to find the latest trends by discovering the online communication patterns of the trendsetters.

Plan to participate with us October 7-9 in Savannah to share and connect to new opportunities.

For more information, stop by for a visit and sign in to the COINs2010 community at http://www.coins2010.com

Connect to COINs2010:
Facebook: Collaborative-Innovation-Networks-COINS2010-Conference
Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/SwarmCreativity
Twitter: http://twitter.com/coins_2010
Website: http://www.coins2010.com

COINs University Partners:
http://cci.mit.edu/index.html
http://www.scad.edu/
http://wayne.edu/

COINs2010 Sponsors:
COINs University Partners
Galaxy Advisors http://www.galaxyadvisors.com/
I-OPEN http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net

Background Information:
http://www.swarmcreativity.net/
http://www.ickn.org/
http://wiki.soberit.hut.fi/virtualbrownbag/tiki-index.php?page=homepage
http://www.galaxyadvisors.com/

 

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

I-Open Interview Research

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I-Open Interviews on Vimeo

By Betsey Merkel

I-Open video interviews are rich in tacit knowledge and present personal perspectives - stories of human insight and innovation through the lens of an Innovation Framework, a guide to sustainable investment in education, economic, and workforce development.

Gathering the best knowledge from theoretical and practical research across diverse sectors such as health care, the creative industries, technology, business development - interviews strengthen community connectivity and opportunities for collaborative leadership.

What you'll discover over time, as you watch the videos and read the transcriptions, are the similarities we all share. You may be reminded of your own ideas and insights, and those of your colleagues and friends - a collective intelligence in Open Source Economic Development.

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I-Open Transcription Collection on Scribd

More about I-Open Interview Research.

I-Open publishes video interviews and transcriptions under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License - meaning you are free to share information, but are accountable to attribute source to the interviewee and I-Open. 

(Article revised July 20, 2011.)