COINs 2010 Conference Community: A Visual Portrait

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Screenshot: COINs Conference Collection on Flickr

Images can be a powerful tool to communicate a community's identity and culture for social network attraction. 

Photographer Alice Merkel captures COINs 2010 Conference community connectivity, conversations, and capacity building in this I-Open Collection on Flickr.  

The collection portrays community creativity and collaboration present in five areas of the Swarm Creativity Framework - a transfer of I-Open's Innovation Framework, a heuristic model of investment in Open Source Economic Development.

Curating images focused on a community's core assets generates higher levels of authentic communications, builds audience trust, and strengthens transparency for network attraction.

COINs-collaborative innovation networks Conferences are hosted in partnership by the Hyperwerk Institute of Postindustrial Design, Basel, Switzerland; Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, Georgia; Wayne State University School of Engineering, Detroit, Michigan; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Collective Intelligence, Boston, Massachusetts.

To learn more about this research-industry community visit the COINs Conference web site here. 

Connect with I-Open at:

Copyright 2005-2012 I-Open and Betsey Merkel. Images © Alice Merkel Photography. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: http://i-open.posterous.com/

 

 

How to Create Your Social Media Knowledge Portrait

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Images © Alice Merkel on Flickr

Social business requires an integration of all we know to advance our conversations and meaningfully connect to both traditional and non-traditional employment opportunities.

The creation of a social media knowledge portrait begins by recognizing traditional work experiences, skills training, formal education, human passion, and emerging interests. 

A social media knowledge portrait is a method of organizing human knowledge and intelligence to:  

  • Generate a unique entrepreneurial knowledge base;   
  • Increase serendipity and connect to unforeseen opportunities;    
  • Diversify strategic pathways for sharing and collaboration; 
  • Inventory knowledge, expertise, skills and interest; and 
  • Connect knowledge investments to education, economic and workforce development.

Read more about how to connect what you know to new enterprise opportunities in the paper below.

How to Create a Social Media Knowledge Portrait

Brainpower: Librarians of the Future

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Spanish Moss

Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr

Matthew Theobald (1970-2010), Founder, Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) and CEO, Internous, talks about the role of librarians in the future.

Drawing from his professional career in Library Science, Matt describes an exciting future for librarians as the community connectors between citizens, entrepreneurs, government and organization leaders and knowledge.

Read the article The Public Library Manifesto: Why Libraries Matter and How We Can Save Them by David Morris to learn more about the deep value every library and librarian contributes to advancing civil, sustainable community.

Brainpower: Librarians of the Future from I-Open on Vimeo.

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

    •    Facebook I-Open http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Open/170817416694?ref=ts
    •    Flickr     http://www.flickr.com/people/iopen/
    •    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://tiny.cc/106p0
    •    You Tube http://tiny.cc/j5rse
 
Copyright 2011 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: http://i-open.posterous.com/

All Your Databases Belong To You

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Brick Ceiling

Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr

Matthew Theobald (1970-2010), Founder, Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) and CEO, Internous, tells us why databases are the next important application of the Internet. Matt talks about the Database of Databases, and what it will mean to each of us to access the deep web and design our own personal databases of information. 

All Your Databases Belong to You from I-Open on Vimeo.

Learn from the wisdom of civic leaders across these I-Open communities:
    •    Facebook I-Open http://tiny.cc/odlg2
    •    Flickr  http://www.flickr.com/people/iopen/
    •    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://tiny.cc/106p0
    •    You Tube http://tiny.cc/j5rse

 Images by Alice Merkel on Flickr

Copyright 2011 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: http://i-open.posterous.com/

A Guide for Entrepreneurs Engaging in Social Business

“Economic Development is in everything today.”

– Tom McCarthy, teacher, lawyer, Economic Development professional, and technology entrepreneur. New York, USA.

Social business requires an integration of all we know to advance our conversations and meaningfully connect to both traditional and non-traditional employment opportunities.

The creation of a social media knowledge portrait combines traditional work experiences, skills training, formal education, human passion and interest.

Contextual Transmedia Communication is a method of organizing human knowledge and intelligence in Open Source Economic Development to,

  • Build social business value by empowering others;
  • Connect investments to education, economic and workforce development;  
  • Construct strategic pathways for sharing and collaboration;  
  • Generate a unique knowledge base; and,
  • Inventory knowledge, expertise, skills and interest.
CTC is an appreciative process of integrating the creative passion and technical skills of an entrepreneur to curate knowledge for publishing.

This document also includes a Meaning Matrix, the first step to customize what you know, put valuable experiences to work, and leverage education and skills training to power integral knowledge for innovation.

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

Copyright 2011 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: http://i-open.posterous.com/

Source Code: Civic Wisdom Knowledge Wheel

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Design Reflection

Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr

The I-Open Knowledge Wheel maps the organization and progressive dissemination of human knowledge in the Civic Space in Open Source Economic Development.

Civic Wisdom interviews (center of map) are contributed to the I-Open community by leaders in government, organizations and business.

The Wheel is an idea inspired by the Free & Open Source (F/OSS) Software industry's progression of code to data to content.

I-Open organizes and publishes civic wisdom (code) to storage (data) to publication (content). Creative multi-media applications can fragment or deconstruct data at any given point in the outward progression of disseminating content. 

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Enlarged view at I-Open on Flickr

The Institute's foundational principle, "we will act in ways that build trust and respect" guides final publishing. Content is published and shared under I-Open's Creative Commons v.3 license for the purpose of informing all aspects of economic development investment.

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

Facebook I-Open http://tiny.cc/odlg2
Flickr http://tiny.cc/73y6e
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://tiny.cc/106p0
You Tube http://tiny.cc/j5rse

Copyright 2011 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Betsey Merkel and The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: i-open.posterous.com/

How Futuring Helps Us To Know What To Do Now

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Double Doors

Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr

Bruce LaDuke, Question Scientist, Integral Futurist, and Managing Director, Instant Innovation, LLC, provides an introduction to the cycle of knowledge creation and it's connection to enterprise development.

This overview addresses how Futuring and Knowledge Advance help us act smarter and see new opportunities. 

Watch live streaming video from iopen at livestream.com
As your Livestream viewer opens, review the Integral Futuring slides below in this window to visualize Bruce LaDuke's process-driven method to advance knowledge.

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Learn more about Bruce LaDuke's life work, "The Answer is in the Question" at Social Text.

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

Copyright 2011 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Betsey Merkel and The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: http://i-open.posterous.com/

COINs 2010 Conference Video Library Widget

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"Recording"

Photo © Alice Merkel 

Digital media, both creative and social, is an invaluable communication tool to translate and share experiences.

The COINs Conference video library widget - shown below - contains all COINs 2010 keynotes, workshops, paper presentations, and interviews.

Click on "Grab Widget" to be taken to the COINs Conference channel. From there, you can copy widget code for pasting to your website or blog and share the library with people you know.

The COINs Conference digital library provides open access for people to learn deeply and share knowledge widely.

Watch live streaming video from coinsconference at livestream.com

 

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.


 


Isivivane Game - conversations that build trust and meaning for positive change

In Open Source Economic Development, civic leaders need to learn new practices and tools to extend and enhance their ability to engage with each other and with information to create new knowledge. New knowledge is what is generated from experience and applied to the industry of solving problems.

The Isivivane Game - Place Your Stone Upon the Pile - is one such practice. It creates immediate opportunities for leaders in government, business, and academia to build richer realities to engage in transformative action.

The game architects self constructed pathways that build new capacities for people to work together to be more creative, strengthen communications, and accelerate collaboration.

Practices introduce skills and tools people can rely on as they begin to interact in multidimensional ways. Growing comfortable in environments representing more than one reality is an aid to problem solving in the complex social, economic, and environmental situations affecting industry today. This is modern skills training.

By creating regular opportunities for experimental experiences in complexity - outside of daily work - organizations cultivate higher levels of performance and personal satisfaction, and stronger capabilties in individual decision making for wiser organizations.

From co-creator Steve Banhegyi:

"These are the cards with which the game is played - the questions on the cards are used to create knowledge by the participants - all centering around the central theme or 'organising principle' or 'strange attractor' the answer to the question : "what do we want?"

You can find Steve at I-Open on Strategy-Nets, Facebook, and @SteveBanhegyi on Twitter. Or, contact him directly at:

Steve Banhegyi & Associates
Art and Science of Change
steve@storytelling.co.za
Cell (South Africa) +27 (0)83 232-6047 / Fax +27 (0)86 635-4457
www.storytelling.co.za | www.trans4mation.co.za | isivivane.com