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.

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Innovating with Higher Levels of Organization, Process, and Tools

The 2003-2005 Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) Civic Forum Program Matrix was designed by Betsey Merkel while working with the REI team (Ed Morrison, Susan Altshuler, Matt Kozink, Dennis Coughlin) to organize Civic Forum conversations in Northeast Ohio from 2003 through 2005.

Civic Forum conversations connect people and their ideas to education, economic, and workforce development through the generation of transformative industry cluster initiatives.

REI.Tuesdays Civic Forums were convened from the Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI), Case Western Reserve University at the Weatherhead School of Business. Leaders from business, academic, civic, and government created new conversations about exploring civic priorities, shared ideas for industry innovation, and worked together to launch transformative initiatives. Learn more about REI Civic Forums.

The Civic Forum Matrix points to the need for communities and regions to participate at higher levels of organization, process, and tools to identify, connect, and align creativity and resources for transformative, sustainable innovation.

The REI.Tuesdays Matrix offers an example of a tool to strengthen the design of new conversations focused on aspects of Open Source Economic Development.

You can learn more about I-Open here.

Learn more about the I-Open Civic Forum process designed by Betsey Merkel and how your community or region can begin to adopt a sustainable practice of building networks, generating social capital, and collaborating to build transformative initiatives for prosperity.

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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.

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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.

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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

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COINS 2009 Conference: the Emerging Science of Collaboration - Update 10/7/09

The COINS 2009 conference hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) is the first time people from many different places and disciplines have come together to share information and research about their work in collaboration. I'm looking forward to meeting a whole community of people interested in sharing insights and innovations in the emerging Science of Collaboration.The conference is a gathering (a swarm!) of leaders from research, business, and creativity.

The program (opens tomorrow evening) includes training in Cool Hunting - the science of finding and tracking trends - and many presentions covering the diverse applications of collaboration and collective intelligence in creativity, design, and in health care, knowledge management, and business innovation.

Explore the tabs on the beautiful COINS 2009 web space (thanks SCAD!!)

Enjoy the short video above with Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT, who talks about the COINS 2009 conference and the value collaborative innovation networks offer to creativity and collaboration in business, and for anyone building enterprise.

You can start to learn more about collaborative innovation networks (COINS) in the delightful book, "Swarm Creativity - competitive advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks"  by Peter Gloor.

Created and posted by Betsey Merkel.