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.

 


What's the value of one white paper?

Yesterday I received an unexpected e-mail greeting from a government IT leader based in Australia. While researching the Internet to lead a group of colleagues in a strategic project planning initiative, he came across the attached COINs 2009 conference presentation and offered these comments:

In "COINS: An economic development tool for education, economic and workforce development in Open Source Economic Development" the concepts are beautiful; if my workplace engaged in just 20% of them we would double communications engagement subsequently boosting productivity. Thank you for your paper Betsey, I am very pleased you wrote it."

Stories like these attest to why sharing on the web is a good idea. You can never know who or when the information you've shared will be useful. In networks, shared information has reciprocal value for anyone with initiative.

Serendipitous connections often begin with an element of collaborative leadership. For example, had it not been suggested to me to consider submitting a paper in 2009, I'm not sure I would have.

COINs 2010 conference brings a second year of sharing insights and innovations into the workings of creativity and collaboration. I hope you will join us for new conversations in Savannah and on the web - and definitely consider submitting a paper in 2011! 

Who knows what opportunity will bump into you?

- Betsey Merkel, I-Open

Learn more about COINs 2010 Conference here.

Investing in Swarm Creativity

The COINs 2010 conference, Oct 7-9, 2010 hosted at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA, shares the insights and innovations of research and industry leaders in the Science of Collaboration.

Join us! Here are your next steps:

  • Register for the conference - we'd love to connect with you!
  • Submit a Research or Industry Thought Paper by Aug 12 less than 300 words- this is a neat opportunity to hone your idea and improve!
  • Sign up for the Coolhunting Academy free for conference registrants and includes a complimentary 3-month trial of Cool Trends 2.0 - (!)
  • Check it all out at: http://www.coins2010.com

More about Swarm Creativity and the Science of Collaboration:

Swarm Creativity powers the COINs 2010 community and with it the Science of Collaboration. Conference participants present reports focused on creativity, communication, and collaboration from many different disciplines and industries.

The swarm creativity map, above, is an ecosystem for entrepreneurs, businesses, organizations, and governments to cultivate a culture that is creative, cool, and fun!

Today, civic leaders need to work on many different projects simultaneously and at many different levels to optimize initiatives in open, connected global markets. The swarm creativity map offers a heuristic model for thinking across categories of investment in balanced systems. And, it's transferable and extensible.

Maps act as filters, provide a sense of logistics, and encourage more than one area of attention to be held at once. With that we can begin to think in terms of the value of network connectivity and systemic relationships.

The map identifies how swarm creativity as a discipline can be strengthened by investments in new practices and tools.

One tool, Cool Trends 2.0, is trend finding software developed by http://www.GalaxyAdvisors.com. It is designed to provide investment metrics for web 3.0, the semantic web. By integrating network mapping tools in enterprise initiatives, we can begin to get a clearer picture of innovation in networks, strengthen social behaviors that cultivate collaboration, and drive competitive network productivity.

Attention to new practices, such as meritocracy - an element of swarm creativity - establish good habits of sharing that nurture trusted relationships and cultivate collaborative environments.

Frameworks like this one work well in complexity. They offer a starting point for entrepreneurs to make important cognitive shifts required to think in terms of networks and areas of investment. With this, work becomes efficient and effective.

You can learn more in the book, "Swarm Creativity" by Professor Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Be sure to follow the http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/ ">Swarm Creativity blog too.

The Swarm Creativity map was created by Betsey Merkel, I-Open.

Extended deadline: CALL FOR PAPERS: COINs2010 – 2nd Int'l Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks, Oct 7-9, 2010

I-Open is a co-sponsor of the upcoming COINs 2010 Conference. Please see this important conference update:

Following several requests from colleagues, the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to Thursday Aug 12th.

“COINs are everywhere!”

Oct 7-9, 2010, SCAD Savannah
Deadline for abstract submission: Extended to August 12, 2010

The second international conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) brings together practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration. The emergence of online social networks opens up unprecedented opportunities to read the collective mind, discovering emergent trends while they are still being hatched by small groups of creative individuals. The Web has become a mirror of the real world, allowing researchers to study and better understand why some new ideas change our lives, while others never make it from the drawing board of the innovator.

Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs, are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate in innovating by sharing ideas, information, and work. Although COINs have been around for hundreds of years, they are especially relevant today because the concept has reached its tipping point thanks to the Internet. COINs are powered by swarm creativity, wherein people work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. ‘Coolhunting’ – discovering, analyzing, and measuring trends and trendsetters – puts COINs to productive use. Patterns of collaborative innovation frequently follow an identical path, from creator to COIN to collaborative learning network to collaborative interest network.

The theme of the conference combines a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems and the psychology and sociality of collaboration.

We invite researchers to submit their latest scientific results on

Global Collaboration Networks (Global focus)
· Organizational optimization in COINs
· Virtual Communication and Collaboration
· Measuring the performance of COINs
· Patterns of swarm creativity
· Trust, Privacy, Risk, Transparency and Security in social contexts

Group Collaboration (Group focus)
· Collaborative Leadership
· Design and visualization in interdisciplinary collaboration
· Group dynamics and global teaming in virtual collaboration

Microscopic aspects of collaboration (Individual focus)
· Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, Influence Process
· The psychology and sociality of collaboration
· Social Behavior Modeling
· Social Intelligence and Social Cognition

Tools and Methods focus
· Social System Design and Architectures
· Dynamic Social Network Analysis
· Semantic Social Network Analysis

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: extended to Aug 12, 2010

Authors notification: Aug 20, 2010

Final manuscript due: Sept 20, 2010

Program Dates: October 7, 8 and 9, 2010.

Paper submission
Submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to the program chair Julia Gluesing at  < j.gluesing@wayne.edu >
Accepted papers (16 pages max) will be published in the conference proceedings in the Elsevier Procedia series

Should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings.


Program Committee

John Bucuvalas, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Richard Colletti, (University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont)
Marco De Maggio (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)
Elenna Dugundji (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Kai Fischbach (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Peter Gloor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Julia Gluesing, chair (Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan)
Francesca Grippa (Northeastern University, Boston)
Takashi Iba (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Stokes Jones (Lodestar, Atlanta, Georgia)
Casper Lassenius (Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland)
Peter Margolis, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Betsey Merkel (I-Open, Cleveland, Ohio)
Chris Miller (SCAD, Savannah, Georgia)
Maria Paasivaara (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)
Johannes Putzke (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Ken Riopelle (Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.)
Detlef Schoder (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Michael Seid, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)

Conference Web Site: http://www.coins2010.com
Full Call for Papers: http://www.scribd.com/doc/32955537/COINs2010-Call-for-Papers

COINs2010 Call for Papers

I-OPEN is a sponsor of the Collaborative Innovation Networks COINs2010 Conference, October 7-9, 2010 in Savannah, Georgia. The conference is presented in collaboration by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Wayne State University School of Engineering, and MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence.

The COINs community is a network of research and industry leaders seeking the best practices and tools they can find to understand innovation in the emerging Science of Collaboration.

If you are a research or industry leader, consider submitting a paper or thought paper about your insights and perspectives to elevate everyone's understanding of how to collaborate for competitive innovation advantage.

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/