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. 

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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

Branding: How to Share Your I-Open Interview

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Photo: Alice Merkel

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

MediaFuturist: The Future of Business in the Open Economy

From Gerd Leonhard:

"June 23, 2010 presentation on "New Insights: The Future of Business - trends, future scenarios and key insights" at the Fundacao Dom Cabral (FDC) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The PDF with the slides can be downloaded via this link (30MB PDF); as usual all material is creative-commons-licensed (attribution required / non-commercial). Topics include: broadband culture and mobility, social media, the link economy, the culture of participation, open economy paradigms, cloud computing futures, the network vs the networked, selling 2.0, privacy and much more."

"Here is the official event description: "The pace of change is constantly accelerating, everywhere and across most industries, whether it's in technology, communications, marketing, media, manufacturing, services or consumer goods. Disruption is becoming the norm rather than the exception. B2B relationships are deeply effected, as well, with new and often challenging standards of openness, transparency, collaboration and inter-connectivity quickly emerging. The future is likely to require hyper-collaboration rather than (just) competition, non-linear thinking, crowd-sourced innovation, and circular business model innovation"

Building Collaborative Communities

This presentation provides an introduction to building face-to-face and online collaborative communities that generate social capital and transformative initiatives in Open Source Economic Development.

Collaborative communities form from I-Open Civic Forums, a simple but disciplined process to accelerate place based, globally connected innovation and entrepreneurship.

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

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