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/

 

 

Civic Wisdom Quote: Don't be a star, be a galaxy

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"Don't be a star, be a galaxy."

- Peter Gloor, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Chief Creative Officer and Founder, Galaxy Advisors
Boston & Switzerland

I-Open Civic Wisdom Quotes are practical points shared by leaders in research and business to advance competitive industry advantage in Open Source Economic Development.

In a connected world driven by innovation and technology, the value of becoming part of a larger web of collaborative networks quickly yields unexpected, unforeseen opportunities.

You can learn more about Peter Gloor's work in swarm creativity, coins-collaborative innovation networks, and coolhunting in this video interview contributed to I-Open research.

You can learn more about I-Open Interview and Conversation Research at I-Open on Scribd. If you would like to contribute an interview about your work, please send us an email at info@i-open.org 

Images by Alice Merkel on Flickr.

Material is Copyright 2010 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and contributed to The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), a not-for-profit educational economic organization.

Building a COINs Strategy for Education, Economic, and Workforce Development

Collaborate: Leading Regional Innovation Clusters - A Report from the Council on Competitiveness, identifies three important components of 21st Century innovation based prosperity:

  1. Conversations 
  2. Collaboration
  3. Capacity

The Swarm Creativity Framework (below) is a tool to guide education, economic, and workforce development strategy for competitive regional advantage.

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Taken together, the Council's directives, the Framework, and "Strategic Doing" - a simple process developed in I-Open to move ideas to action quickly (below), enable every community to build a COINs-collaborative innovation network strategy for creative, thriving local economies.

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From the perspective of the Collective Intelligence Genome introduced at the COINs 2009 Opening Keynote by Dr. Thomas W. Malone, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, this outlines the What, Why, and How - the Who, is all of us!

You can learn more about the Center's work at http://cci.mit.edu/index.html

I-Open is a co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference.

COINs2010 Conversations in Collaboration: Global Teaming

 

 

 

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

CONNECT ON THE NETWORK MAP

Visualize your network by registering on the COINs2010 website. Connect with your acquaintances and friends and grow your network into a galaxy.


WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHT: Creating Conditions for Effective Global Teaming

There are many reasons why companies form global teams to work internationally and interdependently towards a common goal.  Global teams can be created to develop global strategies, or to work locally to execute these strategies, or both.  Multinational corporations often create global research and development teams to benefit from site-specific scientific expertise that is not available in one location, but is spread around the world.  Still, other companies create global teams in specific functional areas, like sales and marketing, and then have representatives of that function from around the world collaborate in teams.  This enables the organization to benefit from a diversity of perspectives and services that can match or fulfill the needs of a global client, wherever that client might be located.  No matter what the reason for the formation of a global team or what form the team takes, leaders and team members must address the complexity of global teamwork by architecting new ways of collaborating. These factors must be considered and managed in designing and forming global teams to perform successfully.  Stakeholders, team leaders and team members can actively participate in creating conditions prior to the start-up of a team that can provide and enhance the likelihood that the team will achieve its objective. view more workshops.

 

REGISTER ONLINE at COINs2010.com

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

 

 

This is a COINs2010 DESIGN ETHOS Intersection Event

 

 


Things are really heating up for the COINs 2010 Conference in Savannah, Georgia!

Get Connected  -- Log in to COINs 2010 and find yourself on the Connect Map, an emerging open knowledge network of research and industry leaders from around the world. Connect to people and ideas advancing innovation for creative competitive advantage. Go Here.

Log In and Register! We look forward to learning more about your important work in education, economic, and workforce development for communities and regions. Go Here.

Industry Topics included -- health care, design, transportation, creativity, education, technology, government, business development, and media. Go Here.

Skills Training -- Conference registrants receive a no-charge, half-day pre-conference Coolhunting Training Session led by Galaxy Advisors team and Peter Gloor, Chief Creative Officer and Founder Galaxy Advisors, and research scientist MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. All participants receive a complimentary six month trial of Condor, the dynamic semantic social network analysis tool. Go Here.

Practitioner Workshops -- Join us to learn about global teaming, social network analysis, innovation diffusion, and new practices in collaboration to accelerate your efforts to build enterprise. You will be joined by global thought leaders, students, and industry practitioners. Go Here.

We look forward to participating in new conversations with you about creativity and collaboration to advance business development!

See you online and in Savannah!

COINS 2010 Coolhunting Academy: Skills Training to Strengthen Creativity and Collaboration

The COINs 2010 Coolhunting Academy document (above) offers background information for the upcoming Coolhunting Academy, a hands-on skills training workshop for entrepreneurs, organization, government, foundation, and economic development professionals.

The Academy offers an ideal opportunity to learn and apply new skills to "coolhunting" - the practice of seeking the most creative ideas and people - for the purpose of "coolfarming" - the practice of collaborating to help them succeed.

You will learn technical skills training and connect to new conversations with other like-minded entrepreneurs focused on advancing creativity as a driving force in regional economic development. You will discover new friends and colleagues interested too, in generating transformative projects and initiatives for enterprise development.

The October 2010 Coohunting Academy is presented prior to the COINs2010 Conference, October 7, 8, & 9, 2010. Attendance at this workshop is free for conference attendees; registration is $120 for workshop participation only. A three-month trial version of Condor is included.

Skill Set for the Ideal Condor user -- (note: if you do not have all of these skills ask your favorite Tech Geek to accompany you to work together!)

* very good computer skills, knowledge in a Web application development language (php, Javascript, perl, java), database skills (MySQL)

* and can be applied for organizational analysis, as in this case:

* sociology, psychology

* or Web mining, brand tracking, marketing, as in this case:

* marketing, branding, communication

Academy Details and Logistics --

Meet the GalaxyAdvisor Team who leads Workshops:

Kai Fischbach - Chief Scientist
Hauke Fuehres - Chief Technology Officer
Peter A. Gloor - Chief Creative Officer and Founder
Ken Riopelle - Chief Coolfarming Officer

DATE: Thursday, October 7, 2010
TIME: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
LOCATION: Arnold Hall, 1810 Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401

Take me directly to the COOLHUNTING ACADEMY REGISTRATION

The October 2010 Coohunting Academy is presented prior to the COINs2010 Conference, October 7, 8, & 9, 2010. Attendance at this workshop is free for conference attendees; registration is $120 for workshop participation only. A three-month trial version of Condor is included.

CONFERENCE FEE: Academic and Professional Rate: $180.00. Reduced Student Rate: $50.00.

COINs2010: Conversations in Collaboration Savannah, Georgia

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I-Open is a proud co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference Oct 7-9 in Savannah, Georgia, connecting research and industry leaders to advance the emerging science of collaboration.

 Register here.

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.

 Register here.

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

 Register here.

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 to become more creative! 

 Register here.

 

Super Science Initiative: New Frontiers for Collaboration

Check out this website I found at innovation.gov.au

Australia and Ireland are investing in innovation and economic development based in universities focused on space and astronomy, marine and climate, and future industries.

These two forward thinking countries understand the direct connection between innovation, education, and economic development.

Beyond this, every country and region investing funds in innovation will need to invest as well in new habits of communication and collaboration.

One approach - COINs-collaborative innovation networks - is driven by swarm creativity and accelerates the formation of entrepreneurial cultures.

You can learn more about swarm creativity and COINs in this video interview with MIT research scientist, Peter Gloor. Additional resources are available here.

Get started by registering for the COINs2010 Conference and connect to this knowledge community exploring the emerging science of collaboration.

 

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.

COINs 2010 Keynote: Jesse Dylan | Most Creative People 2010 | Fast Company

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From the article:

Jesse Dylan, Director; Founder Form; FreeForm

"You could see the eyes of the people getting liquid," says CERN experimental physicist Maria Spiropulu of the crowd for a Jesse Dylan short film. The audience? Google's Larry Page, Tesla's Elon Musk, and elite scientists in the fields of astro-particle physics, cosmology, and dark matter. The film? Six minutes on the Large Hadron Collider, the massive particle accelerator designed to replicate the big bang and address core questions of physics. "The language of the microcosm we are exploring can be described very well with mathematics," Spiropulu says. "It is very difficult to make a picture or a poem of what we do. The film captured an adventure to discover the unknown. It is haunting and it sticks with you." More...

Jess Dylan brings extraordinary creative perspectives as Collaborative Innovation Networks COINs 2010 Conference Keynote speaker Oct 7, 2010.

I-Open is conference co-sponsor and supports the value Jesse's leadership in creative digital media brings to creativity, communication, and collaboration in Open Source Economic Development.

More on Jesse's COINs 2010 Conference Keynote:

Lybba - Unleashing swarm creativity to make open-source healthcare a reality

In his opening keynote, Jesse Dylan, award winning director of the Obama campaign video "Yes we can" talks about how his nonprofit, Lybba, is helping give life to the open source healthcare movement. Lybba's mission is to connect people with the community, information, and resources they need to take care of themselves and one another.  

Lybba creates online environments, media campaigns, and social experiments that forge meaningful relationships between hospitals and schools, doctors and patients, researchers and policy-makers. It takes an ethical and ecological approach to every challenge it faces. It combines media, design, science, and technology to make a difference, free for all, free of commercial interest. 

Jesse's ultimate goal is to bring together every patient looking for answers and provide a platform so that every stakeholder in chronic and rare diseases has a voice to create a community where innovation, empowerment, and compassion flourish.

Join us! Learn and connect at:

COINs 2010 - a collaborative interactive community Web site

 

 

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/