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02.02.10Into 2010Last year was a pivot for me. But while I'm entering with a new stance, my direction, my intention, remains. To that, Ryan Coleman and I crafted this: To have fun, live well, and make the world better by facilitating ambitious ventures. Like last year, my focus rests on social technologies and how they are shifting our culture, disrupting and enabling the systems of our society, and changing the way in which we came together. ChangeMedium is the charitable expression of that, Shouldless is the commercial expression, and ProjectX is the ongoing work - re-inspired by the Vartana review - to develop tools ...
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02.02.10My 2009 in reviewI was just writing an update to some great partners of mine and realized I needed to include a recap of 2009 for some context on what's next. That of course reminded me that I'd yet to post one. So here goes. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="233" caption="Into the Wild"][/caption] 2009 was a pivotal one for me - a year of transition. It was full of new adventures and an unexpected closure of an old one. 2009 started with a bunch of excitement and energy around the Social Venture Commons, VenTwits, and Thread.io. A group of us had come together and were sweating ...
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11.26.09ChangeMedium – advancing the medium of change.I've been a bit remiss in not posting this sooner. Thanks to @ryancoleman for pulling this overview together. You can of course learn more over at ChangeMedium and keep updated by joining the group. I'm enjoying the progress we're making and looking forward to sharing more and welcoming others into the fold. ChangeMedium: OverviewView more presentations from Ryan Coleman Design & Consulting | Freelance Information Designer & Facilitator.
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09.10.09It’s Go Time >> ChangeMedium TorontoIt's go time. ChangeMedium Toronto is slated for October 24th at MaRS. What is it? Read more to find out. Want a hand in it? Leave a comment below. What? ChangeMedium is an initiative to provoke public micro-messaging as a medium for change. Public micro-messaging (e.g. Twitter) is emerging as the most accessible, participatory public medium in history. Bringing the open and emergent properties of the web to the global reach of text messaging is already showing great potential for public benefit. But we’ve only begun to understand what’s happening let alone build an infrastructure to make the most of this medium. ...
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05.26.09Twitter and the emerging medium for change -> “What are you doing?”Twitter is giving rise to the most accessible, participatory public medium in history. The implications for social change, innovation, and entrepreneurship are huge but hardly explored. In the coming paragraphs I explain what I see and call out to you, to all, to help surface what's happening and understand how it can help us create the world we want. I care because we need change like never before. If that matters to you too, please read, comment, and share. Let's see where this goes. What’s going on with Twitter (now at over 32m users - up from just ...
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04.16.09The real-time web. Game on!Popularized by Twitter, the public micro-messaging medium is leading to a major evolution of the web and society. Twitter is just the beginning of this real-time internet - the simplest manifestation of this long term trend - that spells the end of communications and start of an interaction society. ~ Om Malik, What Twitter and Broadband Mean to Me. The public micro-message medium represents the potential for a 4 billion person global message board, where anyone can share their interests, ideas, and actions real-time, and where every message can be seen, referenced, and responded to by anyone directly, person to person. This ...
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03.17.09Alpha, Beta… PublicIn this world where web apps can be built, launched and iterated quickly we're seeing more and more of the perpetual beta. Even most of googles apps carry the 'beta' tag long past when my usage experience seems to be bug free. One side of me says, forget the distinction... of course it's always beta... if it's not it's not evolving. Another side, says it's about managing expectations, as in "Don't throw things at your computer (or me) if this doesn't work as you want it to." As we work onBy launching thread.io I've been pushed to figure out some ...
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02.06.09The proprietary/open balance in startup mode.Image via Wikipedia I've written some before on our efforts to peer-produce Shouldess Inc. (^shldlss), the developer of VenTwits and the for-profit cohort of the Social Venture Commons (^svc). We've decided to launch early and iterate rapidly with VenTwits and its group focused cousin GroupTwits (to be turned on soon). We're also planning to open source our code once we've rebuilt a core based on how people actually use it. I believe in the principles and power of peer-production but am finding it a constant tension as we build the for-profit startup. A big part of that I'm sure is my experiential ...
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02.02.09Getting started on VenTwitsVenTwits is about people building the things they care about. It came from seeing the potential in Twitter as a medium for discovery, connection, and practical engagement. With VenTwits we hope it can help you find new ventures you are interested, give you an opportunity to participate, and simply help things happen. To get started, simply login to VenTwits once using your Twitter user name and password. If you aren’t on twitter there is a link right there where you can sign-up quickly and easily. Once you’ve logged in for the first time, VenTwits knows to follow you and look for ...
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01.27.09Kudos for EquityOwning equity in a for-profit venture is a powerful motivator - particularly in the early stages. It's also one of the most contentious, negotiated parts of building a high-growth venture. This comes from our organizational conventions of control and scarcity - we need to control and amass resources to control and weild power and get things done. In taking a peer-produced approach to building Shldlss, the for-profit offshoot of the Social Venture Commons, I found we needed a new model to fairly attribute the economic value to those who actually created it. After many conversations, including on this post, here's where ...
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