September 2008
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09.29.08The parallels of Web 2.0 with the Open Source and Social Innovation threadsThe recent issue of the Open Source Business Review is all about Social Innovation - what appears to be a an experiment in seeing how these two memes both converge and diverge. (hat tip to Mark Surman for pointing me there). At the same time, this convergence is not unique to those fields. The quotes below from a recent post by Brad Burnham at Union Square Ventures point to some very strong parallels to the content in some of the pieces in the Open Source Business Review. The common threads among all these areas are systems level work approached with a common ...
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09.24.08Union Square Ventures and a new kind of Venture Capital firm.Yesterday's, NYTimes article on Union Square Ventures (USV) entitled "A New Kind Of Venture Capital Firm" is an interesting read and I'm glad to see the media beginning to pick up on this. I've been following USV for a whlie now and actually interviewed Brad Burnham in preparation for a session at the Open Everything Retreat on Investing in Open. They seem to have a knack for investing in webtech ventures like Twitter and Wesabe that have models that can be deeply disruptive to the systems they are taking on and where the question of how they are going to make ...
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09.18.08People, this is the front desk – It’s time to WAKE UP![caption id="" align="alignleft" width="109" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] The chaos of the financial markets is a major break in conventional structures and systems of our society. The intensity of it along side the growing crises in energy, food, and water coupled and the associated geo-political instability is really shaking things up. Oh, and mother nature is giving it's own share of kicks amounting to what I hope is one big wakeup call. So what could we wake up to? Robert Paterson has an interesting post positing that 2.0 world will emerge from the ashes of the Financial Capital World. We cannot know in any detail ...
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09.18.08A survey on the value of LinkedIn and Facebook to organizations.[caption id="attachment_147" align="alignright" width="240" caption="cc-by-nc-ca Duncan Work"][/caption] Off the cuff, I've been talking about building a 'social capital supercharger' over the past few months. It's actually something that I've been working more deeply with Duncan Work (DW), Duncan Holmes and few others. Well DW has launched a simple survey to start capturing some experiences around using LinkedIn and Facebook in organizations. Needless to say we'd be very interested in how you use them. If you're up for taking 5 minutes - you can take the survey here. We'll share the results we come up with as soon as we can. In the meantime, DW's ...
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09.17.08“Birth” and BOLD in Canada!Birth is the most human and universal experience. We, as humans, are at our most powerful and our most vulnerable. It is the most natural process and a major life moment for both baby and mother. Somehow though, in our society we have institutionalized birth and made it something impersonal. We are fortunate to have all the technology and knowledge we have that can helps us deal with things that go awry - but why is it that we start out treating pregnancy and birth as something that has 'gone awry'. This perspective is what has systemically limited and discouraged choices available ...
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09.12.08Reflecting on OpenEverything: the rereat, the movement, and the meaning.[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="192" caption="Reflections at Hollyhock"][/caption] It's been almost a week since the OpenEverything retreat and the reverberations continue. Heading into it, not having any roots in the open-source community, I was technically the biggest noob on the convening team. At the same time, what drew me into the meme and the event was a sense that something bigger was going on and that that something was rooted in a set of ideals and a drive for the practical that resonated with my core and my life experiences. On the other side of the event I'm more clear than ever that ...
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