January 2009
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01.27.09Organizational Partnership in Peer-ProductionIn taking a peer-produced approach to building the Social Venture Commons and shldlss (the for-profit offshoot), I'm seeing the power of individual contributions. Peer-production is driven by interest and passion - truly personal things, and in doing things in a peer-produced manner, financial and intellectual capital aren't as all-powerful. All this has me thinking about organizational partnerships differently and paying more attention to the fact that organizations generally have a lot of individuals working for them - the real resource that seems to make peer-production thrive. So while specific agreements around financial and intellectual capital can still be extraordinarily valuable - ...
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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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01.17.09A quick update on the Social Venture Commons (#svc)I've been head-down these last 2 weeks and we're making great progress toward first launch. For the latest action on the Social Venture Commons - feel free to track the twitter stream. The model for distributing founding equity among those that contribute is essentially set, and I've begun receiving investor commitments on both the charitable and for-profit side. Development has been greatly augmented with the code-mastery of Dan Williams. Will post some more fulsome reports next week. Thanks all for your support so far!
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01.02.09Opportunity ‘09: micro-messaging based collaboration[caption id="" align="alignright" width="182" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] My focus heading into 2009 is micro-messaging based collaboration. From where I sit I think it will have a profound effect on the way we organize resources to get things done and will mark a fundamental shift in shape of the organizations and systems of our future. Some key features of this are: Broadly accessibile: easy (web-based), distributed (available in any site), portable (sms compatible) Action oriented: every interaction is a contribution, every contribution builds relationship Interest driven: fluidly find, follow, and do things that *are* interesting at every moment I'm tackling this through two tracks: The Social Venture Commons ...
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01.01.09“The Convo” on the shift[caption id="" align="alignright" width="234" caption="photo by: Ryan Coleman"][/caption] A few weeks ago a few loosely connected people gathered for a conversation - the #convo (tweetstream). Most I hadn't met before - except through twitter - but the conversation is still with me seems to have woven into some really great places in Toronto's twittersphere like #thmvmnt #changecamp #tsTO etc. Here's a quick recap of what my memory and chicken-scratch allow and I'm hoping some more fulsome records emerge in addition to the great tweetstream and photos. The group was drawn to the idea that there is a big shift underway and a feeling ...
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