Betsey Merkel

Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com Process Designer, Network Strategist & Social Media Knowledge Curator posterous.com Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0800 REPORT: The I-Open Civic Wisdom Libraries 2010-2011 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/ksAtDOFN6i0/knowledge-sharing-builds-connectivity-convers http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/knowledge-sharing-builds-connectivity-convers <p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">The I-Open Civic Wisdom Library is a public resource containing over 10,000 minutes of video interviews and broadcast civic forum conversations, photojournalistic albums, and document libraries focused on innovation and entrepreneurial solutions in Open Source Economic Development, a network approach to technology driven enterprise development. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Read more about the library and the valuable information sharing service it provides to entrepreneurs and leaders of organizations, government and business everywhere!<br /></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/I-Open/d/77494930-NEWS-I-Open-Media-Libraries-2010-2011" title="View NEWS I-Open Media Libraries 2010-2011 on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">NEWS I-Open Media Libraries 2010-2011</a><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/77494930/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-1rfiu4yev86rtdl28zoi" frameborder="0" height="600" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Support the I-Open library! Send your tax-deductible contribution marked “I-Open Civic Wisdom Library” payable to: The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), 2563 Kingston Road, Cleveland, OH 44118 USA. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Send your questions and comments to <a href="mailto:info@i-open.org">info@i-open.org</a> - we’d like to hear from you! </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you!<br /></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/knowledge-sharing-builds-connectivity-convers">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/knowledge-sharing-builds-connectivity-convers#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/ksAtDOFN6i0" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/knowledge-sharing-builds-connectivity-convers Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:00 -0800 How To Connect Creativity to Education, Economic and Workforce Development http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/kjZFvVRRrMY/contextual-transmedia-communications-build-co http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/contextual-transmedia-communications-build-co <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-01-30/vfbvsuBHtrGdzGIhznnpIfydBtiFjiotgAtJJIexEzczqFjpoeaqIDEhqjCg/COINs2010_CTC.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Coins2010_ctc" height="527" src="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-01-30/vfbvsuBHtrGdzGIhznnpIfydBtiFjiotgAtJJIexEzczqFjpoeaqIDEhqjCg/COINs2010_CTC.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">The slide presentation, "Contextual Transmedia Communications" was prepared and presented by Betsey Merkel, Co-Founder & Director, I-Open, at the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">COINs 2010 Conference </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Oct 9, 2010 at the Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA USA. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Contextual transmedia communications report on community insights and innovations from a strategic value-based perspective. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Collecting and curating social media knowledge connects creativity to education, economic, and workforce development.<br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">The slide presentation includes references to community engagement and management; knowledge management and information architecture; value-based communications, publishing & content marketing; and social media strategy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">This post contains the extended 2012 version.</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/I-Open/d/79717659-COINs-2010-Contextual-Transmedia-Communications-w-2012-Updates" title="View COINs 2010 Contextual Transmedia Communications (w/ 2012 Updates) on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">COINs 2010 Contextual Transmedia Communications (w/ 2012 Updates)</a><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/79717659/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-1ceq1av4387hr90a07z8" frameborder="0" height="600" width="100%"></iframe></p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/contextual-transmedia-communications-build-co">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/contextual-transmedia-communications-build-co#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/kjZFvVRRrMY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/contextual-transmedia-communications-build-co Sun, 07 Aug 2011 05:00:00 -0700 Social Media Libraries for Social Business Development http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/W64CllJyChM/research-social-business-intelligence http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/research-social-business-intelligence <p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-08-07/psrpslsiqrGyyplDkCllikFjjttBfIcvhIbpsvrsFEbweGGtGBexHFgrkBia/Green_Screen.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Green_screen" height="375" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-08-07/psrpslsiqrGyyplDkCllikFjjttBfIcvhIbpsvrsFEbweGGtGBexHFgrkBia/Green_Screen.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <span style="color: #808080; font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">Green Screen: </span></em></span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">Librarian/Technologist <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/9340158">Matt Theobald </a></span></em></span><span style="color: #808080; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/9340158"><em><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></em></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #808080; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Image © Betsey Merkel<br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Social media knowledge archives aid in the development of social business.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Interviews and conversations inform strategic thinking in business communities to build stronger, more resilient social networks.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I've listed several methods below to help you understand how to publish community intelligence to strengthen creativity, engagement, and collaboration.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial;"><strong>#1) The I-Open Civic Wisdom library</strong> is a digital archive of entrepreneurial interviews and conversations. The library has approximately 10,000 minutes of trans-industry knowledge, discovery and innovation. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: large;"> <object height="250" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="300"> <param name="movie" value="http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSLibrary.swf?channel=iopen&browseMode=false" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <embed src="http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSLibrary.swf?channel=iopen&browseMode=false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="250" width="300"></embed> </object> </span></p> <div style="font-size: 11px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.livestream.com/iopen?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Watch iopen">iopen</a> on livestream.com. <a href="http://www.livestream.com/?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Broadcast Live Free">Broadcast Live Free</a> </span></div> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial;"><strong>#2) Interviews</strong> help us listen and learn from one another more effectively. Interviews explore the tacit knowledge residing in each of us, describe unperceived industry networks, and identify emergent innovation opportunities.  <br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/34191594/I-Open-Interview-Questions" title="View I-Open Interview Questions on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">I-Open Interview Questions</a> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="600" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=34191594&access_key=key-1bp6ylrhmcp4v8ewgmoz&page=1&viewMode=list" /> <embed src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=34191594&access_key=key-1bp6ylrhmcp4v8ewgmoz&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" height="600" width="500"></embed> </object> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial;"><strong>#3) The I-Open Broadcast Inventory</strong> (below) lists archive files with brief descriptions about each interview or conversation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/34185342/I-Open-Broadcast-Inventory" title="View I-Open Broadcast Inventory on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">I-Open Broadcast Inventory</a> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="600" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=34185342&access_key=key-6wbsddwhvxlq2lqifcs&page=1&viewMode=list" /> <embed src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=34185342&access_key=key-6wbsddwhvxlq2lqifcs&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" height="600" width="500"></embed> </object> </span></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>#4) Transcription collections</strong> of interviews and conversations </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">of business leaders are a resource to organization, government, and foundation decision making in fast-changing markets. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial;">I</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">'ve published a transcription library at </span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/document_collections/2338812"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I-Open on Scribd.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> One conversation, </span></span><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial;">The Changing Landscape of Public Advocacy: Citizen-Community Priorities and Web 2.0 is a rich source of business insights. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/34667804/Midtown-Brews-10-02-08-The-Changing-Landscape-of-Public-Advocacy-Citizen-Community-Priorities-and-Web-2-0-Transcript" title="View Midtown Brews 10-02-08 " style="margin: 12px auto 6px; font: 14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Midtown Brews 10-02-08 "The Changing Landscape of Public Advocacy: Citizen-Community Priorities and Web 2.0...</a> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="600" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=34667804&access_key=key-2he66rf1yesbk325bb64&page=1&viewMode=list" /> <embed src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=34667804&access_key=key-2he66rf1yesbk325bb64&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" height="600" width="500"></embed>  </object> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial;">Open, guided conversations can locate where public investment may be best suited, where emerging industry opportunities reside, and often identify people willing to work together on project solutions.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial;">Interviews, conversations, transcriptions, and inventories are all methods of organizing community intelligence and improving knowledge sharing to generate efficient communications to support social business.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/research-social-business-intelligence">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/research-social-business-intelligence#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/W64CllJyChM" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/research-social-business-intelligence Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:40:00 -0700 How To Build Research-Industry Networks To Advance Business Development http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/3GGngRffvg4/how-to-build-research-industry-networks-to-ad http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-build-research-industry-networks-to-ad <p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-21/hxavoEapCemwEvqsjqDilEtmzhpslvEsjCswsbFyvEDoahgfGyhanlpwBBDo/COINs_Convo.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Coins_convo" height="375" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-21/hxavoEapCemwEvqsjqDilEtmzhpslvEsjCswsbFyvEDoahgfGyhanlpwBBDo/COINs_Convo.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">COINs 2010 Opening Conversation</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Image © Alice Merkel </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/5063495699/"><span style="font-family: Arial;">on Flickr</span></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">How To Build Research-Industry Networks with Conversations, Communications, and Collaboration </span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Written by Betsey Merkel<br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">Research-industry networks develop knowledge in research and business for collaboration and capacity building. The COINs 2010 Conference is an example of how to build this type of strategic engagement for competitive network advantage, or business development.<br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">As a co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference, I-Open worked in collaboration with the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, and Wayne State University College of Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, in Savannah, GA USA.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">This second international and highly interactive program presented training, workshops, paper presentations, and keynote conversations of research and industry leaders focused on aspects of the emerging Science of Collaboration.  </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As a result of the committee's support, we were able to dedicate a six-month pre-conference period to share specialized communications and develop on-line </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">community. </span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><strong>Broadcast Conversations</strong></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I-Open introduced the concept of broadcast interviews and conference conversations to the COINs steering committee to strengthen programming and develop conference experience. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">We chose Livestream as our provider, having worked the toolset to broadcast Northeast Ohio conversations since 2006. Livestream offers a sophisticated  library widget (shown below) which is easily copied to blogs and websites.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Within less than 30 days of uploading content to the COINs Conference channel, archive broadcast programming had attracted nearly 100,000 viewer minutes.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">Technology tools, like the Livestream widget, enable sharing knowledge at levels appropriate to the development of networked collaborative communities.<br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> <object height="250" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="300"> <param name="movie" value="http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSLibrary.swf?channel=coinsconference&browseMode=false" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <embed src="http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSLibrary.swf?channel=coinsconference&browseMode=false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="250" width="300"></embed> </object> </span></p> <div style="font-size: 11px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> <a href="http://www.livestream.com/coinsconference?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Watch coinsconference">coinsconference</a> on livestream.com. <a href="http://www.livestream.com/?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Broadcast Live Free">Broadcast Live Free</a> </span></div> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> </span></p> <p /> <p /> <p /> <div><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> What the Livestream Channel looks like when embedded:<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span> </span></div> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://cdn.livestream.com/embed/coinsconference?layout=4&autoplay=false" frameborder="0" height="340" width="500"></iframe></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> </span></p> <div style="font-size: 11px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.livestream.com/coinsconference?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Watch coinsconference">coinsconference</a> on livestream.com. <a href="http://www.livestream.com/?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Broadcast Live Free">Broadcast Live Free</a></span></div> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><strong>Communications<br /></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Frameworks are a good first step to organize strategic communications in environments that are otherwise information complex. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Frameworks establish community values, roles and relationships. They serve as a high-level perspective on categories of investment, and offer starting points to community engagement. <br /></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Swarm Creativity Framework was designed to loosely guide the organization of knowledge shared by the COINs 2010 conference community in support of the emerging Science of Collaboration. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Swarm Creativity Framework is a heuristic model of investment </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">based on categories of knowledge  important to strengthen the discipline, Swarm Creativity.  Categories are associated here f</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">or the purpose of generating creative economies, of which collaboration is an integral capacity. <br /></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Framework is featured in the COINs 2010 Conference Instructions document below and</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> is a transfer of the Innovation Framework, a successful model of investment in Open Source Economic Development.  </span></span><span style="margin: 12px auto 6px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/39636518/COINs-2010-Conference-Instructions" title="View COINs 2010 Conference Instructions on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">COINs 2010 Conference Instructions</a><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/39636518/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-1jeoir2swhcpljdukren" frameborder="0" height="600" width="100%"></iframe> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;">In addition to what we share, how we share information is important. <span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">Contextual transmedia communications distributes information across dedicated social media infrastructure. Each platform has it's own thematic community, interests and preferred multimedia.<br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">The publishing process used to engage with the tools, leverages values-based storytelling. This influences strategic thinking and social behavoirs of the 'meta' community. </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">The map shown below visualizes how information was shared to attract and connect COINs 2010 online community.<br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><strong>Collaboration</strong></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Collaborative workspaces develop community by sharing communications, connecting resources, increasing transparency, and organizing project work. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Workspaces sustain and amplify conversations between meet ups so project development can continue.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The <span style="text-decoration: none;">Swarm Creativity</span> workspace sponsored by <span style="text-decoration: none;">I-Open</span> for conference collaborators, is shown below</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-21/obBdkACyqzgHxrqhhJcgDxhgmgBGIJCEEFAtJnmpoyFeHsioFoqwycFrnmbF/SwarmCreativityScreenshot.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Swarmcreativityscreenshot" height="318" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-21/obBdkACyqzgHxrqhhJcgDxhgmgBGIJCEEFAtJnmpoyFeHsioFoqwycFrnmbF/SwarmCreativityScreenshot.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>In Summary</strong></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">The development of research-industry networks is paramount to engage locally based, globally connected economies for competitive regional advantage. </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">Further, investment in the strategic orchestration and management of dedicated process to support creative approaches to knowledge sharing is critical. This, coupled with data management, content marketing, and continuous technology innovation cultivate collective intelligence.<br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">The COINs 2010 Conference offers a tested, comprehensive and sophisticated example of how research-industry conversations, communications and collaboration access the innovation capacity of community.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Working this way, universities and colleges can act in partnership with business and government, each occupying a unique leadership position within a larger, collaborative initiative.<br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">My highest praise goes to the COINs Steering Committee, academic leaders from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Collective Intelligence, Savannah College of Art & Design, and Wayne State University's College of Engineering, who despite unknown outcomes, supported and adopted these creative ideas early in conference planning.<br /></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-build-research-industry-networks-to-ad">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-build-research-industry-networks-to-ad#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/3GGngRffvg4" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-build-research-industry-networks-to-ad Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:31:00 -0700 How to Create Your Social Media Knowledge Portrait http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/NcoGzb10zAk/how-to-create-a-social-media-knowledge-portra http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-create-a-social-media-knowledge-portra <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-08/zdhEqkEekHlwjEknJmbywhgdDmjCbvdyIDHcjnlHGnmoFlIAJjDxnaiFcFwb/Window_Glass.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Window_glass" height="667" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-08/zdhEqkEekHlwjEknJmbywhgdDmjCbvdyIDHcjnlHGnmoFlIAJjDxnaiFcFwb/Window_Glass.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <span style="font-size: large; color: #333333;"><em>Window Glass</em><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: large; color: #333333;">Images © <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/" rel="nofollow">Alice Merkel on Flickr</a></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Social business requires an integration of all we know to advance our conversations and meaningfully connect to both traditional and non-traditional employment opportunities. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The creation of a social media knowledge portrait begins by recognizing all aspects of value: traditional work experiences, skills training, formal education, human passion, and emerging interests.</span><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">A social media knowledge portrait is a method of organizing human knowledge and intelligence to:</span> <span style="font-size: large; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"> </span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: large; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Generate a unique entrepreneurial knowledge base;</span></span> </li> <li><span style="font-size: large; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Increase serendipity and connect to unforeseen opportunities;</span></span> </li> <li><span style="font-size: large; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Diversify strategic pathways for sharing and collaboration;</span></span> </li> <li><span style="font-size: large; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Inventory knowledge, expertise, skills and interest; and</span></span> </li> <li><span style="font-size: large; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Connect knowledge investments to education, economic and workforce development.</span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: large; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The paper below begins to outline how you can connect what you know to project opportunities in complex environments.</span></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/59573601/How-to-Create-a-Social-Media-Knowledge-Portrait" title="View How to Create a Social Media Knowledge Portrait on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">How to Create a Social Media Knowledge Portrait</a><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/59573601/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-1qdebz81d8pjzeai3it8" frameborder="0" height="600" width="100%"></iframe></p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-create-a-social-media-knowledge-portra">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-create-a-social-media-knowledge-portra#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/NcoGzb10zAk" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-create-a-social-media-knowledge-portra Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:30:00 -0700 New Product Development Cycle http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/qiNkjlEE7yQ/new-product-development-cycle http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/new-product-development-cycle <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_file_embed'> <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/new-product-development-cycle"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/pdf.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'> <strong>New_Product_Development_Cycle.pdf</strong> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-07/FItJpImixDdyeEdfrvjHqHCiizazkbxCEDnDfjyebzrmmfifEmnHkiHiBFEu/New_Product_Development_Cycle.pdf">Download this file</a> </div> </div> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/new-product-development-cycle">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/new-product-development-cycle#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/qiNkjlEE7yQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/new-product-development-cycle Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:27:00 -0700 Meaning Matrix http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/4PwVsiLC2UA/meaning-matrix http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/meaning-matrix <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-07/jCADBerpFgHEdDiGjgmFahrvaJekhHGqDrorilhIywvbszvaCuevjfirsihf/Meaning_Matrix_Ex..jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Meaning_matrix_ex" height="654" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-07/jCADBerpFgHEdDiGjgmFahrvaJekhHGqDrorilhIywvbszvaCuevjfirsihf/Meaning_Matrix_Ex..jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Because of the vastness of the Web, it’s important to organize what we know to empower both entrepreneurs and audiences to go beyond random information sharing. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Every entrepreneur is essentially a unique knowledge database. Sharing knowledge in face-to-face and online conversations engages authentic audiences and over time, entrepreneurs begin to fully understand their value and relevance to social business. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Each “intersection” provides a new knowledge area for conversation, article topics, presentations, and potential customer service innovation.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">By designing customized content, an entrepreneur can expand social relevance, target strategic resources and capabilities, and generate a breadth of connectivity to catalyze social business opportunities.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The Meaning Matrix is a first step to customize what you know by putting valuable experiences to work, and continuing to leverage educated knowledge and skills training in new ways.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> </span></p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/meaning-matrix">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/meaning-matrix#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/4PwVsiLC2UA" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/meaning-matrix Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:23:00 -0700 Expanding Skills http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/33eKE-0W4yc/expanding-skills http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/expanding-skills <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-07/ilcmAHyvEGmjHHGmmdmooBmFyHylHayuexbkdifdcuEkkGyoseFgHdcCwBIF/Expanding_Skills.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Expanding_skills" height="393" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-07/ilcmAHyvEGmjHHGmmdmooBmFyHylHayuexbkdifdcuEkkGyoseFgHdcCwBIF/Expanding_Skills.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Social business requires an integration of all we know to advance our conversations and meaningfully connect to both traditional and non-traditional employment opportunities. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The creation of a social media knowledge portrait begins by recognizing traditional work experiences, skills training, formal education, human passion, and emerging interests. Hobbies once unrelated, now become employable attributes.</span></p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/expanding-skills">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/expanding-skills#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/33eKE-0W4yc" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/expanding-skills Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:19:00 -0700 Categories of Commitment http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/yDRkzY41yDU/categories-of-commitment http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/categories-of-commitment <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-07/awxdhxgFEbpjIqaohbHwEwrsFjtEzpmumauDuAjinGyvlleexvFyBFalAlGg/Categories_of_Commitment.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Categories_of_commitment" height="635" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-07-07/awxdhxgFEbpjIqaohbHwEwrsFjtEzpmumauDuAjinGyvlleexvFyBFalAlGg/Categories_of_Commitment.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Traditional workforce development actualized one career, one talent, or one skill. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">But in today’s dynamic workplace, entrepreneurs must hone a diverse skill set, continuously cultivate complex connectivity, and adopt social behaviors focused on giving, attribution and reciprocity. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The Categories of Commitment Map (above) offers a fuller, more appreciative range of talents to attract like-minded entrepreneurs, broaden connectivity to resources and capabilities, and widen possible starting points for conversations focused on collaboration.</span></p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/categories-of-commitment">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/categories-of-commitment#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/yDRkzY41yDU" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/categories-of-commitment Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:47:00 -0700 A Guide for Entrepreneurs Engaging in Social Business 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width="500"></embed> <p /> <div class="posterous_quote_citation"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">via <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/56028326/A-Guide-for-Entrepreneurs-Engaging-in-Social-Business">scribd.com</a> </span></div> <p /> <div class="posterous_quote_citation"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><em>“Economic Development is in everything today.”</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> </span></span></div> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">– Tom McCarthy, teacher, lawyer, Economic Development professional, and technology entrepreneur. New York, USA.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Social business requires an integration of all we know to advance our conversations and meaningfully connect to both traditional and non-traditional employment opportunities.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The creation of a social media knowledge portrait combines traditional work experiences, skills training, formal education, human passion and interest. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Contextual Transmedia Communication is a method of organizing human knowledge and intelligence in Open Source Economic Development to,</span></p> </div> <div> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">Build social business value by empowering others;</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">Connect investments to education, economic and workforce development;  </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">Construct strategic pathways for sharing and collaboration;  </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">Generate a unique knowledge base; and, </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">Inventory knowledge, expertise, skills and interest. </span></li> </ul> <ul> </ul> </div> <ul> </ul> <ul> </ul> <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> CTC is an appreciative process of integrating the creative passion and technical skills of an entrepreneur to curate knowledge for publishing. </span> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This document also includes a Meaning Matrix, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">the first step to customize what you know, put valuable experiences to work, and leverage education and skills training to </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">power integral knowledge for innovation.<br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Learn the wisdom of civic leaders across these I-Open communities:</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Facebook I-Open <a href="http://tiny.cc/odlg2">http://tiny.cc/odlg2</a></span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Flickr <a href="http://tiny.cc/73y6e">http://tiny.cc/73y6e</a></span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Friendfeed <a href="http://friendfeed.com/iopen">http://friendfeed.com/iopen</a></span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Livestream <a href="http://www.livestream.com/iopen/">http://www.livestream.com/iopen/</a></span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Posterous <a href="http://i-open.posterous.com/">http://i-open.posterous.com/</a></span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Scribd <a href="http://www.scribd.com/I-Open">http://www.scribd.com/I-Open</a></span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Slideshare <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2">http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2</a></span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/iopen2">http://twitter.com/iopen2</a></span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Vimeo <a href="http://tiny.cc/106p0">http://tiny.cc/106p0</a></span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">You Tube <a href="http://tiny.cc/j5rse">http://tiny.cc/j5rse</a></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Copyright 2011 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. 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: <a href="http://i-open.posterous.com/">http://i-open.posterous.com/</a></span><span style="font-family: Times;"> <br /></span></span></p> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/a-guide-for-entrepreneurs-engaging-in-social-47948">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/a-guide-for-entrepreneurs-engaging-in-social-47948#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/3vUg5JG2MIw" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/a-guide-for-entrepreneurs-engaging-in-social-47948 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:20:00 -0700 How To Share Your I-Open Interview http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/IMPjekazoto/how-to-share-your-interview http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-share-your-interview <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="555" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=35007479&access_key=key-h95l2ibpi4ojyqinoql&page=1&viewMode=list" /> <embed src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=35007479&access_key=key-h95l2ibpi4ojyqinoql&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" height="555" width="500"></embed> </object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/35007479/How-to-Share-Your-Interview-Information">scribd.com</a></div> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">I-Open interviews gather information through the lens of the Innovation Framework, a heuristic map for thinking and doing in Open Source Economic Development.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">This document offers starting points to share your interview information with your networks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">You can learn more about industry innovation by listening to <a href="http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net/wiki/show/Interviews%20and%20Conversations">I-Open interviews and conversations</a> and reading <a href="http://www.scribd.com/document_collections/2338812">transcriptions on Scribd.</a></span></p> </div> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Copyright 2011 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Betsey Merkel.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-share-your-interview">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-share-your-interview#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/IMPjekazoto" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/how-to-share-your-interview Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:06:00 -0700 COINs 2010 Conference Instructions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/xuvugG7qH98/coins-2010-conference-instructions http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/coins-2010-conference-instructions <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="555" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=38543815&access_key=key-2aijkyvvumdn7uwnw2n6&page=1&viewMode=list" /> <embed src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=38543815&access_key=key-2aijkyvvumdn7uwnw2n6&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" height="555" width="500"></embed> </object> </span> <div class="posterous_quote_citation"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">via <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/38543815/COINs-2010-Conference-Instructions">scribd.com</a></span></div> <p /> <p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">COINs 2010 Conference Instructions </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Translations available at: </span><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://tiny.cc/ljhqt"><span style="font-family: Arial;">http://tiny.cc/ljhqt </span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The Swarm Creativity Framework is a guide to help entrepreneurs, scientists and business leaders successfully navigate a shift in mindset from scarcity to abundance. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Swarm creativity is a discipline driven by the laws of natural systems, and is designed to catalyze individual creativity, communication and collaboration, ultimately leading to flourishing cultures of innovation. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Swarm Creativity powered the COINs 2010 community and with it the Science of Collaboration. Researchers and industry leaders shared insights and innovations in health care, design, the creative industries, engineering and technology. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">I-Open interviews and conversations support community collective intelligence to solve the social, economic and environmental challenges of the world.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p> <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial;">  </span></div> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/coins-2010-conference-instructions">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/coins-2010-conference-instructions#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/xuvugG7qH98" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/coins-2010-conference-instructions Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:53:00 -0700 Blogger George Nemeth on Open Conversations http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/XIfSAnavq-w/blogger-george-nemeth-on-open-conversations http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/blogger-george-nemeth-on-open-conversations <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-18/obckbHJvbGHqIrBbhFmmzygAbDhHoGoCFCjjEroocBipGixatujuJuzdBEpk/Painted.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Painted" height="667" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-18/obckbHJvbGHqIrBbhFmmzygAbDhHoGoCFCjjEroocBipGixatujuJuzdBEpk/Painted.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/2675210406/"><span style="color: #333333;"><em>Painted</em></span></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;">Image © Alice Merkel <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/">on Flickr</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><strong>A Summary Guide to Open Conversations</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #333333;">Guided, open conversations build trust and offer starting points for entrepreneurs and large organizations to identify local creativity for collaboration and capacity building.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">How </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #333333;">conversations bring value to local economies </span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">are summarized below from an interview </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">George Nemeth, </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Founder and Chief Blogging Officer, <a href="http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/"><em>Brewed Fresh Daily</em></a></span></em></span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> contributed to The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">January 2008, in Collinwood, Ohio. George is </span></em><span style="font-family: Arial;">known for his natural talent to engage people in public discussion and dialogue. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><em> </em><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Q: What are Open Conversations? What is the value of Open Conversations?</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Open conversations means an intention to be inclusive – not necessarily "open to the public" – but with people who want to participate.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Contributors need to adhere to certain behaviors (not a free-for-all – if you choose to become a part of the conversation you need to behave in certain ways) and not intentionally steer the conversation toward your own agenda.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Contributors need to use a method of inquiry that is appreciative.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">There needs to be a shared open mindedness and a sense to be inclusive.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The value of openness is that it has to do with being participatory – they are here to engage with us and we are here to engage with them, too.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">People we have are dynamic and we need to be as energetic.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">What you give, you will learn, you have more of a deeper understanding (a more complex understanding – as information comes up, questions get asked) this is much more of an integrated approach to learning.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">A person needs to offer what they know – allowing the conversation to expand to the level of a quantum dialogue – an extended learning that goes beyond just giving explanations, which are fine upto a certain point, but beyond that it is the experiential and on-site aspects that are important for this kind of learning.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The other people who are there have interests in common.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">These are the basic parameters we agree around and this is the value.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The intersection between creative industries, technology, and energy appeals to a variety of backgrounds. This is only one perspective. I try to play up the diversity aspect.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">There is value in urban areas and their inherent diversity.</span></li> <li style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Midtown Brews Open Conversations are a powerful way to engage a community-minded chain of businesses.</span></li> </ul> <p><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://cdn.livestream.com/embed/midtownbrews?layout=4&clip=flv_dfbb5e23-ad9d-4729-8230-63e202c5df11&autoplay=false" frameborder="0" height="340" width="560"></iframe></p> <div style="font-size: 11px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: center;">Watch <a href="http://www.livestream.com/?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="live streaming video">live streaming video</a> from <a href="http://www.livestream.com/midtownbrews?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Watch midtownbrews at livestream.com">midtownbrews</a> at livestream.com</div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">You can learn more about George at <a href="http://georgenemeth.com/"><em>GeorgeNemeth.com</em></a>, connect on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgenemeth"><em>LinkedIn,</em></a> and follow George on <a href="http://twitter.com/georgenemeth">Twitter</a>.<br /></span></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #333333;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">A Summary Guide to Open Conversations</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;"> is available for <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/38265264/Summary-Guide-to-Convening-Open-Conversations">download</a> at I-Open on Scribd.<br /></span></em></span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Learn the wisdom of civic leaders across these I-Open communities:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Facebook I-Open <a href="http://tiny.cc/odlg2">http://tiny.cc/odlg2</a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Flickr <a href="http://tiny.cc/73y6e">http://tiny.cc/73y6e</a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Friendfeed <a href="http://friendfeed.com/iopen">http://friendfeed.com/iopen</a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Livestream <a href="http://www.livestream.com/iopen/">http://www.livestream.com/iopen/</a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Posterous <a href="http://i-open.posterous.com/">http://i-open.posterous.com/</a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Scribd <a href="http://www.scribd.com/I-Open">http://www.scribd.com/I-Open</a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Slideshare <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2">http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2</a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/iopen2">http://twitter.com/iopen2</a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Vimeo <a href="http://tiny.cc/106p0">http://tiny.cc/106p0</a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">You Tube <a href="http://tiny.cc/j5rse">http://tiny.cc/j5rse</a></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Copyright 2011 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Betsey Merkel.<a href="http://i-open.posterous.com/"></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"> <br /></span></span></p> <ul> </ul> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/blogger-george-nemeth-on-open-conversations">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/blogger-george-nemeth-on-open-conversations#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/XIfSAnavq-w" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/blogger-george-nemeth-on-open-conversations Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:49:00 -0700 A Summary Guide to Convening Open Conversations http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/2_X51p_GAyE/a-summary-guide-to-convening-open-conversatio http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/a-summary-guide-to-convening-open-conversatio <p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Conversations bring new value to strengthen local economies. Guided, open conversations build trust and offer starting points for entrepreneurs and large organizations to identify local creativity for collaboration and capacity building.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">How conversations bring value to local economies are summarized in the document below from an interview George Nemeth, <em><span style="font-style: normal;">Founder and Chief Blogging Officer, <a href="http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/"><em>Brewed Fresh Daily</em></a></span></em> contributed to The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) <em><span style="font-style: normal;">January 2008, in Collinwood, Ohio. </span></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">George is </span></em>known for his natural talent to engage people in public discussion and dialogue. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/38265264/Summary-Guide-to-Convening-Open-Conversations" title="View Summary Guide to Convening Open Conversations on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Summary Guide to Convening Open Conversations</a> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="600" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=38265264&access_key=key-2x9468ozs1o49ltjf7m&page=1&viewMode=list" /> <embed src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=38265264&access_key=key-2x9468ozs1o49ltjf7m&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" height="600" width="500"></embed> </object> </span></p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/a-summary-guide-to-convening-open-conversatio">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/a-summary-guide-to-convening-open-conversatio#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/2_X51p_GAyE" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/a-summary-guide-to-convening-open-conversatio Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:34:00 -0700 Conversation Matrix http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/Qyqn9aVVztw/conversation-matrix http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/conversation-matrix <p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-18/gewGJxauIvvGafxIqBliJCdagwqJBzurorBtIgluAqBCexfwIqpnwuCJyIce/Open_Ceiling.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Open_ceiling" height="667" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-18/gewGJxauIvvGafxIqBliJCdagwqJBzurorBtIgluAqBCexfwIqpnwuCJyIce/Open_Ceiling.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><em><span style="font-family: arial;">"Open Ceiling"  </span></em></span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><em>Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/">Alice Merkel</a></em></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The Midtown Wednesdays Conversation Matrix was built for Midtown Wednesdays, an I-Open Civic Forum convened by Chancellor University (formerly Myers University) in Cleveland, Ohio. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The matrix (screenshot below) is a tool to loosely organize conversations at a shared level of inquiry from several perspectives. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Midtown Wednesday forums sought to examine three questions:</span></p> <p style=""><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">   </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">What is our innovation opportunity?</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <p style=""><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">   </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">What is our creative industry opportunity? and, </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <p style=""><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">   </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">What is our global opportunity? </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Further framing of conversations via the categories of the Innovation Framework - a heuristic model for innovation investment in Open Source Economic Development - helps coordinators, communicators, and conveners guide community learning.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Matrices provide an under gird for conversations in their generation of social networks, collaborative economic development projects, and new business development.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">You can learn more about Midtown Wednesdays, a public-private partnership to strengthen economic development in Cleveland, hosted by Chancellor University, the City of Cleveland's Department of Economic Development, National City Bank, and I-Open in 2006 at </span><a href="http://i-open.posterous.com/pages/projects"><span style="font-family: Times; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I-Open's Civic Projects.</span></span></a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/44486909/Midtown-Wednesdays-Conversation-Matrix" title="View Midtown Wednesdays Conversation Matrix on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Midtown Wednesdays Conversation Matrix</a><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/44486909/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-1c4trewdwz3mylli6tfn" frameborder="0" height="600" width="100%"></iframe></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Times; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/44486909/Midtown-Wednesdays-Conversation-Matrix"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/conversation-matrix">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/conversation-matrix#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/Qyqn9aVVztw" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/conversation-matrix Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:25:00 -0700 The Innovation Framework in Open Source Economic Development http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/KyGT0-npY9Y/the-innovation-framework-in-open-source-econo http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/the-innovation-framework-in-open-source-econo <p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-18/CDCjqBzeixnzaHcrojcJkAdsaqtykJxmvJxfcbdFJxopyfBDtqsqxxeeIlDn/Shaded_Grass.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Shaded_grass" height="667" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-18/CDCjqBzeixnzaHcrojcJkAdsaqtykJxmvJxfcbdFJxopyfBDtqsqxxeeIlDn/Shaded_Grass.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/2643121803/"><em><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Shaded Grass</span></em></a><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Image © Alice Merkel </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">on Flickr</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/"> </a>  </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><strong>The Innovation Framework</strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> is a guide for entrepreneurs, scientists and business leaders to successfully navigate a shift in mindset from scarcity to abundance in Open Source Economic Development. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Collaborative leadership is a discipline driven by the laws of natural systems, and is designed to catalyze individual creativity, communication and collaboration, ultimately leading to flourishing cultures of innovation.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">I-Open conversations share insights and innovations in health care, energy, land, food, water, and technology. Leaders in the Civic Space generate a collective intelligence to solve the social, economic and environmental challenges of the world with transformative enterprises.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">View or download the<strong> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iopen/5580555510/sizes/l/in/set-72157624482024386/">full screen view of the Innovation Framework on Flickr.</a></strong><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/52095929/The-Innovation-Framework-in-OSED" title="View The Innovation Framework in OSED on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">The Innovation Framework in OSED</a><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/52095929/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-2gv2dh4596fyhlypevnu" frameborder="0" height="600" width="100%"></iframe></span></p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/the-innovation-framework-in-open-source-econo">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/the-innovation-framework-in-open-source-econo#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/KyGT0-npY9Y" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/the-innovation-framework-in-open-source-econo Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:53:00 -0700 Lexicon for Open Source Economic Development http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/Pob12AqhQ20/lexicon-for-open-source-economic-development http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/lexicon-for-open-source-economic-development <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-18/GHmyFwJHmFdxegvEveqlwyCdFBGFeBhgGkdHyeutbtjEudbnusEEirxAbijg/Hot_Sauce_Variety.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Hot_sauce_variety" height="667" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-18/GHmyFwJHmFdxegvEveqlwyCdFBGFeBhgGkdHyeutbtjEudbnusEEirxAbijg/Hot_Sauce_Variety.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/5102862258/"><em><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Hot Sauce Variety</span></em></a><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Image © Alice Merkel </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">on Flickr</span></span></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The I-Open Lexicon offers a starting point for new conversations in Open Source Economic Development. </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Terms articulate concepts, expressions and words commonly used in building networks and collaborative communities. Other terms communicate evolving methodologies.<br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Add your suggestions and comments to generate version 3.0 below.<br /></span></span></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/34192908/I-Open-Lexicon" title="View I-Open Lexicon on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">I-Open Lexicon</a><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/34192908/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-2k5406lbj6c4fwopjyes" frameborder="0" height="600" width="100%"></iframe></p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/lexicon-for-open-source-economic-development">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/lexicon-for-open-source-economic-development#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/Pob12AqhQ20" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/lexicon-for-open-source-economic-development Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:33:00 -0700 Civic Forums Accelerate Innovation in Education, Economic and Workforce Development http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/7vQS2NfParM/civic-forums-accelerate-innovation-in-educati http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/civic-forums-accelerate-innovation-in-educati <p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/25397438/Civic-Forums-Accelerate-Innovation-in-Education-Economic-and-Workforce-Development" title="View Civic Forums Accelerate Innovation in Education, Economic and Workforce Development on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Civic Forums Accelerate Innovation in Education, Economic and Workforce Development</a> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="600" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=25397438&access_key=key-205jv76kfn6r7vapmusb&page=1&viewMode=list" /> <embed src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=25397438&access_key=key-205jv76kfn6r7vapmusb&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" height="600" width="500"></embed> </object> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/civic-forums-accelerate-innovation-in-educati">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/civic-forums-accelerate-innovation-in-educati#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/7vQS2NfParM" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/civic-forums-accelerate-innovation-in-educati Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:26:00 -0700 Source Code: Civic Wisdom Knowledge Wheel http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/1ebrvC0b1zQ/source-code-civic-wisdom-knowledge-wheel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/source-code-civic-wisdom-knowledge-wheel <p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-17/HGEyiImDbaghegcJAHfDuzdEBrwpkByDpvvwxjdntzHmoslfFjFyyfplHCcw/Design_Reflection.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Design_reflection" height="667" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-17/HGEyiImDbaghegcJAHfDuzdEBrwpkByDpvvwxjdntzHmoslfFjFyyfplHCcw/Design_Reflection.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/5058873646/"><em><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Design Reflection</span></em></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Image © Alice Merkel </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_merkels_photos/"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">on Flickr</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The Knowledge Wheel maps the organization and progressive dissemination of human knowledge in the Civic Space in Open Source Economic Development. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The Wheel is an idea inspired by the Free & Open Source (F/OSS) Software industry's progression of code to data to content. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">In the I-Open example, Civic Wisdom interviews (center of map) are contributed to the I-Open community by leaders in government, research and business. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The Knowledge Wheel maps the organization and progressive dissemination of human knowledge in the Civic Space in Open Source Economic Development. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The Wheel is an idea inspired by the Free & Open Source (F/OSS) Software industry's progression of code to data to content. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">In the I-Open example, Civic Wisdom interviews (center of map) are contributed to the I-Open community by leaders in government, research and business. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/i-open/5844264372/" title="Knowledge Wheel by betseymerkel, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2706/5844264372_6556ee8864.jpg" height="500" alt="Knowledge Wheel" width="415" /></a></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iopen/5536256270/sizes/l/in/set-72157624482024386/">Enlarged view at I-Open on Flickr </a></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Civic wisdom (code) is organized and published to storage (data) to publication (content). Creative multi-media applications can fragment or deconstruct data at any given point in the outward progression of disseminating content. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The Institute's foundational principle, "we will act in ways that build trust and respect" guides final publishing. Content is published and shared under I-Open's Creative Commons v.3 license for the purpose of informing all aspects of economic development investment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Learn the wisdom of civic leaders across these I-Open communities:<br /></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> Facebook I-Open <a href="http://tiny.cc/odlg2">http://tiny.cc/odlg2</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> Flickr <a href="http://tiny.cc/73y6e">http://tiny.cc/73y6e</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> Friendfeed <a href="http://friendfeed.com/iopen">http://friendfeed.com/iopen</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> Livestream <a href="http://www.livestream.com/iopen/">http://www.livestream.com/iopen/</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> Posterous <a href="http://i-open.posterous.com/">http://i-open.posterous.com/</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> Scribd <a href="http://www.scribd.com/I-Open">http://www.scribd.com/I-Open</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> Slideshare <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2">http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/iopen2">http://twitter.com/iopen2</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> Vimeo <a href="http://tiny.cc/106p0">http://tiny.cc/106p0</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> You Tube <a href="http://tiny.cc/j5rse">http://tiny.cc/j5rse</a></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Copyright 2011 Betsey Merkel. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.</span><span style="font-family: Times; color: #333333;"><a href="http://i-open.posterous.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/source-code-civic-wisdom-knowledge-wheel">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/source-code-civic-wisdom-knowledge-wheel#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/1ebrvC0b1zQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/source-code-civic-wisdom-knowledge-wheel Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:01:00 -0700 Civic Forums and Collaborative Communities http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~3/rifrWjyUMGc/57607645 http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/57607645 <p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-17/abnsDrntCaccryBggeleIfDBwAuaClnoIBlJvaiIrdGlJuGwpblvaIkDxsno/cf_process2_prez.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Cf_process2_prez" height="582" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-06-17/abnsDrntCaccryBggeleIfDBwAuaClnoIBlJvaiIrdGlJuGwpblvaIkDxsno/cf_process2_prez.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><em><span style="color: #333333;">I-Open Civic Forum Process</span></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">Map by Betsey Merkel on </span><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iopen/sets/72157624482024386/with/4788795918/">Flickr</a></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Civic forums are an organized, pragmatic method for communities to engage in the complexity of Open Source Economic Development. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Civic Forums begin by building open economic networks to catalyze innovation and entrepreneurship. <br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Forum process continuously mentors civic behaviors to overcome fragmentation by focusing on shared interests, transformative business enterprise opportunities, and pragmatic "next steps". </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">By behaving in these ways, trust, respect and accountability is built and collaborative communities are formed.  </span></p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/51842795/I-Open-Civic-Forums-and-Building-Collaborative-Communities" title="View I-Open Civic Forums and Building Collaborative Communities on Scribd" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">I-Open Civic Forums and Building Collaborative Communities</a><iframe scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/51842795/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-256ksstb69p6ja2wrrcj" frameborder="0" height="600" width="100%"></iframe></p> </p> <p><a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/57607645">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/57607645#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BetseymerkelsPosterous/~4/rifrWjyUMGc" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1800539/Pedal_Collection.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ueuMtkw2el Betsey Merkel betsey merkel Betsey Merkel http://betseymerkel.posterous.com/57607645