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Best of Communities and Networks Connection for May 25, 2012

Best of Communities and Networks Connection

May 25, 2012

P2P FOUNDATION \| FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
Report from the McPlanet conference Brian Davey and myself participated in a panel on the role of the digital commons in sustainability, at the McPlanet conference in Berlin earlier in May. We will feature a written version of our debate later on, and here belatedly because of my travels, a report on the issues by Brian , which is important in the context of the upcoming Rio+20. MORE >>

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PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012

Aligning Motivation for Social Business: Lessons from a KM Effort
Adoption, engagement, aligning motivation of the participants area constant theme is discussions about social business (aka enterprise 2.0). Here is an example of audience participation led to successful engagement with a knowledge management effort from the last decade that, I think, offers some useful ideas for this decade. It was underused. MORE >>

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P2P FOUNDATION \| FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
Person of the Day: Annie Leonard Source: Jay Walljasper – On The Commons. Annie Leonard is one of the most articulate, effective champions of the commons today. Her webfilm The Story of Stuff has been seen more than 15 million times by viewers. She also adapted it into a book. Jay Walljasper. What are a few of the most beloved commons in your life and community? MORE >>

MADE BY MANY \| FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
2 months in - a peek inside my sketchbooks As one of the new recruits to the many, I thought I would introduce myself with a wee snap shot of what I have been up to in my first 2 months in the city. Hello, I thought I'd introduce myself: I'm the new Service Designer at Made by Many. like designing for people, with people. It's usually with pen and paper (shock, I know). MORE >>

ANT'S EYEVIEW BLOG \| FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
	The Time for Agile Marketing Today’s marketer lives in very interesting times. On one hand, digital storytelling and social engagement have turned marketingon its head and induced incredible innovation and creativity. Social business has also created fantastic career opportunities for many. Source: Intel. We’ve also seen that some bold brands are doing something about it. MORE >>

EMODERATION \| FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
	What does it take to give? Great Ormond Street children need YOU! It's that time of year again. Birds are singing, the grass is greening - and every other minute you're being asked for sponsorship for a charity run. And to be really honest, that's exactly what this post is about. GOSH provides inspirational and world-class care to hundreds of children every day. charity GOSHMORE >>

ALCHEMY OF CHANGE \| THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
Klout, Influence, and the Future of Business Klout helps companies better understand the influence of employees and customers, and this opens the firm more fully to the outside world. Despite its many problems, Klout not only symbolizes the growing importance of influence in marketing, but the increasingly permeable nature of the firm. MORE >>

GOVERNANCE IN A NETWORKED WORLD \| THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
	Is your company like a Train or a Car Dave Gray contrasts the traditional organisation to the 'pod based' organisational form of the connected company. liked the analogy right at the end. Is your company run like a train i.e. plan the tracks and then manage the timetable or a car. we can go many places and change as needs arise MORE >>

P2P FOUNDATION \| THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
The manyfolds expressions of resistance in Greece Excerpted from Lina Filopoulou , active in the Athens Neighborhood Assembly, and who describes the development of the Greek resistance against the austerity programmes imposed on Greece: “Social injustice has spurred new modes of resistance. The movement of the Greek indignados was born. The rebellion took different forms. MORE >>

CHRIS CORRIGAN \| THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
Conversation as a practice of equality “Conversation demands equality between participants. Indeed, it is one of the most important ways of establishing equality. Its enemies are rhetoric, disputation, jargon and private languages, or despair at not being listened to and not being understood.” ” - Theodore Zeldin. Art of Hosting Community ConversationMORE >>

INFLUENCE \| THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
Infographic: Insuring Those Who Served Organizations are always looking for more effective ways to distill and distribute complex reports as digestible chunks. For example, for the past five years we've been working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to increase the impact of their researchers' rich analysis on health insurance coverage. read more. Influence Data & VisualizationsMORE >>

P2P FOUNDATION \| THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
Book of the Day: Cloud Time Cloud Time: The Inception of the future. Rob Coley and Dean Lockwood. Zero Books. Overview. This book maps capitalism’s mobilization of cloud computing in its bid to archive and enclose the future. The virtual is often claimed as a realm of invention through which capitalism might be cracked, but it is precisely here that power now thrives. MORE >>

MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
Coworking Spaces recent-model laptop, a phone, a broadband connection (wired or wireless), and a suite of collaboration software tools gives people pretty much everything they need for sharing documents, holding meetings, and getting a lot of work done. It can be a very productive way to live and work. But there’s a problem with this picture. Collaboration CultureMORE >>

MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
Giving WorkSnug Pro a Go in Auckland I'm in Auckland today, and tried out the WorkSnug Pro app for finding places to eat and work. The app overlays where you are with information about nearby locations. Pretty cool. Enterprise MobilityMORE >>

P2P FOUNDATION \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
Trend of the Day: Homo Nexus Mark Pesce and Robert Tercek Next Billion Seconds : “The emergence of Homo Nexus – Connected Man – happened virtually overnight, like mushrooms springing up from a damp paddock. similar transition happened with the introduction of landline telephony, during the last years of the 19th century. There is no ‘where’ for the mobile. MORE >>

EMODERATION \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
	Top Twitter abbreviations you need to know by Bliss Hanlin, a Community Manager for eModeration Twitter abbreviations and acronyms are an odd mash-up of text slang, old school chat room phrases, common sense short forms and corporate buzzwords. Small personal anecdote – for the longest time, I thought HAGN was some form of Scandinavian slang for good-bye.) Notice one we missed? MORE >>

P2P FOUNDATION \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
Trend of the Day: Cognitive Policy Description. “There are two aspects of every policy: a cognitive policy and a material policy. Material policies consist of the nuts and bolts, what is to be done in the world to fulfill policy goals. For example, the details of a health care plan, or a plan for getting out of Iraq. Interview. Joe Brewer on How To Bring About Real Change. MORE >>

PORTALS AND KM \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
Process Aligned Knowledge Management and Other Trends Here is an article in KM World, The knowledge movement: trends and opportunities, that begins with tag line, “The true success of KM is when it disappears, meaning that KM processes are embedded in workflow.” That won my attention immediately as I have felt this for the last 20 years. will take it one step further. MORE >>

P2P FOUNDATION \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
A Pirate Party value statement Though Rick Falkvinge’s understanding of the left seems primitive and erroneous (the left does not demand ‘sharing with the poor’ but rather structural fairness), this is an eloquent statement of the values and ‘ontology’ (state of being) that are the characteristics of the Pirate sensibility. MORE >>

NEIGHBOURHOODS \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
On the fear of interfering Sunday morning, here’s a tap at the door and one of my neighbours says. I hope you don’t think I’m being terribly nosy, but, is everything OK?’. The previous evening we’d had a couple of ambulances outside because the baby we’re caring for at the moment needed specialist attention urgently. knew she was genuinely concerned about the baby. MORE >>

CHRIS CORRIGAN \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
Can we get there from here? Working with 8 programs in the state of Minnesota this week, all of whom are putting together projects in local communities that work on acute health issues by creating upstream solutions. This is the third residential retreat with the 8 propoenent groups. There are two things going on here. ” Now if only evaluators would catch up. MORE >>

ALCHEMY OF CHANGE \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
Week in Review: May 14, 2012 Four mini-posts on: Google's new 'knowledge graph" and the semantic web, the sad story of Flickr (and CarPoint), why Justin Bieber has a higher Klout score than President Obama, and the future of market research. MORE >>

GOVERNANCE IN A NETWORKED WORLD \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
Who is playing "postman" in the digital age? I was catching up with some reading over the weekend and came across this report on 'connected communities' by one of our ONASurveys clients RSA. One of their interesting findings in terms of who links communities was the postman. Well maybe in an English village, but not where I live. Is there such a thing in our social networking communities? MORE >>

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MANAGING COMMUNITIES \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
Members Shouldn’t Moderate Each Other photo credit: susivinh I’m a big believer in leaving moderation to moderators and in having a word with any member that attempts to act like a moderator. By act like a moderator, I mean that they try to tell other people what they can and cannot post and where and when they can do so. [.]. How Should I Participate? Interacting with MembersMORE >>

P2P FOUNDATION \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
Project of the Day: My Arms Wide Open Community Business Model By Warren Te Brugge: “ My Arms Wide Open® is a Canadian Federally registered foundation that I established to work with mothers, children and youth to crate change in the communities by creating sustainable community based businesses, education systems and infrastructure built entirely around the needs of their communities. MORE >>

P2P FOUNDATION \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
Why we need professional amateurs in citizenship Money has gained outsize and self-compounding power in elections. welter of lobbyists, regulators, consultants, bankrollers, wonks-for-hire, and “smart-ALECs” has crowded amateurs out of the daily work of self-government at every level. Bodies like the library board are the exception. What we need today are more citizen citizens. MORE >>

CHRIS CORRIGAN \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
	Surrounded by lows Early morning trip to Minnesota on a holiday Monday. One downside of working a lot in the United States is that American clients often book me for long weekends. It’s free on my calendar, so it must be okay! Not too choked to leave on a little trip today though. MORE >>

JENNY CONNECTED \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
#fslt12 MOOC Week 1 starts today, 21-05-12 The MOOC is off to a really good start. We have around 120 people registered on the WordPress and Moodle sites and about 16 interested in being assessed. And there are likely quite a few more following the course without registering. Activity in the Moodle forums last week, particularly in response to the question ‘What is learning for you?’ MORE >>

MICHAEL SAMPSON - CURRENTS \| SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
Intranets 2012 - It's a Wrap Last week I attended Step Two's Intranet 2012 conference in Sydney. The conference was held over two days (Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th), with post-conference workshops on the Friday. As with the inaugural conference in 2011, it was a fantastic event. with a great line up of speakers, a good mix of attendees, and a great atmosphere. Well done. MORE >>

PORTALS AND KM \| SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
	Painting of a Boat at Rest in Pythagoria Harbor, Samos Island Greece Here is the second painting of boat at anchor in Pythagoria Harbor, Samos Island , Greece. It is a 16" x 20" acrylic MORE >>

P2P FOUNDATION \| SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
	Video of the Day: Young Lawyers Lower the Bar to Sharing Economy Economy and Business Featured VideoMORE >>

PORTALS AND KM \| SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
	Painting of View from Pythagorio, Samos Island, Greece Here is a 16 x 20 inch painting of the sea as viewed from the harbor at Pythagorio on Dsamos Isalnd, Greece. it was my first landscape from the trip. More to follow. MORE >>

P2P FOUNDATION \| SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
Civic membership, the Commons and Justice From Marvin Brown’s Blog : As members of the civic we have much in common. We live in the same time. We live on the same planet. All our grandchildren will inherit the future we leave them. Still, if we switch our view from the civic to the social, we see great differences. Some have much more than they need and others have much less. MORE >>