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Isivivane Game - conversations that build trust and meaning for positive change by I-Open Team.
Not categorized. Not tagged.In Open Source Economic Development, civic leaders need to learn new practices and tools to extend and enhance their ability to engage with each other and with information to create new knowledge. New knowledge is what is generated from experience and applied to the industry of solving problems.
The Isivivane Game - Place Your Stone Upon the Pile - is one such practice. It creates immediate opportunities for leaders in government, business, and academia to build richer realities to engage in transformative action.
The game architects self constructed pathways building new capacities for people to work together to be more creative, strengthen communications, and accelerate collaboration.
Practices introduce skills and tools people can rely on as they begin to interact in multidimensional ways. Growing comfortable in environments representing more than one reality is an aid to problem solving in the complex social, economic, and environmental situations affecting industry today. This is modern skills training.
By creating regular opportunities for experimental experiences in complexity - outside of daily work - organizations cultivate higher levels of performance and personal satisfaction, and stronger capabilties in individual decision making for wiser organizations.
From co-creator Steve Banhegyi:
"These are the cards with which the game is played - the questions on the cards are used to create knowledge by the participants - all centering around the central theme or 'organising principle' or 'strange attractor' the answer to the question : "what do we want?"
You can find Steve at I-Open on Strategy-Nets, Facebook, and @SteveBanhegyi on Twitter. Or, contact him directly at:
Steve Banhegyi & Associates
Art and Science of Change
steve@storytelling.co.za
Cell (South Africa) +27 (0)83 232-6047 / Fax +27 (0)86 635-4457
www.storytelling.co.za | www.trans4mation.co.za | isivivane.com
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The COINs 2010 conference, Oct 7-9, 2010 hosted at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA, shares the insights and innovations of research and industry leaders in the Science of Collaboration.
Join us! Here are your next steps:
- Register for the conference - we'd love to connect with you!
- Submit a Research or Industry Thought Paper by Aug 12 less than 300 words- this is a neat opportunity to hone your idea and improve!
- Sign up for the Coolhunting Academy free for conference registrants and includes a complimentary 3-month trial of Cool Trends 2.0 - (!)
- Check it all out at: http://www.coins2010.com
More about Swarm Creativity and the Science of Collaboration:
Swarm Creativity powers the COINs 2010 community and with it the Science of Collaboration. Conference participants present reports focused on creativity, communication, and collaboration from many different disciplines and industries.
The swarm creativity map, above, is an ecosystem for entrepreneurs, businesses, organizations, and governments to cultivate a culture that is creative, cool, and fun!
Today, civic leaders need to work on many different projects simultaneously and at many different levels to optimize initiatives in open, connected global markets. The swarm creativity map offers a heuristic model for thinking across categories of investment in balanced systems. And, it's transferable and extensible.
Maps act as filters, provide a sense of logistics, and encourage more than one area of attention to be held at once. With that we can begin to think in terms of the value of network connectivity and systemic relationships.
The map identifies how swarm creativity as a discipline can be strengthened by investments in new practices and tools.
One tool, Cool Trends 2.0, is trend finding software developed by http://www.GalaxyAdvisors.com. It is designed to provide investment metrics for web 3.0, the semantic web. By integrating network mapping tools in enterprise initiatives, we can begin to get a clearer picture of innovation in networks, strengthen social behaviors that cultivate collaboration, and drive competitive network productivity.
Attention to new practices, such as meritocracy - an element of swarm creativity - establish good habits of sharing that nurture trusted relationships and cultivate collaborative environments.
Frameworks like this one work well in complexity. They offer a starting point for entrepreneurs to make important cognitive shifts required to think in terms of networks and areas of investment. With this, work becomes efficient and effective.
You can learn more in the book, "Swarm Creativity" by Professor Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Be sure to follow the Swarm Creativity blog too.
The Swarm Creativity map was created by Betsey Merkel, I-Open.
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Swarm Creativity Blog: Predicting Stock Market Indicators Through Twitter “I hope it is not as bad as I fear” by I-Open Team.
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The Swarm Creativity blog takes a closer look at how sentiment expressed on Twitter affects next day Stock Exchange results.
Cool Trends 2.0 is an important network mapping and analytic tool designed for the semantic web. In this example it provides insights into the causality of relationships between sociality, media, and economics.
Tools like Cool Trends help civic, business, government, and academic leaders develop an understanding of the power of social networks. The relationship between what people say one day and what happens the next can strengthen the ability of leadership to respond pro-actively to what might otherwise be unexpected events.
This is another interesting exploration into the investigative research of Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence using Cool Trends 2.0 to analyze the Web, Blogs, and Twitter!
P.S. If you would like to learn more about Cool Trends 2.0 sign up for the pre-conference Coolhunting Academy at the COINs 2010 Conference Oct 7-9 hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Savannah, GA. The workshop is free to conference registrants and includes a complimentary three month trial of Cool Trends 2.0.
Learn more at COINS 2010 or view/download the information at Swarm Creativity on Scribd.
I-Open is a co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 conference.
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COINs 2010 Keynote: Jesse Dylan | Most Creative People 2010 | Fast Company by I-Open Team.
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From the article:
Jesse Dylan, Director; Founder Form; FreeForm
"You could see the eyes of the people getting liquid," says CERN experimental physicist Maria Spiropulu of the crowd for a Jesse Dylan short film. The audience? Google's Larry Page, Tesla's Elon Musk, and elite scientists in the fields of astro-particle physics, cosmology, and dark matter. The film? Six minutes on the Large Hadron Collider, the massive particle accelerator designed to replicate the big bang and address core questions of physics. "The language of the microcosm we are exploring can be described very well with mathematics," Spiropulu says. "It is very difficult to make a picture or a poem of what we do. The film captured an adventure to discover the unknown. It is haunting and it sticks with you." More...
Jess Dylan brings extraordinary creative perspectives as Collaborative Innovation Networks COINs 2010 Conference Keynote speaker Oct 7, 2010.
I-Open is conference co-sponsor and supports the value Jesse's leadership in creative digital media brings to creativity, communication, and collaboration in Open Source Economic Development.
More on Jesse's COINs 2010 Conference Keynote:
Lybba - Unleashing swarm creativity to make open-source healthcare a reality
In his opening keynote, Jesse Dylan, award winning director of the Obama campaign video "Yes we can" talks about how his nonprofit, Lybba, is helping give life to the open source healthcare movement. Lybba's mission is to connect people with the community, information, and resources they need to take care of themselves and one another.
Lybba creates online environments, media campaigns, and social experiments that forge meaningful relationships between hospitals and schools, doctors and patients, researchers and policy-makers. It takes an ethical and ecological approach to every challenge it faces. It combines media, design, science, and technology to make a difference, free for all, free of commercial interest.
Jesse's ultimate goal is to bring together every patient looking for answers and provide a platform so that every stakeholder in chronic and rare diseases has a voice to create a community where innovation, empowerment, and compassion flourish.
Join us! Learn and connect at:
COINs 2010 - a collaborative interactive community Web site
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Free to Paid: embedding the creative industries in digital culture by I-Open Team.
Not categorized. Not tagged.The Free to Paid a map created by Betsey Merkel, Co-Founder and Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 2009.
This map visualizes the impact of the creative industries on experience and it's relationship to monetization of content and publishing.
Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA
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Extended deadline: CALL FOR PAPERS: COINs2010 – 2nd Int'l Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks, Oct 7-9, 2010 by I-Open Team.
Not categorized. Not tagged.I-Open is a co-sponsor of the upcoming COINs 2010 Conference. Please see this important conference update:
Following several requests from colleagues, the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to Thursday Aug 12th.
“COINs are everywhere!”
Oct 7-9, 2010, SCAD Savannah
Deadline for abstract submission: Extended to August 12, 2010
The second international conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) brings together practitioners, researchers and students of the emerging science of collaboration. The emergence of online social networks opens up unprecedented opportunities to read the collective mind, discovering emergent trends while they are still being hatched by small groups of creative individuals. The Web has become a mirror of the real world, allowing researchers to study and better understand why some new ideas change our lives, while others never make it from the drawing board of the innovator.
Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs, are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate in innovating by sharing ideas, information, and work. Although COINs have been around for hundreds of years, they are especially relevant today because the concept has reached its tipping point thanks to the Internet. COINs are powered by swarm creativity, wherein people work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. ‘Coolhunting’ – discovering, analyzing, and measuring trends and trendsetters – puts COINs to productive use. Patterns of collaborative innovation frequently follow an identical path, from creator to COIN to collaborative learning network to collaborative interest network.
The theme of the conference combines a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems and the psychology and sociality of collaboration.
We invite researchers to submit their latest scientific results on
Global Collaboration Networks (Global focus)
· Organizational optimization in COINs
· Virtual Communication and Collaboration
· Measuring the performance of COINs
· Patterns of swarm creativity
· Trust, Privacy, Risk, Transparency and Security in social contexts
Group Collaboration (Group focus)
· Collaborative Leadership
· Design and visualization in interdisciplinary collaboration
· Group dynamics and global teaming in virtual collaboration
Microscopic aspects of collaboration (Individual focus)
· Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Dynamics, Opinion Representation, Influence Process
· The psychology and sociality of collaboration
· Social Behavior Modeling
· Social Intelligence and Social Cognition
Tools and Methods focus
· Social System Design and Architectures
· Dynamic Social Network Analysis
· Semantic Social Network Analysis
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: extended to Aug 12, 2010
Authors notification: Aug 20, 2010
Final manuscript due: Sept 20, 2010
Program Dates: October 7, 8 and 9, 2010.
Paper submission
Submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to the program chair Julia Gluesing at < j.gluesing@wayne.edu >
Accepted papers (16 pages max) will be published in the conference proceedings in the Elsevier Procedia series
Should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings.
Program Committee
John Bucuvalas, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Richard Colletti, (University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont)
Marco De Maggio (Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy)
Elenna Dugundji (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Kai Fischbach (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Peter Gloor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Julia Gluesing, chair (Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan)
Francesca Grippa (Northeastern University, Boston)
Takashi Iba (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Stokes Jones (Lodestar, Atlanta, Georgia)
Casper Lassenius (Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland)
Peter Margolis, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Betsey Merkel (I-Open, Cleveland, Ohio)
Chris Miller (SCAD, Savannah, Georgia)
Maria Paasivaara (Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)
Johannes Putzke (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Ken Riopelle (Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.)
Detlef Schoder (University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany)
Michael Seid, (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Conference Web Site: http://www.coins2010.com
Full Call for Papers: http://www.scribd.com/doc/32955537/COINs2010-Call-for-Papers
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Introduction to Open Source Economic Development, Ed Morrison, Co-Founder I-Open and Policy Analyst, Purdue University by I-Open Team.
Not categorized. Not tagged.Ed Morrison prepared this presentation for the April 2008 I-Open Leadership Retreat hosted at the beautiful Punderson State Park in Newberry, Ohio.
The presentation offers a succinct outline of the concepts and knowledge areas important to civic leaders building networks and collaborations in communities and regions.
The material draws deeply from Ed's life work as a brilliant economic development strategist.
From our time working together at Case Western Reserve University's Center for Regional Economic Development (REI) from 2003 to 2005, we added process extensions and additional refinements.
These contiguous developments included the Tuesdays@REI Civic Forum process for civic entrepreneurs (designed by Betsey Merkel) and the Strategic Doing process (Ed Morrison). Both were refined out of the REI work building civic networks and strengthening entrepreneurial initiatives in Northeast Ohio.
Regional practitioner thought leaders - and there were many - offered strong influences in the areas of network mapping, Open Space Technologies, Appreciative Inquiry, social technologies, design, knowledge management, and visualization during our tenure.
These are typical of the practices and tools entrepreneurs and leaders of organizations, business, academia, and government need to be proficient in today to build competitive networks and collaborations for global economies.
It is this re-tooling of capacities that will strengthen entrepreneurial innovation in such important industries as alternate energies, manufacturing, health care, land use, creative digital media, technology, and water efficiency in Open Source Economic Development.
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Designers Accord 2009: An Important Conversation Exploring the Future of Design in Open Systems by I-Open Team.
Not categorized. Not tagged.I-Open is co-sponsor of the COINs2010 conference Oct 7-9 hosted at SCAD in Savannah, GA. The conference will collaborate with the concurrent Design Ethos Conference also hosted at SCAD during the same time frame. SCAD Professors Scott Bolyston, Graphic Design, and Christine Miller, Design Management - hosts of each conference - are developing ways for the two gatherings to intersect, learn, and explore collaboration opportunities.
The Designers Accord document posted here offers an important snapshot of the global educational design community's desire to pursue discovery of the role of design at the intersections of social, economic, environment, and cultural issues today.
Links to learn more:
- Prof Scott Boylston, SCAD School of Design
- Prof Christine Miller, SCAD School of Design Management
More about this important 2009 conversation and this resulting report:
The Designers Accord Final Comments document was submitted as a report to the editorial committee of the 2009 Designers Accord Global Summit 2009.
On October 23 and 24, 2009, the Designers Accord convened 100 individuals from some of the world’s most distinguished academic and professional institutions, for two days of highly participatory discussion, planning, and action around the topic of design education and sustainability.
This group of thought-leaders, design educators, and experts discussed, challenged, and conceived of a new path for undergraduate and graduate design programs to integrate sustainability. We tackled topics ranging from creating curricula and writing grants, to communicating to trustees and motivating students. These topics were culled from pre-Summit meetings and brainstorm sessions.
The format of the Summit was structured to enable this group to create a collective point of view about best practices and methods for integrating sustainability into design programs all over the world. We are currently synthesizing the outputs from the Summit. We plan to publish the output online and in printed form. The medium and format will be determined by the content.
You can learn more at this link:
http://www.designersaccord.org/initiatives/summit/
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"The Short Bus" is special story that reflects the culture of the Northeast Ohio region.
It was contributed to I-Open for sharing by Northeast Ohio illustrator, Ralph Solonitz.
"The Short Bus" falls into I-Open's investment category of Branding Stories, from the Innovation Framework, a heuristic model of investment for individuals, organizations, and businesses in Open Source Economic Development.
There are five categories of investment in this road map to prosperity: Brainpower, our most competitive asset; Innovation and Entrepreneurial Networks, the civic infrastructure needed to translate creativity into transformative initiatives; Quality, Connected Places, the importance of investing in cool places to live, work, and play; Dialogue & Inclusion, the value of creating new points of access for civic leaders to share information and create knowledge; and Branding Stories, the importance of investing in storytelling to amplify a community or region's cultural assets.
Link: Innovation Framework at I-Open on Scribd
What stories do you share in your region?
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Civic Wisdom | Flickr - Scott R Crawford, Brand Strategist & Writer by I-Open Team.
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I-Open on Strategy-Nets: industry collaboration with an enterprise footprint by I-Open Team.
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You're looking at the current evolution of I-Open's Overview tab on Strategy-Nets, above. More on Strategy-Nets in a moment...
I-Open first announced its partnership with Near-Time.com May 14, 2007. Over the following three years, I-Open focused on applying the Near-Time tool set to early applications of face-to-face and online network and community development in Open Source Economic Development initiatives in many states.
Ed Morrison, Co-Founder and past Director of I-Open, led initiatives across the country while Northeast Ohio Co- Founders and Directors Betsey Merkel, Dennis Coughlin, and Susan Altshuler - along with the expertise of regional leaders - co-led initiatives in Northeast Ohio.
Article: "I-Open Selects Near-Time to Help Drive Community through Web Integration"
I-Open's value as an industry partner with technology companies works in a couple of ways:
First, I-Open collaborates with technology and creative companies to build the place based open, neutral spaces for new conversations to take place, engaging business leaders focused on shared interests. Over time, conversations increase opportunities for innovative, collaborative local partnerships.
That's where a second stage of partnership comes in: in this case, the application of a Web 2.0 platform to sustain conversations and amplify community building, complete with a tool set to advance project work.
Online destinations offer a landing place for people to continue their conversations once they've gone back to the office. If a project is started, Web 2.0 tools enable work to continue from any place, independent of traditional meetings.
Midtown Brews and the Women's Enterprise Network are two Northeast Ohio based I-Open business collaborations that advance regional-to-global industry networks. Both are tested, successful models of integrating technology at the intersections of face-to-face and online network building. I-Open Civic Forums turbo charge activity and with the help of social media, local transparency is improved and global issues generally not addressed openly, are.
Collaborations between technology companies and network organizations like I-Open are invaluable because they advance cycles of industry improvement in social process and tool building. I-Open applications are unique because they focus on building enterprise under the mantra of open source ideology across social, economic, and environmental sectors.
Today, the Near-Time tool set has assumed a new application and brand: Strategy-Nets, an enterprise company that combines what was learned in those early applications to advancing strategic network building for economic development across regions.
By continuing to launch industry collaborations between technology companies and I-Open process, innovations capable of sparking technology and social process advances emerge. The added bonus is a footprint of trusted networks, evolving mindsets, collaborative behaviors, and plenty of competitive enterprise opportunities for any technology innovator prepared to grasp them.
(Be sure to visit I-Open on Strategy-Nets so you can experience the full tool set.)
Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel http://www.betseymerkel.extendr.com/ and I-Open https://sites.google.com/site/instituteopeneconomicnetworks/. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA
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