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In the 21st Century of Work: Collaborate, Support, and Affirm by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Dialogue & Inclusion. Tagged with affirmation, appreciative leadership, citizens, collaboration, communities, conversations, democracy, enterprise, government, leadership, servant leadership and workforce development.Posted via web from I-Open
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An Introduction to the Open Publishing Lab @RIT with Matt Bernius, Co-Director by Betsey Merkel.
Categorized as Branding Stories. Tagged with content, innovation, media, online communities, open source, open source economic development, print, publishing, software, technology, web 2.0 and wiki.Matt Bernius is Co-Director & Researcher, the
Open Publishing Lab (OPL) at the Rochester Institute of Technology in
Rochester, NY.
Matt talks about the sea changes happening across the publishing industry
and how OPL@RIT is responding by strengthening creativity and innovation by
leveraging new Open Source approaches to empower individuals, businesses, and
communities.
OPL is itself a highly awarded, transformative economic model of production and distribution, exploring new ways of displaying identity and group knowledge through collaborative student led project development.
Link: http://opl.rit.edu
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Copyright 2009 Betsey Merkel http://www.betseymerkel.extendr.com/ and I-Open http://i-open.org/. 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
New Models for Content Creation: Page2Pub by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Brainpower. Tagged with content, innovation, media, online communities, open source, open source economic development, print, publishing, software, technology, web 2.0 and wiki.Posted via web from I-Open
New Models for Content Creation: the Open Publishing Guide by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Branding Stories. Tagged with content, innovation, media, online communities, open source, print, publishing, web 2.0 and wiki.Rachael Gootnick, Project Lead and Designer of Open Publishing Guide, Open Publishing Lab (OPL) @RIT describes the Open Publishing Guide, an important tool for civic leaders and their communities, organizations, and government to strengthen information sharing in education, economic, and workforce development.
The Open Publishing Guide (OPG) is an aid to people interested in self publishing. OPG is a repository of self publishing information such as: book templates to advice about self-publishing processes, an online coaching process of how to publish, an archive of print on demand services, and publishing resources available in the public domain.
Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/open-publishing-guide
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I-Open http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net
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Copyright 2009 Betsey Merkel http://www.betseymerkel.extendr.com/ and I-Open http://i-open.org/. 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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The Village: A Microcosm Economy of Culture on I-Open - live streaming video powered by Livestream by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Quality, Connected Place. Tagged with art, collaboration, connecting, creativity, culture, economic, experience, fine art, innovation and mixed medium.Posted via web from I-Open
Collaboration Accelerates Creative Innovation by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Quality, Connected Place. Tagged with art, collaboration, connecting, creativity, culture, economic, experience, fine art, innovation and mixed medium.Experience Artist, Melissa Daubert of Cleveland, Ohio, talks about the benefits of building personal relationships to develop new ideas, expand know-how, and access resources.
By having the opportunity of working with a local leader in digital technology at a near-by university, her opportunities to remix fine and digital art instantly went fast track.
This is a good example of the power of growing purposeful networks to advance place-based industry innovation.
Links to learn more:
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Copyright 2009 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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The Future of Publishing: New models for Content Creation by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Branding Stories. Tagged with innovation, media, online communities, open source, print, publishing, stories, web 2.0 and wiki.With more people making stuff than ever before, how do we free up things being produced and get them quickly into the different publishing forms we have today such as Kindle, e-readers, and others?
Matt Bernius, Co-Director, and the team of researchers at the Open Publishing Lab (OPL), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY address sea changes in the publishing industry with timely questions and innovative solutions.
In this video, Matt describes four successful models designed, developed, tested, and launched by OPL to address industry changes affected by deep, pervasive economic and social global shifts.
OPL is working on four key products:
Innovation News is built on a Druple platform to report news and events from the field or to be used for community news papers. Stories can be submitted from any wireless device, collected, and aggregated via emailed stories, hashtags, wiki pages, etc. with GPS location visualization.
Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/innovation-news
Open Publishing Guide (OPG) is to be an aid to people interested in self publishing. OPG is a repository of self publishing information such as: book templates to advice about self-publishing processes, an online coaching process of how to publish, an archive of print on demand services, and publishing resources available in the public domain.
Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/open-publishing-guide
Page2Pub aggregates content from the Internet into a portable, print-ready
format. Page2Pub
is an open source software project that OPL hopes will provide others
with a platform for research into this area.
Link: http://opl.rit.edu/projects/page2pub/about
meetu is a social networking game to facilitate network building, accelerate idea to project collaborations, and talent and skills sourcing. Meetu leverages print and publishing in an actual event to carry those social interactions online to various social networking sites.
Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/meetu
Visit OPL's page on I-Open Matthew Bernius, Co-Director and Researcher, the Open Publishing Lab (OPL), the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
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I-Open Analytics Offer a Framework for Building Civic Networks by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Innovation Networks. Tagged with civic space, collaboration, community, conversations, economic development, networks, open source economic development, regional transformation, research and transformative initiatives.This conversation and e-mail Matrix, designed by Betsey Merkel, Co-Founder and Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), is an example of how I-Open Civic Forum conversations were organized in Northeast Ohio from 2006 through 2009.
Conversations are informed by interviews contributed to I-Open by leaders in civic, academic, government and business. Interviews reveal new insights and innovation opportunities in both social and economic industry that can not only be shared, but improved upon in guided I-Open Civic Forum discussions.
Matrices are helpful to guide the intent and focus of new conversations in Open Source Economic Development exploring investment categories of the Innovation Framework, and topics representing citizen priorities affecting education, economic, and workforce development.
In the past, we most often associated "analytics" to mean measuring what we got out of any effort, in terms of profit. Today we still need to measure output, but we also need to organize how and where we are adding to change the results of our activities.
Conversations in the "Civic Space" - the space outside the four walls of any organization - build trust, and trust builds networks. These are the important starting points to build transformative initiatives and ultimately, new businesses.
This matrix points to the need for communities and regions to participate at higher levels of organization, process, and tools to identify, connect, and align creativity and resources for transformative, sustainable innovation.
The result of the efforts outlined in this matrix are described in the I-Open Press Release 01-18-10 posted to this blog at http://i-open.posterous.com/civic-networks-prepare-people-and-communities
You can learn more about I-Open at http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net
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Civic Networks Prepare People and Communities to Shift to Rapid Regional Innovation by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Innovation Networks. Tagged with civic forums, conversations, i-open, networks, northeast ohio, open source economic development and research.I-Open Civic Forums build the open, neutral spaces for conversations informed by people's insights and innovations to catalyze transformative initiatives.
Civic Forum conversations begin to build the important civic networks between people, their ideas and resources.
This review describes the networks and opportunities generated by I-Open's activities in Northeast Ohio from 2006 through 2009.
The design (or "framing") of I-Open Civic Forum conversations is recorded in this I-Open Civic Forum Matrix 2006-2009 ; a model for an organized approach to a balanced investment of people's time, attention, and participation in dialogue as it relates to economic development.
View the corresponding Northeast Ohio Matrix 2006-2009 here.
You can learn more about I-Open, Civic Forums, and Open Source Economic Development at I-Open. Sign in and tell us about your work and the innovation you are building.
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Innovating with Higher Levels of Organization, Process, and Tools by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Brainpower. Tagged with civic forums, civic networks, civic space, conversation, networks, open source economic development and research.The 2003-2005 Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) Civic Forum Program Matrix was designed by Betsey Merkel while working with the REI team (Ed Morrison, Susan Altshuler, Matt Kozink, Dennis Coughlin) to organize Civic Forum conversations in Northeast Ohio from 2003 through 2005.
Civic Forum conversations connect people and their ideas to education, economic, and workforce development through the generation of transformative industry cluster initiatives.
REI.Tuesdays Civic Forums were convened from the Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI), Case Western Reserve University at the Weatherhead School of Business. Leaders from business, academic, civic, and government created new conversations about exploring civic priorities, shared ideas for industry innovation, and worked together to launch transformative initiatives. Learn more about REI Civic Forums.
The Civic Forum Matrix points to the need for communities and regions to participate at higher levels of organization, process, and tools to identify, connect, and align creativity and resources for transformative, sustainable innovation.
The REI.Tuesdays Matrix offers an example of a tool to strengthen the design of new conversations focused on aspects of Open Source Economic Development.
You can learn more about I-Open here.
Learn more about the I-Open Civic Forum process designed by Betsey Merkel and how your community or region can begin to adopt a sustainable practice of building networks, generating social capital, and collaborating to build transformative initiatives for prosperity.Posted via web from I-Open
The Role of Colleges and Universities in Regional Transformation: A Model by I-Open Team.
Categorized as Brainpower. Tagged with colleges, economic, education, networks, open source economic development, regional economic development, research, transformative initiatives, universities and workforce development.The Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) Summary provides an overview of the important role of universities and colleges to strengthen innovation and enterprise for regional economic transformation.
The Center, originally created from a recommendation by the Rand Corporation to advise then Fortune 500 corporate leaders in Northeast Ohio, was first housed at the Cleveland Federal Reserve, Cleveland State University, and then at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Ed Morrison, Executive Director, working with Betsey Merkel, Susan Altshuler, Matt Kozink, and Dennis Coughlin as an open team, led the Center from 2003-2005. The report details what was accomplished, the alignment of Center activities with University strategy, and results of working with regional leaders to build networks, social capital, and accelerate transformative initiatives in education, economic, and workforce development.
The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) is the spin off of the Center and continues to develop and deploy new practices in Open Source Economic Development in Northeast Ohio and the world.
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Engage... Improve... Learn... Repeat by Bruce Waltuck.
Categorized as Dialogue & Inclusion. Tagged with change, government and leadership.Engage... Improve... Learn... Repeat
Hi all, Bruce Waltuck here. New to i-Open, and exploring what is possible here. My great thanks to Betsey Merkel of i-Open for sharing this opportunity and for encouraging me to jump in to these (for me) uncharted waters.
My work over the past 30 years has fundamentally been about helping groups of people engage in respectful dialogue, and improving processes and results in government. Most of my career so far has been in the U.S. Federal government. I worked for 26 years at the U.S. Department of Labor, where I had the pleasure and privilege of co-creating the Department's award-winning Employee Involvement and Quality Improvement system (EIQI). I later created a model public-private partnership between the USDOL and the healthcare industry in the State of New Jersey. This model was replicated nationwide, and helped affected employers learn about their obligations under the law, and avoid costly penalties and litigation.
Most recently, I served in 2008-09 as Senior Advisor to the head of the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Maryland. My role was to facilitate process improvement at a complex government organization. The work was challenging, and required building a foundation of positive relationships; increasing awareness and engagement at all levels; teaching the skills of dialogue, collaboration, and process improvement; and building a framework for a respectful workplace.
By education, I hold a degree in Economics from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. As my work took me into quality and process improvement in the 1980s, I learned about the System of Profound Knowledge taught by the late W. Edwards Deming. In the late 1990s, my life and work was changed by by encounter with complex systems science. A couple of years later, I was amazed to find that the wonderful Plexus Institute was located literally 20 minutes from my front door.
Today I teach and write about the application of concepts from complexity science, to the work of leadership and organizational change. I am a guest lecturer to doctoral students in psychology at Rutgers University. I'm the immediate Past chair of the Government Division of the American Society for Quality, and in 2006 I received a unique Masters in Complexity, Chaos, and Creativity, from the University of Western Sydney.
Currently, I am working on a project with the Government Division of ASQ, that we have tentatively called our "Moon Shot" initiative. We are inspired in part by the words of President Kennedy when he challenged America to go to the moon. Not because it is easy, as he said, but because it is hard, and we are willing to accept the challenge. That is how we feel about the work of improving the processes and performance of government around the world. Part of the "Moon Shot" strategic plan, is a project I have been calling our "Harvest of Good Government." For too long, too many people have bought into the idea that government is largely wasteful and ineffective. Too many of our fellow citizens believe that government employees are incompetent, or lazy, or just do not care about their work. But the actual data tells a VERY different story. The real truth, at least for the U.S. Federal government, is that roughly 80% of all programs are performing as planned. Some are even great. Only about 5% of Federal employees have sub-standard performance.
So the Harvest is an attempt to bring the real stories of good government getting even better, to people everywhere. In this way, we hope to collect and share best practices, and to influence both shared knowledge, and more improved results. How do we plan to gather the "Harvest?" Have you ever heard of "Flat Stanley?" Maybe you have young children who know about Stanley. You can Google "flat Stanley" or even try "Flat Stanley and President Obama." Kids around the world learn about other people and places, by making and sending flat paper "Stanley" dolls. In a similar way, we hope to send one of the current type of small video cameras that record then plug into computers for instant video upload, all over the world. From one story of great and improving government, to the next. A video harvest of good government getting even better.
In addition, i-Open has asked us to consider a partnership aimed at creating a Civic Forum where we can share, learn, mentor, and help others interested in improving government. It is my sincere hope that we can achieve that goal in the months ahead. It was great to see that my friends and colleagues from the Plexus community are here in this space, and I look forward to contributing a video interview, as well as uploading presentations, and articles to share.
Peace, Bruce
