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Zoetica Media One half of the Networked NonProfit is the active use of social networks for inbound marketing, volunteer recruitment and managment, edge connectivity for rapid adhocracy and donor solicitation.Beth's firm is a consultancy focused on the use of socialnetworks for these purposes.

google apps - security preso

2011-01-16T09:55:00.000-08:00

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IDEA Organizing Committee | The Aspen Institute

2011-01-14T12:58:00.000-08:00

IDEA Organizing Committee | The Aspen Institute

Home — Janya Multilingual Semantic Analysis Solutions

2011-01-14T09:32:00.000-08:00

Home — Janya Multilingual Semantic Analysis Solutions

Technology Partners — Janya Multilingual Semantic Analysis Solutions

2011-01-14T09:30:00.000-08:00

Technology Partners — Janya Multilingual Semantic Analysis Solutions

The Secret of Innovation Success

2010-12-02T12:32:00.000-08:00

The Secret of Innovation Success: "f innovation and referred to evidence that points to leading"

Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate on Vimeo

2010-11-01T15:59:00.000-07:00

Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate on Vimeo

Metadata

2010-09-23T08:14:00.000-07:00

Metadata

The Manifesto � The Dark Mountain Project

2010-09-07T07:55:00.000-07:00

The Manifesto � The Dark Mountain Project

NextNow Membership Public List

2010-06-14T07:45:00.000-07:00

NextNow Membership Public List

Data.gov | The White House

2010-05-05T09:26:00.000-07:00

Data.gov | The White House

We have met the enemy and he is Powerpoint :from NYTimes.

2010-04-27T13:58:00.000-07:00

When shown this slide in a briefing on the war Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, US Commander in Afghanistan is reported to have said:

"When we understand this slide, we will have won the war!"

The NYT article linked below is a full-on criticism of the dependence of our organizational culture on PowerPoint - joining Edward Tufte in his earlier criticism of our dependence on PPT as a substitute for critical thinking, presentation and writing.

Here's what Tufte had to say in 2005:

"The record for incremental reform in the cognitive style of PowerPoint is not promising. In the many release versions of PP, the intellectual level has not been raised. New releases have drifted toward ingrown self-parody, featuring ever more elaborated PP Phluff and presenter therapy. These changes have made the new version different from the previous version, but not smarter. There are no incentives for meaningful change in a monopoly product with an 86% gross profit margin, only incentives to make it different, somehow, from the previous release. PP competes only with itself."

THe NYT article should be required reading for the world of PPT devotees.

Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com:

BURSTS: Be part of a burst! Adopt a word!

2010-04-27T06:59:00.000-07:00

BURSTS: Be part of a burst! Adopt a word!

Column Five Media – Infographics - Infographic Design, Content Creation, Social Media Strategy

2010-04-26T12:43:00.000-07:00

Column Five Media – Infographics - Infographic Design, Content Creation, Social Media Strategy

SEO-Infographic1.jpg (JPEG Image, 1200x4920 pixels)

2010-04-25T09:57:00.000-07:00

SEO-Infographic1.jpg (JPEG Image, 1200x4920 pixels)

IA Summit 2010: The Future of Wayfinding on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2010-04-17T15:38:00.000-07:00

IA Summit 2010: The Future of Wayfinding on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Evri Ties the Knot with Twine — Twine CEO Comments and Analysis � Nova Spivack – Minding the Planet

2010-04-16T15:20:00.000-07:00

Evri Ties the Knot with Twine — Twine CEO Comments and Analysis � Nova Spivack – Minding the Planet

Jeff Clavier's Software Only

2010-03-19T18:59:00.000-07:00

Jeff Clavier's Software Only

Vulcan Capital | Select Investments

2010-03-18T15:13:00.000-07:00

Vulcan Capital | Select Investments

A podcast conversation with Will Hunsinger of Evri | Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data

2010-03-18T15:09:00.000-07:00

A podcast conversation with Will Hunsinger of Evri | Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data

Talking with David Siegel about ‘Pull’ and the Semantic Web | Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data

2010-03-18T15:08:00.000-07:00

Talking with David Siegel about ‘Pull’ and the Semantic Web | Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data

Corporate Information - Our Philosophy

2010-03-16T17:13:00.000-07:00

Corporate Information - Our Philosophy

OpenSpace-Online� Real-Time Conference Software

2010-02-21T12:39:00.000-08:00

OpenSpace-Online� Real-Time Conference Software

MichaelHerman: OpenSpaceTechnology

2010-02-21T10:51:00.000-08:00

MichaelHerman: OpenSpaceTechnology

Swivel | About

2010-01-08T11:47:00.000-08:00

Swivel | About

Review: Swivel vs. Many Eyes | EagerEyes.org

2010-01-08T11:45:00.000-08:00

Review: Swivel vs. Many Eyes | EagerEyes.org

Curing A Sick Chart | EagerEyes.org

2010-01-08T11:38:00.000-08:00

Curing A Sick Chart | EagerEyes.org

Blogviz Thesis by Manuel Lima

2010-01-04T18:11:00.000-08:00

Blogviz Thesis by Manuel Lima: "visual_think_map, 2 years ago"

Op-Chart - Picturing the Past 10 Years - Graphic - NYTimes.com

2010-01-04T09:23:00.000-08:00

Op-Chart - Picturing the Past 10 Years - Graphic - NYTimes.com

Going Green at Google | Clean Energy Initiatives

2009-12-29T08:40:00.000-08:00

Sustainability is good for the environment, but it makes good business sense too. Most of our work is focused on saving resources such as electricity and water and, more often than not, we find that these actions lead to reduced operating costs. Being "green" is essential to keeping our business competitive. It is this economic advantage that makes our efforts truly sustainable.

Sustainability is good for the environment, but it makes good business sense too. Most of our work is focused on saving resources such as electricity and water and, more often than not, we find that these actions lead to reduced operating costs. Being "green" is essential to keeping our business competitive. It is this economic advantage that makes our efforts truly sustainable.

Going Green at Google | Clean Energy Initiatives

Venture investor Alan Salzman in the spotlight

2009-12-29T08:23:00.000-08:00

Venture investor Alan Salzman in the spotlight: "VantagePoint now has $1 billion focused on clean-tech startups."

"We're going to be living in a resource-constrained world," Salzman said with assurance. "What we define as clean tech is companies addressing resource limitations in energy, water and materials. ... These are the industries of the 21st century."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/27/MN6U1B31TP.DTL#ixzz0b60upxO5

Perspectives on Innovation � Blog Team

2009-12-28T12:47:00.000-08:00

Perspectives on Innovation � Blog Team

"Innovation Happens Elsewhere"

2009-12-27T08:27:00.000-08:00

NACH.COM � Innocentive Study: What problem solving routines are successful?

2009-12-26T08:18:00.000-08:00

NACH.COM � Innocentive Study: What problem solving routines are successful?

Home – Rypple

2009-10-07T12:32:00.000-07:00

Home – Rypple

View User: ddavison - WiserEarth

2009-10-05T11:43:00.000-07:00

View User: ddavison - WiserEarth

View User: brad - WiserEarth

2009-10-05T10:34:00.000-07:00

View User: brad - WiserEarth: "WiserEarth"

Natural Capital Institute

2009-10-05T09:51:00.000-07:00

Natural Capital Institute

2009-10-05T09:47:00.000-07:00

Natural Capital Institute

2009-10-05T09:46:00.000-07:00

Natural Capital Institute

IC Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses - Innovation - Problem Solving - Venture Capital

2009-09-28T08:48:00.000-07:00

Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses - Innovation - Problem Solving - Venture Capital

FacitFindr - a tacit to explicit process

2009-08-04T10:52:00.000-07:00

As this image shows, there is a pathway from the tacit knowledge stored in the mind to the machine storage and retrieval of this knowledge - a dynamic knowledge repository (DKR)
with machine aided search based on successive iteration and refinement of semantic ontologies.

As I see it the process starts with the creation of context and a shared lexicon by

professionally visualizing the socialization and prompted conversation of groups of knowledge workers into a display which provides shared context . This can be done in either virtual or face-to-face meetings. (The MIND part in the diagram above)
the abstraction from the contextual display of a shared lexicon and the conversion of the visual context/semantically tagged into a draft ontology( linked data) stored in the DKR.
the application of a facet browser to allow the search of the content of these shared meetings using the semantic ontology

One can then apply a faceted search method ( the Facit Findr) to the DKR to retrieve knowledge objects representing the collective intelligence of the group(s) APIs or LinkedData mashups can be created by interconnecting the FacitFindr to links in multiple Linked Data DKRs.The faceted search results can be continually augmented by human corrections, additions or deletions from the DKR corpus ( which will be in full multimedia form and machine- addressable down to the discrete word or visual object level.)

Scale Independent Thought: Crowdsourcing Communitas

2009-03-13T22:35:00.000-07:00

Bonnie De Varco offers a tour de force in this post.

Here's the pull quote:

"What is both the driving force and the eventual result of these emergent visual mediums? Crowdsourcing, actionable knowledge and connective, distributed intelligence. I suggest the following formula:

Data is the key

Disciplined, strategic crowdsourcing is the methodology

Visualization is the language"d

Can it be said any better? Please take the time to scan this rich link:

Scale Independent Thought: Crowdsourcing Communitas

Tom Friedman - The Great Disruption

2009-03-13T10:20:00.000-07:00

“When we look back, 2008 will be a momentous year in human history. Our children and grandchildren will ask us, ‘What was it like? What were you doing when it started to fall apart? What did you think? What did you do?’ Often in the middle of something momentous, we can’t see its significance. But for me there is no doubt: 2008 will be the marker — the year when ‘The Great Disruption’ began.”

A very provocative NYT article by Tom Friedman,

Op-Ed Columnist - The Inflection Is Near? - NYTimes.com

ManyOne Portal network

2009-03-13T08:43:00.000-07:00

In a conversationn yesterday with Rich Green, he mentioned the dream of striving for BHAG - (big hairy audacious goals). ManyOne is an example of the passion and persistence of small group of visionaries who exemplify the struggle that sometimes comes with seeking BHAG.

The ManyOne community portal site is worth visiting to see their great visuals and learn a bit about how far they have come in 6 years - While google prospered, Manyone soldiered on with a very different, "save the planet" business model. Having served as an advisor to ManyOne for several years, and being originally very excited about sharing his dream, I am amazed at the passionate persistence of Joe Firmage, the founder, and the fact that he is still striving for his BHAG against enormous odds.

There is a object lesson for dreamers with BHAG in the ManyOne Story. Perhaps I can related it to you some day.

Home - Media Wall

RGI Postmortem

2009-03-12T13:20:00.000-07:00

A day after the group meeting at RGI, I return to this image to "grade" the event and attempt to make some sense out of the conversations we engaged in. The grade is subjective on a scale from 1-10 with 10 being the best outcome.

Purpose and Principles: (7)
The group seemed to cohere around the principles of openness, sharing among peers and some form of outreach to the community locally and, later, globally with the purpose of creating strategic scenarios directed at solving key dilemmas emerging from the economic and environmental crises we are facing.

Tools and Technology:(2)
Although the meeting room was "decorated" with informative graphics in the form of wall-mounted posters and several large visual displays, the technology used for the meeting was low tech consisting of whiteboards and some handwritten artifacts from previous meetings of Doug's Continuing the Conversation salons.

The best use of the whiteboards was an expansive scribing by Jerry which, in my view summarized the conversations and his views succinctly and usefully. I recommend the sharing of any digital photos of the whiteboard, along with the group photo posed in front of it. If anyone has a desire to do so, it might be useful to render Jerry's free form sketch in a more pleasing way.
IMO it synthesized our conversation and the vectors out of it that we might follow. The whiteboard furnished was flimsy and difficult for Jerry to use- but his scribing was a key visual artifact of our discussion.

Questions that Matter:(2)

I may be alone in making this observation, but I did not feel that we had been sufficiently prepared to ask the questions that matter, or that there was a randomness to the questions that emerged from the group that did not seem to lead to ones of great moment.

Learning conversations:(5)

The initial introductions created a tapestry of diversity and togetherness which all of us felt was remarkable given the informal and personal way in which this introductory phase proceeded. Everyone seemed to be pleased with how well we seemed to connect with each other and the stories told by each provided a quick in-depth profile of each participant comfortably shared with the group.

Knowledge Capital:(1)

Knowledge capital is difficult to define, but in my eyes it is the group contribution to a dynamic knowledge repository that can be shared with others and form the basis for future conversations. Here again Jerry's sketches on the whiteboard would count as useful components of our collective intelligence if they are rendered in a clearer way that can join the archives of the material that was displayed on the walls from prior meetings or individual contributions.

Business Value:(1)

There was a sidebar of potential interest in leveraging the RGI space to be used for revenue-generating group workshops. No specifics were identified. TBD.

Process: In general, the self-introduction part of the event was the most exciting, diverse and informative part with everyone concluding concurrently about how many common threads emerged in the tapestry we were weaving openly in sequence as we told a brief story about ourselves.

The RGI facility tour opened our eyes to some of the possibilities of the infrastructure and the physical spaces might have for our mutual use and benefit.

The hospitality was very warm and welcoming and the upstairs space was nicely fitted out with illustrations of relevance to what had happened in the space before, in the form of timelines, and graphics extracted from the Silicon Valley index and printed as posters for wall hanging.

There was a minimal nod to context setting, but none done prior to the event, and thus not shared with the group beforehand. The wall-hung graphics were visually pleasing and worth a glance, but IMO they did not enter into the conversation in any recognizable way.

Looking at the Cafe Design principles( see image below) which I shared with group by blog post the day before the meeting, I would say that we didn't achieve the goal of " Integrating a set of design principles for hosting conversations that matter" unless the design was hidden, and dealt out by Doug in his meeting orchestration.

Two key ideas that came out of the group:

1. Think with a beginner's mind

2. Consider "dramatizing" the conversation with each member acting a role and taking responsibility for rehearsing and delivering it in a group "theatre-like" performance. IMO this requires preparation before the event - although many of the group could probably do a great job of "improv" we didn't "take the stage" as it were - so if we are to use this approach it will need more preparation by some or all of the participants.

Summary comment: It was a fun session, sparked by the remarkably diverse personalities of the participants, with an outcome that each person felt it worth continuing the conversation.

Hosting conversations that matter.

2009-03-08T17:29:00.000-07:00

In preparation for a meeting this coming Wednesday with 6 colleagues, all of whom have agreed travel to Palo Alto to spend time together to explore mutual possibilities, I was reminded of the Tree of Conversational Knowledge shown below - originally sketched over ten years ago by Juanita Brown, the founder of World Cafe.

This led me to Juanita's Design Principles as shown on her website ( link below)

Caf�Design Principles Caf�Design Principles

Exploring these design principles and applying them together should enhance our Collective IQ and the value we can create and share in our world.

Taking Apart the $819 billion Stimulus Package - washingtonpost.com

2009-02-25T22:48:00.000-08:00

The image above is an infographic describing the stimulus package. go the the link below to see a full size version.

Taking Apart the $819 billion Stimulus Package - washingtonpost.com

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Barack - the Visual Thinker

2009-02-25T22:43:00.000-08:00

Barack is a member of the left-handed visual thinking community who are able to communicate complex subjects visually. He should draw a picture of the stimulus plan so we could all understand it.

Internet2: Stimulus Legislation Community Resource Guide

2009-02-25T22:34:00.000-08:00

Internet2: Stimulus Legislation Community Resource Guide

Silicon Valley Economic Activity and outlook

2009-02-19T14:47:00.000-08:00

click on the picture to see a larger version.

This chart is taken from the Special Analysis 2009 published by jointly by Joint Venture Silicon Valley and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, subtitled:

"How is Silicon Valley’s Industry Mix Changing andWhat does this mean for Economic Opportunity in the Region?
Economic Restructuring and Workforce Transitions"

Here is a quote outlining the existing Green Product and Service employment picture

"Developers of green (or clean) technologies and providers of related products and services are present and growing across these areas of economic activity. Because of their wide distribution across industries, estimating green business and
employment counts require a different approach. According to current estimates, the region’s green economy accounts for almost 700 businesses and over 10,000 jobs. "

It is my belief that significant funds from the Obama Stimulus package and future initiatives will find their way to Silicon Valley and will create jobs and opportunities for innovation in the Green component of our local and global economy.

Here is a link to the website where a copy of the full report can be downloaded.
Joint Venture - Silicon Valley Network

Here is a link emphasizing the importance of green/clean tech to the resurrection of Silicon Valley innovation leadership.

Report: Green tech may help Silicon Valley beat economic downturn_English_Xinhua

WEB 3.0 - semanticiti

2008-10-09T09:32:00.000-07:00

"Semantic technology gives the opportunity for new organisations to wear the mantle of industry leader. Google’s dominance in free text searching will be diminished by the emergence of leaders in market specific intelligent search engines, sitting on their own corpus of data."

Semanticiti - Home

What Daedalus told Darwin

2008-10-07T08:11:00.000-07:00

In this powerful diagram by Zann Gill, she composes the solution forces for avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons.bycombining the Gaia Hypotheses with Fuller's Synergetics and Bio-economics . At the force corners of the triangle are key technologies, social networks and Fuller's World Game. I plan to attend her workshop at NASA and participate in the interaction.

What Daedalus told Darwin

Raising Collaborative IQ

2008-10-07T08:03:00.000-07:00

Zann Gill has created a website that complements her work in collaborative design called the InnovationNetwork. this diagram visualizes the path to breakthrough innovation by a method of bottom-up as opposed to top-down design.
Raising Collaborative IQ

The Stage-Gate Process

2008-10-07T07:01:00.000-07:00

The Stage-Gate Process

SAGE Journals Online -- Free Online Access to all SAGE Journals until October 31, 2008

2008-10-07T06:43:00.000-07:00

SAGE Journals Online -- Free Online Access to all SAGE Journals until October 31, 2008

IBM - InnovationJam 2008 - United States

2008-10-04T13:40:00.000-07:00

IBM returns again this year hosting this large scale global collaboration as a complement to their Global CEO study in 2007. Here's what they have to say about it:

"We call this kind of conversation a Jam. It is IBM's Web 2.0 tool for business collaboration—a massively-scaled online discussion centered on strategic, business-critical issues. For 72 hours, tens of thousands of participants around the world will build on each other's ideas with the help of various Jam technologies and tools—as well as a diverse group of leaders—in real time, regardless of location.

It will be an open exchange of thinking on a scale you have probably never encountered—and the conversation is just about to start..."

A possible corpus for structuring by Metavana?

IBM - InnovationJam 2008 - United States

Jay Smethurst video on ILabs methodology for enabling remote collaboration

2008-09-04T15:57:00.000-07:00

This 8 minute video provides insight into the virtual collaboration methodology that is evolving from Ilabs F2F experience. It is worth watching the progression - and how Jay positions the process. This links to the large paper book you have on collaboration and provides some structure to what Ilabs would provide in a remote setting. Link direct to Youtube for a larger version which is necessary to see the details of Jay's presentation.

New Media Consortium Campus on Second Life

2008-07-27T14:04:00.000-07:00

Watch this short video(link below) describing the NMC campus on SecondLife. Placing the Engelbart Project mural and its interactive collaboration in this environment would open our project the world of NMC participants(museums, universities,businesses)and be a perfect place to stimulate interactivity with the mural on the web.