... a beginner at something

Highlighting the course of corporate transparency

As Nigel Cameron says, the impact of social media will be felt.

New tools connect more people, markets, and customers faster and cheaper, to shape reputation and build business selection pressure towards corporate transparency.  As the race is only going to get faster, how prepared is your organization?

Image: Canadian Museum for Human Rights by oggiedog on flickr

Someone you'd want to work with?

People find each other, connect, and some deepen the relation, co-create and collaborate. As on town square so on the web, giving us all useful free tools like Firefox, Linux, Apache and more. On the way to intense co-creative productivity, how do we determine who we want to work with?

In a closed forum, Venessa asked, "what information do you want to see when looking at a person's profile to get a fast snapshot if they are someone you'd want to work with?"  This reminded me of her kind selection to cross-post on her blog, much visited, an earlier post of mine, and of next-gen profiles we prototyped for a digital collaboratory. 

Let me summarize 3 years of intense digital contacts that followed more than 20 years of local forum BBS, loose web connection and strong digital group collaboration at work. Much was accomplished by e-mail, too.

Image credit: Social Media monitoring and the spectrum of online relationships by David J Carr

Co... -mpeti, -opera, -llabora, -crea ...tion?? Collaboratory Learning!

This riff on learning together is (i) inspired by Michelle James: From Competition to Cocreation - and Back Sometimes. 

Image: Second Life: Eduisland II: ISTE Collaboratory & Idea Library: Tour: Right of Front Door by rosefirerising

 

What we know to be true

co mpeti tion		I win you lose
co opera tion		conditional love
co llabora tion		more than the sum of our parts
co crea tion		open space for creative emergence

Good Practice in Knowledge "Management" and "Innovation"

Six quotes I found remarkable and noteworthy during a recent piece of research.

Image credit: "True Cost" from "Source to Shelf"

 

1. Who Knows What? - Business Insight

 Wall Street Journal - MIT Sloan Management Review

By Dorit Nevo, Izak Benbasat and Yair Wand, October 20, 2009

Finding in-house experts isn’t easy. But most companies make it harder than it should be.

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The First Social Media: The Air

With social media being a frequent object of buzz itself and self-proclaimed experts offering help with all this newfangled stuff, let me ask you this:

What's really new?

Indeed, the  air that we breathe was the very first social media.

Let me prove it — after giving thanks to authors and articles that (i) inspired this one:

Amber: An Open Letter to the Social Business Industry

Matt: What You Need, When You Need It - Contextual Relevance In Social Influence

Gratitude to @Ambercadabra for insisting. And others for prodding me on.

Now, how is it the air is the very first social media? Or rather why do people talk about social media as if it was ... [fill in the blank your way] and more?

 

Airstream Trailer in Yokohama

Meet Mr. Junichi Kanasugi from Yokohama, who enjoys his Airstream trailer for four seasons now, with his wife, his son and the dog, a tan Shiba-Inu. They live around the block and I have passed by his home and the big trailer parked next to it many times, exchanging greetings and small talk.

Only when I learned my remote friends Becky Blanton, who I had met (once), and Tom Bentley write for the Airstream magazine, did I notice the connection, got any interest in the brand at all and approached the neighbor to ask for an interview. So glad he said yes, but like many Japanese, the family do not want their likeness in public, so we have only Mr. Kanasugi in the photos.

Went solar in Yokohama (almost)

Fifteen Panels were installed as planned (prior article: Going Solar in Yokohama). Again I am amazed at the dependability of craftspeople in Japan. They appear on time, normally know what to do and proceed to deliver their work as scheduled. On January 29, the utility will come, install the second electricity meter, and then we can try out making home power.

The scaffolding is done extra for the one hundred homes of the Yokohama City project, they want no accidents. Normally there would be only the ladder and the lift-ladder (already removed when this picture was taken, more here). The rooftop team coordinated by Nitten Solar worked well, took regular breaks and finished by early afternoon.

Electric wiring work and installation of the HEMS took much longer, way into darkness. If I figure out how to do it I will make the actual power generation data available, which we can access on the home LAN and which are shared with Yokohama City via Toshiba, the supplier of the Home Energy Management System.

Season's Greetings, Venessa and Crowd

Happened again upon Venessa Miemis' talk at Sibos, and gave it a fresh edit on the machine transcription Youtube provided. 'Tis the season...

Giving thanks to virtual friends, and why we cannot explain twitter

If you never used twitter, don't worry and skip this. Or open the page, skip all the names and scroll all the way down for a quick briefing.

 

Dear loose connections,

thank you for the frequent or occasional live energetic conversations. I so appreciate your effortless beingness, you mirroring, and co-creation with you. Your virtual friendship and real trust mean a lot to me. So  I hope you enjoy your chosen twitterfriends as well. 

You know who you are. Thanks to http://mytwitterfans.com everyone may know. Want to see the whole long list?