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Future of Facebook survey results
Thanks to everyone who participated and responded to the 4 question survey for the Future of Facebook Project. Below are your results! We’ll be integrating these responses with the ones given by the...
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Occupy Wall Street Catalyzing a Cooperatively Owned Communications...
What would a cooperatively owned and operated communications infrastructure look like? One that used peer-to-peer technologies to create a global network which is immune to censorship and resistant to...
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Unleashing the Creative Warrior: Day 1
I have been feeling a bit disconnected from my creative inspiration of late, so have decided to intentionally stoke the fire. I’ve found for myself that the muse reveals herself when I can connect to...
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What the Contact Conference Was Really About
I am very grateful to have been able to take part in organizing the Contact Conference, an event that pitched itself as a working festival of innovation, a social technologies exhibitor space, and a...
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Future of Facebook: Politics [video]
The second installment in the 6 part Future of Facebook video series, a project to explore the impact social networking technologies are having on our lives. Thanks to interviewees Chris Arkenberg,...
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The Failure of the Occupy Movement or the Emergence of a Living Systems...
I got done chatting with a colleague this morning, who went on a bit of a rant about the failures of the Occupy movement. Their comments were similar to ones I’ve seen in the media – lack of apparent...
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8 Tools for Self-Analysis: Mapping Your Strengths, Gifts & Roles
I’ve always been fascinated with the workings of my own mind, and by human nature in general. With a background doing undergraduate work in Psychology, and graduate work in Social and Critical Theory,...
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Superhero School: An Epicenter for Disruptive Innovation
I put a short post up a few days ago in an online group I’m in, with the above image and this brief description: superhero school. center for disruptive innovation. continuous learning zone. collective...
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Fusion: A Mindmeld for Action-Oriented Change Agents
What a rush!!!!! I just arrived back home after one of the more transformative weeks of my life, kicked off by an incredible personal foresight weekend in Northern California. I want to share with...
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Mixtape 2011
Last year around this time I put together a mixtape and encouraged others to make their own playlists so we could discover new music together. I just put together this year’s list on grooveshark. For...
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Blueseed Project: A Floating Superhero School & Collaboratory
A few weeks ago I wrote up a post drawing attention to a trend I’m seeing around the world of ‘superhero schools’ cropping up, giving examples of these physical locations that serve as hubs for...
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Essential Skills for 21st Century Survival: Part 6: Storytelling
This is part 6 in a 12 part series. The first five skills were Pattern Recognition, Environmental Scanning, Network Weaving, Foresight, and Conscious Awareness. :: storytelling :: The following video...
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Facilitating Trust & Capacity-Building in 21st Century Organizations
I just got back from co-facilitating my first Fusion, an amazing two day event in Mill Valley, California! (We modeled it after the Fusion retreat I attended a few weeks ago.) The framing was...
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Lifehack: Morning Junto: [Daily Activity Tracker + Scoreboard]
I’ve decided to add a new theme to the blog – lifehacks. My attention of late has been focused on how to be more action-oriented, and I realized I’ve been poorly equipped with tools (techniques,...
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2011 Year in Review & 2012 Intentions & Aspirations
i didn’t want this day to end without having taken a serious look at where i have been in the past year and when i want to go next. i criticize myself horribly and never feel like i’m doing enough,...
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Recognized in Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2011!
Thanks to Innovation Excellence for listing me in their Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2011 roundup! I plan to keep the creative juices flowing throughout 2012 and beyond!
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Make 2012 the Year You Learn to Code!
Codecademy, a startup offering a fun way to learn programming, has just launched Codeyear, an initiative encouraging people to learn to code via interactive programming lessons that get sent to you...
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93+ Superhero Schools, Collaboratories, Incubators, Accelerators & Hubs for...
emerging pattern of “living labs,”spaces bringing together elements of a tech incubator, an R&D facility, a hackerspace/fablab, a sustainability demonstration site, and it’s all tied to place -...
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How Will We Collaborate if We Can’t Trust Each Other?
A few years ago, I had a big snowcrash moment about the power of networks and the web, envisioning the amazing potential that could be unleashed if we could just build our networks and weave them all...
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Core Principles for the New Economy: Human Agency & Enlightened Self-Interest
Yesterday Stowe Boyd wrote a commentary (Getting to Trust: Better Swift than Deep) in response to my post about trust and collaboration, saying that the way of the future is connectives, not...
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