Posts Tagged ‘Conversation’

Creative Capital; The Next Factor of Production

If we expect to deliver an alternate social currency backed by innovation, we need to reflect deeply upon this specific factor of production. We need to think, observe, and interpret with the flexibility that “Creatives” have – if not, we need the humility to let them help us. Only then can we start connecting the dots.

Blockbuster Writes Their Own Obituary

I’ll keep this post short because that’s about how long Blockbuster seems to want it.

Social Capital: The Currency of the Social Economy

The convention for creating financial opportunities is evolving and changing the way we seed prospects, promote our expertise and prowess, and connect with those who can help us learn and advance through the facilitation of strategic and mutually beneficial alliances.
Digital capitalization is laying a foundation for expanding the need to cultivate and participate, not only [...]

Integration Nation

Then, out of the blue, the economy starts to disappear into thin air and nobody knows where all the “Market Value” has gone. Trying to “control the message” is like trying to control the temperature of the room by turning the thermostat with all the windows open. The Dollar is disappearing – but where is it disappearing to?

Social Media Power By The Hour

Making human knowledge and intentions tangible in a market place opens up the possibility of a whole new class of business plans. We call this Social Power by the Hour.

Balance Sheet For Knowledge Assets

However, in the world of social media, a huge backlog causes a serious problem – it represents commitments made that have not yet been delivered. An unfulfilled promise in a social network is a liability and not an asset.

What The Heck Is An Asset?

To ignore the fact that all rational human behavior, intentions, decisions, reactions, conversations, relationships, education, ideology and every other state of human consciousness in a market, corporation, community, family, or social network ARE NOT characterized in the form of a quantity and a quality, is frankly, ignorant to ones market, irresponsible to one’s community, and incompetent to one’s profession.

Time Spent on Social Networks up 82% Around the World

Nielsen recently released a new report that officially documents what many of us already know, just never substantiated through data. According to a study published at the end of January 2010, Nielsen observed the online social activity of consumers around the world and discovered an 82% increase in time spent on social networking sites in [...]

Innovating Innovation

For us, innovation can only be proportional to the rate of change of knowledge. Anything we can do to accelerate the exchange of knowledge between people ultimately results in innovation – all of our business plans are built on this notion, this is our passion.

In Search of the Economic Warp Drive

The Next Economic Paradigm is a very simple idea yet the overwhelming majority of people have absolutely no idea what we’re talking about. The strangest part of this work is the knowledge that eventually this will become completely obvious to everyone and the transformation, from beginning to end, will take a very short period of time.