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Posts Tagged ‘empower’
Who’s Your Favorite Comedian and What are You Learning From Them?
Submitted by Mike Sansone March 13th, 2010 - 12:00. No Comments »
Social Media- Merging On and Offline Activities
Submitted by Janet March 13th, 2010 - 01:36. No Comments »
I heard about this amazing project in Detroit called Loveland on NPR. You can hear the full story here but here it is in the compressed version.
Jerry Paffendorf bought a relatively useless plot of land in Detroit and then portioned the entire thing up into 10,000 square inch plots of land. He sold the [...]
Sex, Science, and Innovation Twitter
Submitted by Dan March 12th, 2010 - 13:55. No Comments »
Twitter growth is slowing down. Only 30% of the members actually do it. What can actually get accomplished in 140 characters? Obviously there is a hardcore group of tweeters feeding twitter. And another hardcore group trolling Twitter. Are they the Paul Reveres of our society or the Chicken Littles?
Creative Capital; The Next Factor of Production
Submitted by Dan March 11th, 2010 - 01:00. No Comments »
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.
Social Media Power By The Hour
Submitted by Dan March 2nd, 2010 - 13:46. 2 Comments »
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
Submitted by Dan March 2nd, 2010 - 01:00. No Comments »
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?
Submitted by Dan February 25th, 2010 - 17:25. No Comments »
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.
Innovating Innovation
Submitted by Dan February 24th, 2010 - 18:14. No Comments »
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
Submitted by Dan February 23rd, 2010 - 13:32. No Comments »
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.
The Interesting Thing About Interest Rates
Submitted by Dan February 17th, 2010 - 01:00. No Comments »
The problem is that risk can never be negative, therefore interest rates can never be negative – that is called “breaking he buck”. Risk is a measure of volatility, or, “deviations from what is considered normal”. While there is certainly good deviations and bad deviations, there can never be a “negative” deviation from normal – it is a mathematical impossibility, a glitch.
