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group mind blog
We've Started a Blog
We invite you to visit our new public blog. We intend this to be a place to publish ideas about collaboration and collective intelligence, both our own thoughts and those of our partner consultants. You'll find articles there already on:
* Issues in getting people to work online
* Consultant Partners' ideas on the Value Proposition for their clients in online collaboration
* References for Effective Decision Making
* Studying collective intelligence (a quick pitch for the new MIT site on this subject)
* A section we'll develop to Exchange ideas about how GroupMind tools can be used.
Take a look at http://blog.groupmindexpress.com
Point of View
We certainly have a point of view. It revolves around the power of group intelligence, the importance of group process and shared access to archived meeting or project data, the usefulness of visual cues for context in online work. These are design considerations in building out a collaborative space, but they also speak to the need for project leaders to think about group psychology when setting up online work. Here are some further viewpoints:
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Role of simplicity (in building in usability and adoption)
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Need to allow for change dynamics (group has to process information at head, heart and hands levels)
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Importance of iteration (moving through repeated steps of divergent and convergent thinking)
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Power of an accessible written record (transparency, shared context and urgency)
Here is an excerpt from one of the articles:
One of the biggest issues in getting your organization into online work is the mental shift. It isn't just a matter of "doing what we already do, but do it virtually." This shift is one of
* being clear about the process
* building steps backwards from your desired result
* intentionally simplifying what the group does
* building in feedback cycles.
Most people using collaboration, it seems to me, are doing one of these: running surveys, conducting ongoing disucssions, holding online meetings or making a list of tasks. Nothing wrong with this -- but what we advocate is setting up an ongoing workspace, and doing several of these things in context within an organized environment. When you do this, you are more likely to involve your constituents in interaction, and in getting the work completed.
If you are a consultant or a student of online collaboration, and would like to write a short article that would fit with our purpose of forwarding ideas about working together, please let us know.
Please email or call us if you have an issue to discuss. We will be happy to go over things with you. (jon@groupmindexpress.com or 831-465-0576)
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We invite you to visit our new public blog. We intend this to be a place to publish ideas about collaboration and collective intelligence, both our own thoughts and those of our partner consultants. You'll find articles there already on:
* Issues in getting people to work online
* Consultant Partners' ideas on the Value Proposition for their clients in online collaboration
* References for Effective Decision Making
* Studying collective intelligence (a quick pitch for the new MIT site on this subject)
* A section we'll develop to Exchange ideas about how GroupMind tools can be used.
Take a look at http://blog.groupmindexpress.com
Point of View
We certainly have a point of view. It revolves around the power of group intelligence, the importance of group process and shared access to archived meeting or project data, the usefulness of visual cues for context in online work. These are design considerations in building out a collaborative space, but they also speak to the need for project leaders to think about group psychology when setting up online work. Here are some further viewpoints:
*
Role of simplicity (in building in usability and adoption)
*
Need to allow for change dynamics (group has to process information at head, heart and hands levels)
*
Importance of iteration (moving through repeated steps of divergent and convergent thinking)
*
Power of an accessible written record (transparency, shared context and urgency)
Here is an excerpt from one of the articles:
One of the biggest issues in getting your organization into online work is the mental shift. It isn't just a matter of "doing what we already do, but do it virtually." This shift is one of
* being clear about the process
* building steps backwards from your desired result
* intentionally simplifying what the group does
* building in feedback cycles.
Most people using collaboration, it seems to me, are doing one of these: running surveys, conducting ongoing disucssions, holding online meetings or making a list of tasks. Nothing wrong with this -- but what we advocate is setting up an ongoing workspace, and doing several of these things in context within an organized environment. When you do this, you are more likely to involve your constituents in interaction, and in getting the work completed.
If you are a consultant or a student of online collaboration, and would like to write a short article that would fit with our purpose of forwarding ideas about working together, please let us know.
Please email or call us if you have an issue to discuss. We will be happy to go over things with you. (jon@groupmindexpress.com or 831-465-0576)
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Human Ecology Essays - Xander Karkruff
Human Ecology Essays - Xander Karkruff: "I'm not sure how much I agree with the theory of discontinuities, but I appreciate what it is trying to say: humans create barriers between things that do not need to be there. We are forever erecting walls between things we think need to be distinguished, and over time, these walls become so taken for granted that we don't even consider trying to see over the top. Most often, we are afraid of what's on the other side - be it beast, man or heathen - because we are afraid of what the 'strange” implies about our 'normal,” and we're afraid of seeing in ourselves the 'strange” we fear."
Human Ecology Essays - Amy Hoffmaster
Human Ecology Essays - Amy Hoffmaster: "patterns"
In "The Patterns Which Connect,” Bateson(1) describes three orders of connections: first, the relationship within objects. There is a second order connection that describes the relationship between two objects. Third, there are "meta-patterns,” those that relate the contexts of the objects to each other. Bateson illustrates his levels of patterns with phylogenic homology, or similarities in the limbs of humans and horses, compared to lobsters and crabs. He continues to explain that the crab's anatomy contains patterns within the individual itself; this is the first order of pattern. When you compare the crab and the lobster there are similarities, or phylogenic homologies between the parts of the legs and claws. Each of the organisms has segmented legs and similarly shaped claws. These comparisons are second order patterns. The third order pattern, or meta-pattern, is more abstract. You can compare the relationship of the lobster and the crab to the relationship of the human and horse. That is, relating the patterns to each other. Bateson considers the appreciation of the "meta-pattern that connects” an aesthetic.
I map Bateson's theory of "the pattern which connects” on to my understanding of the human ecology of questions. There is meaning at each of the three levels. There are patterns within the ideas of a question, there are patterns between the questions, but there are also patterns that describe the patterns between questions. This third order pattern creates what I would like to call the question space. Robbie and I understood each other's thoughts when we engaged in the space that was created by the patterns of relationships between our questions.
In "The Patterns Which Connect,” Bateson(1) describes three orders of connections: first, the relationship within objects. There is a second order connection that describes the relationship between two objects. Third, there are "meta-patterns,” those that relate the contexts of the objects to each other. Bateson illustrates his levels of patterns with phylogenic homology, or similarities in the limbs of humans and horses, compared to lobsters and crabs. He continues to explain that the crab's anatomy contains patterns within the individual itself; this is the first order of pattern. When you compare the crab and the lobster there are similarities, or phylogenic homologies between the parts of the legs and claws. Each of the organisms has segmented legs and similarly shaped claws. These comparisons are second order patterns. The third order pattern, or meta-pattern, is more abstract. You can compare the relationship of the lobster and the crab to the relationship of the human and horse. That is, relating the patterns to each other. Bateson considers the appreciation of the "meta-pattern that connects” an aesthetic.
I map Bateson's theory of "the pattern which connects” on to my understanding of the human ecology of questions. There is meaning at each of the three levels. There are patterns within the ideas of a question, there are patterns between the questions, but there are also patterns that describe the patterns between questions. This third order pattern creates what I would like to call the question space. Robbie and I understood each other's thoughts when we engaged in the space that was created by the patterns of relationships between our questions.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
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Monday, October 30, 2006
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
1. Shannon Clark, 2. Dave Gray, 3. Chris Allen, 4. Howard, Lenny, Shel and Scott, 5. Verna Allee, 6. Verna with ppt, 7. Eileen Clegg in Action, 8. Vera's Talk muralized by Eileen, 9. Dawn Smith, 10. Mike Herman, 11. Dr.Karen Thompson, 12. IMG_0113.JPG, 13. Could be the Mashup session, 14. David's Network analysis, 15. Networks from another perspective, 16. Chris and Jamais, 17. Dave Gray, 18. meshforum2006
Monday, October 09, 2006
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Friday, September 01, 2006
This map at the Forbes.com site will lead you to a slide show picturing the top 30 cities in Forbes' survey of wired cities.
The "liveliness" of the Forbes.com site provides a strong illustration of the difference between Forbes online and the paper version of the magazine. A great example of how printed business magazines are dying, and how Forbes is innovating to retain subscribers and offer advertisers more qualified reader attention than could ever be captured by the paper magazine. Mark Anderson has a related article at Strategic News Service entitled Bizmags: Sexy Dinosaurs Losing Their Grip??!!
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
- Why are conversation and collaboration tools so underused? Is my list of 7 reasons missing anything? Are any of the reasons predominant?
- Is the answer making the tools better? If so, how? If not, what is the answer?
- Given time, do you think people will eventually learn to use these tools, despite their shortcomings? Which tools, current or envisioned, will be the winners, the killer apps for online-enabled conversation and collaboration, and why?
- What one simple thing should we do/learn to most effectively enable people to become better conversationalists, and how would we do this?
- Most people are still unfamiliar with the tools in the middle and right columns.
- Many of these tools are unintuitive and hence not easy to learn to use.
- The way you have to use these tools is not the way most people converse and collaborate, i.e. they're awkward.
- Most people have poor listening, communication and collaboration skills, and these tools don't solve (and can exacerbate) this underlying problem of ineffective interpersonal skills.
- The training materials for these tools don't match the way most of us learn and discover (i.e. by doing, by watching others, and iteratively by trial and error).
- Often the people we most want to converse or collaborate with aren't online.
- Often we don't even know who the right people are to converse or collaborate with, so we need to go through a process of discovering who those people are first, which these tools cannot yet effectively help us with; once we've discovered who the right people are, we're likely already talking with them using the ubiquitous tools in the left column above.
From Dave Pollard's original blog post.Social Networking: Why are Conversation and Collaboration Tools so Underused?
Thursday, August 24, 2006
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Friday, August 04, 2006
change this as PR for authors,
Read and Pass: "Publishers need to understand that ChangeThis is here to help them, just like Cuba Gooding Jr. understood that Jerry was there to show him the money. ChangeThis could show the publishers the money too. The vast majority of books get published and go unnoticed; ChangeThis offers an opportunity for books with great, viral ideas to get an instant shot of PR. Having millions of people read a chapter of a great book usually means many thousands of people will wind up buying that book.
At ChangeThis, our goal is to change people’s minds through the spread of important ideas. In no way are we out here to make money. But that doesn’t mean we’re against publishers selling more books because of the manifestos we distribute. If people are so moved by an excerpt, by all means they should go out and purchase the whole book.
There’s so many incredible ideas out there, floundering in the sea of published yet undiscovered books. Some of these books are too powerful to let drown into obscurity.
That’s why we’re throwing out lifejackets."
At ChangeThis, our goal is to change people’s minds through the spread of important ideas. In no way are we out here to make money. But that doesn’t mean we’re against publishers selling more books because of the manifestos we distribute. If people are so moved by an excerpt, by all means they should go out and purchase the whole book.
There’s so many incredible ideas out there, floundering in the sea of published yet undiscovered books. Some of these books are too powerful to let drown into obscurity.
That’s why we’re throwing out lifejackets."
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
BA Venture Partners - News: BAVP News
BA Venture Partners - News: BAVP News: "Venture capitalists also sometimes accept lower ownership stakes, as many mature firms have a passel of existing investors. That means lower profits for the new investors when a company finally goes public or is sold. Plus, many investors simply 'don't want to fix the mistakes of their competitors,' says Crosslink's Mr. Stark.
But the likelihood of at least a passable return on a late-stage company looks attractive to many down-on-their-luck venture investors these days.
'Over the last five years, we haven't made a whole lot of capital gains for our customers,' says BA's Mr. O'Driscoll. 'So no one's going to sit there and get all virginal and say, 'I don't want to go late [stage] -- I don't want to make money.''"
But the likelihood of at least a passable return on a late-stage company looks attractive to many down-on-their-luck venture investors these days.
'Over the last five years, we haven't made a whole lot of capital gains for our customers,' says BA's Mr. O'Driscoll. 'So no one's going to sit there and get all virginal and say, 'I don't want to go late [stage] -- I don't want to make money.''"
Monday, July 24, 2006
Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing: "s who are focused on creating highly scalable services and significant value propositions for their end users. Hear Fred Wilson on Businessweek's Blogspotting podcast.
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We recently posted the news that our analyst Charlie O'Donnell is leaving us to join one of our portfolio companies. We are now actively looking for someone to fill his position.
We noticed while working with del.icio.us that their best hires were part of the extended del.icio.us community long before anyone in the company met them. The del.icio.us team first became aware of these people through their work on the web. Several had created useful del.icio.us extensions that demonstrated their understanding of the service and its potential. So when faced with challenge of filling Charlie's shoes, we thought we would reach out to see if there was someone out there who is already part of the Union Square Ventures community because they follow this blog, but who might now want to become an active member of our team.
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Sunday, July 23, 2006
GoogleBase Job Listing: World Domination Coordinator
GoogleBase Job Listing: World Domination Coordinator
Originally uploaded by dmc500hats.
humorous?? tweak on GoogleBase
What do Grazr and BBL add to the technology google has underlying googlebase and googleprint?
I envision a google search server powered with the technology that is the basis for such BETA projects used to build the GFVN -
of a demo which is structured database filled out with the content components of GFVN -
Imagine having your very own dedicated google search engine
hardware with to manage the population of data/information/blogposts that will be the content of GFVN
Wouldn't ConversationBase work best on a dedicated google server(s) fitted out with the value network content?
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Dr. Larry Dossey's Official Website
Dr. Larry Dossey's Official Website: "What applications, beyond medical practice, can Era III thinking have, in our culture at large and in our private lives?
The foundation of Era III is nonlocal mind -- mind that is infinite, eternal, immortal. As nonlocal mind becomes a living reality for more people, we could become a kinder, gentler culture. Nonlocal mind leads to what I call the Golden Rule of Era III: 'Do good unto others because they are you!' Why? Because, as I said earlier, nonlocal mind is unlimited and boundless, which means that minds can't be walled off from each other. In some sense, at some level, we are each other.
Taking nonlocal mind seriously can, as I describe in Reinventing Medicine, widen the dimensions of the consciousness. We can tap into sources of wisdom beyond ourselves and beyond the present. Creative breakthroughs and prophetic knowing become ordinary in the context of nonlocal mind. Empathy and compassion flower as a result of our felt linkage with one another. And the awareness of immortality, as I've described, takes the pressure off living and dying. This will not happen automatically, however. We have to do our share and set our biases and prejudices aside. These are urgent matters. As Andre Malraux said, 'The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be at all.' "
The foundation of Era III is nonlocal mind -- mind that is infinite, eternal, immortal. As nonlocal mind becomes a living reality for more people, we could become a kinder, gentler culture. Nonlocal mind leads to what I call the Golden Rule of Era III: 'Do good unto others because they are you!' Why? Because, as I said earlier, nonlocal mind is unlimited and boundless, which means that minds can't be walled off from each other. In some sense, at some level, we are each other.
Taking nonlocal mind seriously can, as I describe in Reinventing Medicine, widen the dimensions of the consciousness. We can tap into sources of wisdom beyond ourselves and beyond the present. Creative breakthroughs and prophetic knowing become ordinary in the context of nonlocal mind. Empathy and compassion flower as a result of our felt linkage with one another. And the awareness of immortality, as I've described, takes the pressure off living and dying. This will not happen automatically, however. We have to do our share and set our biases and prejudices aside. These are urgent matters. As Andre Malraux said, 'The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be at all.' "
about elise.com: On the Job
a treatise on blogging Elise is a local consultant her blogroll connects her to some good folks.about elise.com: On the Job
Friday, July 21, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Jeffery hates tags clouds -- woth reading Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Micro Persuasion: Mind The Conversation Gap
the value of blogs in closing the Conversation Gap
Micro Persuasion: Mind The Conversation Gap
Micro Persuasion: Mind The Conversation Gap
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Guy's top ten postings ( his own of course - what did you think)
Guy's top ten postings ( his own of course - what did you think)
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki
see the article onan interview with
David Sifry of technorati. good stuff
see the article onan interview with
David Sifry of technorati. good stuff
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
a book in process. Kelly is the proto-human of his age - out of control but in a very cool way
a book in process. Kelly is the proto-human of his age - out of control but in a very cool way
Sunday, July 16, 2006
flickrInspector | http://netomer.de/flickrtools/
flickrInspector | http://netomer.de/flickrtools/
This scan of meby flickr inspector is scary - but maybe useful.
This scan of meby flickr inspector is scary - but maybe useful.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Principles of XML design: When to use elements versus attributes
Principles of XML design: When to use elements versus attributes
related to OPML - which appears to be a distant child of the More Outliner
It would seem important to understand how graphic markup language for visualizations fits within the hierarchical structure of OPML.
related to OPML - which appears to be a distant child of the More Outliner
It would seem important to understand how graphic markup language for visualizations fits within the hierarchical structure of OPML.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Company - Duarte Design
a leading hightech presentation company possibly a partner for TI
Company - Duarte Design
Company - Duarte Design
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Uniconventional Theories
Dave Pollard has an interesting challenge to his readers to provide "unconventional theories" to explain 7 different quandaries. It might be interesting to try.How to Save the World
Friday, May 19, 2006
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O'Reilly Network: Hypermedia: Why Now?
Worth reading ; discusses remix from Tom Barnett through udell's podcast and then Phil Windley's remix of that
O'Reilly Network: Hypermedia: Why Now?
O'Reilly Network: Hypermedia: Why Now?
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