tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75099219318752051322024-02-08T10:33:13.048-05:00Work & Survivalsalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-85488907859910592522011-06-16T10:42:00.001-04:002011-06-16T10:44:22.109-04:00<span style="font-family: arial;" class="comment-body" text="I am new to the group and appreciate being here.A wise person taught me years ago, that technology is meant to carry out our intentions. On a simple level, if I want to call a colleague, it is not my intention to call her office, her home, or her temporary location. It is my intention to call her. So, I say "call Helen", and technology simplifies the search and calls Helen, wherever she is.On a more fundamental level -- technology is always connected to our intentions. That is both a moral and practical foundation. Our humanity is always at play. In a world that truly appreciates diversity -- we should never inhibit the personal and professional development of anyone. That is a fundamental of a truly inclusive organization, community, or group of communities.Here's a site that I have just learned about. There is an interesting correlation to education and the issue of community-based technology. I agree with Ashwin's comments. We need to look at "communities of need" and not simply communities of greed. I know that sounds harsh. But when technology is only developed from a profit point of view, our humanity may be at question.http://studentforce.ning.com/Not trying to sound convoluted (though that is a something I find hard to avoid sometimes. :)Technology, and our intentions with the development and use of technology, strikes at our basic humanity. Always. It is our responsibility to be active participants and not simply leave technology to the experts.Sal Rasa"><span class="text">A wise person taught me years ago, that technology is meant to carry out our intentions. On a simple level, if I want to call a colleague, it is not my intention to call her office, her home, or her temporary location. It is my intention to call her. So, I say "call Helen", and technology simplifies the search and calls Helen, wherever she is.<br /><br />On a more fundamental level -- technology is always connected to our intentions. That is both a moral and practical foundation. <br /><br />Our humanity is always at play. In a world that truly appreciates diversity -- we should never inhibit the personal and professional development of anyone. That is a fundamental of a truly inclusive organization, community, or group of communities.<br /><br />Here's a site that I have just learned about. There is an interesting correlation to education and the issue of community-based technology. We need to look at "communities of need" and not simply communities of greed. I know that sounds harsh. But when technology is only developed from a profit point of view, our humanity may be at question.<br /><a target="blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstudentforce%2Ening%2Ecom%2FNot&urlhash=ei8a&_t=tracking_disc" rel="nofollow">http://studentforce.ning.com/ </a><br /><br />Not trying to sound convoluted (though that is a something I find hard to avoid sometimes. :)Technology, and our intentions with the development and use of technology, strikes at our basic humanity. Always.<br /><br />It is our responsibility to be active participants and not simply leave technology to the experts.<br /><br />Sal Rasa </span></span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-14626671882171824472011-03-22T20:55:00.000-04:002011-03-22T20:57:45.753-04:00Really smart<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"The invention of the remote control changed the timing of the world"</span>- Comedian, writer, director - Sid Caesar</span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-89727426682722193622011-03-15T09:22:00.001-04:002011-03-15T09:24:25.907-04:00Brain Research Supports Long-Term Teachings of Cis BerryI know that Cis will be modest about this. But this news from MIT, is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the deep research and new understanding regarding how our brain actually works. <br /><br />What I am learning (and getting advice on), is that everything Cis has written about language, nuance and loss of nuance, literal imposition vs. inner voice and articulation etc., is supported by what scientists are discovering. Take a look at this brief article.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/brain-language-0301.html -- MIT Newsletter</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">Now, a study from MIT neuroscientists shows that in individuals born blind, parts of the visual cortex are recruited for language processing. The finding suggests that the visual cortex can dramatically change its function — from visual processing to language — and it also appears to overturn the idea that language processing can only occur in highly specialized brain regions that are genetically programmed for language tasks.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">“Your brain is not a prepackaged kind of thing. It doesn’t develop along a fixed trajectory, rather, it’s a self-building toolkit. The building process is profoundly influenced by the experiences you have during your development,” says Marina Bedny, an MIT postdoctoral associate in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and lead author of the study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Feb. 28.</span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-15481144024042670932010-08-19T16:40:00.002-04:002010-08-19T16:54:34.842-04:00A Thought About the Irag War and Gratitude to Those Who Served <meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <link rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/srasa/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_filelist.xml"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:drawinggridhorizontalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:drawinggridverticalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:dontautofitconstrainedtables/> <w:dontvertalignintxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-link:"Plain Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.PlainTextChar {mso-style-name:"Plain Text Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Plain Text"; mso-ansi-font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Arial; mso-ascii-font-family:Arial; mso-hansi-font-family:Arial;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Today, as we hear about American troops leaving Iraq, it's a time to deeply thank those who served. It is also, a time to reflect on the morality and humanity of our actions as a nation. Putting aside, incidental political bias and really looking at what we are doing. </span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Religions have always played their part in wars. I found the following statement to the Bush Administration to be a remarkably insightful plea from the oldest religious order of monks and nuns in the Catholic church. - Sal Rasa</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This is the official position of Sr. Joan Chittister's religious order on the war in Iraq:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The following STATEMENT FROM BENEDICTINE MEN AND WOMEN arose from the meeting of Benedictine Presidents of Women's Federations and Men's Congregations of the United States held on October 12, 2002.</span>
<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">STATEMENT FROM BENEDICTINE MEN AND WOMEN</span>
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<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >We Benedictine men and women, members of the oldest religious order in the Roman Catholic Church, are alarmed by President Bush’s and the US government’s steady movement toward an unprecedented pre-emptive attack against the people of Iraq. Born in late antiquity when marauding armies made all civilization vulnerable to violence, Benedictines adopted as their motto the Latin word Pax (Peace), and the central teaching in our 1500 year-old Rule of Benedict is that everyone, including every stranger, is to be welcomed as a blessing and treated as Christ. From that stance of reverence for the other, we state our opposition to a military attack on Iraq for the following reasons:</span>
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<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >· A military attack against a densely populated country, already decimated by war and economic sanctions, will put millions of vulnerable civilians at risk of death and disease;</span>
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<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >· The threatened military attack would follow over a decade of repressive sanctions that have already killed millions of innocent Iraqis, many of them children, who die of malnutrition, contaminated water, and a shortage of medication for treatable diseases;</span>
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<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >· A military attack will not decrease but increase the likelihood of terrorist attacks against the US and any allies who join us, both by giving immediate incentive to existing terrorist cells and by drawing more resentful and desperate young people of Islamic nations towards terrorist ideology;</span>
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<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >· A military attack now will further divert attention and resources from solving our domestic economic problems, which threaten millions of American families and individuals with the terror of hunger, homelessness, and unemployment;</span>
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<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >· A military attack would needlessly put at risk the young men and women in the US military who would fight this war;</span>
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<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >In saying this, we also recognize that Saddam Hussein’s threats must be taken seriously. We realize that he did use chemical weapons against his own people in the 1980’s, when he was allied with the US. We believe that United Nations diplomacy must be used to resolve this ongoing problem; threats to attack serve only to destabilize the situation and make more likely the use of any weapons Iraq may have.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >One of the main reasons given by the administration for going to war is that, as Americans, we must refuse to live in fear. As people of faith, we know that fear is a spiritual problem. Fear can only be overcome by confronting fear itself, not by eradicating every new object of fear. The answer to fear is not war but a deep and living faith.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Some of us Benedictines oppose all war as immoral, but all of us oppose this particular war as immoral. We will each do what we can to prevent it. As we gather each day for prayer in our monasteries, we pledge to join together in praying that peace will prevail.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">For additional information contact:</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Sister Mary Lou Kownacki, O.S.B.</span>
<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Mount Saint Benedict Monastery</span>
<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">6101 East Lake Road</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.osb.org/amcass/peace0210.html</span>
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The storm surge breached the city's levees at multiple points, leaving 80 percent of the city submerged, tens of thousands of victims clinging to rooftops, and hundreds of thousands scattered to shelters around the country....</div></div>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-33214709128415841592010-02-02T23:43:00.003-05:002010-02-02T23:51:59.265-05:00Do we really understand politics?<span class="sqq"><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Maria Montessori </span><br /></span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-31222235019142186772009-09-15T17:39:00.003-04:002009-09-15T17:50:03.317-04:00Is This Why I Pay Almost 3K Per Month for Two People?http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/15/potter_pr/index.html<br /><h1><span style="font-size:100%;">How corporate P.R. works to kill healthcare reform</span></h1> <p id="deck">Health insurers have become expert at using P.R. to get what they want. I got out before the latest round</p> <p id="ednote"><b>Editor's note:</b> Wendell Potter, formerly a communications officer for the private health insurer Cigna, is now the Senior Fellow on Health Care for the Center for Media and Democracy. He delivered the remarks below at the Center for American Progress. </p><p id="byline">By Wendell Potter</p>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-41218987621252619772009-08-19T01:01:00.005-04:002009-08-19T13:35:12.711-04:00Knowledgeable and Clear Health Care Infomation<span style="font-family:arial;">Always compelling and open, this blog by Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is important to all of us right now.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RUNNING A HOSPITAL</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">THIS IS A BLOG STARTED BY A CEO OF A LARGE BOSTON HOSPITAL TO SHARE THOUGHTS ABOUT HOSPITALS, MEDICINE, AND HEALTH CARE ISSUES.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.runningahospital.blogspot.com/">http://www.runningahospital.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />Please help others to read this and become more informed about critical decision making as a country and as families, patients and practitioners.<br /><br />Sal<br /><br /><br /></span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-82576307336734153412009-07-07T11:40:00.002-04:002009-07-07T11:45:09.222-04:00<h3 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-family:arial;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span style="font-size:78%;">Heard from a friend at the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) today, and was reminded of what the author Tom Wolf recently said regarding the current world economy and who we look to for influence.<br /><br />Wolf said: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Wall Street is like Broadway. Nothing new happens there anymore".</span><br /><br />Here's to the people at the RSC who work so hard to carry on the work of theatre. The way Shakespeare was, and is, always current.<br /></span></h3><h3 style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-family:arial;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span style="font-size:78%;">Here's to the RSC's willingness to confront the search for truth, humanity and politics.<br /><br />In today's world, they are a very old company brave enough to work in earnest.</span></h3><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" >Sal</span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-76219417810352010872009-07-07T00:42:00.002-04:002009-07-07T00:46:51.081-04:00Interesting Article About Facebook Use<span style="font-family: arial;">I am working with some grad students who make the point that much of what we so urgently here about now regarding networking issues is old news to them. <br /><br />They wonder "why did it take so long for people to talk about this stuff?"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Sal</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">By RANDY COHEN</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Published: July 1, 2009</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">My friend is a popular eighth-grade teacher. She has a Facebook account and has been “friended” by many of her students, who make their pages available to her. Consequently, she has learned a lot about them, including the inevitable under-age drinking and drug use and occasional school-related mischief like cheating on tests or plagiarizing assignments. Must she report any of this to the school, the police or the parents? The school has no policy for dealing with this modern problem. A.S., NEW YORK</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/magazine/05FOB-ethicist-t.html </span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-23007139260125331312009-05-11T00:26:00.005-04:002009-05-12T12:02:50.570-04:00What's New and Good and Bad<span style="font-family:arial;">Today, for the first time in the history of the work place, we have a small army of workers who are skilled at creating and using visual media. An arena that was previously held for "experts". <br /><br />And, I understand that visual media dates back to the cave days. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Every tribe has it's story tellers. Now, everyone has a pallet. </span><br /><br />I was listening to a radio discussion about cruelty on U Tube. How people actually find humor in human suffering with certain videos.<br /><br />One response regarding a video apparently showing someone in mental and physical torment was: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >"I did not even think the person was real".<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">This got me to thinking.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > </span><span style="font-family:arial;">I spend considerable time developing and observing social networks and social network analysis. It is becoming clear to me that<span style="font-weight: bold;"> the very same mechanisms for creating community also can and do build arenas totally absent of empathy.<br /></span><br />This lack of empathy was a notion put forth by the commentator during his interview.<br /><br />I also began to think that <span style="font-weight: bold;">the ability to network is new, but then again, is it?</span> And, it seems that many people, build networks, text one another and use abbreviated language <span style="font-weight: bold;">to build a sense of ho</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>. A home that is theirs. Not their parent's home, or their relative's home, but their own home.<br /><br />Historically, there are many references to arenas without empathy. In Ancient Rome for example, empathy was a vote by the aristocracy and a cry from the public for yes or no.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Our ability to network is deeper than the social marketing hype</span> we are experiencing today.<br /><br />It has something to do with our nature. And that, we must always recognize as good and capable of what is bad.<br /></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7509921931875205132#" onclick="togglePostOptions(); return false">Post Options</a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Sal<br /></span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-62227690393175056612009-04-30T00:20:00.004-04:002009-04-30T00:31:21.086-04:00Lost a friend this week<span style="font-family:arial;">Gerald Frisch died the other day. Jerry was the inventor of The Three Way Validation process. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Simply put, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jerry's process was developed long before technology would exist</span> to accomplish what his system identified. <br /><br />Jerry was committed to concepts like:</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">No proposals. Only Action Plans.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Helping CEOs discover if their intentions were really communicated and acted upon by managers, workers and associated communication strategies.</span></li></ul><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Jerry was in his early ninety's when he provoked me to attend several meetings with NYC hospital executives. He would leave these meetings with a clear notion of <span style="font-weight: bold;">who was the real activist</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">who was the complacent buyer</span> who would not act on anything valuable.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">He started his career in the Armed Forces, went on to U.S. News and World Report and then formed his own company. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I learned a great deal from him.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> I will miss his difficult self</span> and the challenges he gave me to keep up with his thinking.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Sal</span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-21748529726404855572009-04-08T01:48:00.002-04:002009-04-08T02:17:27.861-04:00A Great Deal is Being Missed in My Neighborhood<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta 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style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Transparency of intentions and expectations.<span style=""> </span>People need to understand what you are about and what’s in it for them, in order to engage during a stressful time.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><!--[if !supportLists]--><ul><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Statements like “added value” can be interpreted as bromides unless there is some visible example of</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> what you are talking about<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><ul><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In today’s networked environment, connecting to underlying issues and related community needs will</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> support decisions to stimulate the buying of services. This must be understood as foundational and </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">not theoretical.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Small businesses with BIG problems and Big businesses with many SMALL problems that will become enormous.<o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Information, communication and transformation, using any media that creates a Network of useful change</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>In February, during The </span><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ideas to Help NYC's Economy </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">event sponsored by Crains, it was<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">stated that re-vitalizing the economy of New York City is “<i style="">dependent upon the development of small businesses…small business cannot make the mistakes of big business”.<span style=""> </span></i>It’s true, we must support the small business community and we cannot afford the “big” mistakes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There is however, a current and curious imbalance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Too many small businesses are closing</span>, due to sudden and unusually high rent increases in areas like Greenwich Village. And, even before that terrible surprise occurs, these owners may not have had the finances or ability to have developed fundamental business plans. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In larger organizations, silos act like neighborhoods or fiefdoms, avoiding collaboration and resulting in lost ROI.</span><span style=""> </span>A walk along Hudson Street in NYC, is an alarming example of businesses that are gone forever with a significant number of these properties abandoned for several years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Interestingly, we now have a small army of experienced advisers who have no work.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p>Included are business transformation, IT, financial services and web development experts.<span style=""> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Small businesses represent neighborhoods in need. We are not connecting these work seeking experts with those neighborhood needs and the relationship to the larger economy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Neighborhood degeneration is costly in every way</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Financial, cultural and security issues are all at question. What’s missing and what I believe in offering, is a proven methodology based on rapid discovery with the ability to align intentions, strategy and results.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It’s not traditional or costly consulting. This approach helps to contemporize and accelerate the work of everyone who is involved.<span style=""> </span>I am interested in getting business for myself and with my colleagues, by helping others find meaningful work, using a networked approach to help one another. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It's important today, to collect real data to dissect significant problems and provide actual communication steps that can be used immediately, to create measurable improvement.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Small businesses create conversations that define our commerce and culture</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Today, I had several conversations with store owners who live for their family business. The conversations were deeply moving and totally relevant to the vitality of NYC's economy and life.</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Sal</span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in;"></p>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-53967683078137151422009-03-31T23:50:00.005-04:002009-04-01T00:18:40.110-04:00"It's noboby. Just the IT guy"<span style="font-family:arial;">A new Turner Broadcast television show called </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Trust Me,</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> is set in a traditional Chicago big scale advertising company.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The show has a ring of giving life to a dinosaur and not really connected to today's business environment.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I though it was an ironic moment tonight, when I caught this comment.<br /><br />The senior creative director was hiding his boss in the creative director's office. Seems that his boss had been sent home to calm down after an intramural altercation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">When a copy writer (and the show has some pretty solid work place stereotypes), asked the creative director - </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >"who's in there?"</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> - the response was : </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >"Oh, that's nobody. It's the IT guy".</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now,</span> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >that</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">rang true</span>. And maybe, the only moment of the show that did.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Out of touch dinosaurs in all industries, always give themselves away with the simple language of exclusion and silo behavior.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >How many organizations still think of IT as the help desk?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">While it is not uncommon to respect and even publicize the IT functions of a company,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > it's another thing to collaborate with IT to achieve business objectives and strategies. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I am not saying anything new. In fact, that's the point.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Sometimes, pop-culture TV is more insightful than intended.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Sal</span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-6413464885387094852009-03-30T00:17:00.000-04:002009-03-30T00:19:19.129-04:00<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">Olympus Medical Center (WA) </span><a style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20090327/NEWS/303279991" target="_blank">gets approval</a><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"> for a $2 million GE Centricity practice EMR purchase. This board member must know hospital IT: "There are going to be changes. I just feel them. And I think all of them are going to cost money."<br /></span><br />Posted on HIStalk today.<br /><br /><a href="http://histalk2.com/2009/03/28/monday-morning-update-33009/"><span style="font-family: arial;">http://histalk2.com/2009/03/28/monday-morning-update-33009/</span></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"><br /></span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-73373206337585874842009-03-25T23:30:00.006-04:002009-03-25T23:47:18.773-04:00Health Care Innovation?<span style="font-family:arial;">Posted today, on <a href="http://www.histalk.com/">http://www.histalk.com </a></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >"An OB-GYN </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">sues a Utah hospital, claiming the CEO forced him out and that nurses falsified charts to make him look bad. He also claims he dictated a chart note that contradicted the nurse’s fraudulent changes, but the hospital deleted it from the EMR. The HIPAA audit trail should prove it one way or another, and surely the hospital won’t publicly claim that its systems don’t have one".</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Interesting perspective on electronic medical records and security.</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-family:arial;">Sal</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /></span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-3255932286556709562009-03-13T01:09:00.003-04:002009-03-24T17:22:25.196-04:00Companies Look to Provide Infrastructure ServicesInteresting announcement today from IBM about water. I wonder how this kind of innovation to "go on the offensive" can help organize issues in health care infrastructure? Like Electronic Medical Records. It does not take much imagination to consider "infrastructure" to connect with a different look at what the word means. Feeding mass data into network computing is the very heart of infrastructure in a networked economy.<br /><br />Have a read. Interesting, that water is a primary survival need.<br /><br />Sal<br /><br /><a href="http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/bbdp/ibm-launches-water-management-services/381202?cid=12">http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/bbdp/ibm-launches-water-management-services/381202?cid=12</a><br /><br />SAN FRANCISCO -IBM Corp. wants to get really deep into water.<br /><br />The technology company is launching a new line of water services Friday, hoping to tap a new sales vein by taking the manual labor out of fighting pollution and managing water supplies. IBM says the overall water-management services market could be worth $20 billion in five years.<br /><br />The effort is part of a wider role IBM wants to play in infrastructure services, including automobile traffic and power grids. In each instance, IBM is trying to persuade utilities and government agencies to overhaul their computer networks and link digital sensors together for better insights.<br /><br />For example, instead of a meter-reader from the power company traipsing through your backyard, IBM is banking that one day your meter and your neighbors' will feed data directly into the utility's computer network.<br /><br />Same for water.<br /><br />IBM says its new services will help water providers become more efficient in overseeing ever-more-precious supplies and responding faster to contamination and other emergencies.<br /><br />The company has been working on a project called SmartBay with an Irish marine institute to develop sensors that are monitoring pollution, marine life and wave conditions around Galway Bay and transmitting data to researchers. Among the benefits, IBM contends, is that computers can track floating debris that pose a hazard to commercial fishermen.<br /><br />This "smarter planet" theme is part of IBM's strategy to keep making money in the recession. The company's chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano , said in a letter to shareholders this week that IBM will be aggressive in drumming up business in areas like managing traffic, power grids, water, food, health care and finance. He vowed the efforts will help Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM grow by getting early starts in areas that will need help for years to come.<br /><br />We will not simply ride out the storm," Palmisano wrote. "Rather, we will take a long-term view, and go on offense."salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-36137216651978037002009-03-06T23:32:00.003-05:002009-03-25T23:59:41.899-04:00Five Sites that Let You Experience the Real-Time Web Today<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-family:arial;" >"One of the most interesting trends on the Internet right now is a move towards a more real-time experience. We have seen a lot of discussion lately about how Twitter is leading the charge by creating a </span><a style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sorry_google_you_missed_the_real_time_web.php">search engine</a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-family:arial;" > for the real-time web, for example. However, there are also a good number of other services that already expose some of the promises of the real-time web. In this post, we will have a look at some of the most interesting ones.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">"</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/five_sites_that_let_your_experience_the_real-time.php"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/five_sites_that_let_your_experience_the_real-time.php</span> </span></a>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-48840504654495530952009-03-04T14:37:00.003-05:002009-03-24T17:48:23.619-04:00Good Info Sent to Me Regarding Health Care Collaboration<span style="font-weight: bold;">A Disruptive Solution for Health Care</span><br /><br />As this nation looks to a paradigm shift in order to tackle our healthcare crisis (because what we’ve been doing over and over clearly isn’t working), it’s exciting to see that leading publications carry the same theme in their reporting on this critical issue that impacts all of us:<br />- It’s important to find a way to get people engaged in the process instead of being the subject of the process.<br />- There’s a belief that disruptive innovation, as happens over and over in business, can lead to significant wealth creation opportunities, this time, along with providing enormous societal value.<br />- People need to find holistic incentive.<br />- A collaborative approach to more consistent engagement is required.<br />- The lead event can’t simply be more consumerism; there has to be a desire to change behavior based on the construction of personalized knowledge first.<br />- There is no “pill,” but rather it’s about taking a systems-based approach to create the requisite new mental model in order to come up with a sustainable solution.<br />- Whatever is done has to be profitable, and it has to be profitable quickly.<br />- The solution has to be scalable.<br /><br />The following sampling of content are just a few of the many articles, peoples, blogs, reports etc all circling around the same vision and understanding.<br /><br />EthoSquare captures all of these in its discovery learning application with the launch of the Quality of Life Network.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Disruptive Solution for Health Care</span> - BusinessWeek – 23-February-2009<br />Full article: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2009/tc20090220_090975.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2009/tc20090220_090975.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“The answers lie in understanding the concept of disruptive innovation, which explains how successful and dominant businesses can be completely upended by new players that enter the marketplace using markedly different business models. ... So if change is so difficult, how does an industry ever introduce greater quality, efficiency, and affordability? Disruptive innovations have been able to do this over and over in a myriad of industries by initially taking root and introducing change in areas of "nonconsumption."”</span><br /><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality</span> - New York Times – 01-March-2009<br />Full article: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01unbox.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01unbox.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">““This is really not a technology problem,” observed Erik Brynjolfsson, an economist at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It’s a matter of incentives and market failure.” ... But the technology is just a tool, one that needs to be used properly to improve health care. ...So the legislation states that physicians will be paid only for the “meaningful use” of digital records.”</span><br /><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Health-Care Technology: Patient Involvement Helps</span> - BusinessWeek – 23-February-2009<br />Full article: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2009/tc20090223_182043.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2009/tc20090223_182043.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“... getting patients involved in the effort, along with hospitals and doctors' offices, can lead to substantial benefits. The research, conducted by Harvard Medical School and two other institutions, shows that reminding patients to take a critical cancer test is actually more effective than reminding their doctors about the same test. ... Employers are showing an increasing interest in electronic records, too. ... Rather than putting all the emphasis on how physicians will use e-records, the focus also has to be on how e-records can be used to get patients more involved in their care.”</span><br /><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Health-Care Reform, Corporate Style</span> – BusinessWeek – 29-July-2008<br />Full article: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_32/b4095000246100.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_32/b4095000246100.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“ ... If on-site clinics are beloved by boss and worker alike, why aren't all companies building them? For starters, there has to be scale. Clinic managers say there should be at least 1,000 employees in a single location to make the economics work, and the majority of workers must sign up.”</span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-20124000608059895802009-02-06T21:29:00.006-05:002009-02-06T22:20:47.575-05:00Politics blinds us from seeing true expertiseRecently, a plane was piloted to an emergency landing on the Hudson River in New York City. We all know the story.<br /><br />The pilot is heroic in his ability, humanity and courage. So were the crew and the fantastic New Jersey and New York ferry boat captains who rushed without hesitation to what could have been a dangerous situation for them. None of these people, including the Coast Guard, Fire Department and Police arrived without profound ability and willingness to help people survive.<br /><br />Yesterday, I heard that Richard <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Branson</span> of Virgin Airlines offered the spectacular captain of the plane a job. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Branson</span> offered to pay this man twice the salary of any of Virgin's current pilots and invite him to be an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">astronaut</span> in Virgin's developing space travel plan.<br /><br />Now <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Branson</span> is known to be a good man. However, <span style="font-weight: bold;">I found this offer to be superficial and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">exploitative</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span> The captain of the distressed plane is an expert on airline <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">safety</span> with years of learning, analysis and mentoring. Would it not be better to invite this man to help an industry?<br /><br />Sometimes, I truly believe that <span style="font-weight: bold;">we function in the work place from political agendas with limited </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">vision</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> That politics and money cause us as leaders (in industry and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">humanitarian</span> issues), to be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">matrixed</span> within a faulty framework. Politics runs deep in our perception and behavior.<br /><br />Aristotle said: <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"All men are by nature, political". The key in that is "by nature"</span>. </span><br /><br />How is our nature changed or inhibited in a world where politics drains our imagination and puts us into categories of liked and disliked. When <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">vaudevillians</span> become critics of policy and human interaction while people listen and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">actually, believe</span> them.<br /><br />Can we see the reality of true expertise when it is in front of us? In today's environment, I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">believe</span> vision becomes fractured. Not vision as visionary, but vision as simply seeing what is right in front of us.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Why hasn't this pilot </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">been asked by our government to help the airline industry?<br />Instead, he gets a public relations offer that's based on a higher salary to continue flying, which demeans both his knowledge and experience.</span><br /><br />America has lost an edge on innovation, relevant risk taking and pride of appropriate experimentation. We need to see where expertise is underutilized and who we need to include in the conversation.<br /><br />Salsalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-38771733822009651052008-12-18T07:26:00.001-05:002008-12-18T07:26:07.186-05:00Fad Or Future Second Life And Virtual WorldsCheck out this SlideShare Presentation: <div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_64566"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/eteigland/fad-or-future-second-life-and-virtual-worlds?type=powerpoint" title="Fad Or Future Second Life And Virtual Worlds">Fad Or Future Second Life And Virtual Worlds</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=fad-or-future-second-life-and-virtual-worlds2971&stripped_title=fad-or-future-second-life-and-virtual-worlds" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=fad-or-future-second-life-and-virtual-worlds2971&stripped_title=fad-or-future-second-life-and-virtual-worlds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View SlideShare <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/eteigland/fad-or-future-second-life-and-virtual-worlds?type=powerpoint" title="View Fad Or Future Second Life And Virtual Worlds on SlideShare">presentation</a> or <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?type=powerpoint">Upload</a> your own. (tags: <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/3d">3d</a> <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://slideshare.net/tag/strategy">strategy</a>)</div></div>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-2472361269129821692008-12-18T00:13:00.002-05:002008-12-18T00:28:10.455-05:00Is Our Sense of Discovery Changing?<span style="font-family: arial;">Here's a thought starter that has me wondering. <span style="font-weight: bold;"> I am a great believer in what some people in organizations call "Collective Intelligence". </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">People who understand this, really do put the belief further than the consultant speak it hints at. It's truly significant when placed in an open environment. And, <span style="font-weight: bold;">it is the continuous seed of innovation.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lately, I have been using a derivative term that I call "Collective Instinct"</span>. Collective Intelligence is about knowledge and experience. Collective Instinct is what people believe can help to create knowledge and develop experience.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">In some ways, we still think of discovery as science defined it centuries ago. Or, as lawyers view a critical process. And now, we often think of it as a collaborative moment or series of moments that may be defined by people thought of as technically proficient.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Another way we look at discovery is shared or communal experience.</span> We look at product forums before we buy a food processor, car or laptop.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">In the early days of the Greek theater. Citizens were funded to attend performances if they could not afford to attend on their own. One could not be a true citizen without the ability to know that theater was a way of the society talking to itself about itself. <span style="font-weight: bold;">You had to participate to live fully and contribute.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Today, our collaboration and sense of discovery may reflect in some way, the kinds of silos often found in business organizations. </span> Art, music, theater provide a different kind of sharing. One that business desperately and obviously needs to understand better. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sustainability is a deeper conversation than most organizations feel comfortable with. Our economy proves that.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The ancient Greeks defined economy as the ability to sustain the life of something for as long as possible.</span><br /><br />All the best for sustaining during a difficult time.<br /><br />Salsalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-90007586653168423072008-12-08T18:10:00.008-05:002008-12-08T21:52:20.275-05:00Sounds Like the Future<span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.smule.com/ </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Have you seen or heard about this application for the iPhone?</span><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/07/smules-ocarina-a-textbook-example-of-how-to-build-a-great-iphone-app/" target="_blank">"As an instrument Ocarina has been perfectly executed... This is how an iPhone app should be done." - <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">TechCrunch</span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">With this iPhone app, you can actually see where people around the world are using this musical device at the time you are using it. Your musical offering, reflected in some way, around the globe.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">My long time friend and colleague, Rachel <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Allgood</span></span>, could not wait to show me this and point out that the iPhone makes you think. For instance, what does this kind of application really mean. Rachel is one of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">NYC's</span></span> great designers and business strategists. She created <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Isocurve</span></span> to help clients actualize their true ideas. www.isocurve.com </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">When I experienced the application, several things came to mind. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Medical emergencies and health care services are greatly supported by communal understanding. </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Like the iPhone Ocarina, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >one can easily imagine the powerful ability to immediately share critical information around the globe for people experiencing similar emergencies.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Health care, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">terrorist</span> threats, and even less traumatic episodes can be affected by immediate community understanding. Certified Diabetes Educators for example, have <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">substantive</span> experience to share. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Instant networking can be very helpful to explore what many people are going through, as they are actually living through the events, creating mass solutions and customized help.</span></span><br /><br />Innovations like "the retailing of medicine" and "home medicine" are also related. People will input medical data by remote control in order to have prescriptions, nursing assignments and assisted treatments arranged. <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Mass customization in the terms that the originator of that phrase intended. What a customer wants, when they want it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">There is also another interesting notion that may lie underneath this ability to see how many people around the world are playing the Ocarina. True, the iPhone is providing a fun and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">startling</span> visualization. This deeper value however, is something that I have written about before.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >In today's world, communication and implementation are often simultaneous. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">This gives an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">entirely</span> different understanding of value chains and integrated supply chains.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> With the creation of E bay, <span style="font-weight: bold;">we entered the distribution of goods and services from the buyer's perspective, not the manufacturer's.</span> This was transformation based on continuous development. In this way, collective intelligence enables collective instinct to move into action. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The iPhone Ocarina begins to sound like the future to me.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">When I was a young boy, I loved going to the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">World's</span> Fair in Queens NY. One thing I clearly remember, was an electronic game at the AT&T pavilion. I played it over and over. My memory tells me that the participant was pushing buttons on a display to distinguish sounds. The World's Fair was full of technology and talent. At that time, and for a long time, Bell Labs was creating two pattens a day.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Eventually, (and I could be making this up, but I think not), </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >I realized that AT&T may have been collecting data on how people would be able to transform from rotary dial sounds to digital sounds when making phone calls.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> It was the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">beginning</span> (1964), of the move to digital phones.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">What does the iPhone <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Smule</span></span> experience mean for you? It clearly is not just about the fantastic ability to see where people around the world are using the musical tones as you are.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Years ago, I produced several video's for AT&T on subjects like the democratization of technology. Doctors in the future for example, were shown using <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">IM</span></span> or video conferencing during emergency <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">surgeries</span> to share expertise.<br /><br />Bell Labs also had other agendas. Good ones. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />They wanted <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">legislators</span> to understand that in the future, freedom to share critical information at critical times would be imperative and expected.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Consequently,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > they really did not want law makers establishing rules affecting future technology without respecting the need to understand more before creating such laws.</span><br /><br />Well, Rachel is right as usual. The iPhone makes me think. And it makes me think about things I care about.<br /><br />My imagination may be based on reality or not. But as one great philosopher said: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Reality, not the real is dependant upon care".</span><br /><br />Salsalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509921931875205132.post-72700384627498145072008-12-03T16:34:00.003-05:002008-12-08T21:55:53.171-05:00Interesting Conversation about Brands<span style="font-family:arial;">I placed this comment a few minutes ago responding to a good conversation on the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">memetic</span> brand site. www.memeticbrand.com </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Good discussion. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >If we can assume that brand is about loyalty (traditional thought) and loyalty is about logic, then it is possible to consider collective intelligence as rationale for brand building.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >In a networked economy (good and bad), decisions are often a collection of influences. Social Capital is deeply connected to trust. Trust is indeed measurable, but more important are the consequences when a lack of trust exists.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >One great philosopher said: "Reality, not the real is dependent upon care".</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Through social networking, it is possible to build a sense of trust and reality. One can begin to tell the difference between valuable interaction and hype.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Sometimes, I am reminded while networking, of my old neighborhood in Brooklyn New York where I grew up.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >When a family had a trauma, meals would suddenly show up at their door. Somehow, the neighbors instinctively took up caring for the routines that the traumatized family could not pay attention to. It was collective instinct and implementation for the neighbors to react and be supportive.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >I see much of this kind of supportive collective instinct and intelligence in collaborative spaces today.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >What I don't see, is the acknowledgment to understand that brands are often very personal selections between millions of people.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Just think about <span style="font-weight: bold;">the power of connecting that reality to sustainable and continuous improvement. And, to what that could mean to our worlds.</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Sal <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Rasa</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span>salhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051817888522707835noreply@blogger.com1