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Contextual Transmedia Communications
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The 2nd Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference - COINs2010
Title: Contextual Transmedia Communications
Abstract Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37227560/COINs-2010-Abstract-Contextual-Transmedia-Communications-Content-and-Creativity-in-Complexity
From the Abstract:
The human race is faced with engaging in exponential levels of complexity resulting from expanding populations, limited natural resources, and maturating cycles of the World Wide Web. Habits of capacity building - that of inventory, meaning, and experimentation – remain at levels suited to an industrial age of linear scarcity. The results of this mismatch can be seen in widespread U.S. unemployment, poverty, and exponential natural systems failure. Disruptions such as these will continue to diminish our collective creative abilities to advance innovative enterprise unless we think and act differently. How and what we communicate affects the economic impact of creativity.
Contextual transmedia communications is a pragmatic method to strengthen creativity and collaboration in complex environments. For industry, contextual transmedia communication offers a solution to the deteriorating value of advertising and the building of community. For education, economic, and workforce development leaders, it is investment in and connection of local assets to entrepreneurial initiative. In swarm creativity, it is the bagel dance describing, locating, and communicating attributes of hive construction.
Slides: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79723214/COINs-2010-Contextual-Transmedia-Communications-w-2012-Updates
Watch the conference presentation on You Tube at: http://youtu.be/pC4Pt8JiosE
Title: Contextual Transmedia Communications
Abstract Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37227560/COINs-2010-Abstract-Contextual-Transmedia-Communications-Content-and-Creativity-in-Complexity
From the Abstract:
The human race is faced with engaging in exponential levels of complexity resulting from expanding populations, limited natural resources, and maturating cycles of the World Wide Web. Habits of capacity building - that of inventory, meaning, and experimentation – remain at levels suited to an industrial age of linear scarcity. The results of this mismatch can be seen in widespread U.S. unemployment, poverty, and exponential natural systems failure. Disruptions such as these will continue to diminish our collective creative abilities to advance innovative enterprise unless we think and act differently. How and what we communicate affects the economic impact of creativity.
Contextual transmedia communications is a pragmatic method to strengthen creativity and collaboration in complex environments. For industry, contextual transmedia communication offers a solution to the deteriorating value of advertising and the building of community. For education, economic, and workforce development leaders, it is investment in and connection of local assets to entrepreneurial initiative. In swarm creativity, it is the bagel dance describing, locating, and communicating attributes of hive construction.
Slides: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79723214/COINs-2010-Contextual-Transmedia-Communications-w-2012-Updates
Watch the conference presentation on You Tube at: http://youtu.be/pC4Pt8JiosE
COINS-Collaborative Innovation Networks: An economic development tool for education, economic and workforce development in Open Source Economic Development
Elsevier. Procedia - Social and Behavioral SciencesVolume 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 6516–6531
The 1st Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference - COINs2009
Title: COINS: An economic development tool for education, economic and workforce development in Open Source Economic Development
Paper Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042810011195
From the Abstract:
Communities and their regions have an unprecedented opportunity to integrate higher levels of organization, process and tools to connect legacy assets residing in colleges, universities, and libraries to people and their ideas; to reinvigorate institutions, organizations and government; and to strengthen creativity, collaboration, and communication for innovation and enterprise in education, economic, and workforce development. This paper begins a discussion of the value collaborative innovation networks (COINS) offer to accelerate and strengthen innovation in Open Source Economic Development (OSED) in the Civic Space, and to explore the design of an improved model of I-Open Civic Forums, a process driven approach to build networks, community, and communications for enterprise collaboration. By collaborating with research in the emerging Science of Collaboration, this practical model will strengthen research as well as individual experience and collaborative behaviours to create new knowledge. With this intelligence, industry innovation, design, and enterprise solutions can more successfully address global issues affecting both social and economic aspects of society today.
Keywords: Open Source Economic Development, networks, innovation, creativity, enterprise, community, collaboration, education, leadership, knowledge creation, Futuring, question Science
The 1st Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference - COINs2009
Title: COINS: An economic development tool for education, economic and workforce development in Open Source Economic Development
Paper Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042810011195
From the Abstract:
Communities and their regions have an unprecedented opportunity to integrate higher levels of organization, process and tools to connect legacy assets residing in colleges, universities, and libraries to people and their ideas; to reinvigorate institutions, organizations and government; and to strengthen creativity, collaboration, and communication for innovation and enterprise in education, economic, and workforce development. This paper begins a discussion of the value collaborative innovation networks (COINS) offer to accelerate and strengthen innovation in Open Source Economic Development (OSED) in the Civic Space, and to explore the design of an improved model of I-Open Civic Forums, a process driven approach to build networks, community, and communications for enterprise collaboration. By collaborating with research in the emerging Science of Collaboration, this practical model will strengthen research as well as individual experience and collaborative behaviours to create new knowledge. With this intelligence, industry innovation, design, and enterprise solutions can more successfully address global issues affecting both social and economic aspects of society today.
Keywords: Open Source Economic Development, networks, innovation, creativity, enterprise, community, collaboration, education, leadership, knowledge creation, Futuring, question Science
Building Collaborative Communities in the Civic Space
Presentation reviewing face-to-face and online civic community building in North East Ohio from 2005 through 2010. On Scribd.
Civic Forums As An Economic Development Tool
Betsey Merkel developed the Civic Forum process while working at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Business, Center for Regional Economic Issues in Cleveland, Ohio from 2002-2005.
Civic Forums As An Economic Development Tool, a document summarized by Ed Morrison and updated by Betsey Merkel in 2010, outlines the benefit of investing in a Civic Forum process to accelerate economic and business development.
The Civic Forum process strengthens innovation and entrepreneurship by building social networks to connect creativity, legacy assets and local to global resources for transformative enterprise development.
Read Civic Forums as an Economic Development Tool on Scribd at http://www.scribd.com/doc/113431800/Civic-Forum-White-Paper-2010
Civic Forums As An Economic Development Tool, a document summarized by Ed Morrison and updated by Betsey Merkel in 2010, outlines the benefit of investing in a Civic Forum process to accelerate economic and business development.
The Civic Forum process strengthens innovation and entrepreneurship by building social networks to connect creativity, legacy assets and local to global resources for transformative enterprise development.
Read Civic Forums as an Economic Development Tool on Scribd at http://www.scribd.com/doc/113431800/Civic-Forum-White-Paper-2010
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