And while those of us who live and breathe Community Benefit work cannot fathom how confusing the term can be to people who are not similarly immersed, here are just two examples from my own experience. However, if (for example) the arts group thought of itself as a “tax exempt Community Benefit Organization” - and the word “nonprofit” had never been uttered - it likely never would have occurred to them to give away their profits. Lately we hear a louder and louder drumbeat to stop using what my friend Mark Riffey calls “the other N word.”  Nonprofit.

That means making products and brands subservient to long-term customer relationships. IBM’s Insurance Process Acceleration Framework is one example of this service-oriented architecture. Instead of focusing on short-term product sales, IBM measures the practice’s performance according to long-term customer metrics. Harvard Business Review Cart My Account Downloads Explore Today on HBR Blogs Magazine Books Authors Store Harvard Business School

started to wonder about the terminology, it seems some of these terms have an overlap and we need to think which is the right concept we are talking about. Participatory surveillance term is explained by Albrechtslund (2008) in Online social Networking as a participatory surveillance. Albrechtslund refers that the term originates from Mark Poster and T.L. Olga Levistova wants to deal in her master study the question: How does social surveillance become into participatory surveillance. Her investigations are related with our hybrid ecosystem studies in which we refer

For the next in our series of Online Community Examples we are looking at examples of online communities in the travel industry The three examples below show different ways in which companies in the travel industry are using online communities to engage their customers with a view to increasing customer loyalty. As with many great examples of online communities , On the Go with Amy is simple concept, but one that delivers Online communities in the travel industry The travel industry is one well suited to online communities focused on engagement.

The basic argument seems to be that longer copyright terms mean greater incentives, which means greater creativity. So in practical terms, reducing the copyright term would have little effect on the money that most creators earned as result. But let’s look at the main part of my claim: that reducing copyright’s term would encourage creativity. Republished from Glyn Moody the tireless advocate of openness: “In response to a tweet of mine about shortening copyright to stimulate creativity, someone questioned the logic. It’s an important

It’s always useful to see and learn what other people are doing in terms of harnessing the power of online communities. So I’ve created a wiki that lists all the examples of crowdsourcing that I could find listed across the internet. There were a number of places that were very useful as I went about the process of collecting this information, such as Peter Kim’s wiki of social media marketing examples and the Mobile Youth blog Crowdsourcing is something that keeps coming up in our work at Made By Many, and I’m sure in a lot of other places as well, given that the power of the internet is growing ever stronger.

Michael Lardelli has a thoughtful overview article arguing we should prepare for a long-term decline in energy extraction, and therefore, economic activity. The nominal $ value of wealth in the rest of the economy (the non-energy infrastructure part) has not changed but the actual wealth in terms of energy in the rest of the economy has decreased since energy had been diverted out of that area. Some financial No living or manufactured thing exists on this planet without energy. It enables flowers and people to grow.

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The workshop defined a community of practice as a group with a 'common learning interest, aimed at establishing long-term learning processes, innovation, the improvement of practice and the strengthening of relationships between members. In Intrac Praxis Note 16 (available in English and Spanish), Brenda Bucheli and Gabriela Romo describe some of the outcomes of a workshop on communities of practice held in Mexico at the beginning of this year. The participants were from SNV , PACT and IMAC .

The example which struck me was the example of the MBTI synergy group: The MBTI Synergy Group was a spontaneous creation of all the people who attended the MBTI accreditation course in April, 2004. (MBTI At times, the moderator took the initiative of posting some tips that he thought people would find useful – and always got a rich response in terms of others joining for a ‘conversation’ over a period of 10–15 days each time. SCD and Intercooperation have commissioned a study called Experiences with communities of practice in India , an important resource published in december 2005.