Or to take Anderson’s example, Encarta sales didn’t bring in money equivalent to the exchange value it destroyed for Britannica et al. He stated this assessment in even sharper terms in a comment under Michel Bauwens’s blog post on the exchange: What’s variously called the “ cognitive capitalism ” model, or Paul Romer’s New Growth Theory, assumes that technological progress and increased efficiency will lead to “economic growth” in the sense of the total volume of monetized economic activity. But this presumes the use of “intellectual property” and other forms of artificial

traced the visit back to Business Exchange , Bloomberg Business Week’s social bookmarking site “that helps professionals discover and organize information from across the Web… a great way to share content and find the most relevant news on business topics.” Anita Campbell , a Twitter friend and CEO of Small Business Trends , “an online small biz community reaching over 250,000 each month,” had saved my blog post, The Social Media ROI Obsession , on the Business Exchange site. Looking over my traffic stats several weeks ago, I was very surprised to notice that a single visitor had been referred to my blog by Business Week .

Regularly, meetings help a lot but are not enough for an effective information exchange. The blog builts a network between projects and different offices, and enabled a jump in information exchange. Christian Kreutz worked for two years at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit ( GTZ ) in Egypt. The German Technical Cooperation works quite decentralized having country offices in most partner countries.

came away with a new/old idea: that we need an open innovation exchange to help entrepreneurs, councils and customer/citizens collaborate to find new ways forward. During the Crowdsourced Council event these ideas crystalised into thoughts of an Open Innovation Exchange. My friends - and clients - at the Innovation Exchange are now doing a great job in taking forward the winning bid, but it’s focussed on third The Crowdsourced Council event earlier this week was for me interesting at three levels. First for the idea expressed in the name - that councils should use a variety

8220; Unequal exchange was built into the labor market from the beginning. That unequal exchange results not from the sale of labor-power as such, but from the fact that privilege (state-enforced scarcity of land and capital) makes land and capital artificially costly and forces labor to sell itself in a buyer’s market, paying a premium for access to the means of production. This is why effort is the source of all exchange value. We regularly engage in dialogue with Kevin Carson, whose mutualist approach I find very interesting, in particular because it suggest a reconciliation between the market and peer to peer principles.

point them to the commercial “barter” sector, the 75 year old WIR Bank in Switzerland, and a few exchange alternatives that have been emerging spontaneously from the grassroots. Of course, what these trade exchanges offer is not “barter” at all, but credit clearing . Significant as it is, the commercial trade exchange business is not well known because it does not yet involve consumers or employees Via Thomas Greco : People often ask me how the credit clearing process that I advocate might be established and where existing successful models are to be found.

The following text, The State of the Alternative Exchange Movement , by Thomas Greco, is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of our book of the Week: The End of Money and the Future of Civilization . 8220;Exchange alternatives are not entirely new. Indeed, in times past, there were many different exchange media that circulated simultaneously—and for a time, each bank was responsible for Please note the book can be ordered here . Thomas Greco: “Exchange

Closer to home, throughout California during the Depression, unemployed workers formed associations to bring food from farms, repair housing, and create a modest economy based on labor exchanges, not money. The short history of the local Unemployed Exchange Association (UXA), written 25 years ago by John Curl ( author of the forthcoming “For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism In America,” ) provides a snapshot of this grassroots economic revival by focusing on the form it took, over 75 years ago, in the neighborhoods of

In our social media workshop we are talking about rules, norms and agreements. This is an example ...Tags: Tags: guidelines TOS rules agreements online_community online_facilitation cgsocialmedia norm

quot; Reciprocity Reciprocity is one of the key questions addressed in an Exchange Analysis, which is an assessment of value dynamics throughout the whole network. An Exchange Analysis focuses on finding overall patterns in the network, and surfaces key issues – such as health, robustness, and resilience. What does the pattern of interaction suggest about the level of trust in the network? Indicators and Metrics to Monitor and Predict Performance One of the most powerful benefits of value network modeling is the ability to monitor, predict and influence performance.