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Friday, March 12, 2010
This approach has been developed by Verna Allee . Example: When the European Commission wanted to understand how to enhance the process of innovation, we applied VNA using the ValueNetworks.com application to produce a report with four archetypes (models) for moving from an academic idea to a product for a consumer, with important policy implications. Steve Waddell of Networking Action Excerpts from an excellent blog from ValueNetworks.com colleague and customer, Steve Waddell of Networking Action We can easily be overwhelmed by the complexity of large networks where there are many different organizations and people involved.
 
Thursday, March 11, 2010
8221; And these institutional innovations were not established through governmental or intergovernmental legal or policy arrangements. The latest issue of the International Journal of the Commons contains a special collection of articles on the microbial commons , edited by Tom Dedeurwaerdere of the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. From the introduction : “vast amounts of plant and animal genetic material are collected and microorganisms isolated throughout the world from various habitats and sources, and exchanged in collaborative research networks for the improvement
 
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Links to examples of (mostly corporate) organizational social media policies ...Tags: Tags: online_community policies social_medi
In our last post we looked at why every business needs a social media policy . And the fact that the most important thing for any business is to have a policy in the first place. But if you’re writing your social media policy for employees, what should it include? Have a simple and clear policy Image by late night movie via Flickr What kind of guidelines should you give the people who work at your business.
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This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. Kinda cool that companies are now posting internal policies publicly . Opera  http://my.opera.com/community/blogs/corp-policy/  Managing staff who participate in social networks. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the
As the use of social media grows within the enterprise and on the Web, the need for policies and guidelines to govern employee behavior becomes more essential. Sun's policy begins with this statement, Many of us at Sun are doing work that could change the world. RightNow's guidelines state that, “RightNow has an open participation policy for all employees. I am cross posting this from FastFoward to get more feedback and perhaps additional examples. I
few hours later it turned out that things were not quite so simple as ESPN released its internal social media policy. Whist perhaps a little direct in its choice of wording and phrases, this policy is a good example of what every firm should have. Perhaps the biggest threat to a firm in their use of social media is to not have a policy about it. Image by smileham via Flickr This week, ESPN, a US sports cable TV network, appeared to tell its employees that they could n o longer use Twitter except to Tweet about ESPN .
The use of Web-based collaborative communities and tools can use labour, intelligence and interest to develop policy collaboratively, allowing the interests of the public to be better represented and engaged. Three of our friends, Mark Elliott, Darren Sharp and Matt Cooperrider, have published a great case study on participative policy making, describing the experience of Melbourne, i.e. Future Melbourne, the world’s first collaborative city plan, and wePlan, the online collaborative development of a large park management plan hosted by Parks Victoria . In summary:
Tech Republic recently posted on 10 things you should cover in your social networking policy . There has been a lot of discussion on this topic, including my prior post, Social Media Policy Outside and Inside the Enterprise . Like most policy discussions I have seen, this one focuses on social software use on the Web. However, it remains no less importance to have guidelines that also cover usage inside the enterprise. I think the ten points are very useful and eight apply to internal use, some more than others.
couple of weeks ago, we wrote about how to write your firm’s social media policy . How it was important, first and foremost, for firms to have a social media policy. For any firm, a social media policy is sensible. But once you have your social media policy written, that’s not the end of the story. Image by Crystl via Flickr A
agree with Matt and co-author Britt Glaser, after having seen a beta version of the system, that this could be a killer application for public participation in policy making . Politicians and government employees, “surrounded” online by fully empowered and well informed constituencies, would be motivated by self-interest to listen carefully to specific policy formulations carrying the force of voters’ money and votes. Via Matt Cooperrider : This new paper examines the potential for a social network platform that empowers citizens to manage government .