Good summary of Umair Haque’s important ideas and proposals for a business reformation: ...Tags: Tags: P2P Business Models Vide

Some years back I went on a course run by Common Purpose , during which over a year a group of us made visits to schools, prisons, newspaper offices and the like, and took part in discussions all in the pursuit of civil leadership. The Common Purpose founder Julia Middleton evidently had strong views on how things should be done, so it definitely wasn’t in my experience a very bottom-up sort of organisation. It was pleasant enough, and a chance to meet people from different sectors and professions, but I was never clear quite how we became “leaders” (or that I wanted to).

Skip to content Skip to search - Accesskey = s Bas Reus' quest on self-organization and online collaborative spaces Purpose of collaboration: collaboration Posted in online collaborative spaces , self-organization by Bas Reus on September 7, 2009 Why do people collaborate? That makes collaboration an important purpose of collaboration. To achieve goals (or to generate whatever type of output) and then quit? No, people collaborate in order to keep collaborating.

Via : A documentary film by Jack Oatmon , given a profile of the “Foulab” hardware hacking community in Montreal: ...Tags: Tags: Desktop Manufacturing Vide

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The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the ever-purposeful Pervasive Media Studio , Bristol, on Thursday  June 11th, from 18:30 . Local wise guy, innovation catalyst, and font of much knowledge Chris Dean has kindly agreed to share his thoughts on ‘The Purpose and limits of Knowledge Management (KM)’ with us, which I can pretty much guarantee will be a very thought provoking intro to this excellent choice of subject. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt. Here’s the blurb:

I thought, how would I change that today if I could and this is what came to mind: “The purpose of a business is to create customer’s who create customers!” It might be tempting to say “the purpose of marketing is to create customer’s who create customers.” I was catching up on a number of blogs today and someone included this Peter Drucker quote in a comment that I hadn’t seen in a long time. It filtered back into my head this afternoon and now I regret I can’t remember which blog had this comment.

I thought, how would change that today if I could and this is what came to mind: “The purpose of a business is to create customer’s who create customers!” It might be tempting to say “the purpose of marketing is to create customer’s who create customers.” I was catching up on a number of blogs today and someone included this Peter Drucker quote in a comment that I hadn’t seen in a long time. It filtered back into my head this afternoon and now I regret I can’t remember which blog had this comment.

Purpose : an important discussion early on is to determine the purpose of the group - why it exists. While many groups will have similar descriptions of their purpose (learning, tap into the organisation's knowledge in the domain, solve problems faster, standardise practices etc), each group needs to have this conversation. On Tuesday I worked with three new communities of practice in a government agency. Each group was quite different but in all of them we talked about the things the groups should do first.

If you aren’t sure you are aligning your Purpose as a host with the Purpose of prospective members, if you aren’t sure you have Value Systems sorted, if you don’t have a cool Welcome Visitor centre, if you fail on everything else as a social networking site, at least drop the Barrier to Entry. Saw this on the bottom of the Moof homepage – Moof, social music, reinvented. Seriously…