This weekend the MidAtlantic Air Museum conducted the Gathering of Warbirds. http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html
What fun! We ventured over for the Friday evening activities, completely unprepared for the experience. Everyone steps into the period, with aircraft, vehicles, equipment and the like, all reflective of the environment of World War II. Attendees were dressed in period attire, danced to big band and relived the "good" parts of history. It was wonderful to watch World War II Veterans jitterbug and dance the night away. We learned much about the time, from the education on carrier pigeons to various aspects of the operations: Pacific, Russia, Italy and so forth...it was a complete re enactment of one of the most significant wars of the world. As we begin the summer it's worth noting that we as a generation have been fortunate not to have experienced the consumption of the world in war as was seen during World War II. We are the lucky generation that has benefited greatly from the giving of those who serve!
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
My prediction to the # of startups in 2010--exponential!
Today on my daily walk through the web, I decided to start counting the number of startups, and new approaches, to business I could find. I stopped counting well beyond 1000, for lack of time, and grossly overgeneralized that there are literally an exponential number of startup companies and organizations beginning this year. What does it matter? I remember in the middle of my career at IBM hearing Carlotta Perez speak about micro business and micro organizations being the wave of the future, not small to medium but literally micro, one or two employees. It struck me at that time the impact would be tremendous. My experience in aviation came to mind, when airlines began operating smaller aircraft in place of "heavies" as we called them.....no one planned for the number of increased transactions and interactions, crowded airspace, overtaxed infrastructure and the like. I believe micro business will have major impact on the global economy and global infrastructure. Again what does it matter? The upside is the web, with new and ever growing social applications and communities popping up, they may well become the "glue" that holds it all together.
We often prodded IBM in those days to pay attention to micro businesses, but frankly that was like asking a Cruise ship to look out for Z boats. If you add it all up: Social Revolution (a very organized and pragmatic,open source approach is going on!!http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/03/05/altimeter-report-the-18-use-cases-of-social-crm-the-new-rules-of-relationship-management/), Micro businesses, Micro Financing (here is the one I support Kiva-- and I'm proud to say MY MICRO COMPANIES HAVE PAID ME BACK IN FULL at $8.33 a payment, in for many more rounds of funding!) open collaboration equals the WAVE OF THE PRESENT AND THE TSUNAMI OF THE FUTURE! Here's the math: social revolution (Exponential Number) + Micro Business (Exponential Number) + Micro Finance (Finite, small increments) + Open Collaboration (Exponential Number) = Exponential Business (startups and beyond). These organizations are working on the fringe of the monolithic business world and moving at the "speed of data". (Even dial up in Burkina Fasa Africa is probably faster than the top down decision processes of the monolithic companies started in the past 100 years!) So it deserves mention if your thinking about starting an organization, look for micro financing, build it on the social fabric of the web and stick to the open collaboration approach. Hats off to Altimeter Group for their work and their OPEN POLICY. Check out e426.org if you want to see open people who practice open and innovative collaboration.
We often prodded IBM in those days to pay attention to micro businesses, but frankly that was like asking a Cruise ship to look out for Z boats. If you add it all up: Social Revolution (a very organized and pragmatic,open source approach is going on!!http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/03/05/altimeter-report-the-18-use-cases-of-social-crm-the-new-rules-of-relationship-management/), Micro businesses, Micro Financing (here is the one I support Kiva-- and I'm proud to say MY MICRO COMPANIES HAVE PAID ME BACK IN FULL at $8.33 a payment, in for many more rounds of funding!) open collaboration equals the WAVE OF THE PRESENT AND THE TSUNAMI OF THE FUTURE! Here's the math: social revolution (Exponential Number) + Micro Business (Exponential Number) + Micro Finance (Finite, small increments) + Open Collaboration (Exponential Number) = Exponential Business (startups and beyond). These organizations are working on the fringe of the monolithic business world and moving at the "speed of data". (Even dial up in Burkina Fasa Africa is probably faster than the top down decision processes of the monolithic companies started in the past 100 years!) So it deserves mention if your thinking about starting an organization, look for micro financing, build it on the social fabric of the web and stick to the open collaboration approach. Hats off to Altimeter Group for their work and their OPEN POLICY. Check out e426.org if you want to see open people who practice open and innovative collaboration.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
The next 2010 days
What will the next 2010 days bring? We at e426.org are very busy. Not a surprise considering the number of small and micro business that are really trying to integrate technology into their strategy and marketing plans. Pink (A Whole New Mind) has it right. I know I say it over and over again, but he is really onto something. After sitting with a group of lawyers yesterday and having a discussion about the value of "creating relationships" and how information is such a commodity business now, I'm again reminded that at the core of all things going on are human transactions...whether they are transactions with another human or not somewhere in the big picture, at the edge of the today's totally technical world is the human being.
More importantly is the "collection and very fluid like interactions of people". Certainly, this is one reason for the struggle in countries like ours......finding the "one" common thread for all is no longer possible. America made it's debut because there was common core areas that our forefathers negotiated. Today we must negotiate around common fabric not threads like language or currency or even religion. Even freedom has a very different look and feel. It's time to rethink the center of gravity for the country and the world. This time let's take a look at the overall system and negotiate a much more systemic process and approach. As my friend Ionel says, "It's time for a major transformation".
At e426.org we are in our own small way setting the stage for this transformation. In creating a "NON PROFIT" organization that helps businesses and individuals and other organizations, taking Wall Street out of the picture we are changing the game. We are not creating an organization "just to get the tax break" but really serving a high value purpose and doing it all at cost. No more corporate pyramids where everyone at the bottom works beyond the reasonable so that "partners and CEO's" can collect huge bonuses and paychecks. One really must question the value of this approach. However, if these businesses were working hard and fairly to provide an outstanding service and make money for that service that is one thing, but to "jack up stock prices" anyway possible, that is another. Leaving a market alone is leaving it alone, not tinkering with it via every possible avenue to create a phantom look and feel that influences the stock price for the day or month or year. I believe modern day capitalism via "slot stock machines" is not at all what Ayn Rand had in mind when creating objectivism "....that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or rational self-interest; that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights, embodied in pure laissez faire capitalism; and that the role of art in human life is to transform man's widest metaphysical ideas, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form—a work of art—that he can comprehend and to which he can respond emotionally."
Using innovation e426.org is making business, education a research a work of art. There will be more on the specific activities of e426.org as the next 2010 days unfold.
More importantly is the "collection and very fluid like interactions of people". Certainly, this is one reason for the struggle in countries like ours......finding the "one" common thread for all is no longer possible. America made it's debut because there was common core areas that our forefathers negotiated. Today we must negotiate around common fabric not threads like language or currency or even religion. Even freedom has a very different look and feel. It's time to rethink the center of gravity for the country and the world. This time let's take a look at the overall system and negotiate a much more systemic process and approach. As my friend Ionel says, "It's time for a major transformation".
At e426.org we are in our own small way setting the stage for this transformation. In creating a "NON PROFIT" organization that helps businesses and individuals and other organizations, taking Wall Street out of the picture we are changing the game. We are not creating an organization "just to get the tax break" but really serving a high value purpose and doing it all at cost. No more corporate pyramids where everyone at the bottom works beyond the reasonable so that "partners and CEO's" can collect huge bonuses and paychecks. One really must question the value of this approach. However, if these businesses were working hard and fairly to provide an outstanding service and make money for that service that is one thing, but to "jack up stock prices" anyway possible, that is another. Leaving a market alone is leaving it alone, not tinkering with it via every possible avenue to create a phantom look and feel that influences the stock price for the day or month or year. I believe modern day capitalism via "slot stock machines" is not at all what Ayn Rand had in mind when creating objectivism "....that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or rational self-interest; that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights, embodied in pure laissez faire capitalism; and that the role of art in human life is to transform man's widest metaphysical ideas, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form—a work of art—that he can comprehend and to which he can respond emotionally."
Using innovation e426.org is making business, education a research a work of art. There will be more on the specific activities of e426.org as the next 2010 days unfold.
Friday, June 5, 2009
He's my brother
I'm finding my niche in life. I always knew my purpose was helping others, but I'm now finding that to formalize the approach and really stretch in helping others during these difficult times, brings even more satisfaction and deeper relationships.
I truly hope this country can move beyond the "FRANCHISED" approach to everything and get back to the BASICS. Loving and helping others. There is no greater satisfaction than to give and more so in times of need. Certainly, with the massive layoffs at places like IBM there's massive need. Today we do not have the close knit communities as in FDR's day but we do have the ability to connect far and wide with the Internet......we must use each and every social networking tool to rescue those in need and to upright the American Culture and Economy! Here's to the Innovation Corp of America!
I truly hope this country can move beyond the "FRANCHISED" approach to everything and get back to the BASICS. Loving and helping others. There is no greater satisfaction than to give and more so in times of need. Certainly, with the massive layoffs at places like IBM there's massive need. Today we do not have the close knit communities as in FDR's day but we do have the ability to connect far and wide with the Internet......we must use each and every social networking tool to rescue those in need and to upright the American Culture and Economy! Here's to the Innovation Corp of America!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Countdown
Worlds longest countdown and it's still not over.....I'm guessing April 1st, appropriately April fool's day...seems perfect. After all a sense of humor, having fun and moving forward in life are all important.
In the meantime, I could not be busier. These days I find myself, studying for the Patent Bar Exam round 1, taking two biotech classes hopefully in summer session 1 and setting up various business opportunities.
I've been watching many virtual spaces for some length of time, say four years and I find it so very interesting that we are so focused on a single avenue for this next generation Internet. I'm still betting that in two to four years everyone will understand 3D Internet and that What I have coined the Sensory Web will be Ho Hum!
OpenThinkTank3D has a call this week, best get to the framework.....
In the meantime, I could not be busier. These days I find myself, studying for the Patent Bar Exam round 1, taking two biotech classes hopefully in summer session 1 and setting up various business opportunities.
I've been watching many virtual spaces for some length of time, say four years and I find it so very interesting that we are so focused on a single avenue for this next generation Internet. I'm still betting that in two to four years everyone will understand 3D Internet and that What I have coined the Sensory Web will be Ho Hum!
OpenThinkTank3D has a call this week, best get to the framework.....
Monday, February 23, 2009
Countdown
Today marks the beginning of my countdown.
Brighter days ahead......mark day four!
More tomorrow.
Brighter days ahead......mark day four!
More tomorrow.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Travel Fast, Blogging Slow
It has been a busy month and I'm surprised to find the month is over.
With travel and work taking up more than 100% of my time I find it almost
impossible to sit down and think coherantly about life, love and the pursuit
of happiness. OK hokey but true.
This month we are in Arizona and it is nice to enjoy a much slower pace and
truly connect in real life with family. To watch as everyone enjoys success
or just plain fun.
We celebrated my cousins achievement in getting his Registered Architect License
here in Arizona. He is so smart and has a wonderful family.
Next week we will be with media and entertainment companies watching and talking
about 3D Internet, security and Identity.......what it all means.
I'm thinking there is something in the choke points of the virtual environments:
Identity Management, Intellectual Property and Scalability. My next adventure as
I move from Directing the Emerging Business Unit to what lies ahead. Here is to
July 2008.
With travel and work taking up more than 100% of my time I find it almost
impossible to sit down and think coherantly about life, love and the pursuit
of happiness. OK hokey but true.
This month we are in Arizona and it is nice to enjoy a much slower pace and
truly connect in real life with family. To watch as everyone enjoys success
or just plain fun.
We celebrated my cousins achievement in getting his Registered Architect License
here in Arizona. He is so smart and has a wonderful family.
Next week we will be with media and entertainment companies watching and talking
about 3D Internet, security and Identity.......what it all means.
I'm thinking there is something in the choke points of the virtual environments:
Identity Management, Intellectual Property and Scalability. My next adventure as
I move from Directing the Emerging Business Unit to what lies ahead. Here is to
July 2008.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
People
I continue to focus on the fact that we are clearly in our second decade of a "network enabled" society.
These past few days have been marked by several anniversaries, some of loss and others of joy but all around people who are or have been a part of my life. These relationships are such a crucial part of life. I've been able to share this loss and joy with my virtual family. It makes me wonder as we move the strategy for 3D Internet if we can quantify at this very early juncture the value of humanity as it relates to knowing each other, meeting and working together no matter where the "space". We are afterall meeting now in Cyberspace the next great space!
I remind my team regularly that knowing people-- no matter where you meet is important, who are they, what do they enjoy, about their family or friends, a sincere exchange. I'm honored to be introduced to family and friends and find this no matter where it takes place. I think this is one reason why people in the virtual worlds are creating psuedo relationships. For example, I'm not only a Kearney but a Witte. Rita and Josh write about this in their blog. It's fascinating because somehow I feel related to other Witte's. Identity does matter and although we now have multiple roles and facets to our identity I find that at some level it's all about connecting to and with People.
These past few days have been marked by several anniversaries, some of loss and others of joy but all around people who are or have been a part of my life. These relationships are such a crucial part of life. I've been able to share this loss and joy with my virtual family. It makes me wonder as we move the strategy for 3D Internet if we can quantify at this very early juncture the value of humanity as it relates to knowing each other, meeting and working together no matter where the "space". We are afterall meeting now in Cyberspace the next great space!
I remind my team regularly that knowing people-- no matter where you meet is important, who are they, what do they enjoy, about their family or friends, a sincere exchange. I'm honored to be introduced to family and friends and find this no matter where it takes place. I think this is one reason why people in the virtual worlds are creating psuedo relationships. For example, I'm not only a Kearney but a Witte. Rita and Josh write about this in their blog. It's fascinating because somehow I feel related to other Witte's. Identity does matter and although we now have multiple roles and facets to our identity I find that at some level it's all about connecting to and with People.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Envisioning the future
I'm asked at almost every speaking engagement or customer event
to share my perspective of the future as it relates to 3D Internet.
As my ideas begin I often think back to the beginning of the worldwide web and how important it was to simply link documents and information.
Today we see the same emphasis on linking people. I do believe fundamentally that is the most important part of my work. Whether I am coaching my team to collaborate or actively collaborating with others inside and outside the company, it's connecting and building meaningful solutions to the problems, whether they are social, government or business.
The lines between these bodies are not as clearly defined as they once were, but I'm certain there is something to the triad in the three key organizational groups. No doubt it gives an odd challenge and balance approach to human systems. I guess Benjamin Franklin got it right in this design!
Clearly, the vision of the sensory web is new but I can tell you many are intrigued by it. Last night I attended Villanova's Computing Summit. We had great discussions around motivating and recruiting students to go into computer science. It's clearly an ongoing need and I was glad to be able to share my experience and my outlook on "cool" things you can do at work. It's certainly a fun place to be working right now and it's really fun to think we are setting the stage for the next generation Internet.
to share my perspective of the future as it relates to 3D Internet.
As my ideas begin I often think back to the beginning of the worldwide web and how important it was to simply link documents and information.
Today we see the same emphasis on linking people. I do believe fundamentally that is the most important part of my work. Whether I am coaching my team to collaborate or actively collaborating with others inside and outside the company, it's connecting and building meaningful solutions to the problems, whether they are social, government or business.
The lines between these bodies are not as clearly defined as they once were, but I'm certain there is something to the triad in the three key organizational groups. No doubt it gives an odd challenge and balance approach to human systems. I guess Benjamin Franklin got it right in this design!
Clearly, the vision of the sensory web is new but I can tell you many are intrigued by it. Last night I attended Villanova's Computing Summit. We had great discussions around motivating and recruiting students to go into computer science. It's clearly an ongoing need and I was glad to be able to share my experience and my outlook on "cool" things you can do at work. It's certainly a fun place to be working right now and it's really fun to think we are setting the stage for the next generation Internet.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Two Panels in Three Days
This week was busy with the NDU panel on Thursday and the v-business Expo today.
It was fun and exciting to see PEOPLE get the value of a sensory web and 3D Internet.
We humans are so adaptive! I can't imagine what life will be like when this is the norm.
A recap from the panels:
Thursday's panel was focused on People inside the 3D Internet. It was wonderful, with (given in the order they were seated) David Kralik from America's Solutions, Tammy Johns, Manpower and Rita King and Josh Fouts from Dancing Inc. with Nick Wilson, Clever Zebra holding us up on the mixed media virtual environment side. Each had something very valuable to contribute, considering their part in working with people to advance the future of work, diplomacy, staffing and policy. I can't say enough about the extremely well thought out responses and ideas the panel provided.
Saturday was more of a presentation. I truly enjoyed my Saturday mid day at Clever Zebra Island sharing with people from around the world, my perspective on 3D Internet. From the evolution of the web to the future of 3D Internet, I truly believe we have a great opportunity and I'm thankful as a futurist to be able to share my insight on the needs and challenges in this space. Nick Wilson, his team and sponsors have really done a nice job in holding real virtual expos and I expect others will quickly follow this lead.
Cheers to those who are stepping up: Paulette Robinson, Nick Wilson and the many folks giving unselfishly to speak out and LEAD this era. As I said on Thursday, if it were not for 3D Internet we (and the number continues to grow) would not be together-- Crossing the Loosely Coupled Divide of this Globally Integrated World.
It was fun and exciting to see PEOPLE get the value of a sensory web and 3D Internet.
We humans are so adaptive! I can't imagine what life will be like when this is the norm.
A recap from the panels:
Thursday's panel was focused on People inside the 3D Internet. It was wonderful, with (given in the order they were seated) David Kralik from America's Solutions, Tammy Johns, Manpower and Rita King and Josh Fouts from Dancing Inc. with Nick Wilson, Clever Zebra holding us up on the mixed media virtual environment side. Each had something very valuable to contribute, considering their part in working with people to advance the future of work, diplomacy, staffing and policy. I can't say enough about the extremely well thought out responses and ideas the panel provided.
Saturday was more of a presentation. I truly enjoyed my Saturday mid day at Clever Zebra Island sharing with people from around the world, my perspective on 3D Internet. From the evolution of the web to the future of 3D Internet, I truly believe we have a great opportunity and I'm thankful as a futurist to be able to share my insight on the needs and challenges in this space. Nick Wilson, his team and sponsors have really done a nice job in holding real virtual expos and I expect others will quickly follow this lead.
Cheers to those who are stepping up: Paulette Robinson, Nick Wilson and the many folks giving unselfishly to speak out and LEAD this era. As I said on Thursday, if it were not for 3D Internet we (and the number continues to grow) would not be together-- Crossing the Loosely Coupled Divide of this Globally Integrated World.
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