From the monthly archives:

June 2009

1.3 Trillion Dollar Professional Contact Market

by Dan Robles

It is only a matter of time until professional contacts will be for sale. The problem is that the ROI (return on investment model) is such a poor valuation tool for social media.

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The 2.3 Trillion Dollar Mentor Market

by Dan Robles

Suppose that mentorship could be monetized like financial instruments. Within the structure of an innovation economy specified by The Ingenesist Project, the mentor would take an equity position in the protégé, not unlike taking a stock in a corporation.

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Social Media Strikes Back

by Dan Robles

In order to predict where social media will strike next all we need to do is look for the waste economy; areas where world governments, institutions, and corporations are inefficient, wasteful, co opted, or corrupt.

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Is the Corporate Structure Obsolete?

by Dan Robles

In short, we have seen social media replace or duplicate almost every structural element of the traditional corporation outside of the construct of corporations. Can social media provide a corporate structure in and among itself?

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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

by Dan Robles

The human resources department is responsible for matching a knowledge surplus to a knowledge deficit through the hiring process. Fortunately for them, there is no knowledge inventory in society and managers don’t necessarily know what they want.

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How Does Social Media Affect GDP?

by Dan Robles

Gross Domestic Product does not take into account many important variables accelerated by Social Media and growing exponentially in economic influence.

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The Invisible Currency Among Us

by Dan Robles

The grand total is 2.5 Trillion Dollars worth of conversational currency – 2 times the 2009 national deficit and 5% of America’s entire debt obligation – and growing. Maybe the Dollar is not so overvalued after all. Maybe the dollar deficit is counter balanced by this new invisible currency. Suppose the more inflation that occurs, the more this invisible currency will affect the overall economy.

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Treating the consequences, not the symptoms?

by Dan Robles

Problems are often so complex and so integrated across the globe that no single person can accumulate in a lifetime the experience needed to manage effectively. Actions without wisdom have unintended consequences for yet unknown victims.

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Collateralized Innovation Obligations

by Dan Robles

The underlying asset that supports both the Collateralized Debt Obligation and the Collateralized Innovation Obligation is a person and their ideas; one is an asset and the other is a liability. Both types of people go to work every day to interact with other people. They both share ideas and create better ways of doing things. People increase human productivity through fault tolerant networks and support systems. They transform information into knowledge and innovation – and both pay their mortgage.

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The Competition is Competition Itself

by Dan Robles

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, as an analogy, suggests that the more we know about competition, the less we may know about cooperation. The more we know about cooperation, the less we know about competition.

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Change You Can Bank on

by Dan Robles

Social media allows us to express the dynamics of our world in real time and at great speed. Feedback loops are shorter and cause and effect can be more easily differentiated.

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Buddhist Economics

by Dan Robles

Everything is Connected:

The economic models and theories that prevailed through the 20th century are rapidly falling apart. Economists scramble to offer explanations and solutions. However, much of what has gone wrong was anticipated years ago by E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977), an Oxford economist and protégé of John Maynard Keynes who proposed a theory of “Buddhist [...]

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