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Social Capitalism And The ROI For Social Media

by Dan Robles

This video introduces a new way of looking at social media valuation. The monetization paradox is stuck on “how can this value expressed as a financial instrument”?

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What’s Your Cut of the $5 Trillion Knowledge Economy?

by Dan Robles

Your knowledge and experience also helps others predict what preferences you may have and what decisions you may make. Corporations, advertisers, banks, insurance companies, and politicians all want to know this and they will go to extreme and expensive measures to get it – why not just sell it to them?

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Independence Is A State of Mind

by Dan Robles

Just when everyone thinks that Americans are up against the ropes, they come up with an idea so radical, so creative, and so astonishingly consciousness-altering, the rest of the world just shakes their heads in collective disbelief.

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Engineers Are Money

by Dan Robles

China and India are producing millions of engineers as part of their global economic dominance strategy. Engineers increase productivity and productivity creates wealth. Why? Because money is only a means for storage and exchange of value and engineers create the value.

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Video: Intellectual Property in the Social Media Cloud

by Dan Robles

Or maybe the last thing that Wall Street wants is for Engineers, Architects, designers, and creative people to get “royalties” on their work. That is What Wall Street does, they collect the royalties of the creative people in America….until now. Social media is a social contract, IP is our currency.

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Video: Taxonomy for Community Knowledge Inventory

by Dan Robles

ny taxonomy that is used to classify information is a candidate for the classification of knowledge. This is because knowledge is related to information in a differential equation that also includes data and innovation (another blog post).

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Where is The Knowledge Inventory?

by Dan Robles

There is no knowledge inventory of our communities. The is a STUNNING omission for a country whose only hope at climbing out of economic hardship is sequestered within the innovative minds of its people.

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Pssst … Wanna Get Wasted?

by Dan Robles

This is starting to sound more like the neighborhood drug dealer than any sustainable economic paradigm: Go where your customers congregate and gain their trust by sharing your stuff. Soon, you can start to influence their behavior. Once hooked, they will do your deed for free.

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The Monetization Mystery

by Dan Robles

Show me how everyone is related and I’ll show you a new economic paradigm. Here is how they are not related:

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Deep Web Search

by Dan Robles

Deep Web Search Engine is here. This represents a new economic paradigm since increasing the available information increases the rate of change of knowledge across diverse communities. Keep your eyes on this one – it’s a big one.

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Community Currency; Ithaca Hours

by Dan Robles

Many communities are giving up waiting on large corporations or government to invest or provide jobs, and are instead building on their own strengths and resources.

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A Local Currency Primer; Comfort Dollars

by Dan Robles

As more corporate and governmental institutions fail to meet the needs of society, people will need a currency that they can trade among each other. If the dollar fails, the need will be dire.
The difficulties that will ultimately limit such enterprise is the inability to capitalize and securitize a social currency.

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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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The New Economic Paradigm: Part 7; Monetization of Knowledge Assets

by Dan Robles

We have specified a structure for a new economic paradigm by simply integrating the the knowledge economy into the same structure as the financial system. The result is a completely new way for entrepreneurs to create wealth.

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Who Owns Your Content?

by Dan Robles

The epiphany:
Something very interesting happened when Facebook changed their terms of service.   People who use the Facebook platform (for free) organized themselves using the (free) platform to threaten the core validity of the same (free) platform.  This could not happen in any other industry.
Saving face?
Ownership is largely characterized by the ability of one party [...]

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The Résumé Must Die

by Dan Robles

Résumé: A French word for separating the brain from the body

The global imperative is for the United States to become an innovation economy now. This is an entirely different animal than the Industrial revolution; I have long argued that the résumé system is by far the most archaic knowledge management “currency” of trade in use today.

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Web 3.0; An Elephant Never Forgets

by Dan Robles

The opportunity for America reminds me of the elephant that is convinced since birth that the slender rope tying him to the fence post is stronger than he.  When the elephant grows up, he still believes the rope is stronger even though the elephant now has gained the strength to pull the whole building down.  [...]

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The Great Convergence

by Dan Robles

Hey Kids, It’s 3D:
The objective of this article is to discuss the Great Convergence of computer enabled society. Social media must not be allowed to converge to a single apex – rather, it must converge to 3 distinct and tangible dimensions.
The factors of production for the industrial economy are land, labor, and capital.  If you [...]

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Finally, A Definition for Innovation

by Dan Robles

[In earlier post we identified the 5 essential elements of a market economy. What would be the currency of an innovation economy? Currency is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a stored value, and a standard of value. Basically we are asking; What are those things that people are out in the World [...]

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The Next Great American “Hail Mary” Pass

by Dan Robles

The Game
The knowledge economy will be outsourced to low cost countries. There is little rational analysis that suggests otherwise.  Information, knowledge and innovation are profoundly connected – lose one and you lose the other two … and so goes our innovation potential. The very technology invented and developed by American knowledge workers is the exact [...]

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Social Media; The Opportunity of a Century

by Dan Robles

The Perfect Storm:
We are at an historic time in human history; one that may never repeat itself again. The current financial crisis may provide just enough disruption for a completely new economic paradigm to emerge; the Innovation Economy.  We cannot squander this moment arguing over common logon for our Twitter and Facebook profiles; a far [...]

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Social Media; The Central Bank for Knowledge Assets?

by Dan Robles

It is very interesting to watch Social Media follow familiar trajectories as earlier paradigms in finance.  I see many social media platforms struggling to make human knowledge tangible in their respective markets.  The challenge is so simple, yet so complex.  Let the litmus test for knowledge tangibility be as follows; “Can you buy groceries with [...]

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The Tangibility of Knowledge

by Dan Robles

Knowledge Tangibility should be the most important conversation in Social Media circles given the current financial situation in America.
I lived through financial devaluation in another country and the effects were crushing: after the run on the banks, there will be a run on Walmart.  People will buy TVs, small appliances, shoes, and useful stuff that [...]

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2008 Financial Crisis: The End Game

by Dan Robles

The year is 2020, no burning cities, no mass hysteria, no bread lines; the economy is on an exponential growth curve.  The financial crisis of 2008 ended in an anticlimactic sort of way.  Sure, lots of hedge fund bankers were unemployed for a while and many companies once deemed titans of industry have disappeared, but [...]

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Social Enterprise; The Vetting Mechanism; #1

by Dan Robles

I read many articles with rants like “all this social network stuff is cool – but show us the money”.  Innovation Economics offers a way to see new markets and new businesses that are currently hidden by “the old way” of doing things.   This article is part of a series called ‘Business Plans of [...]

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The Credit Score Analogy; Part 2

by Dan Robles

Now we look for a similar situation for Knowledge Markets.
In the cuurent times, the hiring manager is the person to know if you want to get a job. The manager would read your resume and compare it with “bell curve” in their brain about what has worked or not worked in their past. This was [...]

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The Credit Score Analogy; Part 1

by Dan Robles

We have defined the currency, the factors of production, and the inventory of the Innovation Economy; we destroyed the old resume system and turned it into a computer language that makes knowledge appear like money in the eyes of the entrepreneur.
Now, we need a system that keeps the game free and fair. For example; EBay [...]

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