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Innovation Suicide

April 9, 2010

Any definition is supposed to give the reader enough information to duplicate, recognize, and identify instances of the subject – Preferably before the event has ended. Think about it – if the definition for Innovation were clear, nobody would be asking this question.

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Does School Interfere With Education?

April 2, 2010

I guess that is could be considered sacrilege for a college professor to suggest that higher education is inadequate in some way. My position is that the college degree must go away in favor of strategic combinations of high resolution knowledge assets. The irony is that those who really “get it” understand “school” better than the schools.

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Criminals Steal Social Agreements

April 1, 2010

A criminal can steal your time, labor, intellect and possessions, or they can just steal your social agreements and replace them with a social disagreements.

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Are Airline Pricing Schemes Antisocial?

March 31, 2010

“People shop airline tickets by base price but by the time all of the [mandatory] options are factored in, there is not much of a discount after all”.

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Culture: When Engagement Is Not Optional

March 26, 2010

Today we see Social Media duplicating many of the functions of earlier society by storing community wisdom, applying social vetting, and deploying social currencies.

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Everyone, Inc.

March 11, 2010

In fact, the cards are stacked in favor of the corporation over the employee; unless, of course, you are both. We teach our kids to be good employees, not to become good corporations. How do we expect social priorities to compete with Wall Street Priorities?

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Should Educators Command an Equity Position in Students?

February 19, 2010

The idea that a mentor may take an equity position in a protege is not new – it happens in families and extended families as elders are fully aware that the children will provide for the family in the future. The connection is not to hard to grasp that it’s in everyone’s best interest to help the kids – all of the kids. This is the social contract.

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Social Currency And The Innovation Bank

February 13, 2010

If we consider the structure of conversations and compare that to both the structure of social networks AND the structure of our financial system, we see a huge opportunity to develop an alternate financial system that can capitalize and securitize knowledge assets in social media.

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A Community of Knowledge Assets

February 11, 2010

Our culture organizes itself around winners and losers. Corporations reflect this competitive nature to the core of their Capitalist doctrine. Sports analogies abound across the enterprise straight through to the HR department always on the lookout for the most amount of superstar for the least amount of money.

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Breaking The Monopoly on Money

February 10, 2010

Many people doubt that the dollar has more than a decade or so of steam left as the interest on debts mythically exceeds the total amount of money on Earth (at least in my world). Yet banks march on, heading straight for the cliff.

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Video; Will Social Capitalism Replace the Corporation?

February 6, 2010

There is very little about a corporation that cannot be duplicated in social media. This calls into question the nature of social media vs. the nature of corporations. Here we uncover a third pillar to the US economic recovery; Social Capitalism.

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Video: America; A Next Developed Country

February 5, 2010

Now that the factories are gone and the rest of the World has copied all of our tricks (while not copying our mistakes) it is time to move on. What is that next watershed economic paradigm? Who is going to figure this one out? The ones who do will define the new meaning of “A Most Developed Country”

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Video: Dollar Vs. Rallod; A Mirror Image Economy

February 4, 2010

Therefore, debt and innovation are blood brothers or mirror images of the other – they are both “currencies” (means of storing value) backed by future productivity. We can build a new economy around this concept which effectively weeds out the bad parts and keeps the good parts of the institutions and infrastructure that are already in place.

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Video: Intellectual Property in the Social Media Cloud

February 3, 2010

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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Rising Tide Floats All Boats

January 19, 2010

Wow, stunning.

You know that the time is right for a disruptive technology when nobody can agree what’s floating the World Currency. Will there be deflation, Inflation, or a new currency altogether?

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Calculating The ROI of Social Media

January 18, 2010

This video introduces a new way of looking at social media valuation. People find value in social media otherwise they would not do it. How is that value expressed as a financial instrument? If you engage your clients in the same currency that they are trading among themselves, the greater the likelihood you will realize the value of the new media phenomenon.

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Pssst … Wanna Get Wasted?

January 16, 2010

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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Political Memoirs; The Money Shot?

January 6, 2010

One must seriously ask, how exactly do political memoirs increase human productivity?

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Should Education be Open Source?

December 18, 2009

We continue to challenge the relevance of the college “degree” as being an insufficient measurement for what “educated” is, or is not, in an innovation economy. With the cost of a college degree spiraling upward and the value of the degree spiraling downward, the market will tip in favor of the alternative education measurements.

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Pirates, Anarchy, and the Monetization of Social Media

December 11, 2009

No sane blogger would post an article suggesting that anarchy is superior to government as a means of producing widespread cooperation…or would they? So far, the result has been phenomenally successful in social media and therefore demonstrates that anarchy may in fact work better than government.

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Fallout: FTC and Blogger Payola

December 11, 2009

The FTC recently issued guidelines for payola to bloggers. The impact and opinions are now emerging over what this means for social media. As with any game played on a new field, rules need to apply. The questions emerge regarding who the rules hurt, who they help, and how the game will develop in the future due to those rules.

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Is Freedom A New Economic Paradigm?

December 10, 2009

A New Economic System of the country of Montenegro is based on complete and unfettered economic freedom; in other words, the elimination of all barriers to conducting business. Does this, in fact, lead to a new paradigm?

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In Search of A New Economic Paradigm; Part 1

December 5, 2009

It could be currency collapse, an environmental collapse, a pandemic collapse, a food collapse, a water collapse, Energy collapse, a political collapse, or any number of Black Swan events – something somewhere too big to fail will fail. When that happens, it will take everything else down with it. After all, that’s what too big to fail means.

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YoVille Economics

November 21, 2009

I am amazed at how many of my friends say that they do not understand economics – then I visit their facebook page only to find all the trappings of advanced economic theory. Economics is the science of incentives and currency is the medium of exchange.

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Gamidox.com

Gamidox.com develops and spins off Value Games: The purpose of this video is to demonstrate the scope of influence that Value Games may have in communities and to identify games under development.

Zertify.com

The Knowledge Inventory: In order to create anything useful, there must be an inventory of parts, a bill of materials, or an accounting system with assets on one column and liabilities (deficiencies) in the other column.

Exoquant.com

Algorithm for the monetization of Knowledge Assets: This video introduces a very similar form of mathematics that Wall Street uses on tangible assets, except applied to intangibles.