Can I get an “Amen” that the economy is slightly askew? Are you spending time wondering what is going on? Here are some emerging patterns that might help.
Daemon/Freedom™ is one story in two books about our economy if it was based on social rather than economic resources. It’s also a good shoot ’em up. Actually, the action makes the new thinking easier to understand…and makes me realize we are seeing parts of a social economy already.
Hippie 2.0 is a raucous blog, many posts daily from a phalanx of talented writers. I never know what to expect, but I haven’t read anything unimportant since I subscribed.
Which gets me to Social Capital: The Value Game a recent video on Hippie 2.0 Wow! It’s a 12 minute video that shows the steps to create a social value leveraged economic model. The video is short, and not hard to understand, and it explains many things that I see today.
Doc Searls one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, the book that predicted and then started Web 2.0, has been working on the Project VRM to “provide customers with both independence from vendors and better ways of engaging with vendors.”
All these smart blind men are describing an important elephant that I suspect may become our dominant reality…soon.
Can you add some light to the discussion?
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Dick:
ReplyDeleteThanks for the mention about Hippies 2.0 We've gathered some great "thinkers" and enjoy the exchange of "higher ideas". Appreciate the mention.
Dick: thanks for the introduction to Hippies 2.0 and to the VRM project. That video is fascinating. I have already shared it with my daughter, a college senior and a math major, as an example of a great application of analytics and social media... and perhaps the rise of a new business paradigm for her generation.
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Hi Jud!
ReplyDeleteOuch! For her generation? It's on right now!
Thanks for commenting.
Jay!
ReplyDelete"higher ideas" groan!
AND we both think that the changes around us now are as important as the changes from the '60's and '70's.
A good record from that earlier time is http://www.wolfgangsvault.com