Coups de coeur dans les nuages

Two conferences about Enterprise 2.0 in one month, one in San Francisco (US), one in Frankfurt (Germany, Europe), is the business world looking for a magical remedy to the recession?

Obviously the 2.0 "revolution" is boiling for longer time ago than the financial crisis. In the companies the recession had give a push to what could be the end of mass-consumption, mass-production...maybe end of capitalism, version. 19th century.

This video is setting the stage to give you the Best of the two conferences and invite you to comment on:
* http://diwiki.com/index.php/Best_of_Enterprise2.0_Summit

What large companies understand about Enterprise 2.0
What about the workforce
Measuring collaboration benefits: Wiki-experiment in the German Armed Forces

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Money is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard of deferred payment and a store of value.
A measure or a store of value means also a measure or a store of information.
People all around the world  are brainstorming about the future of money: the financial system is dead, let us organise a new system, more sustainable, fair, not speculative...endly not capitalist.
Behind these discussions, two ideas are rising up:
1- Market is conversation: the conversation is possible with internet, the value of each exchange could be the result of these conversations. The global market could become a peer to peer conversation.
2- Exchange requires trust: internet is building trust on community information. The world financial system could turn up to social community financial system.
No doubt that States and population who are not involved in the "webosphere", will be reluctant to such a drastic change.
All is about trust: are you confident in Banks, States, Big companies today?

More links:
http://lets.net
http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/
http://www.letsystem.org/
http://openmoney.org
http://openmoney.editme.com
http://blogtalkradio.com/openmoney
http://openmoney.info
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/01/20/a-better-way-to-make-money/
http://www.lietaer.com/
http://wiki.thetransitioner.org/English
All the twits from several countries about this issue

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Reading post "Blockage" in Cause Global Blog, I was impress by the  replies gave by Clay Shirky about the management of organizations and whole society.
To the question :
"Is there someone or some new organization doing this well?

Boing Boing, one of the well-trafficked Web blogs, has a brilliant community manager named Theresa Nielsen Hayden, whose principal MO is to sit back and watch"

answers Clay Shirky.
Absolutely disruptive of course as our traditionnal image of a true leader - manager is a busy person, pushing and pulling persons and projects.
Maybe the "sit and watch" attitude is the drastic posture  of the "new" leader but in the challenge to find efficient and flexible organization that deserves the society of information, it could be a necessary first step.

Do you agree with:
" how to change the organizational structure enough to accommodate Web-enabled, ground-up, collective action—self-organized groups of members or supporters or constituents that, because they're using new technology tools, are demanding interaction at far higher levels than before. This is something that really is unprecedented. Those organizations which fail to exert new leadership will risk losing support."
 

(Illustration by Miroslaw Pieprzyk)
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• 2009 is just a number (brendancooper.com)
• Rob Kall: GOP "Webification" Effort Could Backfire (huffingtonpost.com)

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More than the extend use of video or TV over the web, the future in Internet for me is in collaborative data visualization.
Few examples:
* Wikinvest has a feature called Wikicharts which allows users to share annotations on financial charts.Wikinvest's chart is extremely well executed and features customary dynamic axis and multiple time ranges, as well as their own additions for user-submitted annotations. Graphical annotation of chart is also explored in Berkeley project Sense.us and by IBM in Many Eyes technology (create your visual representation of data and information here : http://vizlab.nytimes.com/ )
* Kaltura is built on the collaborative Wiki model but uses media rather than text. Sites can add video capabilities using Kaltura's hosted services, download the open source community edition, or install self-serve video packages for web-platforms such as MediaWiki, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.
Using Kaltura's technology, users can create videos by combining existing uploaded media from sharing sites such as MySpace or YouTube with CreativeCommons or public domain sources such as Flickr, ccMixter, Jamendo, and The New York Public Library.^[2] Media that can then be embedded and played elsewhere on the Internet.
 
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Visualization_as_social_spaces.zip (307 KB)

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The number of car sold in October 2008 dropped down 40% compared to October 2007 in Spain, 7% in France. Immediatly the financial crisis is pointed out and no doubt that the economic depression in European countries bundled with no more easy loans are the main reasons of this collapse in the car industry.
But maybe if we go deeper in the origin of the crash, the "consumers' surveys" open a new window of hope. "Consumers" say that they will not renew their cars as soon as they find the car they really need. They pinpoint that the market do not offer what they want or what they dream of and there is no way to buy the "same model just relooked".

That sounds good, even if the "Customer Advent" will be very painfull for all the workers of the old industry which only do what Paul Polak notices : "Too many entrepreneurs build the product they want to build — not the one that's needed."

Picture from http://www.greenhybrid.com/
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Michael Wesch again... because this video is "multilingual" (I hope so for my french and spanish friends) and explain exactly what we feel us, bloggers, twitterville citizens, wiki addicts, open-source companions: "we need to rethink ourselves". Maybe in Europe much more than in US...
* (video is 4 minutes and a half, pas de problème pour les français, c'est "visuel". Para los hispanofonos: atrevese a dar un vistazo, es todo visual, se entiende bastante bien)

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