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Irene V.

Why the World Need Hackers Now: The Link Between Open Source Development & Cu... - 0 views

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hacker attitude culture social sociedad

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  • the definition of ‘hackers’ are “having to do with technical adeptness & a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits,” and so ring true for anyone pursuing mastery in their chosen creative expression… musicians, artists, athletes, scientists, etc)
  • It seems to be the same disposition among the communities of people talking about intentional lifestyle design – those that want “work” and “life” to not suggest two worlds out of alignment, but rather are working to create a consistent underlying culture that allows each person to bring their gifts and strengths forward regardless of social context.
  • Culture hackers want to define the social agreements and communication protocols most likely to lead to human fulfillment, creativity and happiness…. then build the new socioeconomic systems upon that life-enhancing infrastructure.
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  • “When you start community-building, what you need to be able to present is a plausible promise. Your program doesn’t have to work particularly well. It can be crude, buggy, incomplete, and poorly documented. What it must not fail to do is (a) run, and (b) convince potential co-developers that it can be evolved into something really neat in the foreseeable future.”
Irene V.

Transition Culture | Scoop.it - 0 views

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transition culture scoop

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Irene V.

Switching off an "Always on" Culture | Leslie Perlow | Big Think - 0 views

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culture think on internet loggedon

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  • manage across time zones.
  • external factors causes you to create a culture of responsiveness
  • everyone's on all the time
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  • expect it of each other.
  • client service
  • lack of predictability
  • goal i
  • one night a week.  For every individual, it’s a different night of the week.
  • delivering the same 24/7 coverage to the client
  • global initiative
  • they can intervene
  • we also looked at next week’s calendar and we said, "You know, Tom, you’re off on Thursday night, but we have a major deliverable on Friday now.  How are we going to work together as a team to make sure that that’s going to be okay?"
  • measurable impact on people’s experience about both work and work-life.
  •  They experienced work as much more fulfilling.
  •  They experienced their work lives as much more predictable.
  • more control
  • put in place a system where people team.
  • it didn’t just affect the individuals.  It also had a profound effect on the way they were working and taking initiative to do work differently, to prioritize, and it had measurable impact on retention and also the effectiveness and efficiency of the work process itself and ultimately on the work they were delivering to the client.
Irene V.

Is Your Brand Ready for Unleashed Workers? | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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unleashed workers sustainable brand brands work collaboration future

shared by Irene V. on 04 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Irene V. on 04 Oct 12
     
    "Is Your Brand Ready for Unleashed Workers? by Marc Stoiber  |  keywords: articles, Computers/Electronics/Technology, Business Model Innovation, Employee Engagement, Environmental/Social Issues, Impact Reduction, Org Culture and Processes, Transportation/Logistics Tweet   Video conferencing, courtesy of GoToMeeting. | Image credit: Citrix October 1, 2012- A key element of futureproof brands is the ability to predict the needs of rapidly evolving consumers. This is easier said than done. In hindsight, Facebook makes sense. But few could've predicted the rise of a generation willing to share every intimate detail online. Telecommuting is a similarly cagey concept. For years, we've been trumpeting it as progress toward less pollution and time waste, and greater sustainability. But there's still little indication what this new world of stay-away workers will actually look like, what working anywhere actually means, and how brands will have to adapt to serve this new group. My interest in this area was sparked by a conversation with Kim DeCarlis, VP of Corporate Marketing at Citrix (the folks pushing the virtualization envelope with offerings such as GoTo Meeting). Although DeCarlis agrees it's early days, she believes there are indicators of what brands serving future telecommuters should think about. Hyper Personal Standardization in electronics is still de rigueur in most offices. As DeCarlis says, "Permutation and new gear is anathema to IT departments. Trying to make an office work - and people share information - when everyone has their own platform is an exercise in futility." Virtualization and the Cloud have changed the need for standardization. "I have a computer, tablet and phone that I bought for myself," says DeCarlis. "With virtualized functions like data, applications and desktops delivered via the cloud, my personal gear is 100% usable at work." So what does this mean for the unleashed workers of tomorrow
Irene V.

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opensource economics collaboration social p2p

shared by Irene V. on 23 May 12 - Cached
  • For decades our understanding of economic production has been that individuals order their productive activities in one of two ways: either as employees in firms, following the directions of managers, or as individuals in markets, following price signals. This dichotomy was first identified in the early work of Nobel laureate Ronald Coase, and was developed most explicitly in the work of neo-institutional economist Oliver Williamson. In the past three or four years, public attention has focused on a fifteen-year-old social-economic phenomenon in the software development world. This phenomenon, called free software or open source software, involves thousands or even tens of thousands of programmers contributing to large and small scale project, where the central organizing principle is that the software remains free of most constraints on copying and use common to proprietary materials. No one "owns" the software in the traditional sense of being able to command how it is used or developed, or to control its disposition. The result is the emergence of a vibrant, innovative and productive collaboration, whose participants are not organized in firms and do not choose their projects in response to price signals.
  • much broader social-economic phenomenon. I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands.
  • this mode has systematic advantages over markets and managerial hierarchies when the object of production is information or culture, and where the capital investment necessary for production-computers and communications capabilities-is widely distributed instead of concentrated. In particular, this mode of production is better than firms and markets for two reasons. First, it is better at identifying and assigning human capital to information and cultural production processes. In this regard, peer-production has an advantage in what I call "information opportunity cost." That is, it loses less information about who the best person for a given job might be than do either of the other two organizational modes. Second, there are substantial increasing returns to allow very larger clusters of potential contributors to interact with very large clusters of information resources in search of new projects and collaboration enterprises. Removing property and contract as the organizing principles of collaboration substantially reduces transaction costs involved in allowing these large clusters of potential contributors to review and select which resources to work on, for which projects, and with which collaborators. This results in allocation gains, that increase more than proportionately with the increase in the number of individuals and resources that are part of the system. The article concludes with an overview of how these models use a variety of technological and social strategies to overcome the collective action problems usually solved in managerial and market-based systems by property and contract.
Irene V.

Comments on the social graph: social graph - 0 views

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social graph

shared by Irene V. on 26 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Ideas flow through our culture battling for attention. Successful ideas flow through the social graph from person to person. There is no upper limit on the number of ideas, but there is an upper limit in our capacity to attend to these ideas
  • Metcalfe's Law was originally used to describe how the value of a telecommunications network increased in value exponentially with the number of connections to that network, by n squared. On Wikipedia, they illustrate the idea by talking about the fax: "a single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because the total number of people with whom each user may send and receive documents increases." Below you'll find Metcalfe's original graph from 1980 used to convince early Ethernet adopters to try networks large enough to exhibit network effects – networks larger than some “critical mass.” This is Hollywood Economics, where the most successful are disproportionally rewarded compared to their competitors.
  • This work reconfirms the fact that the social graph follows economic, political, and cultural ties.
Irene V.

2012 Slow Food Terra Madre - 0 views

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  • Slow Food means living a deep, meaningful life
  • beginning at the table
  • interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our daily food choices affect the rest of the world.
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  • It has been said that the best revenge is living well
  • simply reconnecting with those roots in today’s world by opposing the industrial standardization of taste and culture, and the unrestrained power of the food industry and industrial agriculture.
  • “Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.”
  • The tenants of Slow Food are Good, Clean and Fair. Good simply means a fresh and flavorful seasonal diet that satisfies the senses and is part of our local culture. Clean designates food production and consumption that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health. Fair is accessible pricing for consumers and fair conditions and pay for small-scale producers. Farmers Markets, Community Supported Agriculture, local food swaps, community gardens, neighborhood gardens and over the fence backyard garden food trading are all examples of the ideals outlined above.
  • “Foods that Change the World”
  • Irene V. on 06 Sep 12
     
    entonces slow internet....
Irene V.

15 top web design and development trends for 2012 | Feature | .net magazine - 0 views

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trends 2012 collaboration workplace

shared by Irene V. on 19 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Distributed workforces During the next year, Richey thinks the set-up of many companies will be atypical. “A new generation of young designers and developers entered the workforce in a time of lingering adversity. With a variety of technologies at their fingertips, many creatives have learned to find jobs, network, and acquire new skills from their bedrooms, the corner café, or a destination around the world,” she explains. “As the economy improves, many designers and developers won’t be willing to trade in their work style and relative freedom for a cubicle space. With a growing number of high-profile tech companies embracing a mobile and distributed workforce, employers looking for top-notch talent may need to re-evaluate their workplace culture.”
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      Irene V. on 19 Jun 12
       
      como se ha transportado al mundo no geek? a otras ramas del trabajo?
  • In gaming, Dull Dude Games founder Iain Lobb predicts an even bigger return to Flash: “Clients will try to steer things towards HTML5, because that’s where the hype is, but I think often the right thing to do will be steering them back towards Flash.”
Irene V.

Getting To Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out | New Economy Working Group - 0 views

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shared by Irene V. on 24 May 12 - No Cached
  • Focusing on the unique challenges that socially conscious companies face, Getting to Scale addresses the issues that affect all businesses: * Production and personnel * Access to capital and markets * Changes in organizational structure * Ownership and control * Corporate culture Filled with practical and tested advice, Getting to Scale provides a blueprint for socially responsible entrepreneurs in any industry who want to benefit larger groups of customers, have a greater positive impact on their communities, and maintain their independence by scaling up their enterprises.
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      Irene V. on 24 May 12
       
      puede ser 1 guia??
Irene V.

The Critical Need for Self-Care When World Building « emergent by design - 0 views

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world building design

shared by Irene V. on 24 May 12 - No Cached
  • form a new kind of living systems organization, and lay down infrastructures that we intend will lead us towards a desired socioeconomic paradigm and human operation system
  • cultural design, systems intelligence, and coordinated creative action at scale
  • world builders
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  • It is time to build the bridges towards the worlds we envision, and guide ourselves towards it with focused purpose and intention.
  • We are learning new behaviors, methods and practices of how to Be as a global network society. We are learning what cooperation means, how to safely be vulnerable in front of each other, and how to communicate and build knowledge and wisdom together.
David Buen Abad

Organisational Values as 'Attractors of Chaos': An Emerging Cultural Change t... - 1 views

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      estoy leyendo este articulo y rescatando cosas interesantes
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      Yeah!!!!
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      nueva
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Irene V.

Juliet Schor FSTV: Less Work, More Living - 0 views

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living working less

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  • But the benefits of working less, it turns out, aren't just for the individual enjoying a happier life. A culture less focused on the rat race means serious benefits for the planet and the economy, as well.
Irene V.

Sacred Geometry: Inspiration by James Healy - design:related - 0 views

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geometry inspiration design sacred

shared by Irene V. on 26 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • worldview of pattern recognition, a complex system of hallowed attribution and signification that may subsume religious and cultural values to the fundamental structures and relationships of such complexes as space, time and form. According to this discipline, the basic patterns of existence are perceived as sacred: for by contemplating and communing with them one is thereby contemplating the Mysterium Magnum, the patterning relationships of the Great Design. By studying the nature of these patterns, forms and relationships and their manifold intra- and interconnectivity one may gain insight into the scientific, philosophical, psychological, aesthetic and mystical continuüm. That is, the laws and lore of the Universe.
  • Bindu Ley lines Fractal Folk mathematics Proportion (architecture) Platonic solids Golden ratio Golden spiral Astrological aspects Pythagorean symbols
Irene V.

Groupthink. Last week's top links, Issue 16 / Blog / yaM - 0 views

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meeting management collaboration work software

shared by Irene V. on 11 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The Rise of the New Groupthink
  • now work in teams, in offices where there are no walls, for managers who prize collaboration
  • Groupthink has transformed our offices and our minds
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  • When Larry Page took over at Google, the first thing he did was to explain to all employees how to run effective meetings. Google's new online newsletter, Thisnk Quarterly, shared the basic elements of a successful meeting. These basic rules are well-known to all of us, however, are very often disregarded by managers. Patrick Leoncini, the author of the book "Death by Meeting", thinks that people "have failed as a culture because we've come to accept that meetings are just inherently bad". Leoncini suggests breaking meetings up in four formats.  Steve Roesler came up with 5 meetings traps and ways to fix them. Not everyone is able to run an effective meeting, however, everyone can learn how to do it by attending a workshop or a course. If you are a leader, your meeting professionalism is directly linked to your success in the company. A meeting is an expensive process and should only be used to get results.   Do you know how to beat the Meeting Monster? Lifehack does. If you spend too much time in meetings - follow these rules and get the Meeting Monster under control.
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