For those of us interested in alternative economics, it was a very interesting week on the Front Range of Colorado.  There was significant activity among and between many groups who are innovating better ways to flow capital (financial capital, sure, and also social, human, intellectual and natural capital) through our economy and society.
Slow Money, a [...]

People who think their social business concept is too important or too smart to share with people, and needs to be protected from prying eyes and potential copycats will probably not understand what’s going on at Futureshifters right now.
Social entrepreneurs from around the world are freely sharing their ideas for socially-minded businesses that ought to [...]

The partnership with Innovation Networks for Communities, which centers on the development of nuPOLIS.com, has been a fascinating and rewarding journey into scalable social innovation.
Here is the May Update from this amazing network of innovators:
Online release of Chapter 2–”The Disruption of Community Life”–of new book: How Social Innovators are Transforming America’s Communities by Peter Plastrik [...]

There’s much more hype and pointless activity surrounding social media — much less social media analysis — than there are meaningful results.  A recent piece on Business Week, Debunking Six Social Media Myths, is well worth the read, hitting the proverbial nail on the head when it comes to using social media for business.
Their six [...]

I couldn’t be more excited about getting to work with AWhere on helping design a collective intelligence engine for the UN Foundation.
Here’s a recent two-part intervew I did at the AWhere Blog with UNF change agent Kevin Starace.  In his words:
As chair of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Performance Subcommittee we’re mandated to help the [...]

At Business Catapult, we’re powering the Angel Capital Summit.
As I wrote at the Business Catapult Blog,
As supporting partners, Business Catapult provides our entire suite of tools, and provide many new features to what would otherwise be a typical investor fair.  For instance:

Investors can review deals prior to the conference, and participate in a collective intelligence [...]

Note: We’re back from holiday, digging out of email and catching up with news. 
Really good data on growth in social network traffic in the first half of 2008.  Inside Facebook carries results of recent comscore rankings. In short, Facebook and Hi5 are the fastest growing networks, while MySpace is less hot in terms of growth, [...]

As a base to the acid of web 2.0 tools, their blogs, tweets (twits?), Duncan Work’s blog — 100 Trillion Connections — is an interesting balance.
Recently, Duncan posted some of his thoughts on the connection between the important work being done in mapping the human brain, and it’s implications for the social brain.
His conclusion?
… mapping [...]

Spent Monday afternoon at the New Media Summit, hosted by Metzger and Associates.
The audience was largely PR and communications professionals — people whose bosses, clients and clients’ clients are frequently turning towards to answer the ever-maddening questions about how to deploy new technologies, what social networking, mobile applications and new media in general is all [...]

It’s a never-ending sport.  With some drastic implications.
There’s ample evidence that the social networks are nothing more that the dot.com bubble revisited.  At the same time, big time players are putting heavy bets down that there’s a pot of gold out there somewhere.  So what are social networks really worth?
MIT’s Technology Review, in my opinion, [...]