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We Want In Our Public Lives What We (Already) Have In Our Private Lives

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I often point at my iPhone at work and say “Why can’t things work here (location) like they do for me here (device)?” I was on a video call last week with the Adjuvi team – Dion Hinchcliffe and Larry Everson – Dion made such a simple, powerful point… "App store is your personal IT dept." – @dhinchcliffe nice! — Jonathan Anthony (@ThisMuchWeKnow) July 10, 2014 It brings to mind an article I have been heavily influenced by, called Brands as Patterns by Method. It uses the iPhone interface as a mechanism to discuss how to organize artifacts and themes. So, we have EVERYTHING … Continue reading We Want In Our Public Lives What We (Already) Have In Our Private Lives

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Generosity Is Not Just “Good”, It Has (Increasing) Value

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John Stepper writes a lot about the act of generosity in working out loud. When you seek to assist your network to get stronger, more resilient, enable breakthroughs – for its own sake! – you will be paid back handsomely. Now, this goes against a lot of late-capitalist thinking about the dog-eat-dog world of globalization. We live in fear – and/or are entrepreneurially energized – that globalization in fact eats the dog, that eats the dog, for breakfast. Stepper says otherwise. Leading with generosity: By framing your posts as contributions you’re more likely to engage other people. You’re not just looking … Continue reading Generosity Is Not Just “Good”, It Has (Increasing) Value

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Just What Am I Here To Do…?

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When you enter the dark and misunderstood world of change agency, a curtain is parted and you see before you thousands of shiny objects and golden baubles – all of them possibilities. Possibilities to add value, to shake things up, in deepen and improve community, to unlock talent from outmoded ways of organizing. What to touch? What to play with? It can be intoxicating, and all the more difficult to decide for it. A Change Agents Worldwide colleague, Kevin Jones, wrote recently about how he defines his service, when there is SO MUCH TO DO! He practiced a few times at a … Continue reading Just What Am I Here To Do…?

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X Is The New Y: Another Take

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Last year I worked through a few changes in the way people and organizations (co)exist, especially as technology changes our world(view) and networks blow away rigid structures. I called this series X is the new Y. Well, one article I read today really has 9 new Xs, so to speak, all from the genius of Joi Ito, head of MIT Media Lab. (Explanations begin around 16:30 of video) Ito calls them principles of innovation, and they fit perfectly into the x:y perspective. Resilience is the new Strength Pull is the new Push Risk is the new Safety System is the … Continue reading X Is The New Y: Another Take

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#PKyvr33 Day 16: No Room For #CAWW Today

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Any regular TMWK visitor will know I can rattle on about the topics of #FutureOfWork, #SocBiz. Just look at the category choices on the right column. In the last year plus, Change Agents Worldwide has been a central part of those conversations. This is a place where much of my emergent learning occurs, or is deepened. My focus on working out loud was stimulated there, not least because CAWW has the world’s leading experts on it. Concurrently, as I engage in very deep discussion about some of the BIG TOPICS of the (work) day, I have also recognized the value … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 16: No Room For #CAWW Today

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#PKyvr33 Day 10: Working Out Loud Impacts Your Personal Brand

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Working out loud and one’s personal brand are inextricably linked. As I often state, your personal brand helps to answer this question: How can I help? It does so because you have shared your work / attributes / beliefs. Your audience has consequentially (re)oriented itself around you, and can answer that question by making suggestions, asking clarifying questions, asking for more or, indeed, saying ‘No thanks!” Conversely, if you have not shared your work, your attitudes, interests and focii, well, what is anyone to make of you? They peer at your job title, mostly, and make their own suppositions. The … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 10: Working Out Loud Impacts Your Personal Brand

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#PKyvr33 Day 3: International Working Out Loud Week #WOLweek #WOLyo!

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A few network connections have decided to work out loud next week. This calls for an INTERNATIONAL WORK OUT LOUD WEEK proclamation! Austen Hunter has the schematic, which he shared to a Yammer customer network: Of course, number one is the most important: Do something! #WOLyo is action oriented. My guess is that my #PKyvr33 process will suffice as my participation to the week. Look out for #WOLweek #WOLyo! for others’ efforts. Last night, at dinner, my partner Lori said: “You are discussing [the opportunity of] elevation through connection and community.” I like that, elevation. It will definitely synthesize somehow into … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 3: International Working Out Loud Week #WOLweek #WOLyo!

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#PKyvr33 Day 2: Initial Notes #WOLyo!

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I am presenting a pecha kucha about working out loud (and on presenting 10 pecha kucha in a week) at Pecha Kucha Vancouver Ed. 33.  This is the share of how it happens, laid out to be seen. You are welcome. I am using #PKyvr33 as a collation / curation tool. I get complexity and emergence. Really smart people can explain complexity and emergence. Me? I just get it. I work that way. I dip a toe; I iterate. I try things out. I fail (and slough it off like a snake’s skin.) This blog is my mechanism to deal … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 2: Initial Notes #WOLyo!

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#PKyvr33 Day 1: Working Out Loud On A Live Project – Let’s Do This Thing #WOLyo!

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A confluence of conversations and events leads me to this point. It’s time to put some skin in the game and work out loud (in the internet open) on a project. I worked out loud ‘under the stairs’ for a week at work to challenge myself about what sharing and #unSquirrel really means. I wanted to get away from technology, and into the real-time space of the person to person economy. I spoke about the initiative with various online contacts and one – @AustenHunter – suggested a #WOLweek. Sure! I attended #FUELvan conference and the organizer –  Susan Cox, who … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 1: Working Out Loud On A Live Project – Let’s Do This Thing #WOLyo!