Future Indiana - April 2009 Meeting

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Permalink Reply by Betsey Merkel on April 21, 2009 at 10:52pm

Hi Everybody!

I'm looking forward to meeting everyone this weekend at the Future Indiana meeting!

While I'm visiting, I thought I'd encourage you to contribute a brief interview about your work, your interests, your passions - all the good stuff that makes up economic development in communities and their regions.

We're operating in a new time and what used to work before, simply doesn't work anymore. We need new insights, new ideas and new ways of doing things differently for a brave new world.

I-Open interviews share the new stories of innovation taking place everywhere. These stories help us to learn about cool stuff we didn't know before and build networks to new opportunities. We post everything Open Source style, so when you give, you receive!

Here's an example of an interview about Swarm Creativity and ‘Cool Farming’ – trend finding and predicting (like, Which film is going to win at the Oscars this year?) contributed by Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Peter adds lots of personal stories about how he got the idea for his award winning software: from his Dad who is a Bee Keeper! Here's the article.

Another story is from June Holley who teaches people how to do something called ‘network weaving’ – a neat way to think differently about how to strengthen next opportunities focused on what you are interested in. Here's the article.

Sign in to I-Open Education to learn more about how you can be a part of I-Open Interview and Conversation research. It’s pretty powerful and amazing and we invite you to contribute and share in the goodness. Here's the place. Here's all the details (requires sign in).

E-mail me if you’d like to learn more, maybe set up a time to work together, or if you're just curious for the future, to talk. Call me anytime - I'm at 216-246-2447.

There are lots of people waiting to learn more about what you're interested in and why you do what you do - a great start for all of us to see a new future together. See you soon!

Betsey Merkel
Co-Founder, Director
The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)
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Permalink Reply by Betsey Merkel on April 21, 2009 at 11:44pm

Almost forgot -- we work closely with our partner, Mogulus TV, so all interviews, conversations and Live Shows are posted to the I-Open Education channel as well as to each article as an embeddable widget. Enjoy!!

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