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Bruce LaDuke joined Lillian Newman's groupon Saturday
If you make something from your hands to sell and consider yourself an artist, join this group! :o)
Bruce LaDuke and Justin Stanley are now friendson Saturday
DeWayne A. Landwehr, Tod Esquivel and 16 other members joined Bruce LaDuke's groupon Wednesday
This group is for anyone interested in establishing a long-range planning center, futures institute, or a futures dialogue center for the state of Indiana.
Thanks for creating this group. Great idea! I am a futurist and question scientist. Here's my Speaker Page and my Bio Page.
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!!
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...
Christopher Royce Norwood and Bruce LaDuke are now friendsApril 19

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Future Indiana
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large company
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http://www.instantinnovation.com
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Bruce LaDuke's Blog

Bruce LaDuke

Smaller Indiana Groups - A Reflection of Our Energy?

Hi everyone. I did an unofficial poll of the size of groups on Smaller Indiana. The top twelve groups I found look like this (my apologies if I missed any):

1 - Business Owners 230 members
2 - 2012 Super Bowl City 207 members
3 - Rainmakers Marketing Group 187 members
4 - Creative Commerce - 181 members
5 - Advocates for Indiana Nonprofits/Community Benefit Organizations (A-IN) 159 members
6 - Smaller Food Indiana 153 members
7 - Greener Indiana 147 members
8 - Web Development in Indiana 144 me… Continue

Posted on June 17, 2008 at 10:00pm — 6 Comments

Bruce LaDuke

Two Sides of the Future

Society is advancing. There is no doubt that we are moving faster and faster into truly staggering changes. But with every increase in scientific or technological knowledge there is a constructive and destructive potential.

We have run rather furiously at science and technology over the last 50 years and are only now starting to realize that many of the new discoveries and technologies we have espoused have really been out of control. Some of the more obvious examples of this dicotomy are nucle… Continue

Posted on May 4, 2008 at 12:00am —

Bruce LaDuke

Future Leadership

Rick Smyre, president of Communities of the Future, descirbes a new kind of leadership that is emerging. Rick is a former CEO and he has often shared with me how difficult it was for him to change his thinking and move away from traditional, top-down leadership approaches.


Take a look at this quote from the Communities of the Future website (leadership page) and visit the links below to get an idea of how Rick sees leaders

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Posted on February 9, 2008 at 8:41pm —

Bruce LaDuke

Where are We Going?

I'm not convinced that there is much clarity on a Brand for Indiana of the Future. Not what industries will we be invovled in, but what will we be known for? What will people think when they think of Indiana? Today, in terms of how people in other regions or cities see Indiana, I think they see corn fields. But I don't beleive that statement is a bash on our capabilities, it is a reflection of our long-term vision.


You see, when people have a clear vision to move forward, and they orga

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Posted on February 2, 2008 at 1:20pm — 4 Comments

Bruce LaDuke

Second Enlightenment Principles

Second Enlightenment - 14 Organizing Principles




This table shows a social progression away from the model we are living in today toward a more systemic, self-less, dynamic





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Posted on January 30, 2008 at 7:19pm — 2 Comments

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At 3:27pm on April 23, 2009, Charles Shinaver said…
Hi Bruce,

I saw that you were on the Business Roundtable Network (BRN) discussion in Smaller Indiana.   We have our biggest event in our short history (Jan. 2009 until now) coming up next week.   If ever there was a time to get involved with BRN now would be the time. We provide the support and exchange of expertise needed in this economy.  We need a core of people (50) who are truly committed to helping each other get through this economy and thrive. 
It would be great to have you as a part of that. 
Hope to see you next Thursday.  See details below.  
Thursday, April 30th
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
At Conquest Racing Headquarters
Get additional information and register in advance by going to our website:  www.brncommunity.com
We need you to register because food is being provided by Z’s Oyster Bar and Steakhouse – excellent! 
We need numbers so we get the right amount of food! 
So register now for this FREE event.
I hope to see you there.
Charles Shinaver, Ph.D.  
At 4:55pm on March 17, 2009, Brandon Bauer said…
Hello, I am new to Smaller Indiana and thought I would reach out to connect and say hello. My name is Brandon and I am the Director for Musical Medicine. We build music libraries for hospitals.

Are you planning on attending the Chocolate Blues and Business Networking Festival next Thursday? I hear it's going to be huge, they expect about 1,500 people to attend. It should be a great networking day! I have free tickets, if you need a ticket, let me know and I'll email you one. If you want more details about it, it's listed under events on the 26th.

Have a good day and I look forward to networking with you. Please let me know if I can ever do anything for you,
Brandon
At 10:11am on June 18, 2008, Gretchen Turner said…
Hey Bruce, thanks for the comment! I "see" you more virtually than I do in person these days!
At 12:10pm on April 29, 2008, Justin Keller said…
Bruce!

Really enjoyed your speech at PK Night! I'm an avid yet amateur thinker/reader about the singularity - especially vis-a-vis AI- as well. Looking forward to diving into your blog on here.

Cheers!
At 10:50pm on April 20, 2008, Nicki Laycoax said…
Bruce,

Thank you for considering coming to the event! If you get a chance, will you RSVP on the event section of Smaller Indiana?

Looking forward to meeting you. Hope you can attend and bring guests!

Nicki
At 4:54pm on April 11, 2008, Melanie Reed said…
Thank you very much for your invite, Bruce.
At 8:33pm on April 3, 2008, Aaron M. Renn said…
Bruce, great to meet you in person. I still can't believe you're a South Central grad!

Been back to Elizabeth lately? With all that Caesars money they paved the roads, built a golf course by the high school (that's the road to my house btw - Old Dam 43 Road), etc. They've completely destroyed the mythology of my youth as growing up in the country. Nobody's going to believe that for a second when they turn left at the country club to head down fresh blacktop to get to your house!
At 9:12pm on March 23, 2008, Lois Wyant said…
Hi Bruce,
Dennis Mann suggested that I contact you to maybe get some ideas to improve website placement with web searches.
Thanks
At 11:32am on March 15, 2008, Scott Abel said…
Just a quick note to let you know that I'm bringing a life sciences conference to town. I was hoping you might share this announcement with others who might find attending this event of interest.

It's called Documentation and Training Life Sciences and it takes place June 23-26, 2008 at the Union Station Crowne Plaza in Indianapolis. Smaller Indiana members qualify for a $300 discount off the price of attendance. Educators can get an even bigger discount.

I have a flyer I can send you via email that you can send to folks who might be interested. Let me know if you can help me spread the word locally.

Thanks in advance.

Scott Abel
The Content Wrangler
http://www.thecontentwrangler.com

Documentation and Training Life Sciences
June 23-26, 2008 Indianapolis, IN
Union Station Crowne Plaza
http://www.doctrain.com/life
At 10:07pm on March 4, 2008, Heather Lapham Kuhn said…
Hi Bruce! Thanks for joining the Musicians Unite! group. I look forward to your contributions there! Enjoy!
 
 

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