Hi --

I was fortunate to be in Vienna last week to attend a lecture by prof.
Nonaka. I am transcribing my notes and will share here. Some familiar
territory and some surprises too.

One of the overarching KM priorities is the focus on context and ba. In a
practical sense, what is most important is our changing mobile environments.
Understanding the proximity of knowledge work and the 'starting conditions'
is key.

There is a very interesting open survey on this critical dimension of
knowledge work here:


Survey :: http://tinyurl.com/sjsar

Password :: GMWS2006


Complete results are instantly available to you when you complete the survey
instrument. It takes a scant 10 minutes. I found some very interesting
trends in the survey results.

Note: the survey summary is anonymous and does not include answers to
open-ended questions.

You are welcome and encouraged to share this survey in your networks and
professional orbit. Also please share within your mobile worker professional
communities and programs if you have such a thing.

It would be great to get your input by Nov 30.  I will consider it a
personal favor and will be very grateful for your response. In addition, I
will be certain to share any additional findings of the survey and research
conclusions.

I know your time is precious. It is expected the results and findings of
your survey and responses will payoff in techniques and methods for all in
using our scarce time to even greater advantage and effectiveness.

This survey is open and under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All
results are for our open community and shared.


Most cordially,

John


IM/Skype: jheuristic
KM Blogs: http://kmblogs.com/

Hi,

A recruiter called me today about this position. Check it out.

http://www.bincsearch.com/jobs/view.asp?ID=519

Jeff

Yahoo! needs great people to help remake products like Yahoo! Groups,
which currently serves nearly 1 in 10 Internet users. Help us create
open, customizable, mashable experiences (at tremendous scale) that
dramatically improve the way users collaborate and interact on the Web.

Send me a resume or refer a friend (use the links below to get paid
$1,500-2,500 for referrals). But move fast. We're striving to have all
these positions filled by November 1st (though people's actual start
dates could be later).

Job descriptions can be found at the links below.

Thanks!

- Gordon Strause
Product Manager, Yahoo! Groups

Director of User Experience Design - Yahoo! Communities, Yahoo!
http://www.yorz.com/posting/363813.htm
Bounty: $2,500

Senior Build & Release Engineer -- Yahoo! Community Products, Yahoo!
http://www.yorz.com/posting/363745.htm
Bounty: $1,500

Lead Interaction Designer (Sr.) - Yahoo! Communities, Yahoo!
http://www.yorz.com/posting/363694.htm
Bounty: $1,500

Front-End PHP Engineer -- Yahoo! Community Products, Yahoo!
http://www.yorz.com/posting/363676.htm
Bounty: $1,500

Web Developer, Yahoo!
http://www.yorz.com/posting/363655.htm
Bounty: $1,500

Hi Heath,

Have you checked with Jim Cachel over at Forum One
http://forumone.com? They have, or at least used to
have, a group that worked on selling online
communities.

Mitch

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> Does anyone have -- or know where to find -- a
> cost-benefit analysis or
> sample P&L for an online community?
>
> Heath
>
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>
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Leading 21st Century Organizations

Given the stunning importance of complexity to web communities,
networks, innovation, collaboration and business, it is your Fall
2006 San Francisco and Silicon Valley Action Research Event theme.


Your "Complexity Cluster" is October 31 at the spectacular UCSF
Mission Bay in San Francisco.


Charles Ehin is your sponsor for the Fall 2006.


Site: http://www.vncluster.com/


Join David Snowden, Verna Allee, Charles and your KM community for
in-depth conversations on complexity, complex adaptive systems,
value
networks, biomimicry, and other critical themes of KM,
organizational
and network complexity.


For your Complexity Cluster you may expect authentic conversations,
genuine collaboration and insightful interaction. Clusters are not
PowerPoint presentation in hotel ballrooms or vast institutional
conference centers. Rather, they are proximate, open conversations.


Unlike hype-fueled mega-conferences run by vendors and ad-driven
publications, clusters are low-cost, non-commercial, small-group,
authentic interactions sponsored and run by participants only.


Registration is open. There is an early-bird discount until Oct 16.


Agenda: http://www.vncluster.com/Fall06.htm


-j

Hi all,

We're hiring people to lead online community for a new small
business site that will launch in October, preferably people with
experience in small business.

Online Community Leader/Business Expert

Business.com is seeking small business experts to lead online
community focused on helping small business owners accomplish common
business tasks. Our community leaders must have expertise and
experience in one of the business areas we're looking for, and know
how to communicate in a way that resonates with a small business
audience. Experience participating in or moderating online
discussion, blogging, etc. is ideal, as well as passion for
harnessing the collective wisdom of small business people.

We offer a flexible schedule, publicity opportunities, and financial
compensation.

Areas of small business expertise for which we need expert
leadership:

Internet & E-Commerce
Human Resources
Legal
Management & Strategy
Money and Finance
Operations
Start-up
Sales & Marketing
Technology
Government Contracting & Regulations

Responsibilities

--Facilitate and nurture member interaction
-- Share and build collective wisdom around a business topic
-- Create a trusted space that business owners will return to
regularly to find information and advice
-- Build participation
-- Contribute quality content
-- Model community norms
-- Help site visitors accomplish their business tasks and add their
own unique expertise and experience

Skills/Qualifications
-- Strong experience, expertise, credibility, influence and network
in a particular business area or region
-- Awareness of online social dynamics/netiquette and pre-existing
Internet presence
-- Excellent social skills -- you can make newcomers feel welcome,
bring out the best in people, and encourage experts to contribute
their knowledge
-- Excellent writing skills
-- Online community monitoring/moderation experience
-- Ability to speak to small business owners in a trusted voice that
resonates with them
-- Good viral marketing skills and an understanding of SEO
-- Love of learning, integrity, sense of humor
-- Passion for community and mentoring others

If interested, please email staffing@... and please put the
code CL/WC in the subject line.

If you'd like to join an international exchange with e-participation
practitioners check out:

Online Consultations, Dialogues, and E-Participation

- An online community of practice for "e-participation" practitioners involved
with government, parliamentary and civic online consultations, public hearing,
and townhall events as well as e-petitioning and e-rulemaking

Join from:

    http://groups.dowire.org/groups/consult

This group replaces the old do-consult@ yahoogroup.

Cheers,
Steven Clift

P.S. A whole mess of e-democracy related online communities are being
established using the open source GroupServer platform.  It does a much better
job than YahooGroups at supporting mixed e-mail list/web forum online groups.

See:  http://groups.dowire.org
And:  http://groupserver.org  (code) or  http://onlinegroups.net  (start group)


--
Steven Clift
http://publicus.net
clift@...

(We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message)

CALL FOR PAPERS - SAC 2007

The 22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 11 - 15, 2007, Seoul, South Korea
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2007/

Track: Trust, Recommendations, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-how
(TRECK)

Proceedings: ACM printed form, ACM CD-ROM, ACM digital library and IJI
Journal special issue (printed and online ISSN)!

Aims and scope of the TRECK track:

Computational models of trust and online reputation mechanisms have been
gaining momentum. One reason for this is that traditional security
mechanisms are challenged by open, large scale and decentralised
environments. The use of an explicit trust/reputation management component
goes beyond security though.
The goal of the ACM SAC 2007 TRECK track remains to review the set of
applications that benefit from the use of computational trust and online
reputation. Computational trust has been used in reputation systems, risk
management, collaborative filtering, social/business networking services,
dynamic coalitions and virtual organisations. In last year TRECK, a paper
even described how computational trust and reputation could mitigate the
privacy issues of trusted computing hardware modules. The TRECK track covers
all computational trust applications, especially those used in real-world
applications.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Recommender and reputation systems

Trust-enhanced collaborative applications

Trusted computing, trusted platorm modules (TPM, TCG, TCPA, NGSCB...)

Trading privacy for trust and security

Tangible guarantees given by formal models of trust and risk

Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis

Pervasive computational trust and use of context-aware features

Trust/risk-based security frameworks

Automated collaboration and trust negotiation

Trust in peer-to-peer systems

Technical trust evaluation

Impacts of social networks on computational trust

Evidence gathering and management

Real-world applications, running prototypes and advanced simulations

Applicability in large-scale, open and decentralised environments

Legal and economic aspects related to the use of trust engines

User-studies and user interfaces of computational trust applications


Submission guidelines are posted on the TRECK 2007 website
(http://www.trustcomp.org/treck/), which always contains the latest updates.

Authors are invited to submit full papers about original and unpublished
research. A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track. We would like
to encourage the submission of industrial experience reports and reports of
innovative computing applications.

The body of each paper should not exceed 5,000 words.

Submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind reviewing.
At least three reviewers will be assigned to each submission to the TRECK
track.


IMPORTANT DUE DATES

Aug. 2, 2006: Submission of the extended abstract of the full paper (500
words maximum; this deadline may be extended)

Sep. 8, 2006: Full paper submission

Oct. 16, 2006: Author notification

Oct. 30, 2006: Camera-ready copy

Mar. 11-15, 2006: SAC in Seoul, South Korea

Conference Venue:

Seoul is the capital of South Korea and the ancient seat of Korea's royalty.
Therefore, there are many magnificent palaces, cultural places and old
monuments to visit.

Track Program Chair:
Jeong Hyun Yi,
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea

Organisation Chair:
Jean-Marc Seigneur,
University of Geneva, Switzerland,
Jean-Marc.Seigneur@...

Track Program Committee:

Jeong Hyun Yi, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea

Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Christian D. Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy

Stephane Lo Presti, University of London, United Kingdom

Ciarán Bryce, INRIA Rennes, France

Philippe Jaillon, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France

Sven Lachmund, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany

Yanjun Zuo, University of North Dakota, USA

Jonathan Poritz, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA

Daniele Quercia, University College London, United Kingdom

Bruno Crispo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Noria Foukia, University of Otago, New Zealand

Uwe Roth, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Victor S. Grishchenko, Ural State University, Russia

Sviatoslav Braynov, University of Illinois at Springfield, USA

Rino Falcone, CNR Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy

Damien Weldon, LoanPerformance, USA

Seamus Moloney, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Evangelos Kotsovinos, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Jianshu Weng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Wanita Sherchan, Monash University, Australia

Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, United Kingdom

Laurence Vignollet, Université de Savoie, France

Darren P. Mundy, University of Hull, United Kingdom

Hugo Miranda, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Ayman Kassi, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain

Hi -

Here is a provocative article by Jason Lanier on "Digital Maoism" --

http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html

It's a bit over-the-top, but fun. Fine writing too.

Rqr'd reading for all in KM, CI, OL, enterprise collaboration, information
systems, complexity and the future.

It is timely, since the Colabria action/research network and your Chicago
Cluster are doing a deep dive of this very theme on Wed, June 7 in Chicago:
http://www.pmcluster.com/. A great stable of top authorities, academics,
entrepreneurs and stakeholders will be assembled for future-focus
conversations on collective wisdom.


Jaron notes, "What makes a market work, for instance, is the marriage of
collective and individual intelligence."

Bravo.

Information markets are critical to enterprise knowledge networks &
ecologies.

-j
http://kmblogs.com/

Hi --

http://kmblogs.com/public/item/128800


May 25, 2006
Information Markets
A NEW WAY OF MAKING DECISIONS
Edited by Robert W. Hahn and Paul C. Tetlock

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 22, 2006

Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions, edited by Robert W. Hahn
and Paul C. Tetlock, is a collection of essays providing a state-of-the-art
analysis of the potential for information markets to significantly aid
decision-making in both the public and private sectors. The authors assess
what we really know about information markets, examine their potential for
improving public policy, propose a research agenda to help improve our
understanding of such markets, and explain how to improve their design.

Information markets, also known as prediction or event markets, are
exchanges in which buyers and sellers come together to form contracts based
on their expectations regarding the outcome of an uncertain event. Because
the contract prices in these markets often predict the event outcomes better
than leading experts, they have attracted substantial attention from
academics, corporate executives, and the media.

The first major information market was started in the late 1980s, when a
handful of academics at the University of Iowa’s business school decided to
give their students some hands-on trading experience by allowing them to bet
real money on the outcomes of various events, such as who would be the next
president of the United States.

Today, the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) are a thriving nonprofit
enterprise, offering markets in which traders can wager on events ranging
from the outcome of presidential elections to the periodic interest-rate
decisions of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee.

The success of the IEM has spurred a number of other popular information
markets:

• Over $1 billion worth of event contracts have been traded in the last
three years on Ireland-based Tradesports.com, which has markets for a
variety of events, including elections, military actions, and high-profile
court decisions. Tradesports.com’s contract prices predicted all fifty
states correctly for Bush and Kerry in the 2004 election.

• The Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX.com) has registered over 1 million users
since 1996 and has predicted Oscar award winners with 92 percent accuracy
over the last three years, despite the fact that its contracts are
play-money only.

• Major corporations—including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Lilly, and
Google—have allowed employees to bet via internal information markets to
help predict progress benchmarks.

Why do information markets work as well as they do?  No individual, no
matter how knowledgeable, is likely to know everything about the
probabilities of certain events. By allowing experts and amateurs to trade
with one another, markets aggregate disparate pieces of information into a
single, useful figure: the contract price. Moreover, not every opinion or
piece of information is weighted equally. Traders with the best access to
valuable information often bet more than uninformed traders, thus
influencing the contract price accordingly. This stands in contrast to
polls, board meetings, or other prediction mechanisms in which it may be
hard to distinguish those participants who are most confident in their
judgments.

Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions provides a comprehensive
look at the markets’ key characteristics and their potential political,
economic, and social applications.

Robert W. Hahn is cofounder and executive director of the AEI-Brookings
Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and is a resident scholar at AEI. Paul
C. Tetlock is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Texas
at Austin, McCombs School of Business.

Contributing Authors:

• Michael B. Abramowicz, associate professor of law, George Washington
University Law School

• Joyce E. Berg, associate professor of accounting, University of Iowa,
Tippie College of Business

• Robin D. Hanson, associate professor of economics, George Mason University

• John O. Ledyard, Alan and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and
Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

• Thomas A. Rietz, Hershberger Faculty Research Fellow and associate
professor of finance, University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business

• Cass R. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of
Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science, University of
Chicago

• Justin Wolfers, assistant professor of business and public policy, Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania

• Eric Zitzewitz, assistant professor of economics, Stanford University’s
Graduate School of Business

Also see non-commercial, open action/research community event:
http://www.pmcluster.com/

-j


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There are 3 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

    1.  The Cyber-Yenta goes on hiatus
          From: "Deborah" deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
    2.  HumaniNet's Plone Documentation
          From: "Matt Blair" matt@...
    3.  Fwd: MoveOn and Christian Coalition Join For Network Neutrality!
          From: "Ja Young" jmytd@...

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Message 1
     From: "Deborah" deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
     Date: Thu May 25, 2006 5:23pm(PDT)
Subject: The Cyber-Yenta goes on hiatus

Dear Colleagues,

What with attending the NetSquared conference and a couple of other things,
I'm taking a little hiatus as your moderator.

As usual, my lovely and talented assistant, John McNutt, will be stepping up
as your moderator for the duration.  Please be nice to him
- he's not thrilled about missing the NetSquared conference.

Many thanks and best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Message 2
     From: "Matt Blair" matt@...
     Date: Fri May 26, 2006 5:44am(PDT)
Subject: HumaniNet's Plone Documentation

[Apologies for cross-posting - some of you may see this on several lists
over the next day or two.]

At the beginning of 2005, HumaniNet began working with Plone, an open-
source content management system (CMS), to streamline our publishing
process, share notes and research, and create spaces for project
collaboration.

We have just published a set of documentation about our experiences,
including lessons learned, our custom workflows, a number of how-to
documents, etc.  Here is the link:

http://groups.humaninet.org/about

While many of the details are specific to Plone, there is also some general
information about evaluating and deploying open source software for
non-profits.  We hope many of you find it helpful.

Matt Blair

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For more information about HumaniNet, please go to our main site at
www.humaninet.org.

For more information about Plone, please visit plone.org.




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Message 3
     From: "Ja Young" jmytd@...
     Date: Fri May 26, 2006 5:52am(PDT)
Subject: Fwd: MoveOn and Christian Coalition Join For Network Neutrality!

Hi All - Thought I would pass this on. Amazing but true! Check out the ad -
its good. Take care, Ja Young

"Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Civic Action" <moveon-help@...> wrote:
   Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:10:06 -0700
From: "Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Civic Action" <moveon-help@...>
To: "JoAnne Young" <jmytd@...>
Subject: MoveOn and Christian Coalition on the same page?

     body, td, font, p, div, blockquote { font-family: arial, verdana,
sans-serif !important; font-size: 10pt !important; }  td, font, p, div,
blockquote { overflow-x: hidden; }              As Congress prepares to
vote, MoveOn and the Christian Coalition are joining forces to show that
Internet freedom affects everyone.

Can you contribute $35 to run this unique MoveOn/Christian Coalition New
York Times ad?


Click Here


Dear MoveOn member,

We never thought we'd see the day, but it's come: we're working together
with the Christian Coalition. You read that right—the Christian Coalition
has joined everyone from Google to MoveOn to the Gun Owners of America in
the fight for Internet freedom. The momentum is on our side.

Internet companies like AT&T have been trying to win this fight by telling
Republicans in Congress this is just a left-wing issue. But MoveOn and the
Christian Coalition have designed a full-page New York Times ad to expose
the truth: people across the spectrum are united behind Internet freedom! If
we get that message out, we win.

The ad will cost $70,000 to run. If 2,000 people give $35 each, we'll be
there. Plus, every dollar you give will be matched by a generous bequest.

Can you contribute to run an Internet freedom ad with the improbable pairing
of MoveOn and the Christian Coalition? Click here to see the ad and make a
donation:

https://civic.moveon.org/donatec4/save_the_internet.html?id=7779-3220920-BRJ
AvTXFv5_Xt92f4Cye5g&t=3

This ad will make a big splash in Congress, with the public, and in the
news. We'll share the cost of the ad with our partners, and any funds raised
above our share will help support the organizing costs of MoveOn's Internet
freedom campaign.

Last year, we received a very humbling gift: a MoveOn member named us in her
will for over half a million dollars. This money is set up as a matching
fund for critically important initiatives like this one. Every dollar you
give today will bring in a dollar from this bequest, up to $100,000.

Everyone knows we deeply disagree with the Christian Coalition on many
issues. It's safe to say the same is true for them. But we can agree on
preserving the Internet as a venue for democratic participation, economic
innovation, and free speech.1 The only serious opposition to Internet
freedom comes from AT&T and other Internet operators who are spending
millions lobbying Congress for more control over what we see and do online.

To win this fight, we need to show Congress the huge public backlash they
will face if they sell out the Internet. The pairing of MoveOn and the
Christian Coalition is unheard of, and it's sure to get Congress' attention.

Help run this attention-getting ad featuring MoveOn and the Christian
Coalition. You can make a contribution at:

https://civic.moveon.org/donatec4/save_the_internet.html?id=7779-3220920-BRJ
AvTXFv5_Xt92f4Cye5g&t=4

     Internet users of all political stripes are fighting back together. The
SavetheInternet.com Coalition—led by Free Press—includes the Christian
Coalition, MoveOn, Gun Owners of America, the ACLU, Craig from Craigslist,
Free Press, small businesses, consumer advocates, Internet advocates,
musicians such as Moby, R.E.M., Q-Tip, The Roots, Trent Reznor of NIN, the
Indigo Girls, and the Dixie Chicks, and over 700 other organizations from
around the country.


   Also supporting Net Neutrality are high-tech pioneers like Google, Amazon,
and eBay, as well as "fathers of the Internet" Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee
(the inventor of the www). We're part of something huge.



Thank you for all you do.

–Eli Pariser, Adam Green, Noah T. Winer, and the MoveOn.org Civic Action
team
   Thursday, May 25th, 2006

P.S. You can find out more about naming MoveOn as a beneficiary in your will
by clicking here:
[Removed link because it contained name of original recipient of e-mail.]


Source:
1. "Christian Coalition Announces Support for 'Net Neutrality' to Prevent
Giant Phone and Cable Companies From Discriminating Against Web Sites,"
Christian Coalition, May 17, 2006
http://www.cc.org/content.cfm?id=329

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Hi --

Business must master collective wisdom. Robust, production enterprise
techniques exists, known as information markets. Odd that established
communities, like KM, research, OD/OL, and CI, are avoiding innovation. Any
thoughts? Aren't these communities expected to lead innovation? Why are they
absent from the discourse?

Avoidance of uncanny crowd wisdom by management is an active research theme
and paradox. 'Edge-based' authenticity often strikes at the heart of the
rigid hierarchy. New network archetypes, besides the bureaucratic
hub-and-spoke of the traditional corporate org chart, are how knowledge work
gets done today. Information markets, inside those new network models, are
how individuals and organizations master collective knowledge and wisdom.

Of course, business has picked-up the knowledge market trend aggressively.
It's because they are so effective in mastering collective wisdom. These
markets are on-track for a sharp 400% growth this year. The next
non-commercial information market summit for business, education, science,
government, institutions and individuals is June 7, in Chicago.

http://tinyurl.com/lh8nt

New ways to share, trade and aggregate information using Internet-based
markets are exploding. These powerful knowledge networks help companies,
schools, governments and individuals to acquire, to create and lead
ever-growing bodies of knowledge. These capabilities achieve mastery of
collective wisdom with stunning speed and accuracy.

Through a ceaseless flurry of self-correcting exchanges and markets,
covering everything from politics and business plans to sports and new
product features, these potent markets amass and refine knowledge and
collective wisdom.

Edge-based information markets and idea exchanges aggregate information in a
way that allows individuals and companies, ranging from computer
manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, financial services firms and
telecoms to Hollywood studios and entrepreneurs, to make far better
decisions.

These innovative market-based mechanisms resolve questions of science,
technology, management, strategy, planning and policy far better than the
experts.

Understand how people assimilate aggregated information to achieve
fundamental breakthroughs in innovation, productivity, strategy and
effectiveness. Learn why these new market and aggregation techniques are so
astoundingly accurate!

When: Wednesday, June 7, 2006  8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: University of Chicago - Gleacher Executive Center, 450 North
Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL 60611

http://tinyurl.com/lh8nt

Once your registration is complete, you will received an invitation to a
special cocktail reception to meet participants, speakers and sponsors on
June 6th from 5-7PM in Chicago. Please register and mark your calendar!

Registration tuition includes reception, meals, refreshments, materials and
an advance copy of Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
http://www.pmcluster.com/infotopia.htm.

Note: giving the importance and growth of prediction markets, these
action/research community gatherings reach capacity quickly. All are
welcome, but space is strictly limited to optimize effective conversation
and collaboration.


-j
http://kmblogs.com/public/item/127101

This one has community components, though you wouldn't know it from this
description:

Senior Manager, Marketing


Top Reasons to Work with my Client:

Fun, Smart Team – They have assembled one of the best messaging teams ever put
together in one company.

Strong Leadership – Top tier venture capital funding (Benchmark) and a top tier
leadership
team makes them great place to be challenged and to develop your skills.

Exciting Market – The messaging and open source market has changed dramatically
in the
last year.  2006 is the year where these changes will quickly become vital to
collaboration
within the enterprise.

Opportunity for Growth – The company is growing quickly and is committed to
making
sure that everyone has new opportunities to grow and to be a world class
innovator.

Position and Responsibilities:
Manage all channel marketing efforts to grow a vibrant hosted and VAR channel
Create partner success stories, webinars and partner marketing material to grow
the VAR
and hosting channel
Assist partners with selling new products, closing business, developing sales
and
marketing plans
Work closely with partners and customers to create the next generation of
enterprise
messaging
Work with partner teams to identify and build the partnerships needed to ensure
a
complete offer
Provide feedback to product management and engineering on partner requirements
Lead and manage the success of the company and partner web site
Lead the roadmap and evolution of the web site for customers, partners,
prospects and
the open source community
Manage web lead generation, conversion and tracking
Lead and manage trade shows programs and budget
Create customer and partner collateral for trade shows and organize booth space
and
booth rental
This position will report to the Vice President of Marketing and Product
Management

Qualifications and Skills Required:
·         MBA preferred
·         BS in CS or related technical field preferred
·         7-8 years of a combination of Channel Marketing, Product Marketing and
Corporate
Marketing experience
·         Experience in enterprise messaging or open source software

·         The candidate must be a good writer, willing to get their hands dirty
to get
marketing materials and web site changes done, eager to collaborative across
groups


Warmest Regards,

Abby Knight
EQQUS Technologies
555 Bryant Street, Suite 700
Palo Alto, CA 94301
650-234-1000 ext. 355
aknight@...

Hi, This came across my desk:

Open Source Community Manager - Brisbane, CA

Position Overview:

My client is a leading provider of web-based corporate and open source developer
networks, is seeking an Open Source Community Manager (CM). The CM will use
their
deep experience in leveraging open source technologies to further corporate
goals to
promote community goals.

Responsibilities:

Utilize proven technical, communication and managerial skills to manage and grow
open
source communities.
An active member of the community, helping to resolve issues, move projects
forward and
keep the community active.
Responsible for monitoring alignment of community goals with the sponsoring
organization, facilitating issue resolution within the community, creating and
managing
metrics reports, supporting community enhancing activities such as recruitment,
recognition, event coordination, etc.
In addition, the CM will perform liaison activities between the community and
the sales,
support and product development organizations in such areas as issue resolution,
SOW
preparation and sales support.
Qualifications:

5+ years of software development experience, preferably in platform firmware,
embedded
systems or Linux-based development.
Experience in working with web-based software development communities,
preferably in a
leadership position involving community management.
Significant experience with software development tools (defect tracking systems,
source
code versioning systems, etc.)
Professional communication skills (both written and verbal) and an ability to
interface with
all levels within a customer's organization.
Proven track record of teamwork, creativity and initiative.
Ability to write technical requirements documentation and technical web content.
Experience with foundational technologies such as Java, Apache, Unix/Linux,
HTML/XML,
SSL, and relational databases.
Previous experience with software development methodologies a plus.
Education:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or
equivalent
experience.
Current US work authorization required at this time.

Warmest Regards,

Abby Knight
EQQUS Technologies
555 Bryant Street, Suite 700
Palo Alto, CA 94301
650-234-1000 ext. 355
aknight@...

[Non-commercial, non-profit, open-research conference, Web community
invitation.]

MeshForum :: May 7-9, 2006 :: SF/Silicon Valley

Registration :: http://tinyurl.com/ll9dz

MeshForum schedule :: http://www.meshforum.org/

Commonwealth Club
595 Market St
Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

-j
http://kmblogs.com/

The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education Presents:
The Bay Area Education Leaders Forum (EdForum)

"How to Be Systemic and Site-Based: Using Professional Development to
Improve Data Use"

The Oakland and Elk Grove Unified School Districts are adopting
systemic supports for site-based reforms. But what does this mean in
practice? The next Bay Area Education Leaders Forum (EdForum) will
examine this question in relation to professional development
approaches that improve how schools use data and information.

*How can districts help schools use student achievement data to drive
improvement?
*How can schools help teachers use assessment results to improve
instruction?
*How can these approaches be connected and supported in systemic ways?

Panelists:
Brad Stam, Executive Officer of Instructional Services, Oakland
Unified School District
Roger Stock, Principal, Valley High School, Elk Grove Unified School
District

Contributing Moderator:
Louise Waters, Senior Academic, Stupski Foundation

Date/Time: Thursday, May 11, 2006, 5:30 to 8:30 pm.
Networking Reception: 5:30 to 6:30, Panel Discussion: 6:30 to 8:30

Location: 730 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA

Who Attends EdForum Events?
Board members, Superintendents, Principals, Administrators, Teachers,
Union Leaders, Support Staff, Foundation Officers, Business Leaders,
Education Entrepreneurs, Organizations that Partner with Schools,
Researchers, and Parents and Community Leaders

Please RSVP to edforum@... as seating is limited.

Fee: None

Spread the Word: The EdForum offers Bay Area educational leaders,
researchers, and practitioners a regular, on-going opportunity for
sharing ideas about educational change. Please share this announcement
with others, including related blogs, lists, etc.

Additional Information: Lorrie Brittin, lorrie@...
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)
323 Harvard Avenue, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019, (650) 728-3322
www.iskme.org

Hi There.  My name is Matt Ready, and I just wanted to let
webcommunities know about a very cool new resource for building and
enhancing online communities.  It is a free voice forum software that
any web community can use to actually hear eachother speak!  It is
very refreshing.  We already have a couple of activists in the Non
Violent Communications movement preparing to use it to improve their
global communications and connections.

I hope you will take a moment to check it out.  Ok, that's all from
me.  The website is http://www.vaestro.com.

PS:  I built this software and website to make the world a better
place.  I have no marketing budget, so I am just trying to get the
word out and see if people like it and find it useful.

MeshForum :: May 7-9, 2006 :: SF/Silicon Valley

http://tinyurl.com/ll9dz

Networks form the basis of everything, from how your body works to who you
know, from how power is distributed to how the store on the corner is kept
stocked. Networks are in the news, from the elections to anti-terrorism, to
investigations of financial markets and the Blackout in the US.

At MeshForum 2006, May 7-9 in San Francisco, we will explore Networks in
depth. We will examine the critical role visualization and visual thinking
plays in understanding and managing networks. Then we will look at very
large scale social networks as a significant case study of Networks.

On our visualization track, MeshForum will start with an opening Keynote
from Manuel Lima, founder of VisualComplexity.com. We will continue with a
lunch workshop on Visual Thinking, Monday May 8th by Dave Gray, founder of
XPlane. Throughout MeshForum artists whose work focuses on and uses networks
will present their work. We will have a closing presentation by Dr. Karen
Stephenson of Netform on Monday afternoon.

Our exploration of large scale social networks will start on Sunday May 7th
afternoon with presentations from some of the largest online social
networks. Anil Dash of Six Apart and LiveJournal, Marc Senasac from
Broadband Mechanics, and Mike Jones from Userplane will start our
conversations by sharing their experiences working with and managing very
large scale social networks. Monday morning we will start with Dr. David
Levinson on the economics of transportation networks.

Then we will continue with an exploration of political networks with Zack
Rosen and Jon Lebkowsky. Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will share insights
on new communications networks in a connected world. And after lunch, Howard
Greenstein will moderate a conversation with Kris Jacob of Podshow,
Christopher Allen of Life With Alacrity, and Jamais Cascio.

MeshForum is also a conference for the attendees. On Tuesday our format is
Open Space. Michael Herman, one of the foremost experts on Open Space will
open our space. All attendees and speakers will have a chance to convene
sessions to collaborate and explore topics of interest around Networks in
greater depth. Already sessions are planned to look at social network
analysis in greater depth, to look at the impact of outsourcing on business
and corporate structures, and much more.

Whether you are an academic, artist, or a professional understanding
Networks is a requirement for success in the 21st century. Join us May 7-9
in San Francisco to share your knowledge and to gain new insights and
personal connections for your future.


WHEN Sunday, May 7, 2006  8:00 AM -
Tuesday, May 9, 2006  5:00 PM

http://tinyurl.com/ll9dz

WHERE Commonwealth Club
595 Market St
Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

Registration: http://tinyurl.com/qpe3e

MeshForum is a non-profit conference, May 7-9, 2006, in San Francisco,
to foster open network research, KM and Web community. www.MeshForum.org.

The Value Networks Clusters http://www.vnclusters.com/ and
your Colabria Action/Research Network http://www.kmcluster.com/
are among the lead sponsors.

What: MeshForum // www.MeshForum.org
When: May 7-9, 2006
Where: Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, California USA
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/directions.html

Why: The rise and importance of networks.
What: Main themes are network visualization and understanding large scale
social networks.
Who: Speakers and participants at MeshForum include academics, artists and
business leaders.

2006 speakers include:

Dave Gray, founder of Xplane
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, authors of Naked Conversation
Christopher Allen, blogger
Anil Dash, Six Apart/LiveJournal
Mike Jones, founder of Userplane
Kris Jacobs, Podshow
Jamais Cascio, worldchanging.com
Dr. David Levinson, University of Minnesota

Secure, online registration: http://www.mollyguard.com/event/24877409

MeshForum is a highly interactive conference with a single track of
presentations, workshops over lunches, and a full day in Open Space
format.

I hope you can join us at MeshForum 2006 in San Francisco, May 7-9, 2006.

Shannon Clark
Founder, MeshForum
"Connecting Networks"
www.meshforum.org

-j
http://kmblogs.com/

INFOTOPIA: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge, by Cass R. Sunstein

[Note: Cass is your keynote speaker at the PM Summit - Chicago  June 7,
2006 - http://www.pmcluster.com/CHI.htm Early bird registration open.
Non-commercial, open Web community-of-practice announcement.]

The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable
peril but also great promise. Beset from all sides by a never-ending
barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information
emerges and is heeded? In this book, Cass R. Sunstein develops a deeply
optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information,
and to use that knowledge to improve our lives.

In an age of information overload, it is easy to fall back on our own
prejudices and insulate ourselves with comforting opinions that
reaffirm our core beliefs. Crowds quickly become mobs. The
justification for the Iraq war, the collapse of Enron, the explosion of
the space shuttle Columbia-all of these resulted from decisions made
by leaders and groups trapped in "information cocoons," shielded from
information at odds with their preconceptions. How can leaders and
ordinary people challenge insular decision-making and gain access to the
sum of human knowledge?

Stunning new ways to share and aggregate information, many
Internet-based, are helping companies, schools, governments, and
individuals not only to acquire, but also to create, ever-growing
bodies of accurate knowledge. Through a ceaseless flurry of
self-correcting exchanges, wikis, covering everything from politics and
business plans to sports and science fiction subcultures, amass-and
refine-information. Open-source software enables large numbers of
people to participate in technological development. Prediction markets
aggregate information in a way that allows companies, ranging from
computer manufacturers to Hollywood studios, to make better decisions
about product launches and office openings. Sunstein shows how people
can assimilate aggregated information without succumbing to the dangers
of the herd mentality--and explains when and why the new aggregation
techniques are so astoundingly accurate.

In a world where opinion and anecdote increasingly compete on equal
footing with hard evidence, the on-line effort of many minds coming
together might well provide the best path to infotopia.

About the Author

Cass R. Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor
of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, a
contributing editor at the New Republic and the American Prospect, and
a frequent contributor as well to such publications as the New York
Times and the Washington Post. He is the recipient of the Henderson
Prize and the Goldsmith Book Prize; his many books include Radicals in
Robes, Republic.com, Why Societies Need Dissent, and Designing
Democracy: What Constitutions Do. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.


-j
http://kmblogs.com/