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Book on the new agrarianism

An announcement from Steve Talbott, whose thoughtful approach I have always appreciated: “The University Press of Kentucky has this month released a new book that Nature Institute co-founder Craig Holdrege and I have co-authored: * Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering*. The book is part of the new “Culture of the Land” series launched by [...]

Pursuing the Common Good (4): Luigino Bruno on the Economy of Communion and Charism

I’m continuing to report on the Vatican conference of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, held May 2 to 6. Amongst the interesting social-Catholic topics presented there was Luigino Bruno, whose intervention I’m presenting by excerpting his paper, covering two topics. 1. The Economy of Communion Luigini Bruni: “The EoC is a project that currently involves hundreds (754) [...]

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Online Activism: Social Media Tools for Social Change - The Technology Place for Nonprofits
in this forum, May 14th
Faith in Action
The progressive Christian movement isn’t simply the lefty counterpart to the higher-profile Christian right. So what exactly is it?
Utne Reader: Rise of the religious left
Steve Thorngate writes about the burgeoning movement of the Christian left. Are progressives still losing the spirituality gap? Is there cause for concern?
Virtualization Goes Mobile
The technology could finally lead to one phone that does everything well. It's still early, but Motorola, Cisco, and Intel want in
ocbf2008 - twemes.com
example of backchannel augmentation of a conference, using twitter 'twemes'
I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other Day
the iPhone SDK presented a compelling opportunity to launch a mobile social network while avoiding the chicken and egg problem that any new network, and particularly a mobile network, would encounter.
Online Community ROI: Models and Reporting - Online Community Report
The top-ranking metrics are: Traffic patterns & statistics; Community member engagement; Unique number of visitors; New Member Registrations; Member Satisfaction; and Product Feedback / R&D ideation.
Types of Social Media Content - A Conceptual Overview [SearchEngineWatch]
I'll focus more on social media content with a view to finding ways and means to assess quality of content. More specifically, in this post we'll look at segmenting social media into different types of content.
IBM's Webbie World - Forbes.com
IBM's spokespeople claim it has 24,000 Facebook users and 155,000 LinkedIn users, giving it one of the biggest corporate representations on both sites. IBM also boasts that its 350,000-plus employees maintain around 10,000 internal blogs and 15,000 wikis
Genuine Wealth - Home
So why do our measures of economic progress not reflect the values that make us happy: supportive relationships, meaningful work, a healthy environment and spiritual well-being? Economist Mark Anielski has developed a new and practical economic model call
WorldChanging: Interview with Mark Anielski
We recently had a chance to talk with Mark Anielski, Albertan and author of The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth. Mark has been working for many years on better ways of measuring progress
Mobile Communities Unconference 2008 / Mobile Communities Unconference 2008
Welcome to the Wiki for the Online Community Unconference.
Online Community Business Forum: Initial Report Back - Online Community Report
There is a ton of great content about the event online. I'll be posting highlights over the next few days, but I wanted to point folks to several great summaries of our opening sessions.
Peer to Peer Relational and Participatory Spirituality Emerges, Part 1: Relational Spirituality :: Integral Spirituality :: Open Source Integral Spirituality Community, Free Info, Classes Etc.
John Heron on the concept and history of relational spirituality
Peer to Peer Relational and Participatory Spirituality Emerges, Part 2: Participatory Spirituality :: Integral Spirituality :: Open Source Integral Spirituality Community, Free Info, Classes Etc.
As defined by Jorge Ferrer: Spiritual knowing is a participatory process. What do I mean by "participatory"?
hospital impact - Health Care and Social Media
We've been talking about how hospitals and social media mix (and don't mix) for a while now. A while ago I wrote a little on whether hospitals should blog and more recently, I provided some examples of how hospitals are utilizing these new technologies to
The Wisdom of Patients - California Healthcare Foundation
report on how "Healthcare Meets Social Media"
The Healthcare Information Systems Blog: The Virtual Doctor's Dilemma – Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain
Aetna and Cigna would begin paying for online healthcare
The Healthcare Information Systems Blog
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net
Taking issue with the argument that, after decentralisation, control is embodied within the protocols of networks, Harry Halpin gives a historical account of the all-too-human actors vying for power over the net. Not technical standards but immaterial ari
Civil Humanism - P2P Foundation
Civil humanism was a highly particular, and brief, period in Italian history, but one that still exerts its fascination today. It remains a decisive cultural point of reference, because it was the product of a felicitous alchemy between the values of clas

Achieving democratic digital power through design?

This is a crucially important essay by Harry Halpin, which stresses that behind the protocols that govern online social systems, there are people, and that therefore, purely technical strategies are bound to fail. Above all, Halpin warns us for strategies of retreat from the present internet. So, in a crucial way, this is a critique of [...]

Pursuing the Common Good (3): Pierpaolo Donati’s relational vision of the common good

Donati writes from within the tradition of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church and aims to push it towards a more radical relational understanding of its concept of the common good. The following are excerpts from his written contribution: For the Proceedings of THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, XIV Plenary Session, 2-6 May [...]

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Could 'Peernet' be separate from today's internet infrastructure?
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Here are some musings I posted as a comment on the P2P Foundation blog, in response to a Post of Simon Edhouse - The Medium is the Mess... - which makes the point that we should not confuse the Web... Continue

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Hub Breakfast | Charles Leadbeater on mass innovation & creativity for social innovation

Hi, for all of you who are in London we are hosting a Hub Breakfast with Charles Leadbeater on the 19th May at The Hub London (www.the-hub.net/where/london). You are all invited. Details below. x Maria Hub Breakfast | Charles Leadbeater on mass innovation & creativity for social innovation Monday 19th May @ 8.30 am, The Hub London Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strate… Continue

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Pursuing the Common Good, some personal reflections on attending the Vatican conference

I'll be reporting from the regular blog, but I tend to avoid personal recollections in the movement blog, and I think the community setting here is more appropriate for some of the more personal reactions. I'd like to take a jab at why I'm excited at attending this conference, which aims to update the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, 'in light of current social developments." Report of the conference at the Vatican: Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Toget… Continue

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Quality of Experience

In the west (and particularly in Europe) we tend to settle for the less-than-inspiring experience: the experience with the product that we cannot configure and use; the experience with the train service that sells us the long distance ticket on the sardine-packed train with no seat; and the experience with the institution that takes no extra step to realize the goal in such a way as would benefit everyone: the applicant, the civil servant who's getting paid to perform the job, and the group of… Continue

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Graffiti Research Lab The Movie

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Appeal for blog posts at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

Dear friends, A lot of people seem to be joining our Ning network here, and I'm sure each of you has interesting projects and ideas that others may be interested in. Why not describe them at our blog? I'm particularly keen on new content to keep our publishing schedule on track, as I will be travelling until May 20 at least!! Michel

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