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Image via Wikipedia Starting the new year with new energy to make C3 happen. Why C3? While covered before, the essence is: If each individual in the community has exactly the information they need, when and where they want it, and can develop stronger relationships with those in their defined communities, each of those communities [...]
Relationship = Attention x Trust
Image by elycefeliz via Flickr As I talk with many of you about the new mindset and business model for local information, you often say something like “There is just too much. How do I use my limited time on information that is truly meaningful to me?” Blogs, tweets, links, flashes, facebook, myspace, linkedin – [...]
On the road, no time to rest
Image by MotherPie via Flickr Two weeks ago, I outlined the new mindset, tasks and organization necessary to create C3. The week following, our senior managers met, and determined that we needed to really work hard to make sure that at least the top couple dozen managers in our company deeply understand the issues, so [...]
Information in the First Instance
Image via Wikipedia Being with Bill Densmore and the group he assembled at Missouri this week was a refreshing introduction to new people and ideas. We were gathered to create the “blueprint” for the Information Valet Project, which we tentatively described as: A permission-based ecosystem assuring privacy that allows you, in a trustworthy way, to [...]
New Mindset for New Game Highlights New Tasks Performed in New Organization Which Develops New Shared Mindset
Image by stevegarfield via Flickr It really felt like a turning point when I read that thoughtful industry veteran Buzz Wurzer’s first item on his 16 Point Checklist for Newspaper Publishers was: I would fire myself as Publisher and rehire myself as CEO, Local (Your Market) Information Utility It was nice to see this coming [...]
New Game requires New Mindset
Image via Wikipedia When I started this blog over seven months ago, I focused on mindset, as I had the sense that a completely new game was beginning: Newspaper executives from around the world are trying to implement new business models. However, it is hard to implement a new model with an old mindset. Many [...]
API Summit
Image via Wikipedia I am still trying to decompress from a week of travel, ending in the API Summit today in Reston, VA. I plan to offer thoughts, when rested, to put the Summit into context, but Mark Potts did not need recovery time, he just let us have it: The liveblog of the meeting [...]
Congruent Thoughts
Image by Roo Reynolds via Flickr For some time, I have been saying that the problem with the media industry is that we are stuck on stories, or packages, whether they be articles with photos in print or online, or video packages. I have limited time, and limited brainpower, and I want to see current, [...]
Out of the rut?
Image via Wikipedia For two months I have been primarily dealing with flood issues, and trying to think of a new approach to the issues of creating the Complete Community Connection. In that time, I have also given several presentations on ICMF. While making those presentations, I realized that I was stuck in the [...]
Many views give whole picture
Image by shoot it! via Flickr This video from the TED conference has been on my mind since I first saw it this week, after being prompted by Wediaup. While it is showing some exciting photo software, it also acts as a metaphor for what we are trying to accomplish with the Local Information Utility [...]
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