Notes: I-Open, Tuesday, July 12, 2005
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A Special Note to 7-12 attendees:
Send ideas and answers to the Second Question: What is the Power of the Network? to BetseyMerkel@aol.com or EdMorrison@mac.com
Place: Maple Heights Regional Library
Introduction and Presentation: Ed Morrison, “Second Curve Strategies”
1st curve strategies have about played out. We are in the beginning of the second curve strategies as a result of these realities:
1) Huge cost pressures which lead to the steel industry collapse
2) The explosion of the internet
3) There is a need to collaborate
4) We must take the Shanghai perspective
5) Economic development happens in the civic space, not in the Chambers and economic development organizations. There is no command and control process that oversees the civic space.
Networks do work. As we build habits of civic trust and working together, things start to change and grow.
We need to move our economy into action by working together.
NEO is facing a lot of challenges typical of most Great Lakes regions.
We are going to listen to the voices of the second curve. The voices of the second curve are multiple but not listened to. Our opportunity at REI was to encourage the voices and networking.
We are sitting in the legacy of the wealth of the Great Lakes region. Our libraries, universities and colleges, museums and physical infrastructure is the result of this legacy.
NEO is in a great position to compete. What is holding us back are our cognitive frameworks. We can start to shift our perceptions by having conversations to build trust and using tools to help us start to understanding what the opportunities are.
The Colleges and Universities are starting to see the opportunities.
Next steps:
I-Open which is a combination consulting and institute to provide information, education and opportunities to connect with others.
We have a number of initiatives going on and happening. RAMTEC, TransTech, Telework, REALinks?…how do we keep things going? Should we continue to have forums? How do we move forward?
Jack Ricchiuto:
Facilitate comments and where we should be taking I-Open.
What’s next? What is the power of people like us in creating a power around economic development?
Question 1:
What can I-Open do? What can be its power? What is it’s potential?
Points:
Bill McDermott?/group
This group is like a garden. Facilitating relationships. Access to some of the ideas that don’t get funded.
Regional aspect is important. RAMTEC – jobs and skilled training and education. Take a wholistic approach
We need a presentation from RAMTEC on how they got started.
How do we market I-Open?: Guerilla marketing and use traditional sources such as radio and non traditional avenues like websites, blogs, etc. Link Ed's presentation today prominently.
Open Source is used in the safety field, in quality circles
T Kuhel/group
Focus on pilots and developing learning assets. Power in small scale innovations that may not be on the radar of the big
The power of the informal networks. The more an institution becomes petrified it goes out of its way to avoid surprise. You can’t expect a lot of innovation from the large organizations. There is innovation happening at the edges.
Gwen/group
Everyone brings their own networks. Face to face is very important.
Group
Its more than ideas to make things happen. It is also a lot of sweat equity and people need to put effort forward to help. Everyone has talents and we need to help each other.
Ohio City started with only sweat equity and a small amount of cash. People living there are living the dream. We are already living what we are dreaming about here.
Each one of us is a separate knowledge asset…we each need to move from a card catalogue to an internet resource.
Everyone should try to help each other and build ideas. Let’s take action and pick out 2-4 ideas and do them. What do we need? Let’s start in…manufacturing.
One of the powers is that there needs to be a new way of seeing a new power of how to see things in a new way. Educate people about the new approach to manufacturing.
One thing we don’t need is permission.
Government is not a good business incubator.
Question 2:
What is the power of this network?
Based on our power and the power of this group, I-Open, what can we do? As a consultancy and as a catalyst? What can an organization – remember the porous boundaries of the organization – as a self sustaining entity, as a venue, as an open space, do?
Does I-open do Education?
Does it do Engagement?
Does it do pilots and initiatives?
Vic’s group
We need to keep moving forward.
Want to shape the structure and see what people want to do. Everyone here is connected here to a lot of resources. We don’t need to just have ideas – but have things come to action.
Need to frame out the outline of a business plan.
We would like our region to be known as having a social network capability.
BillMcDermott? Group:
To facilitate relationships; regional aspect is important; for example: RAMTEC provides jobs, education and skilled training. Also provides a wholistic approach: to sell machiinery and operations. The government is probably not a good business incubator.
What is I-Open to do/be as a catalystic activity?
Access to "non funded" ideas from the Cleveland Foundation?
MaryBeth? Matthews: deas for Dating service concept: Speed date July 29
An action: everyone can bring some ideas for funding for I-Open
Continue Tuesday evening forums
I-Open can help to facilitate new ideas/not be told what to do
How do you get the best with the nonprofit and the profit worlds?
This is a new form of wealth – the passion and action.
We have a lot of resources, brainpower here.
Being able to communicate collectively is the success. The flaw of the first curve second curve is the first curve people designing the second curve.
The role of conversation in the second curve is vital. Conversation allows us to make sense of the opportunities.
We have practitioners here that other places do not. This is our competitive strength.
Valdis Krebs (www.orgnet.com) and June Holley (www.acenetworks.org) will offer a free first networking workshop. If successful, they will provide future networking workshops for a ticket to help I-Open.
I-Open will be positioned to help start a revolution in our networks.
Closing comments and consensus
I-Open announcement in your In Box about the next Tuesday forum.
6-8PM is a good time for I-open Tuesday forums.
Save the date for a celebration of the last two years of work and looking forward:
July 29, 2005
5:30 – 7:30
Great Lakes Brewery
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Mailed: Thursday, July 7
Open source is a disruptive technology. Today, economic development is in the rip tide of crumbling hierarchies and open source tsunami's.
But, we’re moving forward and this is how you can engage.
Join us for a meeting next Tuesday to learn about the opportunities Open Source Economic Development brings to Northeast Ohio.
OSED is one form of network building that helps people, ideas, and initiatives to connect so they can learn more and move faster.
Other regions are moving ahead with Open Source Economic Development. The Charleston Digital Corridor hosts “Friday’s at the Corridor,” to build networks of collaboration. Another successful model is Envision Central Texas.
Friday’s at the Corridor” http://www.charlestondigitalcorridor.com/cdc/news/?newsid=50
Envision Central Texas
http://www.envisioncentraltexas.org/index.php
Build your networks and participate in Northeast Ohio’s emerging clusters of Brainpower, Quality, Connected Places, Innovation and Marketing and Branding.
Date: Tuesday, July 12
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Free & Open to the public
Place: Maple Heights Regional Library
For information and a map, visit: http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/branchespages/countymaplocator.htm
Everyone is welcome.
Get up to speed. Learn about Open Source Economic Development at our transitional website. Join the I-Open network to remain informed at:
http://homepage.mac.com/edmorrison/efm2/
Save the date for…
“A celebration of REI's past and Northeast Ohio's Open Source Future”
Date: Tuesday, July 12
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Place: Great Lakes Brewing Company. Visit: http://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/
Questions? Comments?
Contact:
Betsey Merkel, Network Development
The Institute for Open Source Economic Development
4415 Euclid Ave., Suite 302
Cleveland, OH 44103 USA
C: 216-246-2447
betseymerkel@aol.com
http://homepage.mac.com/edmorrison/efm2/
http://www.smartmeetingdesign.com/osed
http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com
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