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2013-05-18 00:01:16 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

New Google+ Users: Meet The New Google+
Everything "+" on one post (expand the post)

1. The new Google+
Meet the new Google+: A stream with style and smarts 
Google+: Related Hashtags
Hangouts: Conversations that last, with the people you love
More: googleplusproject.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-google-stream-hangouts-and-photos.html

2. How-To Google+ Videos
Google+: How to get started 
Google+: About circles
Google+: Fun with Hangouts
Google+: Reading and responding
Google+: Sharing
Google+: Set Up Your Profile
Google+: Find people you know
Google+ Communities: A place for whatever you're into
Google+ Events: Introducing a new way to get together
Google+ Photos: Great photos, in less time
Bring your conversations to life with Hangouts
Google+: Share photoa... more »

2013-05-17 13:32:56 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

My first Garbologie lead

Some of you will be aware that I am in the process of launching a new waste business called Garbologie. It will develop into a network of specialised waste processing businesses, starting with mattress dismantling.

Well, in some exciting news, I got my first enquiry to supply Garbologie with mattresses and I haven't even done any advertising yet! None. Not a peep from me. What I have done is my announcement here, in my blog, on FB and twitter that the business is coming.

Yep, that's right. I was contacted by a large local landfill wanting me to take their mattresses (several thousand per year). How did they find me? Google! All of this work in blogging, building a presence in G+, Facebook, Twitter. Worth it.

Building a cloud of authenticity and chatter is not just fun, but it also pays.

And then, in asep... more »

2013-05-17 04:19:54 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Generic Fraud
Corrupt Incentives
#corruption   #pharmaceutical  

The epic inside story. 

2013-05-16 20:32:55 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

"Sustainable business is not the opposite of conventional thinking — it is a different way of looking at the world."

Read from Kevin Hagen in his article "What I Learned About Sustainability at REI, Part 1: Abundance Over Scarcity." 
http://sbshare.co/11I8X5g

2013-05-16 13:52:28 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

The Power Of Social Capital

2013-05-16 13:45:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

A Quick Glia Update
The Road Ahead
#Glia  

To get Glia to a fully functional networked organization, will take the dedication and buy in of 75 to 150 people. People dedicated enough to get on a plane, fly to Vancouver for a Glia Bootcamp and Hackathon!

What we will learn together our purpose, and how we will use the Glia OS in this continuous loop of investing, creation, producing, marketing, selling, serving a Glia customer base in a manner that grows them and Glia in a self sustaining eco-system. 
Everyone in that loop plays a role in the grander loop of creation and redistribution. 

After numerous unsuccessful attempts, I have no illusions now as to just how much work this is going to take! It is a full time job!
It is with this in mind, that Glia needs to bring in the right mix of social, knowledge and financial capital so I can dedicate myfu... more »

2013-05-16 04:47:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Sustainability in Action
Walking the Walk
#sustainability  

This is a pretty significant step. 

Meanwhile, Kingfisher is attempting to drive a massive change in consumer behavior. It is seeking to introduce new “closed loop” products, which will be completely reused and recycled so they never enter the waste stream. The company also aims to rent or lease some products, instead of selling them, which would reduce resource use while providing the same level of service to customers. MIT SMR spoke to Nick Folland, the company’s legal and corporate responsibility director, about the challenges of developing and implementing the Net Positive plan.

2013-05-15 13:48:57 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

One of the main challenges of rewarding corporate social responsibility, especially the measures that are most important to you, is simply understanding the corporate ownership of any product you buy.  Many of the largest corporations own numerous brands and subsidiaries, and so it can be very difficult to know precisely who owns what.  I suspect this vastly undermines the effectiveness of boycott activities, if these activities can be said to have any effect at all (sometimes they do; mostly they don't).

Such understanding can allow you to make buying choices that are consistent with your principles.  That's why this app is important, and I am happy that such a thing exists.  It is a tool I had wanted to create some years ago, but didn't have the knowledge to get started (even now, the thought of collecting this data seems daunting).

2013-05-15 13:38:54 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Garbage in, Garbage Out?
Experienced Pollster Completely Miss The Call
#bigdata  

I am interested in this stunning result not only because I ran in this years provincial election here in British Columbia, but more so because I am very curious how different highly experienced polling firms using a variety of methodologies could misread the voting public. 

2013-05-14 13:12:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The Future of Everything
Everything Is All Connected
#livingsystems  

A couple of points. Old style organizational models won't be able to adapt to this sort of future. 
Organizational models that are based on living systems, will have be the distinguishing difference. 
That aside, this is a pretty insightful look into where things may be going. 

2013-05-14 00:40:57 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

How do you make a phone OS and forget to give it a dialer?

2013-05-13 14:15:37 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Automatic for the People: Conversations about things that matter

"A conversation is an emergent property bridging the gap between mindfulness and effective collective action."
-- +John Kellden

"Tech culture, he [Jaron Lanier] believes is wrong on both a technical and spiritual level. It's a way of looking at the world, he says, in which the information gathered from people -- is more valuable than the people themselves.

Jaron Lanier's a renowned computer scientist telling us that unless we start valuing people more than machines, and change the way we do business and interact on computer networks, the future will be owned by the few, at the expense of the many."
-- +Reese Jones
https://plus.google.com/110858566556215922899/posts/15rZKyDzfVt

2013-05-12 16:59:43 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

A Public Service Announcement
Completely Redesigning the Social Business Enterprise
#Glia   #thesmartrevolution   #sciencesunday  

What do you get when you design the social business organizational model from scratch? When you look at the problems you have to solve, and look around using science and other systems that have shown to solve a lot of these problems? 
What do you get when you combine gamification, sports, music, business, science, social networks and a deep down belief that we as people are capable of so much more? 
And a fanatical pitchman who will stop at nothing? 

Curious? 

2013-05-12 16:40:14 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

//The Weekend Read

The ecosystem inside you 

"Half of your stool is not leftover food. It is microbial biomass"

Your body harbors trillions of bacteria that have profound effects on your health, your weight, and even your mood.

Some 80 percent of an individual's gut flora comes from his or her mother. A newborn exits the womb microbe-free, but is colonized by the mother's vaginal bacteria as it passes through the birth canal. Babies born via caesarean section, it turns out, enter life with an entirely different, and less diverse, collection of bacteria, which may help explain why they're at increased risk of asthma, obesity, and type-1 diabetes. Breast milk, unlike formula, also delivers maternal bacteria that help the immune system develop.

#sciencesunday   #microbiome  

2013-05-12 14:35:21 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

To all women who are expecting a child, birthed a child, mentored a child, raised a child or love children, Happy Mother's Day!

2013-05-12 14:26:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

"Fuck 'em, that's why."

2013-05-12 14:02:40 (17 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Markets Are Amoral
People Are Immoral
#capitalism   #ethics   #irrationalmarkets   #Glia  

Neat share by +Jorn Bettin  this morning, that highlights points one of the more, um, rational economists, John Kenneth Galbraith made repeatedly. Capitalism/markets are amoral, it is people that give it its morality or lack thereof. 

Back when we operated in smaller tribes, poor moral or ethical choices could be moderated through a variety of evolved mechanisms. However, once civilization began to scale, these mechanism were easily exploited. Ever since, humanity has struggled with how to morality and ethical standards in market exchanges. Keeping in mind that markets have been around since there were civilizations. 

As this article indicates, we can rage in moral indignation at many things the "market" produces, but our shopping habits indicateotherw... more »

2013-05-11 17:43:10 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

New magnetic graphene may revolutionise electronics with graphene spintronics

2013-05-11 13:57:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Neologism as a key to clarity.
Sometimes to think outside the box, it's better to escape the past.

Quote: Mere language-laundering risks bringing forward baggage from prior confused use. New and neutral language can be key to what Daniel Dennett ... calls “jootsing,” which is an acronym for “jumping out of the system” (an idea from Douglas Hofstadler). Dennett doesn’t say this but unencumbered coinages like jootsing can enable jootsing. To terminate terminological wrangling and deconfuse a field, sometimes requires clear-cutting key category-defining terms, restarting with a blank semantic slate, and rebuilding clusters of characteristics around new, neutral labels.

2013-05-11 13:52:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

... Now More Than Ever ...

2013-05-09 13:53:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Why Clothing Is The Next Frontier Of Responsive Computing ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community http://pinterest.com/pin/81205599503494054/

2013-05-09 13:40:55 (21 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
And A Renewed Focus
#Glia   #buildingthefuture  

What would become Glia was a blueprint (so to speak) I had developed to transform old style organizations into organizations of the future. I would be a consultant in that process.
When it met G+, social networks being a pillar (so to speak) in the design of any organization of the future, it was like meeting nirvana. 
My mind, and the seemingly endless array of opportunities exploded.

Along the way, Glia's open ended possibilities became many things to many people. That was a great thing, and a bad thing. By trying to be everything to every one, it became an unfocused mass, an idea everybody seemed to like, but nobody knew what to do with. 

For myself, the internal conflict also began to grow. Was I a 'consultant'? Or was I a builder? 
One wasmore... more »

2013-05-09 13:07:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Good Morning!
Googleverse Geoples!

A new day dawns, and with it refined focus and purpose.
A new beginning for me, and new beginning for Glia.
The world is going to start to get a whole lot brighter.

2013-05-09 12:36:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Zen of Small Tasks: Fluid Intelligence

Snow melts
and the village floods
with children
-- Kobayashi Issa
https://plus.google.com/u/0/101010252943098026073/posts/XctkPiw2ay5

Fluid Intelligence:
The power behind your ability to learn new things, and apply that knowledge to problem-solve new situations.
-- +Andrea Kuszewski

ht +Ayoub Khote
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108998673146368660257/posts/8TZc45CFFzM

2013-05-09 02:29:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-05-08 21:39:29 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Big Pharma
And The Chemical Brainwashing of Entire Nations

My brother +Brad Esau  is both a survivor of this myth, and now an active writer and advocate against this myth of the "chemical imbalance" theory. This also goes hand in hand with a piece from the NYT recently, on how the psychiatry's guide to mental disorders is "out of touch with science" and lacks "scientific validity" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/health/psychiatrys-new-guide-falls-short-experts-say.html?smid=go-share&_r=0)

It is time for a fresh approach to mental states that do not fit some kind of norm of the industrial world. 

CC +Mani Saint Victor 

2013-05-08 13:20:09 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Mentors and apprentices are partners 
in an ancient human dance . . .
the dance of the spiraling generations,
in which the old empower the young
with their experience and the young
empower the old with new life, reweaving
the fabric of the human community as they
touch and turn.

Parker J. Palmer
The Courage to Teach

In an environment that has three generations in the workplace -we need mentors on the upside of youth and we need youth to mentor us.

Here Richard Brandson askes, "What's the difference between a promising businessperson and a successful one? Mentoring http://virg.in/imr 

Let us dance . . .

2013-05-08 13:16:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

The Networked Organization
A Big Company That Can Accommodate Big Ideas
#Glia   #thenetworkedorganization   

This is one of those pieces that makes me so excited and pumped about the Glia model for networked organization. It is explicitly designed for developing big ideas, and having the networked develop track to take the ideas through to maturity. 

Big companies can do this, but only with the right organizational model and systems. 

Via +John Foster 

2013-05-08 13:08:19 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Team Building
_Personality Types
#teambuilding   #organizationsofthefuture   #theconnectedcompany   #glianucleus  

In the types of organizations that will flourish in the future, companies that more resemble networked and interconnected pods (see +Dave Gray 's The Connected Company [ http://connectedco.com/ ]), developing and maintaining high performing teams will be paramount. 
Here, in this article via +Tanveer Naseer , two personality types are broken down so we can better understand each strengths. 
While we can't prescribe here the mix your team needs of each, but we do want to emphasize that understanding these types, and how they can act as balances for each other is important. 

2013-05-08 01:08:18 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Rewards for a day well spent.
Kicked the day off with a business hangout at 6am. Five hours at the 'day job'. One hour ride around the seawall. Then the gym. Now.....aaaaah-time.

Amazingly more still, a bodaciously beautiful woman has chosen to share ciders on the deck with me.
Pinch me!!

2013-05-07 23:24:40 (17 comments, 4 reshares, 18 +1s)

Eleven Gorgeous Reasons
Why I Love Vancouver
#Vancouver  

An afternoon bike ride around the seawall....

2013-05-07 02:12:19 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Six Listy Things
Some Can Be Learned, Some Can Not
#leadership  

4, 5 and 6 are the standouts in my book, at least as far as this list thing goes. 
Six bears a closer look. Better at not being stupid. That is mastery. It also means you likely have an exceptionally smart room, and you listen. (See 1 thru 3) It also means having matured, and no longer have ego as a guide. 
Four is the one that really separates the best from the rest. 

Via +Dan O'Shea 

2013-05-07 01:01:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Strong Personalities Are Weak When Faced With Change

Management teams with members who have strong personality traits have difficulty adapting to rapid changes in their surroundings, according to new study.

2013-05-06 20:38:42 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Your Google Plus Contacts Are Your New Business Partners

I am seeing this more and more as plusers gain authority through Google search. Every +1, every reshare and every comments matters. These individuals are helping you build authority through the eyes of Google. Is there anything more powerful than that?

Remember that Google Plus is the social layer that is going to reach across all Google products including Quora, YouTube, Android, GMail, Google Docs, Maps and every other Google service. With this being the case it stands to reason that your Google Plus contacts are your new business partners.

Are you building your business contacts and partners everyday on Google Plus?

#googleplus   #google  

2013-05-06 18:31:30 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Thought the community might be interested in my latest post.

For the longest time corporate marketing has been able to control and direct brand perception because we could outspend customers in traditional media, or out-market customers in other communications spaces. Companies could pretty much tell their audience what they wanted them to hear and, by and large, customers believed them.

Today’s new customer experiences are becoming ever more concerted and connected every day. The result, through sheer weight of numbers if nothing else, is that this breed of "always-on", empowered consumer is out-gunning and out-marketing even the largest corporate heavyweights. 

2013-05-06 13:43:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Everyone must be a good writer: When it is all said and done, writing is the single most important skill in the social world. From the perfectly witty tweet, to the expert response to soothe an upset customer, to the business case that secures a key budget, good writing is essential.

2013-05-06 13:35:55 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Cool idea to get people recycle plastics and 3d print stuff of it.

2013-05-06 13:31:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Interesting article on how the experience gathered by teams doesn't necessarily transfer to the individuals when they leave the team.
HT to Jamie Longmuir

2013-05-05 22:56:25 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Graphene paint aims to solar-power future homes and electronics.

#solar   #renewableenergy   #graphene  

2013-05-05 21:02:13 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Basics of gamification awesomely explained

2013-05-05 20:13:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Economic Realities
Big Data Exposure
#bigdata   #economicintelligence   

This is fascinating for what some (corporations in this case) are finally able to see via big data. The consumer isn't doing so well. 

The problem is creating scarcity around these findings, when they should be available to everyone. We need this level of micro-economic understanding and how this ripples through the macro-economic picture. This is a disconnect, and always has been between the micro and macro worlds of economic life. Each effects the other in profound ways. 

As we covered earlier in the week, the only sustainable investment societies can make is on people. The individual, and/or their network's value creation capacity has to be increased and rewarded. If not, the more they fall behind, the more this increases the network effects of a downward spiral inthe ec... more »

2013-05-05 19:15:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Beyond Crony Capitalism

Is Crowdeverything Entrepreneurship the dynamic framework and mindset that will enable us to move beyond crony capitalism?

ht +Otto Hunt

cc +Clay Forsberg +Jason Hurtado Daniels +John Verdon +Akira Bergman +Dan R.D. +Alexander Deliyannis +Alex Schleber
Please feel free to cc others in the Community, if you know they would have 2c to pitch in here...

2013-05-05 17:37:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

if you want to get picked in today’s job market then you need to start by realizing that no one is going to select you you need to work to be the chosen one. In today’s job market, hiring managers are looking for people to solve their companies problems,we aren’t looking for people who are waiting to be picked .

2013-05-05 17:24:39 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

The Future of Security
Bio-Marking
#smarttechnology  

Where biology meets security, verification, identity and quality control. 

Via +Pamela Wang  and +Shaker Cherukuri .

2013-05-05 16:08:40 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

+Harold Jarche ruminates about four basic types of jobs (based on Lou Adler's work [1]). There are Thinkers, Builders, Improvers and Producers which require future skills needed in a Creative/Abundance/Knowledge Economy and reduce past skills (but are high in demand if you're a machine) for the Industrial/Information Economy. This aligns nicely with an earlier visulization based on a previous article from Harold [3].  Read more on Harold's blog (and subscribe!) [2].

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130502173937-15454-there-are-only-four-jobs-in-the-whole-world-are-you-in-the-right-one
[2] http://www.jarche.com/2013/05/the-new-work/
[3] https://plus.google.com/100641053530204604051/posts/9tijuhEDKRX

2013-05-05 15:47:28 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Dolphins should be treated as non-human "persons", with their rights to life and liberty respected, scientists meeting in Canada have been told.

Experts in philosophy, conservation and animal behaviour want support for a Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans.

They believe dolphins and whales are sufficiently intelligent to justify the same ethical considerations as humans.

Recognising their rights would mean an end to whaling and their captivity, or their use in entertainment.

2013-05-04 15:27:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I haven't shared this circle in quite a while ... 136 Awesome Gentlemen
Here are guys who reside in my inner circle.  Given that I have about 2,000 guys in my circles, this is special, but in now way diminishes any dudes I may have left out.
These are the men who interact with me regularly and nourish my soul.
Thanks guys!

2013-05-03 22:58:54 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Meanwhile
On The Campaign Trail
#politics   #campaigning   #greenpartybc  

I had a lot of fun as the Green Party candidate in the all-candidates debate in my riding!

Dix joined Liberal candidate Gurjit Dhillon and Green candidate Gregory Esau in fielding questions from constituents at the Collingwood Neighborhood house.
[...]
_Green candidate Gregory Esau had a strong showing, disarming the audience with his humour, enthusiasm and admission he didn’t know if the Greens would subsidize false teeth.

2013-05-03 13:38:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Google Plus Is the Creative Class of Social Media

After reading multiple articles about Facebook being compared to the back "home town" in the last few days I have come to realize that Google Plus is the creative class of social media and the Internet. Most Plusser embrace change and strive to learn something new every day. I think we all enjoy having our beliefs challenged and understanding that everyone is unique and special.

That is not the case in small towns and it is definitely not the case on Facebook. Any minor change sends their user base into an uproar. A slight profile adjustment has millions starting a revolt. When Google+ offers a change the user jump for joy and celebrate. So much so that we go to other social networks and talk about these amazing changes. Full article here: goo.gl/8UGlR

The "back home" mentality is not very well... more »

2013-05-02 18:54:27 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)