Blog year2008 in october is about ending poverty http://events.takingitglobal.org/20255 so we hope this week's syndication to 100 blogs will exponentialise to tens of thousands of blogs by then, with a little help from friends like you

sustainability club http://sustainabilityclub.com

social business club http://www.socialbusinessclub.net

collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

yunus 10000 http://yunus10000.com collaboration coordinators for youth dialogues in that city and between cities together with invitations to action specific to each video good news story - eg if you want microcredit to beat off big banks why not help any school try out micro credit with the world's simplest program small change, big changes - a microloanfoundation franchise

Peers across hemispheres and I are far more interested in ensuring that each of these intercity movements vetoes any uses of 20th c failing system methods that the majority of club coordinators -or where elected an honorary board - vote against, than prescribing revenue models.

OPEN SOURCING THE CLUBS
Obviously we should want coordinators to make a living out of work input whlst at the same time recognising that being a club coordinator is probably worth more than having many a professional qualification - or needs to become so if this world is to be sustainable. Equally where profits are repeatedly generated I assume we can find a way iof agreeing some sliding scale that should be contributed either to your favourite grassroots organsiation in bangladesh or to a small list of other potential grassroots partners of future capitalism which should probably need at least 75 of members refendum to confirm

I am very happy if people will negotiate what other rules they would need to want to participate as well as to clarify where they want diferent contant at the mother webs. The main web system I use costs $35 a year per web so its not difficult to imagine that major cties will also want to set up their own branch web or of course a free blog - either of which we will happily linmk from the top of the mother web.

Obviously some of our constitution needs double checking with for example the 100000 bangladeshi's and other Gandhians who are the main practical exemplar of the values we seek to network worldwide so that the future sustains 7 billion brilliant jobs and goodwill multiplying across all women, children and even men.

We wish to learn from each city's most successful ways of mobilising and cross-cultural celebration, as well as metods for ensuring that any action network actually reaches to those in most desperate need of its service. This is one of the big lessons of bangladeshi experience -reiterated by every micro-system designer in bangladesh we have interviewed - once a networks starts empowering the entrepreneur inside it will never get deeper than the deepest needsholders it begins with. This is a lesson that many global NGOs seem never to have begun to grade.

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Dr Yunus of Grameen and microcredit and Nobel peace 2006 is setting cities and citiens around the world an interesting challenge. If he is passing through your city would you be able to find 1000 people who all wanted to collaborate with each other as well as him in empowering a good global world instead of the bad one currently compoundingSynonyms for good are win-win-win, sustainable, empowering every community up, one where hi-trust people transparently win over low-trustSo 2 questions:if Yunus was passing through Africa cities, which do you think would produce the most collaborative impactsif you are a twin national

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2516276605 - eg living in a rich city but with family roots back in Africa - how ready is your big rich city to represent Africa interests when Yunus hosts his Forum 1000 there.My friends are particularly working on London and New York as 2 test cities; partly because a London University student spent the summer interning in Dhaka on this project. One intercity collaboration idea is collaboration cafe - see those we have already hosted and tell us at info@worldcitizen.tv if you want to replay one in your city or virtually http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page4.html

Another collaboration idea is can we produce a good global idea to heroes, their projects and networks for humanity. Why do people all over the world know the top 10 sporstmen for 50 different sports but not top 10s for different vital issues of human sustainability? http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5475184122

http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page2.html

But the best truth about collaboration knowledge cities http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bknowledge+%2Bcollaboration+%2Bcity&btnG=Google+Search in the 5 years that I have been searching the peoples and communities that weave them is that if any city does a great job in turning round a beter Global with Yunus we can all learn from what it did and work out how to invite the 1000 most relevant citizens when Yunus passes your way. http://grameen.tv/

Welcoming Arizona to networking crossroads

LONDON & ARIZONA
Quoting "Ryder, Ian K" I am attaching my reply to Thunderbird's (Arizona's) request for judges from our editorial centre at Beyond-Branding (London) if anyone is interested - as I say in my mail, I have only just stayed a couple of miles from Thunderbird in Arizona last week and caught up with a colleague brand Professor there - how ironic is that??!! Cheers Ian

HI
Great Ian!
Very interested to know if anyone gets a reply. I basically sent a short message off at the start saying I would happily do any review that was in virtual mode, but I haven't heard anything. Thunderbird certainly sounds like an interesting business alumni network to connect with- I like the founders saying which is along the lines of "borders populated with open trade never compound cultural conflicts". Pity that system of economics or MBA has not been propagated for 50 years with possible exception of India's current leader who challenged Cambridge dons the same way my dad when they both tried to reinvent the Cambridge School of economics as young men after world war 2

VIRTUAL & ANYCITY
if anyone wants to develop projects for many years in one community I suggest congregating at www.omidyar.net ; its the only community known to me that rewards those who contribute most over a long period of time; that is so messy that you have to collaborate to find out where the next large funding decision or conflict debate is threading; its the public space of the founders of ebay and the 100 billion dollar a year philanthropy which is invigorating microfinance, cross-cultural projects and even the internet's main market for scientific discoveries, a suggestion I made to P&G 10 years ago when I convened a year long debate but which got dotbombed just as they were commissioning a proposal on how to do it. Odd how what goes around comes around if you've been on the net for 12 years....so tell me if you do start contributing to www.omidyar.net and I can probably find you connection way through - of yes also Pierre opened a great thread today on whether RSS is aborting the different media weblogs could have reflectively and recursively been ;

MOUNTAINVIEW & DC & NEW ORLEANS * BERKELEY
still we have a web2.1 open space road show centred in silicon valley called http://www.brainjams.com for those who care about what internet media and global revolutions we design systemically http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com - BJ's next one day open space unconferencing retreat is New Orleans and student revolutionaries at Berkeley


LONDON & DC & BETHESDA & ATLANTA
Here's an example of one of the most interesting network visitors to London (probably next week) among under 35 women who wish to change the world's professions. The 4 day conference she staged connecting 200 leaders in Washington DC in October was exceptional. So that's why I sent her the email worded the way it is:
Traci
I have been thinking about the two biggest change movements that I have some sort of access to in London whose projects may connect with and amplify the kinds of projects that I assume Organisational Democracy seeks to gravitate . By all means tell me if I am guessing wrong because there hasn't really been a space for me to access to iteratively understand what OD is continuously opening up since October's 4 days of presentations (see http://www.worldblu.com and http://clubofdc.blogspot.com )
1 If you have a look at http://www.beyond-branding.com , you will see the first book that a london-based project team assembled in the Beyond Series
we desperately want to deepen the Beyond Family
two babies I'd most love to see- though the titles are less clear than who to invite as chapter writers are
Beyond Learning Organisation - Although every relationship of demand-side and service-side are connected, Beyond Branding was mainly on transparently connecting conflicts across the demand sides- your governance/valuation can't leave employees demands out if you want service to live your coprorate brand's Unique Organising Purpose; you cant' leave customers and societies out if you truly want to sustain innovation and better lives through what your global sector could achieve; most of your speakers in October were starting with the service side - you can't leave out your best workers lifelong needs in the community; you need to support team-making's decisions; etc the more so if action learning's dynamic gets multiplied in use unlike tangible stuff that gets used up
Beyond Mono-Cultures and National only separation- unless we open this governance door , globalisation will belittle us all
If either of these books sound like something you and your circles might want to contribute chapters too, perhaps I can fix a small meeting between Beyond's Londoners and you
2 The idea of www.tomorrowscompany.com is to get benchmark groupings of companies to come together and say: who has got a collaboration methodology everyone can learn from -eg Ray Anderson at www.interface.com is the American chairman with the world's simplest business casing method for developing a corporation that long-term investors can value sustainability investment around; perhaps google has some view of how corporations can use the internet collaboratively and so on
TomorrowsCompany is a small project group but is also a baby of the 250 year old Royal Society of Arts www.rsa.org.uk - the only place in the UK where the good (high society) and the great(powerful business leaders) want to be seen meeting. When I say the UK, I sometimes wonder if its the world because I can't find a similar network in other places, but always looking. If you tell me what to say I can send an email introducing you to Mark Goydar who is tomorrows company leader, and who has Al Gore American leader of sustainability investment funding doing our membership's annual lecture at the end of March; and then at least you know of each other's networking project spaces
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So what's the State of The Union now the www revolves all our tomorrows around Death of Distance, World is Flat? connections, collaborations...

Apparently it is facing a gathering storm whose first 2 space races to be free are:
end US addiction to petroleum addiction
do what you can so that kids love exploring science more thah spactating sports or popping idols

That's joy D as it goes. Only trouble is those are system revolution games and one sub-optimal crossroads may like the proverbial snake viciously spiral you in the opposite direction that your faith intended. And faith that excludes transparent mapping's 360 degree Q&A is now the riskest goverance to be led with. Mr Bush early in your first administration researchers at Georgetown Law School & Brookings Economics Institute did inform your executives of the compound risks of Unseen Wealth Governance but they were shown the door as if goodwill maps have no value in exploring entrepreneurial revolution let alone transparently guiding people to feel safe about changing the world peacefully

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Footnote:22 years ago, I started navigating death of distance stories - the 3rd part of an entrepreneurial revolution trilogy with my father who had spent a career inteviewing leaders from all over at The Economist.

It may be very unpopular in some quarters, but scots like my dad and I (probably over 80% of Scots, because that's how many live and network outside scotLAND) think the idea of living in one place is becoming maddening just as the mass media's lowest common definition of most new media tools' use is. Take WEB LOG. WE blog. How did early sea captains log their discoveries of different cities and trading places in a way that integrated a worldwide trading map? Does this not mean there's a double loop to valuing a city or any place: what its inhabitants have spent longest practising, empassiononing "TIMES" what a visitor sees most uniquely useful to collaboratively, sustainably trade with?

This has both theoretical and deep practical applications if you sail with it. In terms of economics, the people -all 6 billion beings of us (and our lifetime's most open projects http://project30000.blogspot.com ) must unite to ensure the maths transparenctly maps sustainability for at least 2 million global villages (whether place or action learning gravitated) not an economics of numbers ruling solely so that the big gets bigger. Where I put economics you can insert other fi-fo--professional words: accounting, financing, investment, governance, law, communications as media and mediation. They are all ruled by a giant mathematical mistake of ignoring compound exponentials - http://exponentials.blogspot.com (please don't ever do that ask Einstein, Gandhi, Von Neumann if you have read one of their works on the subject http://clubofdc.blogspot.com )

In terms of practice: if we want to be world citizens, why not start with collaboration (its the connecting value multiplier whereas competition is the separating one). I have spent quite a lot of te last 2 years searching through the nearly 50 million bookmarks on collaboration knowledge city; if you have generated one of these why not check our our emerging guided tour at http://clubofcity.blogspot.com and if your city or most open network for how to change the world isn't there yet, start it up as ablog and tells us how to co-promote it.

Emotionally most of all (as is our species trust http://trueflow.blogspot.com , http://simplysee.blogspot.com ), if you are an adult do not forget that if you dismiss death-of-distance Q&A (just because most conventional bloggers of even today's economist on new media does): ask what on earth will happen to the education of our children ?(and their compound futures http://globalcharters.blogspot.com , http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com ) should I be at least a few degrees correct in asking -nay begging - you to go beyond only top down nations as a way of democratically mapping world trade.