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Posted: September 28, 2010 10:25 AM

It's Official — Steele Won Virtual Presidency

Click on Title to Read at Huffington Post and/or Comment.

I held a bi-partisan vote today, with me representing the Democratic Party while I represented the Republican Party. Strict ballot access controls ensured a unanimous outcome — the new Virtual President of the United States of America is Robert David Steele, or for Latinos, Roberto David de Steele y Vivas.

Over the next 45 days, on Tuesdays and Thursdays I will announce one critical policy decision, always in the context of a balanced budget and always with the public interest in mind — this is not going to be pretty, but 45 days from today, every American will be able to compare my virtual track record with the actual track record of those seeking re-election, or in the case of a tiny handful that overcame enormous obstacles, those seeking election for the first time.

Here is my first decision: America needs three Vice-Presidents, not one; a Vice President for the Commonwealth, who should be the Principal Vice President; a Vice President for Education, Intelligence, and Research; and a Vice President for National Security. I also reject the “winner take all” concept for naming my Cabinet, and will appoint a Coalition Cabinet in my next posting. When I run for actual election in 2012, all three Vice Presidents and all Cabinet members will be named 60 days prior to the election, and I will challenge my opponents to not only do the same, but to engage in cabinet level debates across the land, restoring the League of Women Voters as the honest broker of these debates. 30 days prior to Election Day, I will publish a balanced budget online, and I and my Cabinet will personally engage in a National Deliberative Dialog online, to ensure that before I am elected, my proposed balanced budget has the general approval of the entire voting public.

Education and restoration of the Republic will be my primary focus. If I fail, I will support Alaska, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, Texas, and Vermont in their growing demand for secession from the United States of America. The government we have today is out of control and out of touch; its time we flush the toilet we call the two-party tyranny.

Thursday: Virtual Sunshine Cabinet Named

2010/09/282010/09/29

Reference: Alternative Views of 9/11–Massive US Financial & Gold Fraud & 240 Billion Covert Fund Against Russia

Blog Wisdom, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, White Papers

Source 1: Collateral Damage–US Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001

Source 2: Evil is as Evil Goes–Globalization at Work

Continue reading “Reference: Alternative Views of 9/11–Massive US Financial & Gold Fraud & 240 Billion Covert Fund Against Russia”

2010/09/262010/09/26

Journal: Self-Organizing Emergence from Chaos

Blog Wisdom, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Methods & Process

← The Real-time Debut of Engaging Emergence

Making Sense Out of Chaos: An Audio Interview

Posted on September 26, 2010 by PeggyHolman

I did an interview on September 7th for the Community Learning Exchange –CLExchangeonair with Cheryl Fields on Blog Talk Radio.

EXTRACT:

Early in the book you tell the story of how your own perspective on engaging emergence began. Tell us about that experience?

In the 1990′s I managed software projects. I was excellent at figuring out the steps that needed to be done and then making those steps happen — planning the work and then working the plan.

As the projects got bigger and more complex, I ran into a one that involved enough people with different opinions that that old approach just didn’t cut it.

Fortunately, I had the opportunity to work with someone who understood how to work in a different way. Once I experienced it, I had to learn more.

2010/09/262010/09/26

Reference: 21st Century Leadership-12 Guidelines

Blog Wisdom, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corporations, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Methods & Process

The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500

Gary Hamel

….in the future, any company that lacks a vital core of Gen F employees will soon find itself stuck in the mud.

With that in mind, I compiled a list of 12 work-relevant characteristics of online life. These are the post-bureaucratic realities that tomorrow’s employees will use as yardsticks in determining whether your company is “with it” or “past it.” In assembling this short list, I haven’t tried to catalog every salient feature of the Web’s social milieu, only those that are most at odds with the legacy practices found in large companies.

1. All ideas compete on an equal footing.
2. Contribution counts for more than credentials.
3. Hierarchies are natural, not prescribed.
4. Leaders serve rather than preside.
5. Tasks are chosen, not assigned.
6. Groups are self-defining and self-organizing
7. Resources get attracted, not allocated.
8. Power comes from sharing information, not hoarding it.
9. Opinions compound and decisions are peer-reviewed.
10. Users can veto most policy decisions.
11. Intrinsic rewards matter most.
12. Hackers are heroes.

Read full post in glorious detail.

Tip of the Hat to Steve Denning at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: We've been skirting all of these since 1988, and even more so since we opened Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) in 1994. Please do read the full articulation, and pass it on. It's is the single best summary we have found to date.

Graphic: Principles of War versus Principles of Peace

2010/09/24

Reference: Social Good as Emergent Self-Organization

Blog Wisdom, International Aid

How Social Good Has Revolutionized Philanthropy

Zachary Sniderman

The term “Social Good” has been bandied about, but pinning down exactly what it means in concrete terms can sometimes be tricky. Is social good the same as “the common good”? Is it the same as normal fundraising? Is it just online giving, or is it particular to social networks and web trends?

Social good is equal parts online fundraising and advocacy via social networks. While the Internet has been used before by non-profits and charities to raise money, social good implies more than just money changing hands. Social good campaigns often combine the ability of the Internet to find, introduce and bond communities around a common interest. That interest, in this case, is usually a problem worth fixing.

Where social good starts to get fuzzy is just how that problem gets fixed. Social good campaigns can be about building safe, entirely free, online support communities, spreading awareness through updates, raising cash, or a combination of all three.

Tip of the Hat to Pierre Levy at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: Our colleague Harrison Owen keeps stressing that the Internet has unleashed a new level of self-organization, and we are starting to realize how right he is. What is missing in our view is a service of common concern that provides public intelligence about the true costs of every good and service (while outing corruption through transparency), and at the same time connects the one billion rich to the five billion poor one micro-need at a time BUT visible to those who wish to aggregate needs and solutions. This is illustrated in Graphic: Global Range of Nano-Needs and discussed coherently and in detail in 2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability.

2010/09/24

Reference: Five Golden Rules for Data-Based Decisions

Blog Wisdom

Full Source Online

face mehta — Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA intelligence

Rule 1: Understand the goals and expected outcomes of end-user information requirements

Rule 2: Remove spreadsheet based reporting

Rule 3: Establish a data quality competency centre

Rule 4: Unlock your enterprise from the transaction-based application for reporting needs

Rule 5: Get the analysis of your data done in-house

Phi Beta Iota: CEO Mehta personifies integrity and intelligence. The full article explaining each of the rules should be required reading in both MBA and MPA courses. It merits comment that he is talking primarily about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and secondarily about Customer Relations Management (CRM). As Review: Rethink–A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation draws out, both of these are being superceeded by Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the Cloud. See also Reference: The Next Revolution in Productivity; and Review: Knowledge As Design as well as our own Graphic: The Four Quadrants of Knowledge and Review: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management–Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century.

Tip of the Hat to Dhiren Gala at LinkedIn.

2010/09/232010/09/23

Reference: Clinton Global Initiative Webcast Archives

01 Agriculture, 01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 04 Education, 05 Energy, 07 Health, Civil Society, Commerce, Government, International Aid, Movies, Non-Governmental, Policy, Technologies

2010-side-webcast-Archives — Permanent Archives

Enhancing Access to Modern Technology

Clean Technology and Smart Energy: Deploying the Green Economy

Democracy and Voice: Technology For Citizen Empowerment and Human Rights

Mobile Revolution: Transforming Access, Markets, and Development

Category: References

It’s Official — Steele Won Virtual Presidency