Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness
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The Network Effects of Awareness, Energy, Trust and Serendipity
The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations, by Rob Cross and Andrew Parker, illuminates far more than I expected about the different types of social networks that exist within and across organizations, and the way those networks impact, and are impacted by, the organizations in and through which…
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Social Entrepreneurship at Zino Society
The Zino Society Roundtable meeting had a social entrepreneurial flavor — or perhaps it would be more accurate to say several such flavors — this month. Two of the four companies presenting their plans to the Zino investors (SoilSoup and MadreMonte) had goals of creating greater social and/or environmental welfare, and another (Jookster) was incorporating…
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Workspace Personalization: Physical, Digital and In-Between
I’ve encountered a number of articles lately about organizational and personal aspects of ubiquitous cubicles (UbiCubes?), and these have brought to mind a number of ways that people have explored personalizing their workspaces with atoms and/or bits. Fortune recently posted an article, Cubicles: The Great Mistake, providing an historical overview and future predictions for the…
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Co-promotional Considerations: Customerization and The Brand “Us”
Peter van Stolk, founder, president and CEO of Jones Soda, gave an energetic, inspiring and irreverent presentation at this month’s NWEN Venture Breakfast on being relevant and real to, for and with your customers. The official title was "Creating Meaningful Relationships with Customers", but the unofficial title might be better expressed as "Marketing in a…
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The Art, Science, Business and Politics of Happiness
The Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled "Happiness, Inc." in this week’s Weekend Edition, which described how research into happiness is being applied in business contexts. I’ve encountered a whole bunch of happiness-related pieces recently, and this one prompted me to weave them together. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, by His…
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Bizniking at the BalMar with a Proactive Display
Biznik is "an urban tribe for business, a supportive business network that encourages creativity, radical thinking, and community" … The BalMar brings "cocktails, conversation and comfort" together in "a unique space with exceptional service and adventurous food and drink" … It’s hard to imagine a group or place that could be better aligned with the…
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Chaordic Leadership Principles
In anticipation of the possibility that week’s Seattle Times article about Interrelativity might generate increased interest in the company, I updated our web site … including my curriculum vitae (CV, aka resumé), both the short and long versions. I decided to include a section in the latter document about my approach to leadership, which I…
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Almost Famous
Kristi Heim wrote a nice article about Interrelativity (and me) in The Seattle Times, entitled Using High-Tech to Help Break Ice, that appeared in today’s paper. As with Kristi’s’ great article about Amal Graafstra and his RFID agenda, she really captured the essence of what Interrelativity — and I — are all about. I felt…
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Awarea: Taking RFID to the Streets
Around 1997, I shifted my research focus from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing, and started exploring — and working with others to create examples of — what I called active environments: physical spaces that can sense and respond in contextually appropriate ways to their inhabitants. One of the things I learned from my AI research…