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.

chris macrae http://worldentrepreneur.net
washington dc inquiries desk usa 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
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Will Google be an early opinion influencer in the worldwide call for a Social Entrepreneur Olympics
Historical notes on why Londoners seek to finish the sports olympics unless Social Entrepreneurial Pursuits get equal media coverage:

1 since 1984's orignal future history on death of distance's revolutionary consequences for mankind: we have believed its the duty of public broadcast media and the BBC's world service to focus attention on 30000 social entrpreneur projects needed if globalisation is not to "turn humanity on itself" (Queen Elizabeth end 2005 mesage to the Commonwealth)

we invite you to continue this exploration of cross-culturally newtorking and the human spirit's exponential sustainability by co-editing with us at social-entrepreneur

Project ref GoodwillWars1

Mail wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want to work at open sourcing the following maps and models.

This presentation introduces the maths of tracking future exponentials and their sustainability of human systems (core dynamics: trust-flow, boundary transparency, contextually gravitated sustainability of compounding future consequences)

This does not support the 20th C's mathematical monopolies of:

Hi Authors of the 30 books on Living/Learning the Brand Genre whether that is corporate national, personal or other -all tgopics relevant to goole as current grand central junction of all marketing, mediation and medias - on the wall, who is the do no evil-most of us all?

This may call you as an urgent responsibility of all marketing, media and
mediation professionals since it becomes the last British exit for brand to
reform economics through the bridge of entrepreneurial revolution which scots
have spent about 240 years working on http://clubofarran.blogspot.com

Unlike the late 80s crisis when fictional brand valuation algorithms were conceived by the accounting and ad agency professions to separate their own business cases (and so rule leadership communications by numbers spreadshheets), today's crisis = last time Britains (Great or Small) will likely have a paeacful opportunity to change the world goes with the media of The Economist and the BBC (media that well over 100 billion dolars of mainly
public money has been invested in as befits the last commonwelath led as a
Kingdom by ethical ladies, Queens) standing up for people economics- arran's
concept of replace sports olympics by social entrepreneur olympics is
sufficient to chnage economics as foretold back in 1984
http://www.normanmacrae.com/friends.html
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687

In 1988, The Economist's new 2006 editor then 18 years younger and I knew just
enough about the coming global brand crisis to end the year of the brand
survey like with the rose metaphor of Shakespeare's and Juliet's what's in a
name http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
--From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
Here Juliet tells Romeo that a name is an artificial and meaningless
convention, and that she loves the person who is called "Montague", not the
Montague name and not the Montague family. Romeo, out of his passion for
Juliet, rejects his family name and vows, as Juliet asks, to "deny (his)
father" and instead be "new baptized" as Juliet's lover. This one short line
encapsulates the central struggle and tragedy of the play.
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/276
Themes/Keywords: name, love, family, rose -Goodold bard that just about where
all communal value multiplies around sustainably in a global village economy!

Of course those who know how the games people play with identifiers and anme
recall- as searched in the EIU's and my 1996 Brand Chartering may enjoy a bit
more about what 30 years of minding trust-flow and the rose can lead you to
recall -meanwhile Jack (John Moore) since you have accomplished your aim of
disconnecting me from feeding the beyond-branding.com weblog could you change
the blog link to me to http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com

The mind is a very funny (peculiar not ha ha) battleground. I have researched
since 1976 how the world's big brands impact peoples across all societies.
After all the biggest brand be that brand usa ,or coca-cola, or google
connects billions of beings in their own memories of it. According to
Americans Trout & Ries in their 70s classic which ad agencies still tout:
positioning is the battle for your mind, using all the hidden persuaders a
corporate brand owner can muster

while I disagree with spending billions a year on global brand ad budgets
because the consequences of that image-making media game are too shrinking to
contemplate where that will all pied piper us to is a different story
http://brandchartering.blogspot.com
http://globalcharters.blogspot.com
http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=16196
for now let me guide you how odd my (or any mind of empassioned context) mind
is when it comes to the brand Rose -yes if you ask me for associations with
rose I may say a sweet smelling pink skinned flower first then today I will
sya how much I am missing Charlie because I have fallen asleep over his
replacements in ill health

then we had an awakening last night with an old anarchist -yale professor
interview - what amazing grace
http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=16805 that Rose blossoms, explaining how academia has its hierarchical
taboos that anyone who questions the truth will have his head cut off or in
this case be excommunicated from yale for a year or more (Yale a place of law -
excommunicates a guy like David Graeber) I know my uncle as an English QC got
very worried by how asinine and big booted law has become but Yale are you
dropping off the map of the world

the Rose also reminds me of the way a young journalist ended his 1988 survey
of The Year of The Brand in 1988 - with the Shakespeare quote comparing rose
and trust - where is that man now? Actually he replaced Bill Emmott in the
most serious global media job of all last month

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
--From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
Here Juliet tells Romeo that a name is an artificial and meaningless
convention, and that she loves the person who is called "Montague", not the
Montague name and not the Montague family. Romeo, out of his passion for
Juliet, rejects his family name and vows, as Juliet asks, to "deny (his)
father" and instead be "new baptized" as Juliet's lover. This one short line
encapsulates the central struggle and tragedy of the play.
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/276
Themes/Keywords: name, love, family, rose

since January's State of Union Conversion to 2 new space races - end US
addiction to petroleum economics, do what you can to get schoolkids to love
exploring science more than sports and pop idols, and the explanation of this
given by one of Bush's 20 Gathering Storm leaders Norman Augustine - as to do
with Death of Distance

- 5 times in one interview to do with that
http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=16196
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com This helps me recall rose was also a
keyword in how Paris match reviewed the Death of Distance book I co-authored
on 1984 - Demain Sera Rose - sniad French journalism ha ha another great
economist writer and his son (so-called expert in learning networks) take us
to globalisation hell before saying its ok, the people will rise up and
web2.1 - well let's hope the rose brand is as exciting in your minds linkins
as in mine.

The denouement of the human race is being played out over the next
10 years; just do anything but lurk for all our gods and natures and peoples
sakes, liberties, egalities-the original associations of the word entrepreneur
(please note - but that's a different brand leader game, another post, another
time)


chris macrae usa 301 881 1655 wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
Alfonso Lingis Testimony at 2004 Annual Nongress of Global Reconciliation
Network, Delhi - see also my notes fro paper presnetd on coming wars between
goodwill and badwill networks http://goodwillwars.blogspot.com
One always sees things in joy. It seems to me that there is a very fundamental
kind of existential decision we make: do we believe our joy or do we believe
our neutralstates? In the latter case, the move is always one of prudence -
not to make decisions in a time of enthusiasm when one is carried away,
butrather to wait until everything cools down. I think one of the most
important things there is - I would almost say one could make this a kind of
maxim for life - is to always make decisions in a state of joy. ne should
believe one's joy more than one's prudence, or any cautious or fearful state
of mind"...Alfonso went on to say this is also the way that nature interact
people cultures and why we should be oh so respectful or every ciulture's
deepest belief even if as powerful white men wor whomever we haven't got a
clue why a culture states something is most deeply true to its communal DNA

Practically if never academically, this sure rings contextually true with researching society all round Asia which I have done on the ground since 1983...as part of the the world's first dtabank of market models coordinated out of Paris and MIT using express database software and the deepest perceptual models ever used to analyse communications by multinational companies

Google - we fear for you as the loveliest & most inter-productive 5 year old brainchild the world of 6 billion beings has known or sourced

Post first prepared for our co-blog Beyond-Branding uniting 100 experts of peoples economics of media

Google, as number 1 agent of all our networking explorations with the future of life is probably entering its most risky era in its lifetime -for once markets cutting its value by 9% in a day as it takes on the centre of US government may have kneejerked too little. To go beyond the clutches of any one government - as it takes people beyond nations control over our liberties- it needs to replicate the information cells of its head offices in many countries - we'd suggest Ireland is one very quick and safe haven, not that I wouldnt have my own familial favourites (such as Perth) among knowledge collaboration cities 1 2 to see google empowerment take over simultaneously from national only government

To undesrtand more of this post's brand strategy conversations around not only the world's most valuable brand - but the brand that was cooperating in multiplying more value for 6 billion beings' enterprise than any other - you might want to look at the 30 year learning curve of entrepreneurial revolution , our particular 65 year experiences on media/societal economics and the editors lens we can bring on that to Euprope's 5 year report on Knowledge managent. I'll post an extract at BB blog and am updating http://kmeurope.blogspot.com as fast as I can this weekend before one more polg interlinking the knowhow between the lines of 5 years of people dialogues and open spaces is pulled for ever

After HabitatJam.com last weekend, the world we can network changed. A very primitive virtual community format but one scaled around 100 countries' deep voice testifiers (linking 10000s asynchronously) on why slum life in city after city is compounding worse and worse. Three days earlier this web did not exist- now in one single search space there is more on the broken jigsaw of slums and underclasses and the extreme poverty and other waves that spirals out of such neglect by humanity than the whole of the internet had contented previously. Peoples worlds must now be asking : What topics can we do next 3-jams on.

Here are two clues from our 21 year debating circles on internetworking:
-choose one sector exponential that you want to turnround so its best of the world, and remember to debate any chance you get over the next 5 years- our plea from the Deputy Editor of The Economist in 1984: please change economics for people instead of just by big power
-know we have until 2010 to decide whether the goodwill or badwill wars win; goodwill networkers need to learn how to collaborate and multiply each other's foci; we need a gravity catalogue of networks whose relationship permissions are so vital that they are coming down to zero degrees of separation; most of the 6 billion beings who sing goodwill for all this holidays season because they also believe it are behind that tiny minority on the terrorist line whose networking models sadly are ahead of the goodwills at this date- especially sadly for me since in London number 1 knowledge collaboration city we lost the man who many Londoners would have voted number 1 networker for being the change;

Ironically I need to love the 2 places the news media connected with the 7/7 bombers first (Leeds which is where my first job experinented with computer networks in th 1970s as part of the UK's national development programme in computer assisted learning and Pakistan whose netizens report quake-shaken regeneration needs today that are even greater than New Orleans or the Tsunami coastlines because the world's news machine finds them less attractive to image-make with)

Just thinking aloud a little more... I feel there's a gap for say a quarterly newsletter -why not get to it google.org if you are to live up to aSIN premier league status - that describes microfinance entrepreneur projects so that the world starts to be aware of how preneurial people can be from the bottom of the pyramid (you know CK Prahalad's book) if only they are given a fair financial look in. This could also be a way of realising what particular countries or citizen groups see as projects they most need in the community because they are currently falling through NGO and gov gaps. Does this make sense? And if so is there some way of putting together what a one-pager from the Philippines would look like, or at least among those you know to be mobilising eagerly around microfinance. I notice that Coconets just won the world challenge competition so this could also be a good time to try and keep the Philippines in the news, a country which I feel but cannot prove that eg the BBC relatively ignores Congratulations to the people of the Philippines and Coconets in particular for winning the World Challenge series (media sponsors BBC and Newsweek). I understand coconets helps top prevent landlsides by weaving together from coconut shells a sort of top carpet that is placed over areas that have become vulnerableTrying to get the BBC to cover humanity's stories in deep diversity (and not in left right political ways) is one of my long run movement intents. If we marketers cannot systemically unite professionals and entrepreneurs and the world's public media to see why they should be investigating news and global/local humanity differently from commercial media and imgage-riding (culture destroying) global brands, then we may lose the goodwill wars http://goodwillwars.blogspot.com/

Valuation of Trust-Flow*Transparency*Sustainability
If all people and open sources are to be wholly valued for their greatest potential to make a difference in connecting our networking world, then our race needs value multiplication auditing and mapmaking in 3 dimensions:

Trust-flow audits whether a single organisation is compounding growth for all -productively & demandingly - relating around its best for the world purpose. Hi-trust relationship auditing is also what valuetrue intangibles valuation experts do.

Transparency mapmaking developed by uniting citizen networks as deep voice correspondents spotlights boundaries between networks of organisations within a sector or across sectors such as global corporation * national government (note through the 20th C how many African countries were corrupted at the silos). The peoples economics is mathematically different, and grassroots contextualised, from that which makes big power bigger.

Sustainability Investment Valuation (eg aSIN guide) integrates whether whole sectors are compounding exponential consequences that will connect with the survival let alone progress of the human species

Inspired by The Economist's cataloguing cases of entrepreneurial revolution since 1976, the maths of valuetrue research and network maps of unseen wealth began in earnest in 1989 in opposing brand valuation as the media's great mathematical mistake; valuetrue mapping is deeply contextual; see these playing pieces and read some papers on productive & demanding systems of human relationships; ask me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want to experiment with mapping a specific context whose future matters most in the world to you

jamful of India and Microfinance

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blog trustmicrofinance restored, but 10 blogs on value multiplication across India will take weeks to restore, meanwhile this Jam
-a sample of valuegandhi has been placed here at our 360 degree valuation blog

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We were the EU's Knowledge Management Volunteer Editors for Microfinance for a couple of years from 2003-2005. Here's some raw content which we will need to re-edit. We housed much of the content in a discussion on Knowledge that India most wanted to review, so that explains why you see many contexts from that region.Please share with us leading contributions from India.Attachments: (No. of attachments - 1)61 kmicrofinanceCan microfinance help sustain businesses that start at the grassroots? (30-Jun-03)KM and Emotional Intelligence SIGPublished by: Chris MacraeStory read: 4206Chris Macrae , 7th March 2005 2 updatesMr Chris Macrae"It is because we have at the present moment everybody claiming the right of consciencewithout going through any discipline whatsoever that there is so much untruth being delivered to a bewildered world." - GandhiWhilst in South Africa, Gandhi spent a decade preparting a truth or tust curriulum. We're interested in registering alumni of CoPs of this practice at ValueGandhi blog, and in preparation for a worldwide congress in Delhi in 2007On the monetary Reform apsects of this thread, a variant to microfinance is who gets the free luuch of being the first to lend anyway. Last week a meeting room of the UK houses of parliament in the UK convened this debate at friends at the simultaneous movement would be interested in helping you animate this - more or less anywhere-in fact just as I shook our expert's hand on this knowledge flow, he mentioned he's off to New Zealand for his next committee tutorialChris Macrae , 28th January 2005 updates to this threadMr Chris Macrae2005 is year of microcreditthe world economic forum discusses microcredit and the key to entrepreneurship tomorrowIts good to see the world forum is also turning its eyes to India for arguably the most diverse community models any large country has offered the world: The President of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, has called the government’s policy blueprint “absolutely first class”.Internationally, the Prime Minister has affirmed his country’s continuing attachment to the principles of peace, harmony, cooperation and development, with the hope of contributing towards “reanimat[ing] the collective wisdom of the world community for a new partnership to meet the unprecedented challenges we face”. Widening international economic disparities, as well as disparities within nations, are a major matter of concern, with Dr Singh calling for development to be restored to the centre of the global discourse.Personally I hope that Europe sends a healthy interdisciplinary cross-section of people to the 2007 centenary celebration of Mahatma Gandhi's alumni- a knowledge network being convened in the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Culture. Mail me if you wish to start an early sub-network on this or join our co-blog.Chris Macrae , 24th December 2004 continuing Delhi's future history research of Harmony &Mr Chris MacraeDelhi: One aspect of this is the idea of open search. Examples:Open Search HARMONY & :Global Reconciliation,Culture & System,Intangibles,Economics & Society,Economics & Religion,Global & Local...please tell us if you discover a search that fits this emerging sequenceChris Macrae , 22nd December 2004 gifts to the worldMr Chris MacraeBack from Delhi, and a partly state sponsored conference at the Indira Gandhi Nation Centre for Cultures &You can read news here of emerging future activities connecting the 100 participants and the wider 300 participants of Global Reconciliation Network- in many conflict resolution people's view Melbourne's greatest gift to the world (other nominations welcome)One startup example: SERENDIPITY LINKS: Can you tell us of a cultural exchnage link demonstrating your country loves the world in a specific way and reciprocally the world loves your country for internationally caring?(or a potential 2-degree separated link that needs connection-working until its made- example In this section we spot broken-line links concerned with loving India and India's love for the world; and ask whether there might be a way to connect them -please send in any nominations for serendipties so our members can see how far our network can boldly goeg One of America's opinion leading aid-India organsiations is OneForIndia. Its located in Mountain View- the location of the virtual world's largest goodwill organsiation google. Would Google be a platinum sponsor of the 2007 Gandhi celebration at the Indira Gandhi National Centre or support India's intent to animate deep cultural open soure learning programs with the world in other ways.)Chris Macrae , 29th March 2004 thank you icfai universityMr Chris Macraeits always nice to get a gift from somebody you have never heard of before ICFAI in this small world we connect to. Apparently ICFAI is India's multi-state university established by The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India. Where in the West we moight ask would we find such a body setting up a university whose values include:commitment to ethics, community service and involvement,Justice and fair play,academic freedom for faculty and students enabling intellectual growth and encouraging open and honest expression of opinionmy kind of space !so when a gift of a book called New Age Branding came through the snailmail form this institute, I actually started reading it. And of the 50 books on brands I have read since being the first writer to devote a whole book to branding, NAB is up in the top 5, even though its a chapter anthology by different authors. Not having the copyright for others, here is a sampler from my chapter:Transcript of a talk by Chris Macrae, given in Washington DC, July 2001The first thing I want to talk about is the Brand Action Triangle, a framework I use to find out where people are coming from on the brand. Which practices of brand organization is a person truly interested in integrating? This might be a prospective client, or it can be a prospective partner. There are all sorts of companies I'd like to work with to make the brand and corporate knowledge fit together actionably, but most of all I want to make sure that we leave a company's people better equipped to live the brand. Great work with the Brand Action Triangle should be about developing a system which inspires the human beings that will be working it, and not dependent on some external supplier. The second part of this talk looks at a few tools, which I find are the most useful in terms of making connections all the way around this brand triangle. At this stage, I'd also like to hear what tools you use, because I'm always trying to find out about simpler tools. Then part three of these slides is an appendix involving some really big issues. The sorts of issues which don't present well in terms of trying to read them quickly, so I have put down a few verbose pages right at the back of the PowerPoint, in case anyone wants to contact me afterwards and discuss them by e-mail or whatever.more at http://www.allaboutbranding.com/index.lasso?article=114chris macrae VTcommunity wcbn007@easynet.co.ukChris Macrae , 22nd March 2004 country of the month award - March 2004Mr Chris MacraeI thought I might unashamedly start this award to countries that contact me through knowledgeboard with deep humanitarian questions, and award it to India for lifetime achievements to date though Russia runs closeThere may be some bias as i first worked in India in 1985, and researching what the 16 biggest cities social issues were at that time was an eye opener for a spoilt European like meI also wish to issue the 2nd open space invitation from Goa in November; if you dont know what OS is or why its the knowledge technique that has most changed communal life around the world, you can ask me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, and I'll try and link you to a diversity of testifiers-----Harrison OwenSent: 22 March 2004 17:36To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDUSubject: Re: Announcement II: 12th International OSonOS Conference, Goa India invites youSounds fantastic...we're making planshoHarrison OwenOpen Space Training www.openspaceworld.comOpen Space Institute www.openspaceworld.orgPersonal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDUAnnouncement II: 12th International OSonOS Conference, Goa Indiainvites youDear ALL,Our India team invite You to the 12th Annual Open Space on Open SpaceEventfrom September 26th to 29th, 2004 in GOA -- INDIA at the Fort Aguada BeachResort of the Taj Group of Hotels.The OSonOS in Goa, will be special in many ways --- It will be a home -comingto the virtual birthplace of 'Open Space Technology'! A time for rejoicingand celebration.And that's how we'll inaugurate the 12th Open Space on Open Space on the25thnight - with a sumptuous Banquet, laced with native cocktails anddelightfulconversations.We expect you to arrive in Goa in the early evening of the 25th - on thedomestic flight from Mumbai.We will have 3 full days of OSonOS meetings : the 26th, 27th and the 28th.We will conclude on the 29th with Lunch.There will a tour of Goa's scenic beauty and its historic spots in theafternoon.Check out from the hotels will be on the morning of the 30th .Janet Pinto & Malay BiswasWe would like to make this event affordable to people from all over theWorld.We are therefore offering options on the Registration fees - knowing thatwhatever is received will the right Fee.The Registration Fee will range from $ 100 to $ 350 depending upon whatyoudecide is right for you.Accommodation:You can choose from 4 types of Accommodation ranging from a luxurious hotel,avillage ambience Taj hotel, Budget hotels and Goan Houses accommodating small groups.Chris Macrae , 20th February 2004 India hosts world open space gatheringMr Chris Macraemost anticipated conference of the year?The 12th Annual Open Space on Open Space International Practice Conference In Goa, India -- September 26-29, 2004We are pleased to inform you all that our preparation is in full swing for the OSonOS 2004. You have to reach Mumbai, India at the latest by 24th September, 2004, fly to Goa on 25 morning latest.Day one: Reach Mumbai, Stay at Hotel Taj Mahal, Mumbai - this is most beautiful and historical hotel, next to the Arabian Sea.Day Two: Morning: Fly to Goa, stay at Taj Exotica Goa, a most beautiful resort, Evening : Cultural FunctionDay three: OSonOS startsDay Four : OSonOS continuesDay Five : OSonOS closes in the eveningDay Six : Fly back to Mumbai, stay at Hotel Taj Lands End closer to airport and next to sea, and proceed onwardFlow chart is like this: Your homeland ->Mumbai -> Goa (Conference and More) -> Mumbai -> Your homelandPlease let me know if you require any clarification, information etc. I will be happy to answer all your queries.With warm regards,Janet PintoMalay BiswasOrgansing Members - India WingChris Macrae , 19th February 2004 congratulations Dr Dash - the first meta-disciplinary journal!Mr Chris MacraeIts really great to see what's probably the first meta-disciplinary practice journal coming from out of India, and in the hands of Dr dash who any stalwarts of Ric Karash's CoP on Learning Organisation Systems will recognise as a relentless campaigner for putting humanity back into organsiationsBased on the feedback from you, I arrived at the following two penultimate names:1. Journal of Research Practice: Complexity and Innovation in Multiple Domains2. Journal of Research Practice: Innovations and Challenges in Multiple DomainsYou can see that both are similar in spirit. Finally, Hector and I have chosen the second one to be the final name. So this is it: 'Journal of Research Practice: Innovations and Challenges in Multiple Domains'.* Call for ManuscriptsHector and I are working on a draft that describes the journal's focus and announces a call for manuscripts. It makes use of ideas discussed and developed in this eGroup. Once we have that draft ready, we will share it here before freezing it. This should happen within one week.* Guidelines for ContributorsAs per the advice of Sage Publications, I have produced a draft of the detailed Guidelines for Contributors. Sage was particular that some finer points of style should be mentioned explicitly. I have sought Hector's comments on the draft. We can freeze that soon.Cheers!DPPS: Addresses:D. P. Dash, Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier Square, Bhubaneswar 751013, India; E-mail1: dpdash@ximb.ac.in; E-mail2: professor_dash@yahoo.co.ukHéctor R. Ponce, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Faculdad de Administración y Economía, Av. L. B. O'Higgins 3363 Estación Central, Santiago, Chile; E-mail1: hponce@pegaso.usach.cl; E-mail2: hponce4@hotmail.comChris Macrae , 18th February 2004 more on microfinanceMr Chris MacraeThe Asian Development Bank has been keeping a pretty close check on statistics of micro finance see http://www.adb.org/Documents/Policies/Microfinance/default.asp?p=microfncStatistics at http://www.adb.org/Documents/Policies/Microfinance/microfinance0303.asp?p=microfncMicro finance is also developing in the UK as a source http://www.aspire-loans.com/content/whatis_microfinance.htmChris Macrae , 12th February 2004 roundup of microfinance elearnings and open spaces todateMr Chris MacraeThis has been an exotic, and most valuable , knowledge safari since Helen first posted citi-bank's knowledge document on microfinace in IndiaBecause of this serendipity, I will continue to primarily update microfinance learnings coming in from all over the world in India!Our wonderful NGO host Olaf Brugman is redirecting spare time energies to starting an NGO that specialises its focus on: Brazil, Microfinance, Social issues -if you want to pass messages through to Olaf, I can always help if you cant find his email direct (which may or may not still be on these boards because I've noted a lot of cleaning going on -some seemingly random (but then hopefully not many more sigs will be wiped overnight due to communal breakups)England's cultural creatives are doing more and more work on microfinace- this from an open space saturday that many gavve their time up to:- People interesting in and commited to the development of commmunity currencies in London and beyond -see more at http://www.uniteddiversity.com/Summary of past & future links1) In the UK we have http://www.enterpriseforall.info/ - a multiwave open space inner city regeneration inquiry involving local communities hosted by natwest community banking, and feedingback to the UK treasury. Each open space comes up with about 24 issue briefings some carrying forward into local activities and all networking participants - if you need latest information, we should dialogue with the open space facilitators Lin Grist or Roma Iskander2)On Microfinance, this is the centre of wisdom as I know it http://www.openmoney.org/ if you need help in contacting Michael Linton the Canadian over here for 3 years to popularise LETS please say. I met Michael through the auspices of the 20000 www.ecademy.com which is also where the DTI’s Beyond Bricks ended up, so he’s pretty well linked virtually speaking. Andrew’s link to community development finance associations is great http://www.cdfa.org.uk/ - Michael Linton's community currency network is here http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;op=page&c=242 but I cant remember whether you have to register for ecademy before you can see it.3)At the sampling of the youth-poverty knowledge conference of the worldbank I have heard that Iran is holding a conference on microfinance.( NGOTC (a non-governmental organization that works on the empowerment of NGOs and CBSs in Iran with an emphasis on internship and field work) is going to hold a seminar and a workshop on Micro-Credit for Youth in Shiraz (Iran) from 6 to 9 March 2004).Chris Macrae , 3rd February 2004 EU delegation to IndiaMr Chris MacraeI note the web of the EU delegation to India (et al) is at http://www.delind.cec.eu.int/en/index.htmChris Macrae , 16th January 2004 ICN of IndiaMr Chris MacraeHere's a post from a parallel conversation on IC of nations going on at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=121706&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;d=1&h=417&f=418&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Consider how the ICN of India is suddenly networking together like magic: in Bangladore you have the world’s most cost-effective logical outsourcing virtual community- speaking english, enough people highly educated in maths and computer logics, and well able to serve 24/7 service needs of huge sectors like global finance and insurance (1)Perhaps this is the kind of talent mix that could turn India from one of the region’s tortoises in the last quarter of 20th Century to a fast sustainable developer if the lessons of what makes Bangladore can be transferred across other regions of India.I am quite optimistic because web sites out of India seem to me well above the world norm for focusing on important communal conversations rather than trivia. And as a Brit who is the first to admit that the old Empire left India with an unfair legacy in many ways, I would be one of the first to rejoice if India’s broad familiarity with the English language turned out to be a 21st C blessing for these peoples of great diversity and rich educational/cultural heritages.Chris Macrae , 5th January 2004 great sounding conferenceMr Chris Macraeanyone going here?10th January to 12th January 2004http://www.geocities.com/aiaer15/next-annual-conference.htmVenue : Saurastra University, Rajkot, Gujarat, IndiaOrganized by : Deptt. of Education, Saurastra University, Rajkot, GujaratTheme : Fourth Wave Education• We have moved from agrarian society to industrial society, to information society in first three waves, where the focus was on agriculture, industry and information. • Now in the fourth wave, we are evolving into a responsive society, where the focus is on knowledge, spiritualism, and responsibility. The fourth wave is emerging with the trends of respiritualization of society, decline of materialism and scientism, responsiveness in institutions, redefining wealth, merging of corporate-personal life, emergence of self-forgetful service paradigm, integration of religiousness with science. • First wave says we are separate and uncommented, second wave says we are separate but competing, third wave says we are separate but cooperating, fourth wave says we are one and co-creating.Chris Macrae , 12th December 2003 congratulations IndiaMr Chris MacraeYou know something wonderful must be stirring when even an American newspaper covers a foreign country's innovation with glee - do tell us some of the inside observations you have on whether this ios happening the way you wishThe Rise of India http://www.businessweek.com:/print/magazine/content/03_49/b3861001_mz001.htm?mzAs you pull into General Electric's (GE ) John F. Welch Technology Center, a uniformed guard waves you through an iron gate. Once inside, you leave the dusty, traffic-clogged streets of Bangalore and enter a leafy campus of low buildings that gleam in the sun. Bright hallways lined with plants and abstract art -- "it encourages creativity," explains a manager -- lead through laboratories where physicists, chemists, metallurgists, and computer engineers huddle over gurgling beakers, electron microscopes, and spectrophotometers. Except for the female engineers wearing saris and the soothing Hindi pop music wafting through the open-air dining pavilion, this could be GE's giant research-and-development facility in the upstate New York town of Niskayuna.It's more like Niskayuna than you might think. The center's 1,800 engineers -- a quarter of them have PhDs -- are engaged in fundamental research for most of GE's 13 divisions. In one lab, they tweak the aerodynamic designs of turbine-engine blades. In another, they're scrutinizing the molecular structure of materials to be used in DVDs for short-term use in which the movie is automatically erased after a few days. In another, technicians have rigged up a working model of a GE plastics plant in Spain and devised a way to boost output there by 20%. Patents? Engineers here have filed for 95 in the U.S. since the center opened in 2000.Pretty impressive for a place that just four years ago was a fallow plot of land. Even more impressive, the Bangalore operation has become vital to the future of one of America's biggest, most profitable companies. "The game here really isn't about saving costs but to speed innovation and generate growth for the company," explains Bolivian-born Managing Director Guillermo Wille, one of the center's few non-Indians...Chris Macrae , 22nd November 2003 a few updatesMr Chris Macrae1) Continuing the worldwide microfinace subtrack being hosted this country thread, there's now a virtual game that illustrates how the communal dynamics of microfinance workI believe you can find it here though you might need to do 2 things to see this - register with ecademy and join the CC forum clubhttp://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club&amp;amp;amp;op=forum&c=242&t=27692There's also a wonderful collection of emerging knowhow in the UK on community banking at http://www.cdfa.org.uk/ - see also http://www.enterpriseforall.org/ on what Open Space is doing for inner city regenerationBoth of these should be free; if they're not or you get stuck but wanted to know more about the game email me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk and I will try and introduce you to one of the principals behind the game and the UK effort to popularise microfinance2) Sunil Malhotra is aiming to form the first Intellectual Capital Network in India, part of an international movement of parallel clubs see http://www.incap.info/ involving anyone concerned to advance knowledge of Intellectual Capital , and as Sunil and I interpret it related capitals such as human and social. Sunil's company has also made some slides that make a wonderful translation of peacemaking brand architecture, a project I am openly working on with any movements who wish to criss-cross links for humanity's stake. I have put this file in the general Social Capital space but thank the Indian labour of love (heart capital http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=113314&d=1&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y ) that has been given to this expressionmain SC thread http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=95100&d=1&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Yactual peacemaking slides http://www.knowledgeboard.com/download/3141/Brand-architecture.ppt3) I was in the Ukraine last weekend, more in the Ukraine thread. This is the furthest East in Europe I have been for 5 years, and I have to confess its now 13 years since I did some project work researching India as a nationwide market for a client and visiting Bombay and Delhi regions. However, I am struck that Ukraine is a wonderful country for knowing where you are with business relationships, and if there is anyone in India who wishes to make some connections in the Ukraine please tell me and we can see if my dotted line networks can help. Ukrainian people have now been so long buffeted by big neighbours that arguably a bit like Singpaore they now have a wonderful competence of helping cement inter-regional trades and partnerships.Chris Macrae , 9th August 2003 What if Nike had been Indian or Nigerian- Part 1 of an article ...Mr Chris Macraeby New Zealander Jack Yan which I have had a bit of fun spreading around countries. The idea of fashionable people speading worldwide realities of good instaead of just image seems to me to be one with which youth-knowledge could save the world (from the terrifying start this millennium has had)Fashion for Good by Jack YanIN THE UPCOMING BOOK Beyond Branding, to be published by Kogan Page in October, Simon Anholt and Sicco van Gelder pose an interesting question in their chapter ‘Branding for good?’: what would Nike be like if it were Nigerian or Pepsi Peruvian?It’s not as crazy an idea as it sounds. For a start, one of the most acclaimed perfumes, sold in very limited quantities in France, is Urvâshi. Its origins are Indian. Entrepreneur Deepak Kanegaonkar has used the exotic imagery of India, not to mention Urvâshi’s use of pure sandalwood oil, to earn his perfume a place on the shelves of Paris.The number of stories of global brands from unexpected places is growing, which is good news for New Zealanders pursuing export deals. In the last 12 months we’ve heard of L’Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week 2002 spinoffs that include Caroline Moore selling into Finland and Denmark, and interest being shown in Donna Tulloch’s range from Germany. While these aren’t “global” in the way Nike is global—and they have no desire to be—they indicate that the consumer may be becoming less enchanted with what the first world has to offer.And if the second and third worlds are running global brands, then it might be good news for their communities.About 20 years ago, Norman Macrae—the former Economist deputy chief editor who predicted the spread of the internet—said that mankind’s most pressing concern by the middle of the decade would be the gulf between rich and poor. That gulf is not getting any narrower while too many corporations rely on cheap labour and exploitation.Part 2 Continued in New ZealandVal Samonis , 8th August 2003 Sustaining Small Business DevelopmentVal SamonisI think that the Great Idea and Practice of The Grameen Bank on the Indian Subcontinent proved that microfinance does make a difference in that respect. Val Samonis.Chris Macrae , 7th August 2003 neighbour threadsMr Chris MacraeRussia seems to be alive with great questions at the momenthttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=114130Chris Macrae , 26th July 2003 gateway to IndiaMr Chris MacraeDear SunilGreat pleasure meeting you London Tuesday. If there's any way we can set up a city by city list across India of people who get heart capital like you do and want to be our knowledge gateways to and from from India's social capital developers (multiplied by our parallel networks at K'board, Transparency Mapping, ICN, BB, Beyond,Fast Company etc are collaboratively setting up around Europe) please sayMeanwhile any business owner who lives your company's vision is a guy whose heart capital is in the right pace to exchange ideas with :http://www.ideafarms.com/stake.htm Our energy is derived from all stakeholders. Customers, in-house teams, external relationships, investors, employees, government, researchers and others. Our job is to make sure that everybody wins. Shared-risk, shared-prosperity. Why would our customers have funded us otherwise!Helen Baxter , 15th July 2003 I have also come across Helen Baxterthis great article on microfinance:http://www.antseyeview.com/archives/000311.htmlChris Macrae , 2nd July 2003 2 subjects: India Brand, and waterMr Chris MacraeNo connection between the subjects.Yes Sunil, I believe India's brand in its fullest system sense puts Indians at many unnecessary disadvantages. I have been a small part of a year long debate on that. I will try and get some of the participants to summarise where they have got to. These include Simon Anholt whose book Brand New Justice - looking at the context of nation branding is seminal and was revied in our NGO sig.Water is one of those substances that I believe we need the utmost of transparency on especially with two opposite kinds of powerul systems - the global corporate where it seeks to profit from water and geographical politics where one neighbour wantonly pollutes or wastes water so as to disadvantage a neighbour that is literally downstream. It may or may not be apprporiate to include some references on tracks to water transparency of knowledge in this space on India. But for example this article presents quite a deep criticism of what's going on in global corporate power over water produced by the Indian Activist Vandana ShivaSunil Malhotra , 2nd July 2003 The India BrandSunil MalhotraHi Chris and everybody on this list. Call it misplaced patriotism (but please don't call me parochial), I am rather proud of the fact that I'm Indian.What I'm not so comfortable with is the India brand as it stands today. We have, by our own actions and inactions, led the world to believe that we are disorganised and "cheap".Well, it is true that we are burdened with illiteracy and population growth on one side, but I also think that there are highly enlightened professionals and leaders who should take it upon themselves to highlight to the world, the value of the traditional Indian ethos.Indians are very tolerant and, to an extent, fatalistic. We are taught values of familial and social conduct and grow up believing in the power that "soft and immaterial" living, empathy, trust and spirituality can provide.Although Western (typically American) influences have caused a change, especially in the middle class philosophies, by evangelising material quest, we are already beginning to believe that our native cultures hold better promise.Intellectual ability coupled with excellent educational institutions have put India on the map as a serious contender for providing human-oriented knowledge solutions besides our technical prowess in realizing the knowledge dream.Chris Macrae , 1st July 2003 microfinanceMr Chris MacraeI added this file. Its connection to India is that apparently citi-group are promoting it there.There are certainly some microfinance systems that are providing new starts to those who want to found small businesses in grassroots situations. I would be interested in any comments people have as to whether this is having positive impacts in India or in other areas where those who most need an investment start have traditionally been excludedThis file was relayed to me by Helen Baxter along with this original message:> Subject: Stanley Fischer speech on microfinance> > > I know that last time we corresponded, you said you were> unable to run anything with a commerical angle however I hope > that this speech qualifies for posting on the Knowledge Board.> > Many thanks> Andrea> Public Affairs> Citigroup> > > <>One of the simplest introductions to microfinance communities is at http://www.letslink.org/Helen also sends this bookmark:http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=113747&d=1&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Another Microfinace expert epicentre is found at these links:Mr Michael LintonLondon open money projectLondon, UKUKW: http://www.openmoney.org/In 1982, the general financial crisis in western Canada led to personal financial crisis and thence to the design of the LETSystem - necessity yet again mothering invention. The LETSystem has since become the basis for most of the world's community currency systems.I am now based in the UK for three years, principally working on the London open money project, and my work with computers is confined to efforts in communication.My most recent stuff is at www.openmoney.org and I also had a part in producing http://wildfire.communitycurrency.net./Chris Macrae , 30th June 2003 deep searchingMr Chris MacraeI am always keeping eyes open for people who have deep grassroots authority on how to change systems where people's needs are most desperate. It often seems to me that the heroic work is being done by the less famous, so do send along any bookmarks that you feel shows someone is making a difference from depth of grassroots presenceAs example yardsticks :I like a lot of what I see at http://www.sristi.org/I also believe the internatiuonal charity the hunger project is doing excellent work on gender equality and empowering women in very local governement http://www.thp.org/http://64.224.173.9/sai00/india/index.html Chris Macrae , 30th June 2003 excellent startMr Chris MacraeSunilThanks for your excellent start; please do continue this type of perspective; I'm sure world audiences would apprecaite a definitive bookmark to ideas like karma. I dont think I know the half of what it really does even though I notice more and more change agents include some of these methods to take a meeting out of its parochial worries and hopefully enable communing at a higher plane.Equally, people have been sending me various India-related topics recently. I will try and invite them to come and express their views even if this means we get quite a hotchpotch of topicsExamples:15 years ago I did some work in India, and it was evident to me that international companies had no idea how to offer anything of value outside of cities. So we have a long-standing egroup on rural markets at http://www.egroups.com/group/needsmarketing If anyone sees content there that interests them tell me and I will try and get someone to speak upSunil Malhotra , 30th June 2003 India is a veritable, invisible heritage Thanks Chris for adding the India thread. It might be interesting to track India's history ... I'd like to start the thread by putting things in context.I am taking the liberty of pasting an excerpt from one of my articles (1996) that I think would be a fitting backdrop for debate."For centuries, India has helped shape world thinking. Concepts like “shunya” (Zero), “satyagraha” (Non-cooperative non-violence), “karma” (Motivation sans motive), and individuals such as Gautama Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Ravishankar, Zubin Mehta have stamped enduring impressions on the world’s cultures. The alluring, hand-woven carpets of Kashmir, the exquisite pottery of Khurja and the scintillating silk sari of Kanchipuram, all demonstrate a prolific unity in India’s art, craft, technique and ability.I am continually spurred-on by the possibilities that might emerge if we combine these portions of our native ethnic character with new global technologies. If only we could liberate ourselves from the bondages of history — the world would have a chance to partake of our heritage. To aim to use our knowledge (and share it with the world) in a way that addresses ethnic sensibilities and provides the highest-possible degree of psychological well-being. For example, we must move towards evolving a visual language for cross-cultural communication which pushes HCI toward a more reflective multi-cultural screen concept. If interfacing is to be seamless, we should take our cues from the accepted learning habits of the peoples of specific cultures — and I am convinced that this can only be achieved in India through a concerted return to our native cultures."Let's keep this thread alive.
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9 December 2005 was a very odd day when Google wiped lots of blogs. Ironically this blog which appreciated how much value google was compounding with all its users; we'll put the top pages cached of all the 100 blogs or so we can find and have lost below this date. Please note many links below this date may not work


Then if we have any time or energy left, we will get back to valuing Google's future potential as still the number 1 do no evil global media platform people have left. Unless you want to mail me other nominations in that sector at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

...Imagine!


Why not marry Google
TO the BBC? TO Entrepreneurs who want to collaborate across cities? To villages where intellegence compounds/develops critical needs of being human that needs pervasive linking in to globalisation's open planning? To google*google where else do you have a dream of goodwill systems multiplying each other

Syndicated from economicstimesImagine if we could discover the world's 25 more value multiplying corporations (best expoentials for sustaining humanity) and get them to multiply each other's interfaces in relevant pairwise combinationseg what if example: Rabobank*Google:Has Rabobank Leadership ever met Google’s to explore each other’s system learning multipliers?Wonder what your 2 multipliers could do around the world’s search for investing in grassroots transparency networks and sustainable communities which is what I assume microfinance’s systemic mapping will come to needor who else could make an extraordinary marriage with of exponential multipliers withGoogle - our senior economist has wanted globalsiation and local networking to see the BBC (as world's laregst publically owned media) have experimental media marriages with the most open company on the net since 1984


3 Trillion Economy, 5 years compound work
1,2, 3... As network economists (est 1984) and local social researchers worldwide, we believe a very conservative rule of thumb in the networking world is the one most hi-trust organsiation is worth 100 times more to all it interacts with than it is finacially worth for its owners (any comments!?SO: welcome to google - the 3 trillion hi-trust economycaveat - working to stay the world's highest trust organisation system on all 100-win sides (of your human relationship dynamics) may be even more contextually long-term in its future wisdom than your first 5 years of play, but long may you do no evil!!

can anyone tell us about Google's Dodgeball acquisition
Can anyone tell us how dodgeball.com works?If you are a user, do tell us wjat sort of socila networking advantages it has, and whether any of its principles could be translated to communities and social networksMini-reviews from dodgeball site:
When Dodgeball users "check in" at a given locale by sending out a text message, it goes to all their preselected friends, as well as any friends of friends within a ten-block radius. A photo is sent along with the alert-which helps with identifying near strangers. Introductions are made, beer is poured, and then hookups can occur-casually, and in a low-pressure environment, all under the guise of knowing someone in common. It's Friendster, except in real time and in the real world.
"I can't tell you how many people I've met through this," said McGunigle. "It has not only simplified my socializing habits, but has allowed me to meet people I would not have met otherwise."
"Whenever a popular new technology has appeared, from piano rolls to VCRs, people have always questioned its viability„because it doesn't look like the old model„but in the end, we've always found a way to pay for the things people like doing," says Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. "So if people keep finding value in it, it will be viable as a business." Chris Macrae


how to choose the best staff
be the world's most simply connected companykeep a running description of potential vacancies up on your web; have an automatic answering machine to emailed cvs saying we can't reply to everyone but you can be sure we browse and connect with thos who may be a good matchI guess google is in a perfect position to recruit the satff it wants anywhere and everywherego google go

Q&A on compounding 30 billion $ valuation in 4 years
Valuing Google's 10 Commandments 1,,2,,3
What sources do you find most useful to understand this most human celebration of value creation? (SEC document, Playboy interview...) What was the biggest insight in each? Could we all be better off if more corporations & leaders lived Google's hippocratic (professional) creed of (knowingly) "Do No Evil"?Google's news of Google... Valuation training on what will happen next (up or down) to any organisation's intangibles

Google : and the future of the net
Open agency, and every human connecting idea which the founders of the web and net designed-in are very fragile flowers. Not the least because they communicate the opposite way round from global mass media, and those who use communications to command & control, or to divide and conquer.My guess -which I ask you to debate and explore with me - is that the human potential and the net go where google goes (more than any other worldwide organisation)So far google has proved visionary in the way it has seen :search as the door that opens every other link on the netblog as the 2nd door to open communities with deep human contextIts leaders view of never knowingly do evil is a 21st C reminder of the Hippocratic oath that many highly paid professions need to restore (imo)There's much much more to compound from this one true belief, and 2 interactive tools, and our most transparently human media system ever to connect the world at every locality.If you think this is important and feel I am missing a deeply human perspective that we need to keep asking: what will google do? then please mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk. I need co-editors of this blog. As a 50something man in London , I cannot see so much of the diversity that goes with the future of google, net and web - let alone blog how all human life-times will be changed by the trasnparent way google leads what's possible to link people around.