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Unfortunately, I won't be able to join Everyone for this Saturday's meeting.

Having shared in last month's Future Indiana meeting, here are ideas and action steps I would suggest the group take in your time together this weekend:

1. set the next year out meeting dates and post to Future Indiana/Near-Time calendar
   
2. become a small community of experts at what each of you do
3. seek to influence each other
4. Future Indiana Near-Time space: complete member pages; make individual commitments to post to the blog on a regular basis; invite 5 people to the space; post photos; summarize education-training-work experience-interests-talents - use LinkedIn profile as a template
   
5. list and describe initiatives of each member present; select 3-5 initiatives to develop and promote endorsed by Future Indiana network; identify where each one needs to be in the short future and the next steps to get there (Strategic Doing) you can follow these worksheets to get your strategy in place, the worksheets help you to define your immediate next steps and then begin to build the network you need to meet your goals. You will not do this in 5 days this is a process over time and will get you started to think about how to move forward
6. talk about contacting Purdue Center for Regional Development to see what they can do to support the Future Indiana network 
7. Open up the idea of participating in a geographically based network of I-Open Civic Forums (basic white paper attached). We are working on next steps for this now and will talk about this again soon with you

Why not broadcast the meeting? I can show you quickly how to use your producer status on Livestream (formerly Mogulus) and we can talk via Skype. Can you connect off of your Flip, a camera, mobile device or phone with 3G capacity, or broadcast from a video camera?

Everyone has ideas and solutions about something. This is a map of Strategic Doing, a simple iterative cycle for working successfully in the Civic Space. It is a guide for individuals, teams and large groups to move ideas to action quickly in the form of initiatives, projects and enterprise collaboration.

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Often today people would like to make change and are anxious to connect to new opportunities, but do not know where to get started. Here is a simple heuristic model, a roadmap we call the Innovation Framework, that provides not only a guide but a starting point for where to get started working in the Civic Space -- the place outside of the four walls of any organization or your office where we are all individuals with ideas, talent, skills and access to networks.

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 [Courtesy of Ed Morrison, I-Open. Used with permission.]

Join in and/or listen and learn from the BioTech conversation on Twitter here. [Thanks Jon Speer! ]

Here are my notes I prepared for our April 25 meeting:

SECTION ONE

•    Today let's begin to build our network, and to know it better
•    We're going to review the basics of Open Source Economic Development
•    Let's leave today with a better idea of Future Indiana is, and what it is, and our next steps together
•    Some things to think about as we talk today:

• Everything’s an experiment
• Everything is changeable, to be improved upon
  
• There isn't one opportunity any of us can afford to loose
• There is no time to waste

This is an open session, anyone can join who has at a minimum an intention of contributing, our time together is conversational, please ask questions, and add your comments for the benefit of everyone!

•    Today we are building a scaffold, a framework, for co-creation of transformative initiatives
•    We'll video tape meetings for broadcast and access for anyone who cannot be with us F2F to learn more
•    We'll talk about Near-Time, a sophisticated integrated tool set that works well for Open Source Economic Development network building and projects
•    We'll set up our Future Indiana channel on Mogulus, our Internet television provider of choice

Introductions

• Round the room: who you are; are you here today as an individual or are you affiliated with an organization, or both?  Why are you here and what do you hope to do?
• Me (Betsey Merkel), I help to develop and deploy new practices and tools for Open Source Economic Development at The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) a not for profit 501C3, open team, flexible, co-create, influence – string quartet model – we all actively lead w/ our strengths through networked models. I contribute a number of skills and talents to I-Open including building networks, coaching/training collaborative leadership skills and mentoring/guiding enterprise collaboration. I am part of the I-Open team and I bring one perspective to you today.

SECTION TWO - Our situation today

• Things have changed in how and where we live today.
  
• How have they changed for you? What’s that look like?
• We need new mental mindsets, skills, behaviors and new actions

SECTION THREE - New ways of working

Open Source Economic Development is a methodology that incorporates new practices in

• Collaborative Leadership - new skills in leadership founded on appreciative inquiry; coming from a mindset of abundance not scarcity
  
• Networks - every civic entrepreneur needs to have a basic understanding of network theory and knowledge of good network practice. A good place to learn more is from our partner Valdis Krebs, Orgnet.com
  
• Strategic Doing - replaces Strategic Planning and is a simple disciplined process for moving ideas to action quickly. This is an appropriate approach to work in fast, complex environments today.
• The Innovation Framework - provides a simple map of what matters in Open Source Economic Development for anyone to understand where they need to start and with the Strategic Doing map, how to work.
  

SECTION FOUR What's that look like??

• Networks – examples?
• Collaborations – examples?
• Global; inter- and intra- state initiatives
• Local initiatives
  
• Driven by people: each of us
• White papers
• Initiatives
• Projects
• Enterprise Collaboration

OUR PURPOSE in Open Source Economic Development -- is to be disruptive, to make constructive change not 2-5%; but 5-10X to solve the really big problems of the world that affect us all by driving innovation hard, seeking out the new revenue opportunities available to us, to make change, and to rebuild our communities and their regions.

EXAMPLES:  IDEAS – PEOPLE – WEB 2.0

Networks of communities working together focused on actions they are passionate about and that are obvious to them – What examples do you know of?

National to Locally based I-Open activity:

• WIRED NC Indiana – education, workforce, economic development
• Innovating Networks
• Energy Regions
• Sample I-Open F2f/Online Enterprise Collaboration Communities (integration of F2F meetings and Web 2.0 tools)

• I-Open Education
• Midtown Brews
• Women's Enterprise Network
  
• I-Open Civic Forums

Suggestions for VISION STATEMENTS – keep them loose, general, flexible enough to accommodate change and all desired opportunities so your activity is sustainable; a vision statement can be updated and should be general enough to include anyone who would like to participate. It's the purpose of the network that needs to be focused and the Strategic Doing initiatives that it generates.

• Over-arching
• Let the networks within the networks figure their own out

WHO YOU ARE WILL BE DEFINED BY YOUR ACTIONS. Future Indiana will be defined by the Strategic Doing initiatives it generates and the culture it creates.

NEXT STEPS: Think about what you would like to focus on, who you would like to work with and when you would like begin.

If you were not able to join us last Sat or would like to review the introductory information about I-Open and Open Source Economic Development, here's Jon's (via his new Flip camera!) video on our Future Indiana Mogulus channel. 

Here's the just released QuickTime movie of Future Indiana team member Matt Theobald's Blog "ISEN: Search Internet Environment Number" - you gotta' watch it. Highly creative film created by Matt and Indiana University, School of Communications, MIME program Master's student, Andrew Benninghoff, about the Future of Libraries...

April 21st, 2009

Posted pictures of our group (minus Tomas Beauchamp :( on Flickr. See the set here.

Thanks to Matt Theobald for the warm, gracious hospitality and fine tour of the beautiful mega- wing at the Indianapolis Public Library, the Stutz Artist Tour event (Wow!) and a great meal together at the Rathskeller!

Tomas Beauchamp just sent this note:

I enjoyed meeting with you and working with the others in the group.  It was a fantastic experience!

Here are the organizations that I would like to include: 

SustainAbility

FSG Social Impact Advisors

Corporation 20/20 Designing for Social Purpose

Thanks Tom!

Learn more about Internous, the Library of the Future, in this full length interview with Matthew Theobald, CEO, Internous, at I-Open Education here (requires sign-in).

Matt describes the project Internous, a database of all databases, its history and connection to information science as the Library of the Future, and the value it brings to individuals, their communities and global sustainability,

Check back to the page for information updates.

Summary interview below.