Tribe.net. Local Connections MaximumChange http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/49ec98a9-e8a2-4db4-903d-520f24b9213e 2006-09-07T17:19:16Z 2006-09-07T15:23:19Z

<div>Hello Fellow Tribers: <br/> <br/>I am on over 30 Tribes and only a couple of them have a post here or there. Is Tribe.net a dieing social network? There seems to be more activity on MySpace and YahooGroups. <br/> <br/>If it weren't for the spammers, AdSense, and MLM offers there would be no activity in most tribes.... <br/> <br/>I would love to see some meaningful conversations here... Am I the only one? <br/> <br/>I would love to hear some feedback.... Let’s get some topics rolling... is there anyone out there who has a question, or struggle or an idea that they want to get some feedback on? <br/> <br/>I look forward to chatting with you all soon. <br/> <br/>Sincerely, <br/>Philip A. Foster, MA <br/>Business/Life Coach <br/>Maximum Change Coaching <br/>http://www.maximumchange.com</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 2 replies </div>

MaximumChange 2006-09-07T15:23:19Z dimi3 http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/39ef2696-be6e-4f18-a7a8-43858cc4cfb2 2006-08-07T16:50:49Z 2006-08-07T16:50:49Z

<div>Creative Economy Launch <br/> <br/>Friends, <br/> <br/>An ambitious project is underway. Ten years in the making. Set to 'jump start' the Creative Economy, or so the visionary force behind this project states. Ambitious? Definitely! "Big" is an understatement. The world will be made again. In fact, it has already been rebuilt many times before. A concept of continuous renewal... A ripple in the collective consciousness, from our own future, travelling back to meet us in the present... On September 2nd, time slows down (the man burns). On September 3rd, time stands still (the spaceship lands). <br/> <br/> <br/>Burning Man 2006. The Future - our fears, our hopes. <br/> <br/>Been holding out for the 'biggest' thing yet it seems... <br/> <br/>Uchronia* - Message Out Of The Future is a massive installation. A spaceship from times to come is set to deliver a message to the 'present'. Come visit with us and have a nice chit-chat with (y)our future selves why don't you. We will feature an interactive communal music making experience. It's basic makeup is a plug 'n play open-interface concept; a communal interactive sonic experiment if you will. The idea here is to create a soundtrack on location which will be used in a documentary on the making of our project and the idea(s) it intends to spread out into the main-stream. A docu DVD/book combination featuring all participants will be sent to all corners of the globe free of charge. Everything will be produced on location at this year's Burning Man. Music will be the undercurrent of our 'experiment', think rockin' tech-house-psy-breaks DJ sets and much much more. <br/> <br/>This is an open call to all percussionists in attendance. We need you! <br/>Bring your drums and let's rumble. <br/> <br/>Hope to see you "out there" !! <br/> <br/>Many blessings, <br/>d. <br/> <br/>more info here <br/>http://www.burningexperience.be <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>* Uchronia refers to a hypothetical time period of our world, in contrast to fictional lands or worlds. A concept similar to alternate history but different in the manner that uchronic times are not easily defined (mainly placed in some distant point near prehistory), reminiscent of a 'Conworld'. <br/>The word is a portmanteau of the word utopia (Greek u-topos not-land), replacing topos with chronos (time). <br/> <br/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchronia <br/> <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 0 replies </div>

dimi3 2006-08-07T16:50:49Z johnkellden http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/1d5057a0-0160-4a36-ac65-05f161565006 2005-04-21T16:33:16Z 2005-04-21T09:12:04Z

<div>( have decided to have a go at rekindling this tribe ) <br/> <br/> <br/>Are there decent companies ? <br/> <br/>Are they populated by decent people ? <br/> <br/>What would be the criteria for deciding if a company is decent or not ? <br/> <br/>Could there be generally agreed upon criteria for decent companies ? <br/> <br/>Would it be useful to have such criteria ? <br/> <br/>If there were such criteria, could this be systematized, standardized into ratings of decent companies, ie <br/>top ten most decent companies in the US ? <br/> <br/>your feedback is much appreciated...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 1 reply </div>

johnkellden 2005-04-21T09:12:04Z johnkellden http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/8df408a3-2f9d-48ff-a4e8-7d3fd7a0d792 2004-09-24T19:13:49Z 2003-11-08T13:32:32Z

<div>On being human, <br/>a very insightful article by Tim Kitchin. <br/> <br/>http://www.beyond-branding.com/essays.htm</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 13 replies </div>

johnkellden 2003-11-08T13:32:32Z johnkellden http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/08cf2bf0-241b-4df6-842f-6aefc06cabcf 2004-04-22T05:02:55Z 2003-12-17T11:08:08Z

<div>Which are the necessary and sufficient concepts that we need to enable rebirth of business ? <br/>What do we have to unlearn, and why ? <br/>( this thread is inspired by the social computing thread, thanks, Lars, Christian and Dimi3 )</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 12 replies </div>

johnkellden 2003-12-17T11:08:08Z dimi3 http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/78db61ae-e937-4dd0-92f3-035ec6d66dad 2004-04-19T21:45:47Z 2004-01-16T20:25:53Z

<div>Here is a little insight into a new pet project coming from the United Corporations of America... I posted this in the cognitive science tribe and though it might be useful for all here to ponder upon as well. Interesting but also strange times we live in. <br/>d. <br/> <br/> <br/>SEEKING THE BRAIN ’S “BUY BUTTON ” <br/> <br/>Backed by funding from major corporations, Researchers at Emory University are undergoing intensive studies of the human brain looking for what has been coined the “buy button ”. This new pursuit of consumer control, known as neuromarketing, involves Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) on live subjects to find the specific part of the brain that is activated when a consumer is successfully wooed by an advertisement into purchasing a product. Using the data from this research, marketers hope to be able to create ads that follow the exact neurological pathways that ultimately activate the "buy button" in consumers. According to a letter to the Emory University from a coalition of groups opposed to this research, "If Emory University takes its own mission seriously, it should challenge this abuse of medical knowledge and technology to manipulate people for commercial purposes." <br/> <br/>http://www.organicconsumers.org <br/> <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 7 replies </div>

dimi3 2004-01-16T20:25:53Z johnkellden http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/c76fc05e-e35d-45b0-bbc8-8d0fc3c6ab3e 2004-04-09T06:27:24Z 2004-04-09T06:27:24Z

<div>Here I would like to outline trends, and the types of people globally that are the driving forces behind these trends. <br/> <br/>One can tentatively, identify five types of people globally, with regards to their perspective on materialism and business. <br/> <br/>The Moderns <br/>The Modern people have a liberal mindset, they live in large cities, they enjoy the latest consumables, including new gadgets, new fashion. <br/>Let me be very clear here, I am not against consuming per se. <br/>There exists however a very clear opportunity, to globally move beyond the conspicuous consumption that the very few, very rich ( materially speaking ) currently enjoy. <br/>The possible synthesis here is for us to work for very innovative solutions where all, or nmostly all the consumables will be produced so as to be recycled back to Gaia, <br/>this is already happening, and the circle will be closed when the Moderns becomes slightly more open-minded, realizing their affluent, hectic city lifestyle is dependent on the surrounding <br/>Gaia. <br/>A very important beginning step is for a pioneering group amongst the Moderns to begin to shift their worldview from <br/>scenery, to nature, to Earth, and eventually, to Gaia. <br/>This can easily be explained ( to them ), since most Moderns are rational, as a systemic issue. <br/> <br/>( the other four types to follow ) </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 0 replies </div>

johnkellden 2004-04-09T06:27:24Z dimi3 http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/811b45df-9e03-4df6-a84f-1132ae932a1b 2004-04-09T06:05:35Z 2004-03-02T13:41:53Z

<div>Here's something I found buried deep during a clean up mission of my cluttered hard drive. I thought some of you might find this interesting... <br/> <br/> <br/>Buy Nothing Day comes only once a year, but beyond the carnival antics lies a deeper threat to consumer capitalism. The sun is finally setting on the unaccountable, global bully economy, and rising on a network of local, cash-free alternatives. <br/> <br/>There'ss the growing web of Local Economic Trading Systems, for example. These community information systems score and track the barter of goods and services among members. It's home-grown, informal and does an end run around the Dow Jones. See Lets-LinkUp.Com &amp;lt;http://www.lets-linkup.com/> for hundreds of LETS spanning the globe. <br/> <br/>A group of over 300 residents and merchants in California's Bay Area has established a local currency called BREAD (a rough acronym for Bay Area Regional Exchange and Development), based on hours of work valued at $12 an hour. Through the BREAD network, which now has over $20,000 worth of currency in circulation, members can pay for dinner, carpentry, childcare, tutoring, clerical assistance or organic produce. Tired of traditional activism, founder Miyoko Sakashita wanted to create a positive local economy and stop our resources from supporting global corporations that are not accountable to people and the environment. Check it out at Breadhours.org &amp;lt;http://www.breadhours.org/> <br/> <br/>Trading in hours avoids the tussle with the taxman . . . you beat the system by simply exchanging your time. The concept has gone quasi-formal with the Time Dollar Institute (www.timedollar.org), which turns karmic acts of kindness into a closed-loop system. An hour helping another turns into one Time Dollar. With a little help from some on-line resources, a group of neighbors can start to trade snow shoveling for counselling, plumbing for prayers, all on an equal, hour-for-hour footing. <br/> <br/>In Ithaca, New York, residents set up a local currency called Ithaca Hours printed in denominations of hours with the slogan In Ithaca We Trust. Founder Paul Glover said the hours help them fight the addiction to dollars, which make us increasingly dependent on transnational corporations and bankers. <br/> <br/>They've managed to fend off big-brand stores and fast food outlets from their downtown, while recycling our wealth locally. Critics such as Mark Wallace in Harper's magazine call Ithaca Hours a protectionist scheme. But there's a difference, says Glover, between protecting one's community and full-on protectionism, which is rendered by big entities, corporations, governments with powerful, automatically effective implements such as taxes, boycotts, loan policies, interest rates, favorable trade status [and] allocation or withholding of large-scale resources such as jobs. <br/> <br/>In Japan, environmental activists have printed up a new currency called Earthday Money. You earn it doing something good for the world, such as collecting trash or donating to environmental projects (www.earthdaymoney.org). The bills can be redeemed in cafes and participating grocery stores. Earthday Money, they say, flips consumers who use conventional money to burden the environment and expand the rich-poor gap into contributors and people rebuilding the earth and society. <br/> <br/>Ecologically minded economists like E.F. Schumacher (Small is Beautiful) and Herman Daly (Common Good) have heralded a way to a future where money means something, and the planets finite resources are factored into the equation. With a growing acceptance of participatory economics, or what Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel call parecon (www.parecon.org), we're seeing more middle ground open up between capitalism's endless-growth fundamentalism and socialism's central controls. <br/> <br/>In this new century of unprecedented corporate power and weak-kneed government, the mood is turning to a global mindshift. A new economics is no longer an academic solution, it is the people's choice, the Buy Nothing Day spirit carried into the whole of the year. <br/> <br/>- Aiden Enns</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 1 reply </div>

dimi3 2004-03-02T13:41:53Z johnkellden http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/7ee22261-b3c9-4808-8245-71d180c16e98 2004-01-14T06:59:46Z 2003-11-17T12:14:28Z

<div>Tell us about a book/article/author that you think deserves <br/>a larger audience, memes worth propagating, ideas for <br/>midwifing a new way of doing business.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 2 replies </div>

johnkellden 2003-11-17T12:14:28Z johnkellden http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/46f9376c-87b0-4ee2-adc1-e10d0bbeaec2 2004-01-02T20:45:02Z 2003-11-09T12:11:29Z

<div>http://www.research.microsoft.com/scg/#people <br/> <br/>"Our mission in the Social Computing Group is to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping. <br/> <br/>Our work includes the Sapphire project, sharing, mobile applications, trust and reputation, collaboration, and story telling. To facilitate the rapid prototyping, we also have an online lab for running studies to evaluate our social user interfaces." <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 5 replies </div>

johnkellden 2003-11-09T12:11:29Z johnkellden http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net/thread/adb32bbb-8846-4c7f-b324-fd0849bc9c28 2003-11-17T12:20:39Z 2003-11-17T12:20:39Z

<div>Fledgling businesses that embody rebirthed traits <br/>in actual practice; share wins and woes here. <br/>Taking that crucial step from great idea and business <br/>concept, into viable, meaningful practice. <br/>Mutual validation, support, enthusiasm and appreciation.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://rebirthofbusiness.tribe.net">Rebirth of Business</a> - 0 replies </div>

johnkellden 2003-11-17T12:20:39Z