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July 2009 
co-presencing the future of Zaadz / partnering for the next stage
Posted on Apr 15th, 2007
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Duri
Duri
Siona, thank you for jumping in this conversation. Your presence makes the tasks of sensing the huge potential of Zaadz to become a co-evolutionary force, even more appealing. The quality of your listening inspires the asking of the deepest questions we can about the highest potential of Zaadz.
Brian asked the question, in the interview with Andrew and Carter, "What can we do to inspire and empower everyone we serve to live at their highest potential?" That's a potent seed question that deserves to be set in the focus of a disciplined, collaborative inquiry. It is corollary to the other question that I opned in my previous blog entry, how can Zaadz itself discover and realize its highest potential? I believe, that too would deserve a collaborative inquiry, using maybe Presencing for discovering and prototyping the future that wants to come into being through Zaadz. Would there be appetite for that in Zaadz management? (That could also be an empowering context for the rivers of ideas that you have, to reach the ocean of practically unlimited possibilities for continually increasing value creation for Zaadz current and future stakeholders.)
> Please say a bit more about the wiki idea!
That's a simple one. If you want to change world, you have to equip your communities with the right software tools for boosting their collective intelligence.
> We've meant the pods and blogs to be as collaborative as possible while still allowing authors to retain their own sense of autonomy, in part to further the self-inquiry, personal responsibility, and inner knowledge that has such a tranformative effect on the whole,
I think that was the right consideration two years ago, even one year ago, but it may not be sufficient to move into the next level of potential. Individual autonomy will not decrease but increase when coupled with the modern, Web 2.0-based community tools for co-sensing, meaning-making, and co-creating.
> I'd love to hear your vision
And I would love to share it just don't know yet what would be the best way to do it. Maybe you can advice me. When I worked at INSEAD as Senior Research Fellow, I used my time there to distill the previous 20 years of my research and consulting to online communities into the best design of a virtual environment for change agent networks that I could imagine. Just three years ago, I started upgrading that design into a business concept complete with product mix, revenue models, social architecture, technical architecture, market ecosystem analysis, etc. Later when I learned about Zaadz, I realized that you guys are doing all the right things and providing your users with at least 50-60% of the capabilities that I wanted to do. For a while, I thought that it would be still worth to do a run at the funding sources to bring to market the remaining 40-50%. It would be still possible but I feel our combined offer could generate more value to our markets in a shorter time than if we'd go on separate ways. If you want to know a bit more about my vision, here are some sections from my concept paper for an evolutionary media enterprise:
Besides that we, also have significant, quality content accumulated at Evolutionary Nexus that we could fold, under the right condtions, into partnering with Zaadz. Not to mention a team of editors who are also Zaadz users and familiar with both systems, thus could help with smoothing an eventual transition... Lot to reflect on and talk about...
Brian asked the question, in the interview with Andrew and Carter, "What can we do to inspire and empower everyone we serve to live at their highest potential?" That's a potent seed question that deserves to be set in the focus of a disciplined, collaborative inquiry. It is corollary to the other question that I opned in my previous blog entry, how can Zaadz itself discover and realize its highest potential? I believe, that too would deserve a collaborative inquiry, using maybe Presencing for discovering and prototyping the future that wants to come into being through Zaadz. Would there be appetite for that in Zaadz management? (That could also be an empowering context for the rivers of ideas that you have, to reach the ocean of practically unlimited possibilities for continually increasing value creation for Zaadz current and future stakeholders.)
> Please say a bit more about the wiki idea!
That's a simple one. If you want to change world, you have to equip your communities with the right software tools for boosting their collective intelligence.
> We've meant the pods and blogs to be as collaborative as possible while still allowing authors to retain their own sense of autonomy, in part to further the self-inquiry, personal responsibility, and inner knowledge that has such a tranformative effect on the whole,
I think that was the right consideration two years ago, even one year ago, but it may not be sufficient to move into the next level of potential. Individual autonomy will not decrease but increase when coupled with the modern, Web 2.0-based community tools for co-sensing, meaning-making, and co-creating.
> I'd love to hear your vision
And I would love to share it just don't know yet what would be the best way to do it. Maybe you can advice me. When I worked at INSEAD as Senior Research Fellow, I used my time there to distill the previous 20 years of my research and consulting to online communities into the best design of a virtual environment for change agent networks that I could imagine. Just three years ago, I started upgrading that design into a business concept complete with product mix, revenue models, social architecture, technical architecture, market ecosystem analysis, etc. Later when I learned about Zaadz, I realized that you guys are doing all the right things and providing your users with at least 50-60% of the capabilities that I wanted to do. For a while, I thought that it would be still worth to do a run at the funding sources to bring to market the remaining 40-50%. It would be still possible but I feel our combined offer could generate more value to our markets in a shorter time than if we'd go on separate ways. If you want to know a bit more about my vision, here are some sections from my concept paper for an evolutionary media enterprise:
Provide social innovators, servant leaders , and other imaginal cells of social transformation, and their communities, with a living online nexus, an evolving platform for enhanced connectivity in and across all transformational projects and initiatives.As you may guess, the software architecture that we envisioned is optimized for community empowerment that could be a functional complement to Zaadz' main focus on individual empowerment. While every user comes here for the individual benefit from the system, it is not difficult to anticipate the moment when world-changers will ask for a technology architecture expanded in the direction of more applications and tools for enhancing their collective capabilities. Those are our strengths, and we're interested to explore what conditions would facilitate merging them with yours.
We will nourish an ecosystem of co-creative relationships across networks and communities, by connecting the connectors, broadening and speeding the flow of germinal ideas, trust, and successful practices.
Besides that we, also have significant, quality content accumulated at Evolutionary Nexus that we could fold, under the right condtions, into partnering with Zaadz. Not to mention a team of editors who are also Zaadz users and familiar with both systems, thus could help with smoothing an eventual transition... Lot to reflect on and talk about...
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“While every user comes here for the individual benefit from the system, it is not difficult to anticipate the moment when world-changers will ask for a technology architecture expanded in the direction of more applications and tools for enhancing their collective capabilities. Those are our strengths, and we're interested to explore what conditions would facilitate merging them with yours.”
George, first of all i would like to thank you for your constructive observations and your vision for Zaadz. i've been following the conversations from your previous blog post. i'm still trying to digest your ideas :) i think i also speak for the team when i say that i really appreciate this ongoing dialogue. so let's keep at it. would love to hear more about what technology would empower the world-changers out there.
~C