A full month? June, 2009

Changing minds, changing rules

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

If you read my CV or wander around here on my blog, you will probably notice that I worked across many industries.

And not only bottom-line oriented: also non-profit and cultural.

This post is about the difference about changing rules and changing minds, and some potential uses in the political, business, personal environment.

Highlights:
who controls the controller?

first extreme: the consensus-building inserted in a rule-oriented environment

Second extreme: the rule-orientation inserted in consensus-building environment

Weaknesses in training, weaknesses in results

do your new rules consider the organizational cultural environment?

introducing a change in rules requires changing mindsets

step-by-step: “terraforming” for rules change

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Democratic technology access

Monday, June 29th, 2009

I just wanted to share with all those that I am supporting (or preparing to support) pro-bono another step in my plan that could, maybe, become useful in the future to our common activities

my purpose? I found wasteful and boring to repeat what I already did; it is much more interesting and useful to create something new, or use a framework to build new ideas and services

but that is, in the end, the OpenSource spirit :)

more democratic than most of our other form of cooperation ;)

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Preemptive lawmaking & expert systems

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Today, I was replying to a friend on Facebook about his remark on widespread corruption in his country.

From that, while writing my reply, I started re-thinking about something else: why do we have corruption?

Because we have rules that somebody is willing to circumvent- and somebody else able to let them do it.

And why? Because too many laws and rules are built to regulate something that is already available.

I am now ignoring the “details” of the difference between common law and countries following the Napoleonic approach, because, in our globalized world, also “laissez faire” countries are increasingly regulating tiny details. Either directly or via reporting/control rules.

Read more inside…

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DIY: cross-media without a budget

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Do you want to communicate online+offline without a budget?
In my career, I often came across people with a nice idea, committed to what they wanted to do, but with a single, specific drawback: their audience wasn’t limited to their location.
Actually, their location was scattered.
Internet solved this issue- or so it seems.
Because it is still too [...]

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DIY cross-media without a budget

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

In my career, I often came across people with a nice idea, committed to what they wanted to do, but with a single, specific drawback: their audience wasn’t limited to their location.

Internet solved this issue- or so it seems. Because it is still too “technical”

This post is not only to share experience on how to use Internet-based channels, but integrating my experience in doing something offline- like political or product leaflets, and then direct marketing for services, helping to organize information events, and so on.

As a preview, I will cover here only the “launch” or “seed” phase, giving you all the information needed to create from scratch a new mixed online-offline presence.

And without a budget.

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Online identity and you: a Facebook experiment

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Effective from today, you can have your own personal address on Facebook.

Like: www.facebook.com/robertolofaro

And the new “personal address” of Facebook could allow to do a social experiment.

On how to separate public and private life while being online

Enjoy!

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Cooperative systemic risk management

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

The title sounds a mouthful?

Well, you can thank WordPress: the original title was “Non-regulatory approach toward systemic risk management and entropy reduction” :D

Moving down to Earth- what is the purpose of this posting?

Sharing, as usual, experience. But this time, something more: a business model and plan.

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