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STAYING OUT IN FRONT: How to Build COMMUNITY Wherever You Land

In today's marketplace and workplace, regardless of where you may be playing, we're all learning similar lessons. We need to be flexible, adaptable, willing, able, and agile to ensure a place out in front in an turbulent, ever-changing world. We're also learning that an essential skill goes with those qualities: Becoming a master of building COMMUNITY wherever you land --- being remarkable at moving in and out and through communities in ways that are authentic, making meaningful connections with people and organizations that may be totally different than you are.

Recently, I've read a number of articles on "building community" and they all seem to make things seem quite complicated --- like it's hard to do.

In contrast...once in a while, someone comes along --- sometimes it is someone we don't expect to learn from --- who shows us, by their example, in just a minute or two, the basics of all we need to know.

This little guy in "penguin suit" did just that...

4 TIPS from an UNEXPECTED TEACHER  WATCH!

• Move with speed and agility to stay out front.
• When you land in a new place, act like you belong. 
• Be friendly to everyone you meet.
• Feel the love come back at you.

What would you add?

Debbe

Debbe Kennedy
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Smarter Cities (Tagwhat Leaves Read-Only Augmented Reality...)

Mining the Collaboration with Advanced Analytics

Using some of IBM's expertise in deep data mining and analysis, we will crunch all the content to help develop a SmarterCities Open Model, which cities and groups around the world can build on to start SmarterCities grassroots projects. The data will remain free and open, under Creative Commons license, so that it can grow and be improved over time. This creative output will also flow into and inform work at IBM's new network of Analytics Centers launching around the globe: in Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, New York, London and Washington, D.C.

SmarterCities is an outgrowth of IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, which is focused on how all the systems in the world -- including food production, healthcare delivery, energy use, traffic and water management -- can become more instrumented, interconnected and, as a result, intelligent.

Cities are the crossroads of these networks. They are also where human populations are increasingly concentrated, with more than 66% of humanity projected to live in major metropolitan areas by 2050.

That's where you come in: building on the Smarter Cities Summit in New York City October 1-2, this Smarter Cities Scan is your opportunity to share ideas, propose projects and learn about the innovations that can help us become a planet of smarter cities. If anything cries out for "crowd sourcing" and collective intelligence, the city as a "system of systems" does.

Smarter Cities Homepage

Get Inspired and Informed

"A vision of smarter cities," by IBMer Susanne Dirks, Manager, Global Centre for Economic Development.

IBM Institute for Business Value study (380KB)

• First of a few recaps from #ITSA10: A systems approach for transportation (IBM CEO speech) http://bit.ly/bbbk4w (w/ picture of @raylahood )

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Tagwhat Leaves Read-Only Augmented Reality Browsers Behind | ReadWriteWeb

Tagwhat, an augmented reality creation and distribution system, publicly launched this week bringing the world of augmented reality into the realm of Web 2.0. While other augmented realtiy browsers, such as Wikitude and Layar, provide the user with information overlays over live video, Tagwhat allows users to create these overlays. According to the company, its mobile and web application represents a paradigm-shift in augmented reality. Tagwhat also marks an important milestone in the evolutionary path of AR technology, representing a shift from the static Web 1.0 world of AR browsers to the participatory interaction of Web 2.0. Tagwhat is ‘create-and-share’ mobile AR, and is the first mobile augmented reality distribution system where anyone, not just developers, can create their own AR content and share with their friends anywhere in the world, in seconds, for free. 

(And see the Smarter Cities AIR — Augmented Intelligent Reality — pilot  at http://www.tagwhat.com/smartercities or if you’re in New York City, experience the pilot yourself right in Madison Square Park, just outside IBM’s Global Business Services headquarters.)