Angel 7 News : Incorporating 12th grade email mentoring open leaders networks
04-Feb-99
12th grade email: helping you and me to find our 10 greatest lifetime mentors. I believe everything else that a networking world could be depends on this learning skill. Of course, you are welcome to post an alternative belief on where the networking world's journey -and all the greatest communal practices - with the human race begins.
Help us converse around the 12th grade of email:0th grade: always ask how email can make the most of writing and talking; never assume its best uses are either; that way you will systemise a whole worldiwde set of human connections of focal learning richness unlike any other 1st grade just play with it; to get to second grade find a way of using email that works for you and that you’d never be able to do so well without it 2nd grade to get to 3rd grade – double check that what you think networks well for you also networks well for everyone you are connecting to; go back to 1st grade if not because ultimately no communications practice is of any value if its destroying your stock of trust with other people 3rd grade to get to 4th grade – find a way in which your networking use of email is enabling other people to multiply a non-monetary value – examples might include interpersonal learning, building community, starting to respect diversity of people from every nation 4th grade to get to 5th grade – make sure that everyone in your network of me (the way you linked them through your use of email) understands how to make the same use of email respecting non-privacy and privacy at the right times so that the whole network’s multiplying of value keeps replicating for everyone who newly joins up 5th grade to get to 6th grade find a real networking method – Open Space works for many so that your virtual network is guaranteed making the best use of its real time and place congregations as well as all the rest of the time that its only virtually linked 6th grade to 7th grade: Determine to self-organise your own future. In the past when we were separated by geography, people's careers often needed luck of being in the right place at the right time; in the future to be as competent as only you can be will depend on being connected at any particular time to a handful of complimentarily great mentors, and through life this may involve a lot of diverse networking inquiry as well as deep care for contributing transparently to each network's purpose to be trusted with its greatest learning connections 7th grade (to 11th grade) work in progress 11th to 12th grade - multiply everything you've learnt to do openly and connect the degrees of 3dom principle that the internet was founded around to change the world into what people of every race would call better
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- 04-Feb-99
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dealing with the fact that 12th grade is always a bitch
One never wants to be perfect
So list what the stars you currently reach for are, and when someone tells you, ah there's a galaxy beyond that, say thanks will you openly guide me there?
The clues for seeinf (let alone reaching) 12th grade "stars" as far I know them come from mapping back what real meetings you want to be of the intimate collective conscious of. If you are centrally networked into the best possible meetings your mission in life could dream of, presumably your email practices in getting there are good enough
12th grade meetings as far as I am concerned are being accepted as an open and useful participant by the host of world congresses like these
To get there, one way is 11th grade congresses like these; these are pretty difficult mixes of virtual world co-blogging and real circle meetings of 15 people (the easy circle mode of 15 people involves making sure that every person gets equal voice rights; the difficult mode permits one or tow of the 15 players to be rapporteurs for other networks as well as their own voices- getting that tolerated by a good open space moderator isnt easy - there are only 2 of 1000 I yet know who get that double helix of facilitation)
Since you are probably reading this more interested in virtual mode; the clue by now is to be using blogs as ways of oepn sourcing modules of computer assiented learning that anyone can syndicate and also version up or down to 12th level curricula; have you ever tried to virtually teach sustainability at 1st grade level as the fifth R when many 49th graders havent ever lived the word?). Given us a bit of time to report back, since mathematicians like me are never very good at real-time preferring to specialise in compound future time.
Chris Macrae, practitioner of computer assisted learning since 1973 (my first job being for the UK National Development Programme, CBL Project, Education Department, University of Leeds). BA 1st + Distinction Maths, MA Statistics.
open catalogue among some network associates
We hope to work on this through 2005. If you have a potential neigbouring entry, please feel free to rehearse with me any time - chris wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
ps we don't want to reinvent teh wheel; if there's already a simpler space or wiki format etc for doing this, recommendations welcome
A real-time miracle for restoring community or networking goodwill innovation
When you've mentored 1000 facilitators in 80 countries to open 50000 spaces for up to 5000 people at a time, you might think you'd earned a conflict free retirement. Not Harrison Owen once an Anglican priest but latterly the most open large scale change agent in the West; hence this club and worldwide road tour. The simpol cafe format losely adopts open space to a 1 hour format any citizen for simultaneity can action
http://www.practiceofpeace.com wcbn007 Edit Delete Cut
Delhi07: India's gift to world: centenary of Gandhi's good news revolution & deep diversities of culture & economics & religion
why not plan back a worldwide conference so its human rights focus networks simultaneity too?
http://whynotdelhi.blogspot.com/ wcbn007 Edit Delete Cut
Is Local Reconciliation Worldwide Opening Up Around you?
Once a year an extraordinary group of people concerned about actions or learnings of reconciliation visit a place of extraordinary cultural diversity or conflict. And listen to some of the deepest testimonies on the human race I have been privy to. This is a loose network where people work out what they can take back to their practice disciplines be these medical volunteers, open geo-political facilitators, youth movements, corporate transparency storytellers or what you believe in acting on most, nationally famous philosophers, constitutional lawyers, or deep community representatives
http://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org wcbn007 Edit Delete Cut
Sept05: Brazil's gift to world: water as human right
why not plan back a worldwide conference so its human rights focus networks simultaneity too?
http://whynotfoz.blogspot.com/ wcbn007 Edit Delete Cut
Soliciting the conflict compounding confessions that British Empire needs to make NOW
Perhaps nothing unites 6 billion people's learning - or at lest future hopes - like a huge power (current or past) openly confessing its biggest compound mistakes
http://www.quicktopic.com/29/D/ZibE47AbAkV.html
the great satan & the unmoderated group's flow
Empirical rule 1 of unmoderated groups
Unfortunately the more passionately the vast majority of the group want to action humanitarian change for good of all (eg simultaneity), the more likely there will be odd conversational crossroads that are best ignored because otherwise more and more flaming starts going on until the groups original intent gets lost in the smog
Empirical rule 2
Unmoderated groups are great timesavers as long as the "ignore modus operandi" is understood communally
Of course you can edit above if you disagree- so far my case bank is about 400 groups but the more I wander through the less I understand the depths of our diversity
Chris macrae
12th grade email alumni dialogue : http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=122627&d=1&h=417&f=418&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y
a critical distinction, I have been exploring recently
here's a bit more on implementing belief that we should each try and use both email and live ways we meet to find our own 10 best mentors through life (it doesn’t have to be ten ) and openly helping others do likewise
Note 1: a mentor may most necessarily be the personification of a person but the network permissions they are at the centre of ; and a network is defined by hi-trust context in my view
Note 2: This view also starts to raise quite searching questions on trust; whose context do I really know so well that I trust them with as much time as they need and they will want to trust me reciprocally
will email be made redundant in your lifetime?
Don't bet on it. Its the gateway to other stuff like gmail, not a standard that will be quickly replaced any more than the English language (Chinese one day) and telephone
chris 10 Billion $ Mapmaker Network includes map of how 30 billion google compounded
see gmail thread http://www.knowledgeboard.com/item/131023
how to use the internet for 10 year olds or 60 somethings
If you were responsible for teaching a newcomer to virtual worlds and social networking/learning.doing opportunities what 3 tools would you get them to experience first.
I think my 3 are:
email
web searching connected by google
blog now that www.blogger.com is so easy
do you have a different first 3 tools?
community of email
Some intereteting perspectives here:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/44/intel.html
eg:"I think the underlying cause of too much email is
mistrust."
-Nathan Zeldes, Computing Productivity Manager, Intel
Inspiring chapter on personal networking
This chapter inspires me http://www.wizoz.co.uk/personal_networking/pn-chap02.pdf (with thanks to John Maloney of KmClusters and active Kboard contributor Andra Aldea-Partanen for clicking me up!
a few extracts:
‘I have enormous curiosity and interest in other people. Sometimes it connects into a network, sometimes it fizzles out. Whatever the outcome, I find it fascinating.’
Angela Eden
One of the most important choices we ever make in life is who to spend
time with. As I watched my children grow it became clear on a daily basis
how their thoughts, feelings and behaviours were being influenced and
shaped by the people they were choosing to spend time with: the sports
that Joe chose to play because he spent time with certain people at school,
Lucy’s first forays in the world of dancing as she started to dance with Stacy
and Katie, or PC games that Michael found after talking with people on
the Internet.
In the same way that I occasionally felt duty bound to intervene in the
children’s life to manage their social capital, I have to make conscious
choices about the management of my social capital. Do I choose to spend
time with a colleague like Carmel who is a social
activist and will always help me think deeply through
many of my existing beliefs and behaviours, or do I
choose to spend time with Gary to develop ideas and
themes for future books? Neither is right nor wrong,
but that allocation of two hours of my time might
seriously affect the next three months of my life and
as a result have an impact on my professional career.
Just think about the five key people in your network
and the extent to which your social capital with them enhances your personal capital. Which of them augments it? Do any of them lower its value? Who do you need to spend time with in the next month to achieve your next goal? The choice you make about whom to spend time with today can have a dramatic impact on what you do for the rest of your life.
wondering how to map my lifetime mentors - part 2
a frenchman (who died of a heart attack)- only boss that every wholly trusted me: got to team biggest market research projects in 30 countries where multinationlas wanted English reporting, a year he showed me round Japan & places like Indonesia, India, Thailand in the 80s listening to some of the world's poorest
who else? maybe you could link me one day by telling me who your 12 are - I'm sure there's someone I've never heard of whom I most desperately need to learn from or whose actions I should be supporting with what networking capabilities I link
wondering how to map my lifetime mentors -part 1
they changed very rapidly when I started using email in 1994 and 1997 when I had a daughter
currently?:
my father, The Economist's economist over 5 decades, systems future-proofer, storyteller, truth-seeker, whose 1984 storybook The 2024 Report on the future revolution of networks and global/local power wars predicted today's crisis and the most human way to map out of it
my mother & her family deceased - family tree had medical (Kemp's corner) and legal impacts on British Raj in India. If my grandfather hadnt amended a British lawmaker in the 1920s my mother would have lost British nationality ( 2 generations of her family had been out there); if my mother's brother hadn't disliked mathematical lies of a recent British Lord Chancellor that guy wouldn't have been removed from office
my daughter 7 - who always asks the most brilliant questions with the most whimsical smile
my wife - who challenges me mathematically because she uses supercomputers and I a laptop's memory! plus shared memory of how we met at Britain's 1970s attempt at Computer Assisted Learning
8 people I know mainly virtually but confirmed by all their alumni whom I do meet locally:
Harrison Owen (met once) Open Space & Practice of Peace & Conflict Resolution and Love of human communities, and innovation and all that human beings value most
John Bunzl whose http://www.simpol.org.uk is a complexity mathematician's dream - best chance to change mean national only politics at a stroke people have; whose Simpol Cafes are revolutionising London as a knowledge collaboration city, -an open format any humanitarian city cell can adopt
Lynne Twist, I met once; a signed copy of whose book "The Soul of Money" I treasure; whose 25 years at http://www.thp.org is a most inspiring charity system; whose adopted daughter in Nigeria is bravest of her generation http://www.kind.org imo
Rebecca Harding, economist who knows social history of organisational DNA, and how german banks still 'invest', and dynamics of biological networks, and who can prove that low productivity in the UK isnt the British servant worker's fault any longer but wrong measurement systemisation at the top - what I and other open source mapmakers call the Intangibles Crisis
what's 12th grade email got to do with working in 10 billion dollar branded organisational states?
I have been talking about 12th grade email and its links to sna mapping at this month's big tent bon our knowledge of being driven by 10 billion dollar identities and the systems of the 100 biggest organsaitional networks in the world. Posting this mail for context in case some big tent people later come here or if you want to contribute to the big tent this month http://groupjazz.com/chautauqua/
Hierarchy -and leadership rights over big decisions - is a great sub-system(http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0023424/0439862/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?48+10+377+10+7+x+1+x#here) contribution to make to organisation as long as it doesnt get too powerful. For me when 20 people pay themsleves more than the other 49980 in a global organisation, this is folly, which democracies must turn round if they dont want civilisation to fall apart.
Such an organisational state (http://www.thecorporation.com) leads to a view that the 20 (who by the way tend to rotate every 3 years jumping corporate contexts with unsustainable abandon) can come up with a strategy for the 50000 whereas networked worlds and nature are far more adaptive than that.
What's the antidote at the individual level? Currently I think it may be for evry individual to learn to use email to guarantee themselses their own 10 (nearly ) perfect mentors. One day that selection might be all about openly multiplying our god given talents exploring deep focus in ways that only individual lifetime's can reach. Currently according to social network analysis maps, its a jolly good idea to have chosen (dsay) 3 mentors who can find you another job once you've done too good a job for your current organisation to appreciate you. We rehearse how to do email @ 12th grade at this European Union conversation board http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=122627&d=1&h=417&f=418&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y
loosely joined together
Ask yourself: When are we humans at our best? When are you proudest of being who you are? If you wanted human beings to make a really great impression on Martian visitors, what would you take the Martians to see?.I think I'd take the Martians to see us taking care of one another. I might show them parents walking with a new born baby on their shoulder late at night, trying to get the baby back to sleep. Or volunteers hammering together a house for someone whose life will be changed by it. Or the way we automatically stop for someone who has tripped and ask if they're ok. Or perhaps how an entire nation gives food and medicine to a country across the ocean. It's when we're caring for one another that we're at our best.
The Web makes it insanely easy to connect. We can meet someone from the other side of the world literally as easily as a neighbor down the street. Of course, we probably won't get to know our Web friend as well as we know our real world friends. But the connections we make on the Web are valuable to us in a different way.
In the real world, we meet people who happen to live nearby. On the Web, we meet people because they share an interest.
So, here we have two worlds. In the real world, people are kept apart by distance. Because of the vastness of the earth, different cultures have developed. People live in separate countries, divided by boundaries and sometimes by walls with soldiers and guns. On the Web, people come together - they connect - because they care about the same things.
The real world is about distances keeping people apart. The Web is about shared interests bringing people together.
Now, if connecting and caring are what make us into human people, then the Web - built out of hyperlinks and energized by people's interests and passions - is a place where we can be better at being people.
And that is what the Web is for.
T h e E n d
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remembering the founding roots of this space
It seems like a good time to publish a postcard from a luncheon with Doc Searls, since I was briefed by people in Brussels that cluetrain's principles were the ones knowledgeboard is supposed to live. Clues to one how the 12th grade of email also involves co-editing choices for communities that are most worthy etc
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VT series: if your memoires include an open interview please share…
Personal definition comes into Angel identification: eg Transparent Knowledge Management viewpoint(Source EU standards site at ) : angels network with these principles: build on smart relationships; act as a living system - to be open, transparent, excellent; think big
Lunch with Doc Searls ( Opinion leading blogger, Open Source Editor, Cluetrainer of markets are conversations)
VT: Doc’s stories inspire: how people who seek to do good everywhere usually enjoy more good than bad for their relationship caring; how “NET” is the medium to select the fittest around this conversational paradigm…a shift from paradigms old media and old organisations used.
DOC: Thanks! I'm blushing.
VT: Doc's met founders of ebusinesses that are thriving: they match his model of people who do good
How does a person select which bad clusters of people to convert given they’ll drain a lot of angel energy, more welcomed elsewhere? Guessing aloud:
-Blog your own network; then people who connect share your common spirit
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-Know e-communities are open to walk into and work out whether their values are good. A virtual community’s transparency is faster to assess than meeting a real person - is this why the net will change interpersonal behaviours for the better?
DOC: Close enough…It's not unlike the non-e social worlds we know: good people and good energy are fairly easy to spot. Look what happened to the stock of XXX when the board asked YYY to leave. His energy was bad when I saw him on stage (and blogged about it, live) in March, and clearly the company got tired of it. Note the social point: the whole audience in March knew instinctively what the XXX board ultimately made a decision about.
Life's short. Find good company. And good companies.
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So far my best tip is think of email to the 12th grade as like your lifelong personal chance to find your 10 greatest mentors
ok so you start with the parents you are born with, and the teachers you meet at school, but suppose they were openly searching how to link your greatest talents as well as you, and suppose networks have built open agencies where you can try out communal-practice conversations anywhere and see how your skills, action learning rank; what fits; where do you multiply something new as well as amplify the focus of the expertise
somewhere, perhaps 7th grade you start conceptualising missions in life- can I think of a great project I could help change the world on; here I would try and find 5 high trust people who share the same mission; test out working in a team on something that's too big for one person to do but 5 different people with the same mission can make progress on provided they wholly trust each other for as long as that mission's goal prolongs; keep on experimenting like that knowing all the time your greatest human capitals are your time, your trust (deep with the mentor and expert circles you need for your missions) and transparency across borders including those that you self-organise, those that you co-organise, that another great power organises be it commercial or society. Know that because of an accident of history, many so-called organisations will try to steal those capitals from you, even while promising you the opposite.
I am starting to research examples of what people say their missions of 5 are - 7th graders young and old because frankly few if any people have got beyond 7th grade of email and 7th grade of personal networks of 5. I will occasionally post part catalogues of these here and in other linkedin spaces. (why not subscribe to this thread - if you're new to kboard take out a free membership and just post anything like "interesting reading so far" to this thread so you're included in its email updates
If and when you do establish a personal network of 5, you can test it out by open spacing to up to 5000 people at a time if human mission has that much value multiplication in it for every person to want to openly connect and participate
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Newsletter 1 of Angel 7
1.1 When we first experimented with linkedin, we determined to establish more of a more hi-trust networking gravity than: who's got the largest? Our nominated relationship capital: linkin people who, however infrequently, will want to announce ideas for hugely important collaboration projects. One year on, we're connecting to Imagination Space where our forums, blogs and wiki can display biggest open projects and debate how the future's learning networks sustain above zero-sum economists . Let's square the power of linking in collaborative lifetimes.
1.2 Our newest Forum at Imagine Space explores InterCity Guiding. How can we develop this key to social and sustainable economic networks? How do you interact your netizen and citizenn experience curves through life. Some conversational starters:
Encouraging our members to name which cities they are network guides to as other people and above zero-sum economists pass through on real visits or virtual browses
Developing a Goodwill Knowledge Guide across cities
– Which institutes and networks are living Sustainability and goodwill business models up to Ray Anderson and Sir John Banham’s standards of leadership.
-Club of Atlanta has Corporate Chairman Ray Anderson explain how good business cases gravitate and compound the greatest profitability, Club of Cities in Brazil has the International Free Water Academy…more news at InterCity Clubs- who does your Club of City have to gravitate and lead Sustainability of citizens future productivities and needs?
Continuation of our thematic inquiry on what sorts of collaboration knowledge cafes and open space circles can the people host... How do meta-networks eg www.simpol.org www.makepovertyhistory.org connect with participation at city and citizen level.
1.3 Our application gravity-valuation blogs continue to set the open course & source worlds on fire http://futurewealth.blogspot.com/2004/09/world-leading-debates-on-open-source.html
1.4 Abroad: we wish Dave Gurteen Bon Voyage with his pioneering initiative of Lesson Card Collections http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/L001489/