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dynamic mix of cultures, disciplines, experiences and creative energy
based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, but traveling and collaborating with clients in several countries
Cross-fertilizing Science, Technology, Creativity & Media through innovative communications
You're leaving for the Future in 20 minutes - You can only take what you can carry. What are you taking with you? Who is traveling with you? Who do you need to say good-bye to? Who is meeting you when you arrive? What will you do on your first day there? Why is this so important to you?
What creates meaning in your work?
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KIDS 2020 : their Visions & Strategies for a Preferred Future
Kids 2020 creates meaning for me.
What's at the heart of Kids 2020? Learning the role that values play in making choices - and learning how to put those values to work. We help children and parents also learn a new value system - where our worth as human beings is defined by more than just money.
We've come a long way and learned a lot. We've been gathering a force of believers with expertise in their areas to help us bring Kids 2020 into people's lives. With the potential to change the world, this is such an ambitious undertaking. During the rest of 2009, we will continue the learning program by setting up "discovery rooms" and gathering panels of young people to challenge adults about choices for the future.
Follow us as we take Kids 2020 into the world. You can also contribute in your preferred way. We're building a "test" website. If you would like to help us test the website, please send us an email to testers@kids2020foundation.net. Building the web infrastructure requires great investment, so please be patient while we're under construction.
Click below to go to the Kids 2020 blog.
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just let me see it!
My strange and wonderful family
Share your comments.
I'm always curious about what other people see in the same images.
curated content from Flickr
Quantum-playshuns
Blogging about culture emerging from collaboration and creativity
In my blog, you'll find links to how science, technology, education, and business converge in worlds of communication, collaboration and creativity through people and their media.
The convergence of cultures and disciplines fascinates me. I am continually in pursuit of figuring out how everything is connected. If this also intrigues you, join the discussion where it interests you.
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what I've been bookmarking
What are you bookmarking? Here's what I'm bookmarking.
News from The Netherlands in English
What's going on where I live
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byChewing gum for my mind
What I'm currently reading...or just finished...
These are books I've just finished reading. I enjoy a wide range of reading.
Send me a suggestion of a book that you really enjoyed.
Many thanks to those that have made suggestions!
Send me a suggestion of a book that you really enjoyed.
Many thanks to those that have made suggestions!
Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega
Amazon Price: $11.21 (as of 11/08/2009) 
The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel
Amazon Price: $10.79 (as of 11/08/2009)
The Fire: A Novel
Amazon Price: $17.16 (as of 11/08/2009)
Some of my favorite tunes
honey for the soul
Ottmar Liebert's music holds a special place in my heart. He combines sounds and rhythms from New Mexico into Nouveau Flamenco style. Listen to one of the tunes he's written to get a taste.Listen to samples songs from Ottmar's new album: The Scent of Light...and then download them.
You can catch him when he's on Tour with the Luna Negra Quartet - or just playing solo:
- Ottmar - flamenco and electric guitars
- Jon Gagan - bass guitar and keyboards
- Dave Bryant - percussion
- Stephen Duros - flamenco and electric guitars and keyboard
You can follow what he's doing on his blog .
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In David Lynch's film - Mulholland Drive - Rebekah Del Rio sang Roy Orbison's "Crying" a capela in Spanish. Here's her story about the song. Have a listen.
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Amy Winehouse video singing "Back to Black".
An entertaining speaker....
when you're looking for someone to really engage people...
I really enjoy speaking at conferences because I learn so much from people and have such a great time. My expertise is taking really complicated ideas and making them easier for people to understand them. Physics, technology, the role of values, business and media - wrapped up in an interactive communication style. People share and build on the topic -making it relevant for everybody.Any topic can be engaging and fun if people get a chance to particpate and have some fun with it. Play, learn, share, create something new - just mix ideas, toys and media.
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Broadcast is sleepy - Participation is intriguing.
My Events
where you'll find me engaging with others
- AMPLIFY 09
I spoke at this Innovation Festival the last week of June in Sydney about the Future of Work
follow AMPLIFY 09 on Twitter and explore the site.- Design Management Institute
Check out the schedule for DMI's Webinars - Design Leadership Series.
Creating meaningful experiences is the innovation strategy that will result in long-term brand value."
Re-Thinking Design: Design/Management/Brand 21 Conference - San Francisco June 17-18, 2009- Club of Amsterdam
sharing knowledge and discussing the future- Sustainable Futures Seminars
- Produced by the Sustainable Future Foundation CIC, these seminars take place in and around southern, England, UK.
Gathering professionals, academics, agencies and authorities to identify and discuss the issues and implications associated with the challenges facing us today - to go beyond best practices
for more info, contact Gwyn Jones
Where you can find me
IP address geo-locator
If I've got my laptop with me, you can find me!
- Plazes Locator
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- to connect with people as they travel
- to discover others in the vicinity
- to find WIFI when traveling
Evolutionary Leadership for the New Millennium
Are you interested in a series of masters courses for executives:
"What they forgot to teach you in business school".
Instead of teaching at the graduate school again, I decided to take the content I teach and repackage it for execs in business. I want to make the content relevant for today's networked economy - and put it into the context of personal performance. People needs the knowledge and skills for now and the future - not old case studies from the past that no longer have relevance.
"Evolutionary Leadership for the New Millennium" is a masters course list that delivers a performance advantage rather than a diploma.
Instead of a lecture style, the courses require participants to bring their work into their learning environment. They receive coaching, engage in a more interactive role with knowledge building and sharing, and explore building communities of practice from their engagements with the topics.
Format:
-- series of sessions with lectures, round tables, workshops and coaching - plus, time to network
-- supported with online blog, wiki and forum
Deliverable: Performance advantage instead of a diploma
If you are interested in participating in these courses, please contact me.
Course List:
"What they forgot to teach you in business school".
Instead of teaching at the graduate school again, I decided to take the content I teach and repackage it for execs in business. I want to make the content relevant for today's networked economy - and put it into the context of personal performance. People needs the knowledge and skills for now and the future - not old case studies from the past that no longer have relevance.
"Evolutionary Leadership for the New Millennium" is a masters course list that delivers a performance advantage rather than a diploma.
Instead of a lecture style, the courses require participants to bring their work into their learning environment. They receive coaching, engage in a more interactive role with knowledge building and sharing, and explore building communities of practice from their engagements with the topics.
Format:
-- series of sessions with lectures, round tables, workshops and coaching - plus, time to network
-- supported with online blog, wiki and forum
Deliverable: Performance advantage instead of a diploma
If you are interested in participating in these courses, please contact me.
Course List:
- Authentic Leadership - Discovering Evolutionary Leadership
- How to make Choices - The Roles of Values in Business
- Vision! It's Connection to Purpose
- Re-Purposing your Talents & Skills in a New Context
- IdeaLogistics - networking your idea into and through the organization
Take your Idea out for a Workout - How to Build Scenarios
- The Evolutionary Brand Called M.E. - My Emergence
Colour Me Essential - Socio-Economic Development - sustainable growth by combining your values and work into something that serves both
- The Difference between the Brand, its Operating System & the Business Model
- Capturing Value in a Network Economy
- Collaboration - The Secret to Innovation is Co-operation
- Wiring Up the Brand without the Wires - the digital connections
- Creating Meaning at Work
- Learning How to Leverage the Assets of the Group
- Understanding Human Organizational Dynamics - the Key to Capturing Value
- Putting Social Media to Work inside the Organization
Where you'll find me networking
online social business networking platforms
- lots of fun, very playful and engaging
- international professional networking site
- international professional networking site - more European
- Twitter.com/quantumbrands
- live, active sharing
Everyone needs a coach
particularly in a mediated society with all this technology
Part of HOW I do what I do includes coaching people...helping people create virtuous value streams. I help people figure out what purpose they can serve in certain situations and what roles they can play.
This means developing a personal strategy for getting yourself in the right place and doing what you love in the way that naturally suits you.
For a long time, I only did this with top management. Now, I'm working with younger people who want to lead an enriched life. It's fun and rewarding for me. I get a chance to learn more about some fantastic people, which gives me the edge when trying to find talent for projects.
A few pointers...
This means developing a personal strategy for getting yourself in the right place and doing what you love in the way that naturally suits you.
For a long time, I only did this with top management. Now, I'm working with younger people who want to lead an enriched life. It's fun and rewarding for me. I get a chance to learn more about some fantastic people, which gives me the edge when trying to find talent for projects.
A few pointers...
- life happens in moments
- ask directions
- learn how to ask the right questions
- believe that the right person with the right directions will just appear at the right moment in time
- learn how to recognize that person
- pay that person for their contribution to moving you further down your path in whatever form you can - value is a deal made between you and that person
A Working Girl
where you can find me working
- Quantum Brands
- Quantum Brands B.V. helps companies use the brand as an organizing tool to engage people in mediated communications to grow the business in creative ways.
Films that capture the meaning and significance of your brand. Filmed interviews and podcasts about the future of work and its meaning. Snappy promotional campaigns that get people into action. Positioning that strikes the hearts of people. Making the value visible to everyone.
We love helping clients repurpose their content into new contexts We call it Brand Innovation - connecting the spirit of the brand into the mechanics of the business to build sustainable and renewable value streams. - Kids 2020
- We are interviewing and filming children all over the world as they learn how to build their visions and strategies for the future.
This research can contribute to how adults engage with children to build the future together. It can inspire business to live up to these visions. If you're interested in investing in this research, please let me know.
My lifelong wish is to make the health, education and welfare of children the core strategy for every country in the world. - Sustainable Futures Foundation
- A Community Interest Company (CIC) based in the UK implementing sustainable ideas beyond best practice.
"elaborating "what if..." to change the approach to social responsibility through progressive participation in focused stream of activities and events in a global context to actively implement local and topical solutions that are beyond best practice" - Institute for Collaboration Creativity & Culture
- mobilizing communities by creatively engaging people in collaboration to build an innovative culture
Read our IFCCC Blog and get a dialogue going. Or...attend some of our courses and learn new tools, new ways, network and collaborate with others to create new value nets.
We are building a research inventory of the impact of social media on collaboration and innovation. - b-TEC
- b-TEC is an initiative from the city of Barcelona dedicated to the knowledge and technology transfer that is integral to the development of modern day society.
I began a 2 year appointment to their International Advisory Committee mid-December. Exciting to be part of a group of professionals, academics and public administration focused on possibilities.
People-centric urban renovation: 22@
Work in progress...
or completed...
I am going to add links to portfolios - just give me a bit of time to get this set up. Then you can experience taste of projects, events or articles that engage me.
In the meantime...
In the meantime...
- The Evolutionary Brand Called M.E. - My Emergence
- We are revising the manual and setting up the site for Brand Called M.E. By mid-2007, I should have both ready - one for adults and one for kids.
To learn more, visit the Brand Called M.E. Squidoo len - Articles & Papers for IFCCC
- Catch up with what we're doing at The Institute for Collaboration Creativty & Culture.
Link to article: The Changing Business Model in the 21st Century about the impact of social media on value creation.
Link to paper: Exploring Innovation as a Culture - Documentary: Charles Dickens Festival Amsterdam
- Last Christmas, our local community gathered together for The Charles Dickens Festival in Amsterdam. We filmed and photographed the event. Here is a link to 100 photos from that day.
I presented the rough cut end of February, so we will add links to the video clips as soon as we can. - Customerpedia
- Though we are in the developmental stages of the Customerpedia project, we want to get a basic alpha platform in place so that we can begin.
A Girl's Got to Know...
Blogs I read regularly
- Stephen Downes
- Thoroughly researched blog about learning in a technology-enabled world
NOTE: Stephen is on hiatus, but the blog remains a rich resource. - Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
- An in-depth reveiw of the impact of the tools and thinking in Web 2.0
- How to Save the World
- Dave Pollard's research exquisitely communicated through his blog
- Research Buzz
- covering the world of Internet research
- Tech Crunch
- staying on top of what's new in technology
- Robin Good's Blog
- what communication experts need to know
Great Reading
when one opinion just isn't enough
Have you read any of these lately? Which did you prefer?
Got any other books that we should read? Add them!
Design as Strategy
one of the basics in my world
The Design Management Institute fosters learning, sharing and development on all issues of design as a management strategy. This goes far beyond what something looks like.
- DMI Seminars
- In addition to seminars, DMI hosts international conferences around the globe.
-- including their Webinars: The Design Leadership Series
Science of Consciousness
the brain versus the mind contradiction
There is a world of study going on where scientists, philosophers, theologists, psychologists and many others are seeking ways to understand our minds, our thoughts, our emotions, our awareness, our other senses that go beyond the body.This is a world that has fascinated me since childhood.
I will over time build on this topic with links to knowledge bases and projects that will intrigue you.
In the meantime, have a read through David Chalmers blog.
Francisco Varela also made great contributions to this study. Read The View from Within: First-person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness.
Newest book: The Emerging Physics of Consciousness edited by Jack A. Tuszynski
Quantum Entanglement Captures my Interest...
and keep me fascinated with physics
Whether it's the possibility of teleportation, quantum computers, or encrypting information...the answers lie in the discoveries into quantum entanglement.
- The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon
- New book, just released in June 2006.
"Clegg does an excellent job of explaining this complex situation in nontechnical terms; he details the many experiments that have consistently suggested that entanglement is real."
- Scientists demonstrate quantum nature of entanglement swapping
- March 31, 2006 - Supercomputers and qubits
"Physicists are entangling already entangled particles. In entanglement swapping, one particle of an entangled pair becomes entangled with a third particle, which itself becomes entangled with the other particle in the first pair, even though the two never interact." - Dave's Collection of All Things Quantum
- Instead of just being able to wrap bits of information around each other and move them them about, we can now wrap ideas or concepts together. This moves us closer to a quantum world - where are is possible.
Dave's site is rich in explanation. - Quantum Entanglement
- What could computers do with information if governed by secret ways of communicating?
Books on Consciousness
Consciousness is fascinating. It helps us understand how we connect our mind of thinking and believing to the more physical manifestations of that.
Keeping Myself Healthy & Sane
yoga, meditation and wellness
practicing a healthy lifestyle
- Ashtanga Yoga
- a form of yoga that builds tremendous power
- Innerspace Yoga Studio, Amsterdam
- Shirley Woods is an amazing teacher of yoga because she has grace and compassion. She focuses on helping us build the precision of our practice in her studio here in Amsterdam.
- The Macrobiotic Guide
- a balanced diet and a way of life
- Inner Guide Meditation
- working with an inner guide and archetypes to heal your inner world
Traveling with my sister through time...
...back in the old days when we decorated everything
Do you have a sister story?A sister is your conscience - your reflection. She will make sure that you get that reality check.
A sister is also your playmate. She understands why you want to travel all over England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland looking for Merlin's trail - and she'll go on that journey with you.
A sister loves the idea that each of your socks is a different color.
A sister will play along when someone mixes the two of you up and thinks you're the other one.
My sister is wonderful, smart, charming and funny - and never gets enough kudos for all the good stuff she does that nobody ever knows she does.
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