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abKT-GR_Agora
Syn XSM VSD Mate GR Agora – “Agora is the action component of GR” (early meaning)
abKT = Agora (GR)
The following paragraphs (“Expressions”) are in reverse chronological order from 1 October 2006 through 1 July 2014
08-07-13h1
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aaXR-U_GR_text
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[080322aac Agora – definition ] Agora is one of the major GlobeRelate-originated sub sites of GlobeRelate, and can additionally
be seen as extending throughout other parts this site. Agora is about action, collaboration, and management. The term was
taken from the marketplace and meeting area of ancient Greek city-states, and the term “marketplace” may come close to
capturing the essence of Agora.
08-07-13h2
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Agora was conceived in response to the capacity of the internet to directly support not just commerce (of ideas as well as goods
and services) but action, and is an expression of the intention that GlobeRelate will be managed largely through postings. In
other words, postings on the site will be used to run the site and the GlobeRelate organization in a way and likely to an extent that
has never been done before by any organization.
08-07-13h3
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Additionally, this will serve as a kind of pioneering effort, one that may presage an entire “Agora Economy” where tools and
techniques and the GlobeRelate environment itself will be made available to everyone. If successful, such an economy would
and will be revolutionary and could positively impact society and the environment.
08-07-01e1
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abFE-S_GR_talking_head__
abGE-S_GR_EPP
abKT-S_GR_Agora
It is a bit amazing to me the degree to which I had forgotten the EPP characteristics of my earlier Agora thinking. It is as though
that whole dimension of Agora was lost to my consciousness.
08-07-01e2
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What made me think of this was Talking Head, where I could basically broadcast a message into cyberspace that I need someone
to play the part of Hand, and I could use writers to help me come up with Head or Hand puns and humor that I could slip in to
make the sequences entertaining, and I could use writers to work just about independently of me to come up with Hand “skits” or
routines that could be inserted into Webcambs where there were no visuals required.
08-07-01e3
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The point is that I can not only put together project plans on Charge Pages, I can see them as invitations for others to participate.
I can do a Talking Head sequence where I talk about my need for help in making Talking Head be the kind of tool it can be. I can
say why I am doing it and I can acknowledge that while only I will be able to select and articulate the words that Talking Head
says, there is plenty of room to support me in generating and producing the Webcambs that are more entertaining (via Hand) and
more numerous (because so much of the load is taken off my shoulders).
08-07-01e4
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In other words I started to see the Galatean possibility of this and realized both how central that sort of thinking was to my original
conception of Agora, and just how much I had forgotten that component of it.
08-07-01e5
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abC9-S_GR_bootstrap
Another aspect of this is the bootstrap characteristics of it, where I would start as an individual or perhaps with someone else
playing “Hand” and as the project gained momentum I would be able to farm out aspects of it so I could concentrate on what I am
good at. For example, aside from others playing Hand and writings scripts for Hand and doing production work, an actor could
even play the role of Head for me. I wouldn’t necessarily even need to write the script for what Head says – I could simply
provide the message I wanted to deliver and approve the script that was developed from it (until I got confident enough in my
script writers that I wouldn’t even have to do that). This would enable me to leverage my time, spending less and less of it on
what others could do as well or better than I can, and more on what I am good at, the original thinking.
08-06-28e
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abYE-S_GR_Lv5_implement_
The Agora site might not be something I strongly promote for a while, but rather operate from my understanding of it as I go about
structuring my own operations.
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Agora
aaXR-U_GR_text
abKT-S_GR_Agora
Welcome to Agora
Agora is one of the most exciting and dynamic components of GlobeRelate, in no small part because it is rapidly evolving.
Agora is named after the marketplace in Greek city-states, and is intended to be a marketplace of commerce, but also of ideas.
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As I am launching this site I will be actively using Agora as the starting point from which I manage projects. For such a use I
can proceed without participation by anyone else, exploring and demonstrating how projects can be managed and organized
entirely online, exploring the “action” potential of static web pages in a practical nuts-and-bolts kind of way.
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At some point, though, Agora cannot be developed without participation of others, any more than a marketplace could exist with
any less than two participants. For now though my use of this sub-site will be enough to suggest the possibilities of Agora.
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I should add that I have done considerable thinking on the topic of Agora, and this GR-Home Page is also the central access
point for that body of thought. I plan to develop those ideas and gather them together into a PostPub.
08-03-20y
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abV0-S_GR_Lv4_site_design
I have thought previously of “Agora” as an action center. This could be my chance to make that vague conception a reality. I
don’t have to treat the “Agora” GR-Home page as about the theory of Agora – my “Agora” PostPub will be a sub-set of the site,
or linked to from it. Rather, I can have a “Projects” page within Agora, and a “Build GlobeRelate” as a page referenced by that.
08-03-18i
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abJQ-S_GR_PostPub_
Agora as a sub-site is not Agora as a PostPub. I may well prominently include a link to the PostPub in the site, but the sub-site
could well include Agora features like auction sites, marketplaces, and who knows what else.
07-11-21k
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abQG-S_GR_home_page_2
abKT-S_GR_Agora
As I look at the GR Home Page I was wondering how to get to something like Agora or Synapsite. I think the thing to focus on
is to not force it. If there is no natural center to “Agora” beyond my text explanations of it, don’t try to make one. People may
not know what Agora or EPP are, but a basketball coach may find it handy not only to post the plays he wants his players to use
so they can look at them and print them out, but also to use materials others have posted for the benefit of his own team. The
concrete manifestation of the theory of Agora is reached by going to BBallSite, the theory by going to “Agora.”
07-11-04e4
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abMQ-S_GR_cg_idea_to_action_
abO7-S_GR_charge_theory_
abKT-S_GR_Agora aaGQ-S_dormant_offer
I don’t want to run this into the ground, but there is another thought here. I am looking at a new way of running an organization
and trying to figure out just what Agora is. What if this manner of converting thought into action in a non-directed, nonhierarchical way becomes at least a key means of “running” Agora? What if this kind of idea-as-dormant-invitation-to-action is
in fact a large part of how Agora works? Does that tremendously increase the potential impact of all of my thinking to this
point? [to 07-11-04f1]
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aaYH-S_GR_markets_
abQV-S_GR_as_infrastructure abKT-S_GR_Agora
abPX-S_gr_Agora_economy
(e.g. “07-06-10d”) and about how the entrepreneurial model could apply
I was thinking about setting up markets
here (see 07-1027d1) just as it does in other areas of GlobeRelate such as the opening up of mgp pages and Satforms. This may not be a new
idea but it strikes me that it is very powerful, and could be fundamental both to Agora and to the Agora Economy, and I don’t
think I really “got” that before.
07-10-28a2
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abPX-S_gr_Agora_economy
I see GlobeRelate as being built by entrepreneurs. What could be a more potent means of doing that than setting up
marketplaces for particular kinds of internet deliverable goods and services? Again, GlobeRelate would be providing the
framework, and individual entrepreneurs would be doing the actual building, not unlike the way small businesses build most of
the economy through people earning their living by providing services and goods to other people.
07-10-28a3
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With this thought I can isolate the same process I have imagined for w2o and extend it to the much more generic Agora.
07-10-27k1
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abJ6-S_GR_journey abIO-S_GR_XSM_used
abKT-S_GR_Agora
In focusing as I just have been on Agora, I keep seeing myself jumping from one area of my GlobeRelate thinking to another. It
is almost as if I am orchestrating my exposure to the parts of GlobeRelate so I can better grasp it as a whole. In practical terms,
it would be better to focus just on webcambs and webcamb production. But I just intuitively had the sense that now was the
time to reexamine “Agora” and so that is how I have spent my time.
07-10-27k2
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Because I have it all in an XSM, I have a rich collection of thoughts to operate from and to access. There is not much process of
pulling things together because the Idea Processor structure I have in place has done much of the work of that for me. So I can
now quickly go over what is there, and quickly return to the other work I was doing. I will have gotten some new insights about
Agora, but will also have refreshed my memory of past thinking. In so doing, I will for a time be more able to make connections
or be inspired to insights about Agora that would not have otherwise surfaced.
07-10-27j
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abPW-S_wcm_used abKT-S_GR_Agora
abL8-S_gr_Agora_biz_model
I probably should note another shift that comes from focusing on webcambs as my means of setting all of this in motion. I wrote
in “07-05-09d” that I need to be concerned about pressure that would come to establish the GlobeRelate into a traditional
structure. Operating from the webcambs I could in fact just start operating GlobeRelate in the Agora structure, whatever that
turns out to be. I can just use it to make whatever happens happen, using this kit of tools I have invented. If there is a
compulsion to revert to a more traditional structure, it won’t be forced on me from the outside, it will be something I personally
have concluded is necessary.
07-10-27f1
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abMQ-S_GR_cg_idea_to_action_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abQV-S_GR_as_infrastructure
The “Idea to Action” component of GlobeRelate, currently best illustrated by the work I am doing on Charges, may be what
clearly binds Agora to GlobeRelate. Maybe it could spill over into other venues and maybe not.
07-10-27f2
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For my own part, I am writing a lot of ideas, and these are supported by a lot of GlobeRelate infrastructure (XSM’s, perhaps
w2o, transparency, Conceptory rights, etc) that makes me want to post what I write here. In addition to that infrastructure there
is also infrastructure where I can express an idea and it can be efficiently and directly converted into actions that can be
coordinated (through Charges).
07-10-27a1
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abJH-S_GR_utility_buttons_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
One thing that would seem to integrate Agora into GlobeRelate is the use of Utility Functions. Someone else could emulate
utility functions, but they may not pay as close attention to ensuring they are defined with precision and operated with integrity.
If another site has them, it would have to earn the trust of people that they are in fact the same kind of tool on that site as they
are in GlobeRelate. With a few bad experiences users might just throw up their hands and turn away not just from the sites that
don’t manage Utility Functions well but from all sites, simply because they know they can trust GlobeRelate and they don’t
want to spend the time needed to determine if they can trust the other site.
07-10-27a2
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In addition, the vocabulary within GlobeRelate would take some learning. If there is an “Action” Utility Function, what does
that button lead to? A user could learn what it means in GlobeRelate, but it could mean something entirely different in another
site. Why hassle with learning two different sets of meanings?
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Or maybe there would be an “Accountg 101” button, leading to a predictable page where accounting figures are organized in a
certain way, perhaps so they can be copied and pasted into a preset form producing predictable results. Even if GlobeRelate
defined it and everyone else respected that definition, why would anyone want to go to another site to use it when everything a
business could want is already built in to GlobeRelate.
07-10-19d
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
Agora tools in hand and conceived:
1. webcambs
2. Charge sheets
3. open letters
4. direct letters, posted for general use
5. transparency
6. posting of contracts, delivered products, to enable assessment of performance on the public realm
7. Conceptory
8. Entrepreneurial Peer Production principles
07-10-19c1
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abQ1-S_wcm_plan
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abQJ-S_SocS_plan
I was thinking of the SoccerScheme effort and talking to Gavin. I could easily imagine having a list of Charges associated with
the project, and using that as a basis for our discussion.
07-10-19c2
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But apart from soccer, I could see taking this as a prototype exploration of an Agora application of all the tools I have been
developing. I can also see it as a real world test of some of the tools I have conceived and am developing such as webcambs and
other page types in GlobeRelate. Actually going in to a meeting with such materials will be different than just thinking them up
for myself.
07-09-13m1
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abMQ-S_GR_cg_idea_to_action_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
I may be splitting off the component parts of converting thinking into action and giving people the opportunity to take on any
one or all of those component parts. It starts with an idea, which can then be converted into a charge, which gets developed and
refined into a Charge structure. This can be posted, and terms made available for anyone to take it on.
07-09-13m2
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I will also be setting up infrastructure which enables people posting the Charges and Charge structures to set the terms for
someone to take on the Charge (e.g. a Charge of “set shaping” gets 50% of Conceptory value). I will set up mechanisms for
people to respond to the invitations (i.e. posted Charge + terms for taking on the Charge).
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In addition, I will be doing this on a transparent platform, where contracts etc are done in the open. This will include terms of
contracts particularly including what is charged for services.
07-09-13m4
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In many cases, particularly with Agora, the work itself can all be posted, so you not only see what was paid, you can see the
actual advice given or images generated or contracts posted that are what was paid for.
07-09-13j
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
I have to note that it is hard for me to get a grasp on how an organization such as the one I am thinking about (where I broadcast
Charges and invite people to respond to them) would work.
07-08-29j
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
aaY5-S_GR_threshold
abA4-S_GR_transparency
What Agora does is set up a regulated free market system that is totally transparent and has and extraordinarily low entry
threshold.
07-08-26v
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aaX9-S_GR_explain__
abKT-S_GR_Agora
I can acknowledge that Agora is still fairly loose as a concept, just as GlobeRelate as an organization is extremely innovative and
open to discovery, and thus can be expected to evolve and transform. But there are elements that I know will be a part of Agora,
and as I explain what Agora is I certainly can start with them.
07-08-26n6
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abB4-S_GR_$_billion
abKT-S_GR_Agora
aaX9-S_GR_explain__
abN4-S_GR_Lv3_site_design
Agora – doing business on GlobeRelate
GlobeRelate will be run in a unique manner, taking advantage of the
properties of the internet
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The same structure, tools, and infrastructure used by GlobeRelate will be
made available to any business
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07-08-16b1
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abMM-U_GR_Charge_instance__
abKT-S_GR_Agora
After my phone call with 026… Could an organization such as his post policies on GR pages? Policies with poted-style
instructions (poted = point of task education)? Would they be afraid of that level of transparency? If so, they use the same tools
on their own web site, password protecting access to them.
07-08-16b2
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The point is that I might want to consider taking this up with 026 to see if this could be of service to him. This would serve the
purposes of applying my ideas to a real organization as an experiment, strengthening 026’s hand if this proved to be a valuable
quality control/communications tool in the context of that organization, increasing his confidence in what I am doing, etc.
07-07-31m
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abNJ-S_5a2h6o_G_Cove
abKT-S_GR_Agora
aaUJ-S_GR_promotion
As I work on Charges for the Ginger Cove w2o site, it is important to remember that I am doing so not only to collect the ideas
and to manage the project, but to demonstrate Agora in general and Charges in particular. Anyone taking the time to learn to
“read” a set of Charges will realize, first, that there are many more opportunities at Ginger Cove than anyone will be able to
tackle alone, and certainly more than I have taken on myself. But they will also start to “get” what a transparent business would
look like, and even get a tasted of how an EPP-based economy would operate.
07-07-04h1
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abA4-S_GR_transparency abKT-S_GR_Agora
I keep seeing the transparency as more and more fundamental to the power of Agora. I am no longer dabbling with it. It carries
with it the burden of operating impeccably, but also liberates people from the burden of policing players in this particular realm
of doing business, as well as needing to be as wary of those you are dealing with who are also in that realm.
07-07-04h2
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I am not naïve to the certainty that people will abuse this arena and try to harm others there. There certainly will still need to be
policing. But by forcing people to operate entirely in the open, or at least largely in the open, every action will be subject to
scrutiny. Catching miscreants will be easier, and disguising ill intent and criminality will be far more difficult.
07-07-04a
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abMS-S_GR_open_source__
Ticking time bomb of Agora, where people will translate the kind of open-source tradition that builds software such as Apache
and Linux out of the software realm and into the business and political (?) realms.
07-07-03i
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abM2-S_GR_Charge__
abGE-S_GR_EPP
Let me consolidate some stuff regarding Agora. Charges are not just about writing up projects and roles to help manage
traditional organizations. The idea of operating from Charges was very much grounded in peer production or EPP, where I
would say what needed to be done and be equally open to having it done by volunteers, by paid workers, or by entrepreneurs
interested in making money by doing it.
abKT-S_GR_Agora
07-07-02m
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So after writing “07-07-02L” I could ask “what is Agora?” In the
example, offices operate using Charges. Charges can be
published, pulled off-the-shelf, and modified for the use of an office (generating Conceptory for their writers). The office I
described uses open marketplaces for people to do labor, and defines the terms of the work being done by referencing posted
Charges. The whole process is transparent, increasing the likelihood that people will be on good behaviour in making deals,
performing contracts, and setting prices. There are opportunities for generating Conceptory value, but also for contributing to an
open-source collection of resources that are valuable in teaching architects and helping them run their offices. All of this draws
substantially on GlobeRelate as a platform and as a mindset. I don’t know if it can be replicated elsewhere, but if it gets
established in GR first, the question would arise as to why one would want to try (replicating).
07-07-02d1
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
aaQR-S_soft_milestone
As I go over my write-up of Agora, it seems to be taking shape, but it doesn’t move me. Why not? Why am I even trying to
consolidate my thinking on it right now?
07-07-02d2
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abJK-S_GR_Lv2_tasks
I want to rewrite the introduction to Agora in the user-friendly new user zone to reflect the tremendous progress I have made
since writing the first, very tentative version. I also want to have Agora be as comfortable a concept for me as w20 and PostPub
and even Synapsite are, which to this point it is not. My sense, though, is that it is very close. Maybe all it will take to put it
over the edge is to actually use it, even as I…
07-07-01d
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
I can write up my description of Agora acknowledging that it is in the process of being created, and in fact inviting people to
participate in creating it. But I can acknowledge that it has moved very far in taking shape from where it was months or even
weeks ago, and that fundamentals of it are starting to emerge pretty solidly, in ways that are unlikely to substantively change.
07-07-01c1
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abKT-S_GR_Agora abBH-S_GR_fundamentals_
abM2-S_GR_Charge__
Let me see if I can conceptually grasp Agora. I am working on the Charges now, where whatever is involved in running any
kind of a task or project or business, and whatever is involved in translating a concept into action, can be translated into Charges.
These are action items or milestones or CPM nodes or contractual obligations or job descriptions – they are descriptions of
actions to take. The are ordered as actions and the component actions that make up actions.
07-07-01c2
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aaY7-S_GR_links
By formalizing the structure by which I record those actions in a framework built on hyperlinks, I am setting up a means of
connecting the information that directs and manages actions that would not have been possible before hyperlinks. It is the use of
hyperlinking that enables me to move quickly from concept to concept, from project to sub-project to related project to task to
grand vision.
07-07-01c3
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aaNL-sets_applied
aaA1-S_Sets_
(I should also say that the use of “sets” as a conceptual framework enables me to be facile in transforming concepts and realms
of concepts… Action to idea and idea to action, etc.)
07-07-01c4
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abM2-S_GR_Charge__
In more concrete terms I now have a means of defining work in a way that it can be organized, committed to, and acted on. The
systems allows ideas to be converted to action plans which can be converted into actions. These definitions are independent of
commitment until responsibility for them is assigned (i.e. they can have those qualities attached or not).
07-07-01c5
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The platform that these action plans exists on is the internet. I am setting up Agora as a working environment that is transparent
to an unprecedented level. I am intending it use Digital Language as the fundamental means of communicating and committing
and parties holding each other accountable.
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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transparency
digital language based
permanently captured transactions
relies on Charge structure (hyperlinks etc)
open markets
internet, telecommuting based, with social and environmental benefits (and potential drawbacks to be dealt with)
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7.
8.
9.
Flat earth. Open for participation reaching in to every corner of the nation, and perhaps of the world.
uses Synapse networks. Is this fundamental, or even required?
EPP.
1. Conceptory can be a key element in Agora, a source of income
2. Participation in making the vision of GlobeRelate a reality is an incentive combined with wealth creation
3. GR functions like Linux or Apache, expands to broader realm, adds potential income from Conceptory
10. Fully exploit the internet as the “thinking” and communicating component of business, taking advantage of
transparency
11. Transparency
07-07-01c8
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As I grapple with the conceptualization of the elements of Agora and how they fit together, I will also be drawing out the
fundamentals behind the other components of GlobeRelate. Exploiting the power of hyperlinks, utilizing the tiny expense of
storage of digital language, operation on the internet. Etc.
07-06-28h
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aaX9-S_GR_explain__
abHD-S_GR_meetings
abKT-S_GR_Agora
I am actually glad we didn’t get into Agora. I’m just not ready with it, even with a lot of the parts in place, at least nominally.
07-06-20n1
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abLS-S_GR_portals_in
aaX9-S_GR_explain__
abKT-S_GR_Agora
I could say I am explaining Agora. I could suggest a scenario where the reader would put themselves in the position of someone
answering a classified ad for GR, and tell them what page they would enter the site from. They could the see the site from the
perspective of such a person, and come to realize how that particular aspect of Agora would work.
07-06-20n2
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Through these kinds of “portals” people could come to see from an on-the-ground perspective what it would be like participating
with Agora.
07-06-19g
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
aaUC-S_GR_protection
abKE-S_GR_000_pages
Part of the pioneering effort of operating an organization from the Agora platform includes getting enough experience to
understand what is appropriate. I am now using codes instead of names for people, to protect them. Maybe this will never make
sense, maybe it will make sense to do this as a standard practice across the board, and maybe it will make sense to do this until I
get permission from someone to use their name openly. Only time and experience will determine this. But in general I could
see starting any new venture being very conservative and loosening up over time.
07-06-19b
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abCH-S_GR_pithy
abKT-S_GR_Agora
Agora is a platform that GlobeRelate provides for organizations (including businesses) to operate. The GlobeRelate
organization will itself be run largely or entirely from that platform. Any enterprise on that platform will operate with
unprecedented transparency and accountability (hopefully resulting in integrity), will tap the internet as a marketplace for
services, and will rely substantially on “Digital Language” for its operations. This will be seen as a demanding environment in
which to do business, but also a rewarding one as those who participants are bound by the same high standards of conduct and
the same level playing field. It will truly open up value-producing interaction to anyone with access to the internet and the skills
needed to function in that environment.
07-06-15x1
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
Everyone should be aware that Agora is particularly designed to operate an organization over the internet. It includes bringing
buyers and sellers of services together. It is assuming an unprecedented level of transparency of operation for at least some of
the businesses running on it.
07-06-15x2
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abM2-S_GR_Charge__
The Charge structure as I presently intend it for the GlobeRelate organization need not be about getting people to work with or
for us over the internet, but simply be about defining what needs to be done without specifying who will do it. Even for people I
will be dealing with person to person, though, I expect the transactions to be documented online. If we have a conversation and
you agree to do X, you should state you commit to doing X through a posting.
07-06-15h
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abJI-S_GR_user_friendly abKT-S_GR_Agora
aaXO-S_GR_Synapsite
abM2-S_GR_Charge__
I am visualizing having Agora run using Charge Pages and Synapsite. But I should certainly add that the commonly used
features of GlobeRelate pages will also be important. The consistent use of Linkdexes, of LSL’s, of Blue Buttons, of Utility
Panels and UF’s, of the standard Navigation Bar, of the Source Button – all of these will be consistently used throughout the site,
including in the “user-friendly” zone of the site.
07-06-14r1
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abJR-S_GR_big_four_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
I am envisioning that much of the work of Agora will consist of Charge Pages interconnected hierarchically through the Charge
Structure and relationally using Synapsite. I envision that these either can or must operate transparently, and will start out
proving that they can and then move to determining whether they must.
07-06-14r2
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There will be some kind of node for active Charges. It could possibly be the Charge Page itself, or the XSM Node associated
with the Charge, but likely would be a different page. It would not be unlike the JKL green sheet, with key project information,
but would have much more attached to it, including all project correspondence, contracts, meeting notes, transmittals, contact
information, and probably most if not all financial data.
07-06-14n
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aaXO-S_GR_Synapsite
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abM2-S_GR_Charge__
If I were to operate Agora as I have been describing, using Synapsite and Charges, I would require that whoever wanted to work
that way would need to be able to use the tools I have set up. Learning to use them really should not be all that hard, and would
have the advantage of being transferable to other applications.
07-06-14m
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aaXO-S_GR_Synapsite
abKT-S_GR_Agora
Synapsite could function as a kind of standalone set of classified ads, not just for GlobeRelate services but for any services at all
that can be delivered over the internet. I know that there are sites that are essentially classified ads, but Synapsite would enable
people to better find opportunities they like. Additionally, Synapsite would be perfectly integrated with Agora, enabling people
to find opportunities not to get hired but to contract to do work one project at a time, either part-time or as a full-time career.
07-06-14L
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aaXO-S_GR_Synapsite
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abM2-S_GR_Charge__
So how would I use Synapsite for Agora right now? I will have Charges that people may or may not be able to find from lists.
But I certainly could have an XSM node for every charge, at least every one that has been developed to the point it supports an
XSM. And really that doesn’t need to be more than anything that has enough text definition to it to fill out one or two Entries.
Maybe it doesn’t even have to be that big, requiring nothing more than a definition Expression (the node will indicate that the
XSM itself has very little written on it).
07-06-14k1
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aaXO-S_GR_Synapsite
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abM2-S_GR_Charge__
I had written earlier today of using Synapsite to get around projects. I am thinking now that every project would have an XSM
node, even if the XSM only includes the project definition material. But the XSM might in fact be every written Expression that
is associated with the project, including every letter or note or marketing proposal that fits under that project, all in
chronologically order that characterizes XSM’s.
07-06-14k2
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Then the links would be to similar projects, similar topics, etc.
07-06-14k3
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What I am envisioning is, for example, that people who were trying to offer their services to an Agora marketplace might use the
Synapse Network to look at markets that were open, so they could find one that they are best qualified to work in.
07-06-14k4
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I am sure that this will work long-term, and some people will be able to pick up on it in the short term. Anyone who does use it
and discover that it is a good way of moving around information will have taken a big step in mastering Synapsite, and likely
will quickly see other potential uses for that section of the site.
07-06-11c1
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abM2-S_GR_Charge__
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abL8-S_gr_Agora_biz_model
I have probably executed the Charges beyond my understanding of what I was doing, so I probably should stop to reevaluate not
just Charges, but the current state of Agora. This “package” includes:
1. biz transparency, where you can do business by posting online, unsecured, fully aware of public access
1. record of transactions, permanent posting of transactions
2. money, commitments, work process, work product, performance, communications – all out in the open, permanent
3. your work is your resume
4. tolerance for mistakes
2. Charges, where tasks, projects, roles are spelled out
07-06-11c2
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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ability to open up tasks to any of a number of sources where people can do the work (internet labor pool)
Conceptory as incentive, as financial foundation for GlobeRelate and entrepreneurship on it
DL based. People can do entire projects without a phone call or face to face.
accountability attached to aSN’s. Posted ratings of a given aSN.
likely there will be infrastructure such as a Paypal style means of exchanging money etc to facilitate organizations
establishing integrity and credibility in other big four components supports Agora. Combination can’t be met
elsewhere.
07-06-10d1
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
aaYH-S_GR_markets_
It struck me while jogging today that Agora need not just be a platform for a complete business, but could become a marketplace
where people could take some of their work and offer it for people to work, opening it up to what would amount to a world-wide
market.
07-06-10d2
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Using Agora as a business platform may be more demanding than many will be willing to take on, particularly if I continue to
imagine it as operating transparently. But contracting out work on the world marketplace may not be anywhere near as
demanding. If you need something done that can be done over the internet, something that anyone with a certain skill set can
take on, where the fee will be set by the marketplace, and getting labor will be like putting something up for sale on eBay.
07-06-10d3
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Similarly, as the markets start to emerge, people can make a living by providing services that other people and organizations
need. Both those providing the services and those advertising for them can be rated.
07-06-10d4
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Not incidentally, the services will be defined and contractually obligated to by Charges that are posted, supported by whatever
additional PostPublished explanations are required. Repetitive tasks can be defined with increasing precision, based on
experience of problems that arose from lack of clarity in the original definitions.
07-06-10c
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8aBT-S_quotes_refs abKT-S_GR_Agora
I remember in Nostromo where there was a kind of elite organization in town that people were proud to work for and to be
associated with. I found that image compelling. I am wondering if Agora would not be that kind of an organization, where it is
a kind of badge of honor for people to work and succeed there, given the underlying level of integrity that is required.
07-06-07j
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abBQ-S_GR_investors
abA1-S_GR_entrepreneur abKT-S_GR_Agora
As I talk to possible venture capitalists, I could ask them to contribute directly to GlobeRelate by investing in the future ad
potential of existing pages, but then point out where they could earn money as entrepreneurs on top of the GlobeRelate platform.
This would be particularly useful with respect to Agora, where people would not have to actually operate in the Agora
environment, with all of its transparency etc, in order to contribute enormously to GlobeRelate.
07-06-04f1
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abL8-S_gr_Agora_biz_model
It just struck me about the project where people can give to individual classes based on appeals by teachers. I could see
structuring GlobeRelate Agora that way, adding a dimension of people could either give money to “hire” people to do X specific
thing that needs to be done, or they could volunteer to do it. Someone can also contribute to a general fund which can be used to
pay for projects that need to be done to move things forward, but which no one has stepped up to do.
07-06-04f2
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What this requires is that all of the things that need to be done are listed, which is what the Charge list is all about. I could
contact the person who is running that project, tell him what GlobeRelate is all about, and see if he could provide advice on
setting that up as a non-profit means of moving forward, but also see it as a means of running a profit-making business.
07-06-01h1
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abM2-U_GR_Charge_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
I am really concerned that the “vision realized” categories for GlobeRelate and Agora will not work well together. Agora is the
engine that operates and builds GlobeRelate (and potentially other enterprises), so anything about building GlobeRelate could be
seen as falling under the vision of Agora. For now I will just put this concern aside and see how I do with both categories.
07-06-01h2
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Actually, I may just go with Agora for just about everything for now, and if I later reconsider I can transfer things over to
GlobeRelate. I just see a lot of opportunity for confusion here. The realizing of the Agora vision is not just theoretical, it
includes using Agora to build GlobeRelate. Maybe at some point building GlobeRelate will be a Sub-Charge of Agora, among a
series of Sub-charges.
07-05-31b1
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abMF-U_GR_Charge_text__
abLE-S_GR_agora_vision__
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[11111-070531aaa.htm Agora Vision Realized] The Vision of Agora is being realized even as it is being created and brought
into focus. More than any of the other key GlobeRelate components Agora is and necessarily must be a work in progress
because it is a community effort. The growth and management of the site is being run using the site, with people collaborating
online and having the process of collaboration captured and added to the content making up the site.
07-05-31b2
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We don’t and can’t know how far we can take this, how transparently organizations can operate, what kind of infrastructure is
feasible and required to make this grand experiment a success. There is plenty of reason to believe this could transform the way
people interact to provide services and create value, made possible by the internet, and greatly benefiting the planet along the
way. Predicting exactly where this will go is not as important as taking the journey, and that is what this Charge is about.
07-05-22q1
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abM2-S_GR_Charge__
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abHI-S_GR_Lv2_priorities_
I probably should set up a Cg for each of the four areas, and put major subcharges assigned to each. Agora would probably be
the one where I kept any general organizational items.
07-05-15k4
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abHR-S_GR_run_by_write_
abB5-S_GR_FMS_role
aaQR-S_soft_milestone
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abHI-S_GR_Lv2_priorities_
The ideas I have in place are not yet enough to have Agora actually function as an organization, but intuitively my sense is that
with only a bit more thinking that reality is in striking distance. It is no longer an abstraction that the same kind of thinking that
runs traditional businesses can be translated to the Agora model. It is now a matter of taking all of these bits and pieces of
concepts I have scattered around and bringing them together into a complete design for Agora, supplementing it with new ideas
where needed. And I certainly don’t (and probably can’t) do that in a vacuum, but rather I want to do it as part of the ongoing
process of bringing a fully functioning GlobeRelate with a completely operative Agora component into existence.
07-05-15e
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abFL-S_GR_action_words_
abJ5-S_GR_milestones
abKT-S_GR_Agora
There was a critical shift this week. I posted Dad’s autobiography, which was nothing more than adding some pages to the site.
Somehow in posting it, fms001 was inspired or moved to see a role for himself as entrepreneur, and to start to act on what he
saw. This may or may not be characterized as a deepened level of commitment from before, but certainly represents a different
kind of commitment. I write something, and a human being who reads it is moved to take action. That is what Agora is all
about.
abKT-S_GR_Agora aaUE-S_GR_organization abHI-S_GR_Lv2_priorities_
07-05-15d1
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[from 07-05-15a5] The least developed and, for now, the most important component of GlobeRelate is Agora. One
key aspect of
Agora is that I intend to run the site by using the site. I certainly have set that in motion, using Open Letters, and
communicating through VBT, including feedback buttons, at least having a basic concept in place for Action Nodes and Utility
Functions, etc. The challenge at this moment, as we start to make GlobeRelate real as an organization just as I have already
done a lot to make it real as a site, is to start from the very beginning to handle the most mundane, “practical” needs of the
organization by applying
Agora concepts. The idea is to make things happen by writing, structuring the site to facilitate the process.
07-05-15d2
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Now is the worst possible time to lose my nerve and my patience. Now is the best possible time to commit to exploring and
exploiting the full use of online posting of information as the means of delivering information to get things done. The
information is the same whether I am a boss directing an employee in person or I am the center of a consortium of aligned,
committed, but autonomous individuals who are communicating over the internet. What is different is the structure and the
context within which that information exists, and the way that the participants have organized themselves to generate, deliver,
receive, and act on the information.
07-05-15d3
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It is not like I am waiting for the perfection of some theory. Certainly there is development of the emerging Agora theory, but it
is experimental, pragmatic development, not ivory tower development (which, I should note, was needed to create the kernel of
the concept I am now perfecting in practice). My current efforts at site development aren’t something I am doing instead of
building the enterprise, they are the creation of the means by which I intend to build and run the enterprise. This is already in
motion, with the use of open letters and feedback buttons in place, but I couldn’t be more aware that what is in place so far is
only a start. But it is a start, and my obligation now, if I want to be true to the vision of the site, is to build on that start and take
it as far as “practicality” will allow me to take it.
07-05-15d4
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That includes making any number of ideas (Synapsite, Utility Functions) into functioning components of the site. But it also
includes not just tightening up what is in place, but getting myself so comfortable and familiar with the site that it becomes an
extension of myself. Just as I have my collection of tools on my laptop working smoothly and efficiently (making possible
XSM’s and VBT and all manner of other unique innovations) I am now “going public” by putting appropriate tools and
functions on the site, and getting so I know the site inside and out. I have no doubt that if Agora is in fact going to be real, it will
start with my commitment to discovering just how an operation can be run, down to the scheduling of meetings and sharpening
of pencils, through a critical mass of tools I will be creating and implementing on the site over the next few weeks (and then on
an ongoing basis).
07-05-09v
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abLY-S_GR_corporate_form
abJ3-S_GR_early_team
abKT-S_GR_Agora
The reason I want to bring someone in as an advisor at this point is that part of what I need advice on is the structure of the
organization itself. Bringing in someone to do something presupposes that there is an organization in place that is capable of
doing something, which there isn’t. I want this organization to be primarily Agora-based and I want to see just how that could
be pulled off.
07-05-09f
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
I should probably consolidate some of what I know about Agora so I can better explain it in a succinct and effective way.
1. Action Nodes, where any thought can be converted to action using Utility Functions
2. Transparency. FMS transparency, and organizational transparency. Pushing to the limits.
3. Open Letters
4. VBT as communication.
5. Extending myself to the web site, e.g. posting my priorities and to-do items there instead of on my laptop
6. Conceptory makes the GlobeRelate go ‘round.
7. Accounts transparently shifted to the web site. Page by Page Conceptory accounts.
8. EPP. Explain what it is, why it may work
9. What is an employee? Increasingly work will be done by coalitions of individuals
10. Start using the architecture organizational model as the means for explaining Agora
11. The “genie” model, where I make things happen by stating what needs to happen…
07-05-09d
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abHI-S_GR_Lv2_priorities_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
Of all the key tasks to perform at this point, the development of Agora is critical. As things start to move forward the pressure
will be on to revert to more traditional forms of organization, and the Agora concept will need to be strong to survive those
pressures.
abJR-S_GR_big_four_
abKT-S_GR_Agora abEQ-S_GR_initiative
07-04-29f
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In “07-01-30a7” I realize that simply by posting XSM’s I am not only supporting and creating Synapsite, I
am also building Agora.
The early participants in GlobeRelate will be those who take the time and initiative to come to learn what GlobeRelate is about.
I will do everything I can to make that process easy, starting with allowing them to participate in it without knowing much at all
about it, and step by step giving them the opportunity to learn more on their own, with the ultimate vision of where this is
leading a key component. But after writing it up, I lost the sense that simply posting XSM’s is a part of the process of creating
Agora.
07-04-25n
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abLU-S_GR_tasks_one_time
abLT-S_GR_tasks_ongoing_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
To consolidate my thinking of the past few minutes into an overview, I am imagining starting to break down GR tasks into
postings that people could use to begin to participate. I could certainly generate tasks that people could be doing right now that
would support the effort, but also look at major tasks such as writing Autogen software.
07-04-25m
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abLU-S_GR_tasks_one_time
abLT-S_GR_tasks_ongoing_
aaYJ-S_project_mgt__
abKT-S_GR_Agora
aaKJ-S_TDS
It just struck me that perhaps the TDS file structure that started to work for me personally could be translated over to on-site
files. Or at the very least, tasks could be written up as paragraphs that link to pages, which in turn could be made up of sub-tasks
(paragraphs or Linkdex entries) that linked to pages etc. Pages could be listed as line items in project management software.
Agora would be taking place right on GlobeRelate. Poted might become part of Agora.
07-04-25L1
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abKT-S_GR_Agora abLT-S_GR_tasks_ongoing_
abLU-S_GR_tasks_one_time
abF3-S_GR_FMS_helped
Mentality of throwing out tasks for people to do, without initially determining the basis for doing them... Motivation.
Compensation strategies... Have modules describing different ways people will get compensated…
07-04-25L2
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abLU-S_GR_tasks_one_time
I can imagine several tasks that people could start to take on just around Ginger Cove, things that will start to make GlobeRelate
more real, and will start using the GlobeRelate platform (“exercising it”). One key autobiography. One book that is intended to
be published but needs editing. Literary Lite articles. Encourage collecting memories of USNA and Annapolis. Someone to
take on the actual generation of pages to be posted, using only the tools I have developed to this point.
07-04-25L3
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abLU-S_GR_tasks_one_time
The point is that I have already started listing tasks that people could do to take some of the burden off my shoulders in mundane
things, and extended it to more sophisticated collaborations such as Idea Set Shaping and even co-authorship of pages. Why not
break down the whole constellation of tasks I have in front of me and post them, both to demonstrate I have a clear sense of
what to do if the resources (volunteers or funding) are made available to me, and to give people yet another idea of what GR is
about, what it entails, and where it is going.
07-04-25L4
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abGE-S_GR_EPP
And I can also do this in a context of making Agora work. If I can communicate an idea, and people recognize that the
opportunity is there for them to act on it, with the EPP “compensation” structure in place, this may turn out to be the breathing of
life into the Agora theory.
07-04-25L5
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abJ3-S_GR_early_team
Along those lines, fms039 might be more likely to get involved on that basis than on the traditional venture capitol basis, just
because it will be more interesting and provocative.
07-04-16e1
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abLL-U_GR_XSM_nodes aaXR-U_GR_text
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[11111-070412aba.htm Agora – XSM Node] This will be a large, unruly Idea Set for quite a while, reflecting the newness of
Agora as a concept and the resulting wide-ranging thinking about what it is and how it will work. As Agora starts to take shape
no doubt there will be Idea Sets defined and pulled from this XSM, some of the Expressions here will be shown to be false leads
and will be removed, and this will otherwise begin to get more clearly structured. But for now this represents the energy and
diversity of an idea in its early formulative stages, and if read in that spirit could be very useful.
07-04-16e2
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[11111-070412aba.htm Agora – review] Even at this early formative stage this XSM identifies key elements of what Agora
will look like and include. Anyone who wants to have input into the shape of Agora will be well advised to go through this
XSM. It may inspire additional thinking that will then be included in the Idea Set, refining what is here or opening up whole
new lines of thought. So long as the reader approaches this in the right spirit, with expectations of thinking that is still very
much in progress, this will be an interesting and stimulating collection of thoughts and observations.
07-04-16e3
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[11111-070412aba.htm Agora – tasks] There is tremendous work to be done not just with thinking about Agora but about
structuring and relating the thoughts that are already here. This will include linking this category to other categories (XSM’s)
and clarifying relationships between linked topics. For example, how does “Agora” relate to “EPP?” Are they the same thing,
and if not what are the distinctions between them? But this will also require continued collection of new Expressions, and the
collection of some Expressions into new categories which can then be removed from this Idea Set and linked to it. That just
starts to describe work that will be involved in making the transition from the XSM as it is now and the more mature collection
of XSM’s that this is sure to become.
07-04-11e
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
Components of Agora:
1. open letters
2. posting economics of pages as attachments to pages
3. Conceptory. Pages become independent profit centers based on ad revenues
4. EPP role, not employee role.
5. run by write
6. DL multi-use
07-04-08b
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aaZU-S_GR_news
aaX9-S_GR_explain__
abKT-S_GR_Agora
I talk about newspapers as part of PostPub and World 2.0. What about Agora? Certainly the posted articles create value, and
certainly they tap advertising. One other thing w2o and PostPub can do is provide a smooth channel for everyone to become a
reporter. The newspaper can collect writings along with generating them.
07-04-07L1
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abLK-S_GRE_places_satforms
abKT-S_GR_Agora
Part of the attractiveness of the “Places” Satform is that it would not only be the most visible and comprehensible Satform, and
the flagship use of World 2.0, it may also serve as the first pure model of GlobeRelate as an entrepreneurial platform, and of
Agora as a platform for online collaborations.
07-04-07b
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abLE-S_GR_agora_vision__
I heard last night on Hard Ball about how perhaps three million disabled veterans have largely withdrawn from participation in
society, not leaving their homes etc. It was not lost on me that a fully realized Agora would provide them with the opportunity
to reengage, to reconnect, to contribute.
07-04-04f1
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abFD-S_GR_motivate_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
As I go about spinning off requests for people to do work to help me out, asking or hoping for help, people who would even
consider responding should realize that on top of whatever project is advanced by their help, they will also be creating a new
way of doing work, and perhaps a new kind of business organization.
07-04-04f2
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abLE-S_GR_agora_vision__
If my emerging vision of Agora is on target, this will make the earth flatter than it has ever been, and it will do it in a way that
will be kind to the environment as it shifts the creation of value from the wasting of resources to the refinement of ideas.
07-04-02f4
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abLC-S_GR_vision_path
abKT-S_GR_Agora
The Path’s to the Vision at the front end, i.e. where there are concrete steps to take and needs to be fulfilled, really becomes part
of Agora. I post what is needed, and open it up to full participation.
07-03-30a1
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aaXR-U_GR_text
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[FMS-11111-070329aac What’s Next?] So what is next? For us what is next is whatever is most pressing, whatever advances
the development of the site and the organization that will support it. For you, it is entirely dependent on your interests, and what
it is you could bring to the table.
07-03-30a2
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We need expertise of many different kinds. We need people with time and energy to commit to building any of a number of
aspects of the site. We need money, whether grants, investments, or contributions.
07-03-30a3
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abFD-S_GR_motivate_
In identifying what we need, we believe there is a great deal here to motivate people to join in the effort, both in terms of
satisfaction and financial return. So what’s next is participation. The site is studded with invitations to contribute in a variety of
ways…
07-03-26p1
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aaGQ-S_dormant_offer
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abJK-S_GR_Lv2_tasks
X is something that needs to be done. Maybe it is the school fund drive, maybe it is Autogen, maybe it is operating a Satform. I
outline it and give readers an understanding of what it is and how it fits in to the overall GlobeRelate scheme. I then let that
project lie dormant until someone takes on the challenge.
07-03-26p2
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I can reference broader roles for the task than the task itself. For example, anyone doing just about anything right now will also
be taking on the role of pioneering contributor to GlobeRelate. That is not in the actual description of the role, but it certainly is
a critical component of it and a critical element of their contribution to GlobeRelate at this stage of its existence. There could be
a “Pioneering Dimension” link in the Linkdex at the bottom of the page which would go to a page that outlines that aspect of the
project.
07-03-26p3
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The “Pioneering Dimension” page is something I could reference from just about every project page, and could update it as it
changes so the updates would be available globally. Right now anyone working on any project is making a much greater
contribution in the role of pioneer than they could possibly be making in doing the actual work defined by the project. I could
state that in the text of the “Pioneering Dimension” page. As more and more people participate, that would shift and I would
rewrite the page to reflect that, to the point that any Pioneering value is no longer generalized to GlobeRelate as a whole, but
specialized. No one is a pioneer in legitimizing GR, but there are still opportunities to pioneer GlobeRelate in localities (like
Baton Rouge) and in specialty areas (like battlefield historical platforms).
07-03-26p4
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Are there other roles than “pioneer” that could be handled this way? I don’t need to answer that question now, because as they
come up such elements of contribution could be simply added to the Linkdex.
07-03-26p5
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abKX-P_GR_utility_functions
Or maybe they would be gathered up in a “HidCon” Utility Function (“HidCon” stands for “Hidden Contributions”). In that
way they would not be mixed in with a lot of other links dumped in to the Trailing Linkdex, but be grouped together. Perhaps
there would be a “Hidden Contributions” line item in the Trailing Linkdex that would explain what hidden contributions are
about, and would also let the reader know that there is a HidCon Utility Function attached to the page.
07-03-26g1
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abID-S_GR_first_in
“If you don’t have a high tolerance for thinking-in-progress, you may want to skip this section for a while.” This would be
about Agora, which is very much a work in progress, resting substantially on intuition.
07-03-26g2
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I have set up the Agora section as one of the four pillars of GlobeRelate. I don’t know what form Agora will take. But I do have
enough understanding of key components of Agora to proceed knowing that in fact it will have a role and in fact will be one of
the pillars. I know that the Action Nodes will be in place. I know Conceptory will be a critical element of Agora, providing the
money that fuels the development, all of which can be managed by Agora.
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What I don’t know is exactly how Agora will come together, and all of the components it will include, and what the relative
importance of each component will be, etc. This will put some people off, but it will be seen by others as an opportunity to join
in the process of creating this (albeit a process I will be dominating for a while, until I am comfortable with the direction it
takes).
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
Agora components:
1. Utility Functions related to actions. Define kinds of actions.
2. Action Nodes that manage actions (and projects). Action Node is project, multiple sub-nodes are sub-projects
3. Extensive use of Idea Sets as management and organizational tools
4. Sales of set pools in database form. Restaurants database example (see “07-03-26d”)
5. use of idea sets (Synapsite) in managing GR via Agora
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
Agora thoughts and observations:
1. Keep thinking of it as an organization, not a process. Like it is a business model.
2. Start making actual decisions. OK if I back away from them, just get something to solidify.
3. Visualize a Linux-like collaboration building up a site instead of a program. Accessible to non-programmers.
4. All the focus is on the product, not the credentials or resume that promises the product. See “07-03-25m”
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abKX-S_GR_utility_functions
Agora thinking will include groupings that might be broken out into azzz categories. Some candidates:
1. Agora and Utility Functions. How much of Agora is structured and driven by the definition of utility functions?
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I am also thinking of one filter for Agora thinking, and that is that it is something concrete, something that can be defined as a
real component of Agora. In other words, this is not about theory (like EPP) this is about actual policy, actual rules, an actual
organizational structure that is in place to get actual work done. I might think theoretically how a contract might be written and
compensated for by Conceptory, but I can also say that such a process is an actual component of Agora that I want to bring about
in reality. Including a theoretical example such as that in the Agora category basically gives the green light for efforts to bring it
about.
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Look at “06-12-07w2” and see how what seems now to necessarily be a function
of an organization (like a corporation) could
instead be done through individual initiative. Instead of hiring people to do work, they do work and accrue the prestige and
respect that enables trust. Now there are personnel departments and bosses assessing people and resume’s. In this model, what
gets assessed is their work, which is the reason for hiring someone – the work they will do, not their effectiveness in
representing (or misrepresenting) the work they will do.
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I just had a flash that if in fact I have created a continuum of monetary and non-monetary rewards (through Conceptory), this
could also result in a continuum between employee and non-employee. That doesn’t really state it so well, because individual
entrepreneurs are not ever quite hired, except the tenth of a percent (or less) who end up a part of the GlobeRelate core. But they
do the work that in an organization one would expect employees to do. Only they do it on their own, Peer Production style, but
also aware that if they do well enough, and make the right choices of what they do in the first place, they stand to earn money,
perhaps a lot of it.
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Maybe at this point all I have to do is start imagining work that someone could perhaps be hired to do, and imagine it done
instead using the EPP model. If I can collect enough examples, and if I can get clearer on where this will work well and where
not so well, I can start to articulate what an EPP organization would look like. This obviously will get less and less hypothetical
as I set the GlobeRelate Agora in motion.
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For example, I could imagine a standard contract between advertiser and author that needs to be written. Thinking traditionally,
my organization would assess which lawyers were good, and not excessively expensive, would select one and agree on a price,
and would have them do the work. The EPP solution to the problem would be to articulate the problem and invite someone to
solve it. Their incentive would be the Conceptory they create. If no one immediately responds, GR could start contacting
lawyers and suggesting that they take on the task. As a last resort, it could go the traditional route and hire the lawyer.
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The EPP solution would have minimal involvement of some core organization, and once the Conceptory value of GR was
established, the problem might not be too little response, but too much. Too many lawyers might poste potential contracts.
Then someone could step in and post an analysis of the different options, accompanied by a list of their credentials. Someone
else might step in and rate credentials, someone which was essentially an institution that was extensively respected (American
Bar Association?).
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
Agora thoughts and observations:
1. Keep thinking of it as an organization, not a process. Like it is a business model.
2. Start making actual decisions. OK if I back away from them, just get something to solidify.
3. Visualize a Linux-like collaboration building up a site instead of a program. Accessible to non-programmers.
(I copied this to “07-03-25j” and continued developing it there). [to 07-03-25j1]
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AGORA. Agora is fundamental to each other section, because it is through the efforts of many self-motivated individuals, in an
essentially cooperative, non-hierarchical structure, that will build and operate the site. One of the earliest decisions made about
GlobeRelate was that it would not be a structure of top-down management, but a framework within which individual initiative
determined what got built. This site, this job is too big to be run centrally. It is not unlike eBay not getting involved in what is
bought or sold, but providing a framework for individuals to make the decisions and set the agendas, to take the risks and earn
the rewards. But Agora will not just be a framework that manages initiative, it will be an open-source organization that is itself a
product of individual initiative, subject to improvement and upgrade as GlobeRelate users see opportunities for improvement.
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abJR-S_GR_big_four_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
The structure set up to manage it, Agora, will be immense, even though the organization at its core could be quite small.
Everything that is put in place to make Agora function to support a massive World 2.0 – including the EPP model, management
by formulas, specialized marketplaces, and above all moral authority – can then be applied to doing collaborations and projects
of any kind, whether they are related to GlobeRelate or not.
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aaU6-S_GR_financial_
Is Conceptory the key component of Agora, or just one of many? For sure it is important. It will be particularly important to
me, as I find myself laying down a high percentage of the fundamental Conceptory core of the GlobeRelate site infrastructure
(home pages, general explanations, help files, etc).
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But the first counter-thought that came to mind for me was that of grid map graphics. Selling a graphic that was generated to
Satform owners is, according to my current concept of how this will work, a sure means for people to earn money building the
site that is not directly related to Conceptory. In fact, the MGP’s as Conceptory might well belong to someone else (or to
GlobeRelate). Yet the ability to generate and sell such graphics is important to have users generate the site on their own
initiative. So at the very least, Conceptory is not the exclusive generator of value.
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I have also thought of other income generators (value creators) such as paying to place the name of a Satform or other pages in a
prominent position on a list. I suppose this could be considered a different kind of Conceptory, but I would be better off calling
this something else so there is no confusion.
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The aSN registration should require fees, and be self-supporting (whatever it costs to process and store and retrieve the
registrations is what should be charged).
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But these other elements will likely be dwarfed in significance by the ad revenues, and these will be irrevocably tied to
Conceptory, to the ownership of pages in certain positions with respect to the overall site (positions defined by links).
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abGE-S_GR_EPP
abKT-S_GR_Agora
As I review the “EPP” Idea Set, I am actually starting to have problems seeing the distinction between Agora and EPP. Why
should I put an Expression in one set and not the other?
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Maybe it comes down to anything that refers specifically to GlobeRelate operations, or to the GR business model is Agora.
Anything that would generally apply to EPP as a concept falls under that category. Another “filter” would be to only include
ideas that are pretty well set as what I will in fact be incorporating in the Agora structure – there would be little speculation
involved in whether an idea would actually be in play.
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Another distinction that may be worth drawing is that of GR built by entrepreneurship, vs the more generalized speculations
about EPP. In other words, perhaps I could define a “GR built by EPP” category. Azzz =
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Agora Vision
1. Model that renders Carr/Benkler moot. Continuum between paid and voluntary Peer Production participation
2. Large organization with centralized rules, little centralized management.
3. Not only does the platform allow for individual Entrepreneurship, it is built by it.
4. User-built, user-refined, user-corrected, user-adminstered site
5. Value created online, using Digital Language and pure online collaboration
6. Very kind to the environment by demanding little of it compared to the value created.
7. Agora will demonstrate and make possible unprecedented transparency in doing business, in order to build trust.
8. Establish business transactions by setting up markets and platforms, using formulas etc.
9. Conceptory-based creation of value, that fuels the entire GlobeRelate operation, and spills over into other areas.
10. May be open to non-GR work, e.g. someone requesting software be written. See “07-03-10d”
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abES-S_GR_RTI's
abKT-S_GR_Agora
07-03-22f1
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[from 07-03-22a8] The invitations on the previous page are by no means an exhaustive list of opportunities
available. But they at
least include key identified needs at this point. My intention is to keep refocusing the list so it is both broadly representative of
the kinds of opportunities available and inclusive of the most pressing priorities.
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However, the site as a whole has invitations and opportunities, explicit and implicit, built into its very fabric. Any writing which
can be associated to an action could accompanied by a link to a page that first invites and then manages that action. There is a
small group of Utility Functions (which I expect to grow to a vast array, based on needs) that specify very specific kinds of
actions that may be taken on by anyone.
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abGE-S_GR_EPP
My hope is that the GlobeRelate Agora, using the EPP model, will render the Carr-Benkler wager moot. There will be no
oppositional distinction between volunteer and professional, between paid and unpaid. Anyone who participates has the
opportunity to receive income and the opportunity to reject it or redirect it wherever he or she wishes. The project itself is worth
being fully supported by voluntary contribution, carrying all of the rewards and satisfaction of the classic Peer Production
model. Yet even if people become participants in that spirit they can profit from their efforts, perhaps handsomely.
aaXR-U_GR_text
abES-S_GR_RTI's
abKT-S_GR_Agora
07-03-22a1
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[from 07-03-21q4] CONTENT. I need to start gathering content to post. This could include any book,
article etc, including
personal memoirs or other writings intended for a limited audience. But I have a particular need for materials related to
Annapolis, particularly downtown Annapolis and the Naval Academy, anticipating the use of that area as the start for World 2.0.
Content can include serious publishing, history, commercial ads and notices (e.g. performers at a nightclub, sales, restaurant
reviews), scrapbooking of personal experiences, and even a new structure for fiction writing using World 2.0. For many more
possibilities, and to learn how to actually submit content, select the button to the left.
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MONEY. We can use money through grants, investors, and even contributions. How extensive that need is will first depend on
the response to calls for voluntary participation (which will, at the same time, carry potential for revenue, possibly a lot of
revenue) and second on how quickly the organization brings in enough to sustain and grow itself. Ultimately GlobeRelate will
be self-supporting, non-profit, and in effect owned by and accountable to the world community. The strength of this venture
(and ultimately its ability to fend off rival efforts) rests in that accountability, which in turn rests on the moral authority of the
organization and its leaders. We can’t afford to accept investments that in any way compromise that moral authority, or put the
interests of stockholders or investors above those of the world community.
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ADVERTISING. Advertising is fundamental to the GlobeRelate business model. But much as it will draw on existing internet
advertising, and perhaps even use available tools such as AdSense, there are characteristics of GlobeRelate which could create a
whole new ball game. What is considered an advertisement will broaden and shift. Individuals will have much more
opportunity to identify ad opportunities and exploit them. We would like people with experience in the industry to bring their
expertise to bear on exploring this new potential, and perhaps to jump in to exploit this market as an entrepreneurial effort.
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PEER PRODUCTION. GlobeRelate will use a variation on the kind of “Peer Production” efforts that have created Wikipedia
and built software such as Linux and Apache. It extends that model naturally into ad-sourced revenue in a way that has the
potential to render the Carr-Benkler wager moot. Anyone with experience in Peer Production models, particularly with groups
formed to ensure quality control and resolve disputes, would be an invaluable resource in our efforts.
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MARKETS. GlobeRelate will be built on the entrepreneurial efforts of individuals. One critical component of this will be
setting up “markets” where providers of services can connect to people who need the services, and the price can be set by the
market. This may happen within GlobeRelate or external to it. Any person or organization with expertise in this area has an
opportunity to greatly facilitate the growth of GlobeRelate, perhaps finding their efforts to be a lucrative entrepreneurial
opportunity.
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OPERATIONS. The intention for GlobeRelate is to have the smallest possible core group. But even with extensive use of peer
production, some core organization will be needed. We will need people with skills and expertise to set up and operate that
organization, but to do it in ways that exploit the internet-based business model of GlobeRelate without in any way
compromising the overall vision of it. Part of that business model may well include growing innovative capabilities and the
spinning them off from the core.
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ENTREPRENEURS. Both in the building of GlobeRelate site infrastructure, and then in using it to conduct business,
GlobeRelate is richly laden with opportunities for entrepreneurs. Anyone with entrepreneurial spirit is invited to see for
themselves what it available.
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HISTORIANS. Not only will GlobeRelate capture history as it happens on an unprecedented scale, it provides an extraordinary
platform for capturing and preserving history. Anyone who has any interest in preserving our heritage, whether as an amateur or
a professional, can contribute to that effort by participating. [to ]
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abES-S_GR_RTI's
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[fms-11111 07-03-2? “Needs” Snapshot, March 2007][from 07-03-21p5] The following paragraphs outline key needs right now.
Each will also serve as an invitation to participate in the ways described. To see more on the topic discussed in a paragraph,
select the Link Button to the left of that paragraph.
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LEGAL. There are a number of issues that need to be addressed. One key need is that of protecting intellectual property,
particularly including terms such as “World 2.0” and “Conceptory.” We also need advice on copyright implications in certain
areas. There are also issues regarding the rights to map images that will be used in World 2.0 pages. In a different arena,
perhaps not in the realm of legal advice, we need to look at options of how to set up GlobeRelate as an organization
(corporation? Non-profit?).
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. There are any number of possibilities for software that will arise with respect to GlobeRelate,
but my expectation is that many of these will be solved, easily or with difficulty, through the initiative of individual
programmers in much the same way they improve Linux and other peer-produced software. However, there is one critical class
of software that could make the difference between a GlobeRelate that slowly builds momentum toward reaching its potential
and one that explodes in that direction. That software would take tables of information and automatically generate and
regenerate web pages like this one, as well as the Map Grid Pages used in World 2.0. Backing up a bit, someone with
substantive experience in software development and a capacity to keep my thinking and expectations of what can be done in
touch with reality would be an invaluable resource at this point. For much more on software, select the button to the left.
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WEB SITE DESIGN. It has been almost painful to build this site with my (Michael Smith’s) extremely limited skills and poor
tools. But it was important to proceed both to start to communicate what GlobeRelate is about and to test the logical structure of
the site. My hope is that the autogeneration of pages discussed above will be the next step, but there may need to be an interim
step of using better software to remake these pages. There are certain aspects of GlobeRelate which don’t use standard web
page design techniques which are fundamental to GlobeRelate (e.g. static content on pages with unchanging addresses). I will
likely need help with rebuilding these pages. However my preeminent need right now is the advice of someone with the
expertise to show me what is possible and point me in the direction of achieving it. But such an advisor must also be flexible
enough to understand why GlobeRelate has been set up as it has, and work with me to not compromise the vision. [to 07-0322a1]
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abES-S_GR_RTI's
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[fms-11111 07-03-2? “Needs” Snapshot – Introduction, March 2007] I am going to take a snapshot of where GlobeRelate is
right now, but I am going to do it in a way that I hope will contribute to starting it down the road to realizing its vision. I am
going to see if words can indeed enable and generate actions, at least these words and thosee actions needed to get the
GlobeRelate enterprise on its feet.
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The page that follows this one will consist of a series of broad-brush impressions of roles that need to be filled, projects that
need to be done, and tasks that need to be undertaken. Each paragraph will be accompanied by a link to a page where the tasks
or roles are more extensively defined and described.
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I expect this snapshot will, in the future, be useful in understanding the direction and evolution of GlobeRelate. But if you are
reading it in the spring or summer of 2007, I want to make it perfectly clear that each component of this page is an invitation.
GlobeRelate has moved to the point where it not only needs participation, but where the structure and concept of it has been
developed to the point that we can actually do something with offers to participate.
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This is not to be an exhaustive listing of all possible ways of participating, but a picture of what I see as the key needs and
opportunities right now. There will be new snapshots in the future, reflecting changing needs and requirements. Or perhaps this
will be a permanent page, with old role or task descriptions Parchived as they are removed from the list.
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All of these paragraphs represent invitations, but we will proceed with any of them on our own if there is no response to them
and waiting longer starts to impede progress.
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If you would like to read about what motivation there may be for participation, the button to the left will take you to a number of
legitimate reasons to join in the launching of the GlobeRelate enterprise.
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I want to say one more thing before moving on to the “Needs” page. I am covering a lot of territory, and am using my best
judgment in formulating my requests in various areas. In areas where I do not have expertise, my requests may betray my
ignorance to a point that could be downright embarrassing. My first request to you is that where I am off the mark, if you do
have the missing expertise, please lend me a hand. The goal of all this is so worthy and the opportunity is so great that it is
worth it to me to risk looking (and probably being) foolish. If what is needed now is to put something wrong on the table in
order to replace it with something that is valid, so be it. [to 07-03-21q]
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abGE-S_GR_EPP
The thing about Agora/EPP with respect to the Carr/Benkler wager is not only that GlobeRelate doesn’t have a stake in either
outcome, it lets the outcome find its own level. I am providing a continuum where in the end the value of Conceptory will not
be enough to motivate participation, while the pure Peer Production values of this site will.
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If I had to make my own wager, it would be that this will start as a pure Peer Production model, and will, fairly quickly, shift to
an Entrepreneurial Peer Production model. But this will be a big tent, where monetary and non-monetary motivations will exist
side-by-side, from the start and then forever. There will be no “professionals/suckers” dichotomy. Anyone who is in it for the
satisfaction would be as eligible to earn money as anyone who is in it for the money (and perhaps could earn as much or more
because theirs would be a labor of love). Anyone who wants to jealously guard their altruism could simply direct their earnings
back into GlobeRelate, or to a favorite charity.
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One component of Agora would be simply “setting up markets.” I was just thinking that people could submit pages to GR that
are “PostPub-ready.” It seemed to me that would not be such a big deal. It then occurred to me that someone could offer that
service to any writer, and that people who provided that service efficiently without need for GR to check their work would get a
lower per-page rate for posting.
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What I can imagine the standard business model of GlobeRelate would have in place to get that necessary work done is the
ability to set up a market. GlobeRelate would publicize the need and set up the mechanism for buyers and sellers of that service
to get together. Any entrepreneur who wanted to take the task on could start doing the work. An unemployed autoworker in
Lansing could start to earn money doing this work on their computer, helping out someone in Santa Fe who needed their
autobiography converted to GlobeRelate format.
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The market need not even depend on GlobeRelate software or resources. Maybe someone figures out a way to set up such a
market using eBay, or perhaps someone in eBay sees the potential and sets up the market structure there. Then GlobeRelate’s
role would be simply to let people know that such a marketplace exists, and if Google or Yahoo sets up a competitive market, to
let people know that such a market exists.
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Taking it a step further, GlobeRelate could advertise for someone to set up a market for free, but would reserve space for that
person to write up their procedures and experiences, and perhaps a How-to model. In effect, GlobeRelate would be paying the
entrepreneur in Conceptory.
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abEQ-S_GR_initiative
abGE-S_GR_EPP
Agora is a relatively new concept, but it will serve as a place where I will be gathering and integrating and developing ideas that
have been emerging for years, but particularly over the past six months or so. I am wondering just how far EPP concepts can go
as a means of making GlobeRelate a reality, and just how much of the GlobeRelate organization will in fact be individual
entrepreneurs and volunteers pursuing their own projects, with the GlobeRelate site being built and managed through their
efforts. I am sensing that very close to all of it can, and I am anxious to see if in fact I can take it that far.
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
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[Agora.htm] There is an element of GlobeRelate which may ultimately prove critical to its success and even its preeminence.
That is transparency. I anticipate that there will be unprecedented transparency in GlobeRelate as a business. I (Michael Smith)
intend to operate with unprecedented transparency in bringing GlobeRelate into being, and to demand that others joining the
organization go far beyond traditional levels of transparency in their own actions. The full vision of GlobeRelate can't be
achieved if it is accountable to stockholders or owners – it must be accountable to and thus entrusted to the world community.
Such accountability can only happen through transparency of its operations, coupled with and reinforcing ethical conduct of its
managers.
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
[Agora.htm] Agora is a term borrowed from the marketplaces of ancient Greek towns. For GlobeRelate it is where the
marketplace of ideas becomes the generator of actions. It is where offers are made and accepted, where people connect to make
the vision of GlobeRelate into a reality. Motivations are for profit or for the simple satisfaction of participation (and in going for
one may find the other). It is how ideas get turned into projects that will build and operate and use the GlobeRelate platform.
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abKT-A_GR_Agora
abKT = GR Agora. Agora is the action component of GR, where the site is a marketplace for services.
07-03-10s
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
Sometimes the difference between writings that inform or enlighten and writings that are a call to action rests not in the writing
but in the reader. I may write a real invitation to a real person, and post it generically for all to see. Some people reading it will
respond to it as an invitation, albeit one not originally addressed to them, and will be moved to act on it. Others will see it as
interesting and informative, but otherwise having nothing to do with them personally.
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[from 07-03-10o2][11111-070310aaa.htm] The Agora is the action component of
GlobeRelate, but any PostPublished idea has the
potential to generate action, so the Agora is potentially a button click away from every paragraph that expresses or inspires a
thought. Anyone can initiate action, and connect it up with any GR writing. Anyone can open up an invitation or respond to
one. The Agora is no particular place on the site, yet it is everywhere on the site.
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So this page doesn’t lead you to some part of the site that is a designated place to do business, it leads to places where you can
understand what the Agora is and how to use it. It is the entryway into participating with GlobeRelate. It goes to explanations
of how GlobeRelate as an organization functions, how the very structure of GlobeRelate enables and encourages people to build
the site as they ethically pursue their own self-interest. And it offers examples of those processes, plus unlimited chances for
people to identify their own opportunities and seize them.
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For those of you who don’t have much taste for reading about action, but would rather jump into the game, the Link Button to
the left will take you to a brief discussion of “Action” buttons, and then set you free to explore how they are being used already
in the site. This will give you the quickest picture of the functioning Agora. If you want to learn more, you can always return to
this page and read on.
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But grasp the conceptual framework of the Agora, the most useful concept we apply in GlobeRelate is that of “Entrepreneurial
Peer Production” (abbreviated as “EPP”). This is a harnessing of the kind of participation that builds Wikipedia and built Linux
into what it is, but builds in an opportunity to profit from one’s contributions (whether or not that is the basic motivation for
contributing). The power of Peer Production has clearly been proven, and hopefully this variation on it will take it a step farther.
To see what EPP is about, select the button to the left of this paragraph.
07-03-10q5
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There is an element of GlobeRelate which may ultimately prove critical to its success and even its preeminence. That is
transparency. I anticipate that there will be unprecedented transparency in GlobeRelate as a business. I (Michael Smith) intend
to operate with unprecedented transparency in bringing GlobeRelate into being, and to demand that of others joining the
organization. The vision of GlobeRelate has it not the possession of stockholders or an elite, but as a trust of the entire world
community, so the actions of the organization and its “caretakers” need to be accountable to the world community. The
transparency of GlobeRelate will not be optional but structural. The way business is done will be open from the start. And
despite seeming to be a burden, we anticipate that this will be liberating to every ethical participant in the GlobeRelate
enterprise. This will be the ultimate competitive advantage that will enable GlobeRelate to reach the potential of its vision. To
learn much more about this, select the button to the left.
07-03-10q6
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The closest thing to a “place” that can be called “Agora” will be directories that link people with invitations and offers, and let
people watch others as they participate in GlobeRelate. At least in part this could be seen as including the “classifieds” for
GlobeRelate, but that is far too limiting a concept to accurately describe what this is about. To both learn more about how this
will work, and to have access to such directories as they come online, select the button to the left.
07-03-10q7
FMS-11111
The Agora has far and away the least clearly defined form of the four main GlobeRelate components (World 2.0, PostPublishing,
Synapsite, and Agora). This is partly because it is the newest of the four, with less time to organize and integrate its
components, but it is also because its form will be defined by its function, in action. What will ultimately generate the structure
of the Agora will be people using it, discovering what tools work to most efficiently channel efforts and make opportunities
accessible. Bad ideas will be stripped away, and good ideas will be displaced by better ones. In the process we will verify the
importance of fundamental concepts, but we will also discover new ones and move to protect and institutionalize them.
07-03-10o1
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aaXR-U_GR_text
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[Globerelate.com] The fourth and least clearly defined component of GlobeRelate is called the “Agora,” which the dictionary
defines as “a place of assembly, especially a market place.” This Agora takes place online, and is where all but a tiny portion of
GlobeRelate as an organization takes place, where volunteers and entrepreneurs, investors and patrons come together to build
and run GlobeRelate.
07-03-10o2
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And while our focus will be on having the Agora serve as the means of running GlobeRelate, and of organizing and encouraging
the participation that will be essential not just to its success but to its very existence, the tools and procedures we invent and
perfect here will be available to anyone for any purpose of making things happen. This marketplace will be open to anyone and
everyone. [to 07-03-10q]
07-03-10k1
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abH1-U_voice_recorder
abKT-S_GR_Agora
aaRE-U_spot_report
[v070310a010] 512 kb. (1 of 2) Having said all that, lets go back to where I am right now. I’m trying to put together a basic
functioning site. But I am seeing a whole new set of possibilities for it as a site. First it was just a wisp of an idea that I might
be able to do some of the running of GlobeRelate on the site itself. That’s become more and more solid for me. I can see more
and more…
07-03-10k2
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abGE-S_GR_EPP
The whole idea of EPP didn’t exist a fewmonths ago. I can see it starting to come more and more into focus, something there
are plenty of ways I can actually start testing it immediately, and trying it out and seeing what I can make work with it. That’s
all happening. And what happened today is the idea of opening that up for general participation. So if you can run GlobeRelate
that way, maybe you can run other things that way. And as we focus on having GR working we are developing tools that people
then can apply to who knows what else. So that’s all great. As I say, it just happened today. [to 07-03-12b]
07-03-10j1
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abH1-U_voice_recorder
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[==v070310a009] 296 kb. Listening to NPR re: ethanol. Talking about a portfolio where different metrics for bio-fuel types
could be posted. Why not post it on GR?
07-03-10j2
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GR would provide an infrastructure for participation. It would develop a certain way for people to participate and to post their
input. This would all be purely in the interest of running Globerelate. But any explanations of how it is set up, any tools for
submitting or collecting information would all be in place and they would all be accessible for use by anybody who wanted to
use them. I suspect that using them would be limited to people on GlobeRelate. I don’t know that and I am not necessarily even
saying it should be so. I’m just saying that’s a real possibility, and if it is that’s one more real strengthening of the reason for
participating in GlobeRelate.
07-03-10h
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abH1-U_voice_recorder
abDF-S_GR_software_
aaU6-S_GR_financial_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[==v070310a007] 95 kb. The next aspect of all this is that the ability to transfer money transparently and according to set rules
that are easy to see etc – that could be the thing that would have people enter this market, enter this platform for getting stuff
done.
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abH1-U_voice_recorder
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abA4-S_GR_transparency
[==v070310a006] 76 kb. What GlobeRelate might provide is a consistent platform that is operated with integrity and
accountability if for no other reason than through transparency. So that’s one aspect of the agora that GlobeRelate could
provide.
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abH1-U_voice_recorder
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[==v070310a005] 374 kb. Assume I am going ahead with this (“Operations” or “GR Markets” or “Agora” or whatever it ends
up being called). I am basically opening up a set of possibilities, and opening up the opportunity for people to step into
opportunities and to respond to invitations.
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aaXS-S_GR_compete_
I don’t know what form this is going to take. I don’t know exactly what structure is going to predominate. That’s an open
question. The other open question is whether this operation requires GlobeRelate, or whether there can be a competitive
operation. I’m not necessarily sure that I would be concerned if there was a competitive operation. In fact, if it worked out well,
I wouldn’t have any objection to GlobeRelate as an organization operating on a competitor’s platform so long as it did in fact
work well, so long as it was done with integrity, and so long as none of the capabilities that I see from working within
GlobeRelate would be lost in switching over to somebody else’s.
07-03-10f3
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aaYT-S_GR_monopoly
But the possibility still exists that this is another kind of monopoly that GR could be a part of. It’s all going to depend on how
deeply the Agora is integrated into the other three components of GlobeRelate.
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abKB-S_GR_action_node__
I know for sure that they will be integrated to the extent that there will be an action button integrated into an action node, and
that that action node would need to happen within GlobeRelate. A question is “could an action node go off-site to some other
site that has the action framed etc?”
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abH1-U_voice_recorder
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[==v070310a004] 41 kb. Can I call this “GR Markets?” What if I call it “Agora?”
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abH1-U_voice_recorder
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[==v070310a003] 193 kb. This may be pushing out a little far, but I would have no objection to anybody doing any kind of
online work within GlobeRelate that may have nothing to do with GlobeRelate. Maybe somebody wants some software written.
They post a contract. They post an invitation, somebody else posts a contract for the generic terms for that invitation, maybe the
person who posts the invitation gets a lawyer to write up modifications to the terms that customize them to their particular needs.
07-03-10d2
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But however all this happens, this gets posted on the internet and the software gets written and delivered with the payments for it
all transparent. So just as what I am imagining could work for GlobeRelate internally as a site, I would be opening it up for all
comers who want to work that way, who want to work transparently.
07-03-10c1
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abH1-U_voice_recorder
abKT-S_GR_Agora
[==v070310a002] 217 kb. The Operations Center {agora?} may be nothing more than a few components, tracking devices or
something like that. Or it may be more sophisticated. It may also point to writings that talk about operations. And it may
include any number of files that are called Operations Files. For example, Action Nodes – when you go from a Postpub page
and select the Action button you would find yourself in an Operations page.
07-03-10c2
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It may be throughout the site, where it really isn’t a piece of territory… but there really isn’t any such thing as territory anyway
– anything that’s classified as an Operations page would be part of the operations site.
07-03-09p
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
to 001. I have just invented the “Operations” portion of the site. I will be careful not to make too many references to it in other
postings, because it is an experiment that may fail. But my gut tells me it will not fail.
07-03-09o1
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
If the Synapsite section of the site is the least certain with respect to how much it will be used and what kind of impact it will
have, the Operations section is the least defined of the four sections. Operations is where the business of the site takes place,
predominantly online and overwhelmingly transparently. Operations pervades the entire site, not unlike the way energy
pervades the realm of physicality, but to the extent that it is centrally organized and managed, that takes place in the Operations
section of the site.
07-03-09o2
FMS-11111
In many ways this site will run itself. Invitations to do certain tasks will be posted, along with the terms (compensation,
requirements, etc) to do them, initiating action. The actions will predominantly require work that shows up in the form of
postings to the site, and may take little or no interaction that is not itself in the form of postings.
07-03-09o3
FMS-11111
If someone takes on an agreement to get a percentage of income from any advertising brought in for a posted book, he or she
does whatever he needs to to bring in the ads, but that will all be invisible to the author of the book. All the author will see is ads
will start to appear, income will start to flow from those ads, and the person responsible for landing the advertisement will, on
the basis of their contract with the author, receive a certain percentage of the income from that ad.
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The author may post a generic, broadcast request for anyone at all to bring in advertisements according to specified terms
(including restrictions on what kinds of ads can be placed), and attach those terms to every page he or she PostPublishes.
Anyone who sees and accepts the terms can place the advertising and get the contracted percentage of ad revenues, whether he is
in Peoria or in Belgrade. The whole transaction takes place through postings on GlobeRelate.
07-03-09n1
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abKT-S_GR_Agora
abES-S_GR_RTI's
What if all that “Operations” is as a part of the site is a system that accounts for invitations to do work, and then projects that are
initiated by the acceptance of such invitations? Or even if I add explanations of the system by which work is accomplished, and
the structures of invitations and acceptances?
07-03-09n2
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Do I dare, at this stage of the development of the site, to acknowledge that “Operations” is a work in progress, ill-defined to this
point? Isn’t it?
07-03-09m1
FMS-11111
abKT-S_GR_Agora
Should I say there are four components, and call the fourth “Action?” Production? Operations? Participation?
07-03-09m2
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aaXR-P_GR_text
“The fourth component of the site is called “Operation” and is focused on the business of building and operating GlobeRelate as
a site and as an organization. Elements of operation are closely attached to the other sections of the site…”
07-03-09m3
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abKB-S_GR_action_node__
If I have an “Action” button that someone selects, does that take you to the “Operations” section of the site? All it would take is
a label, perhaps along with some means of tracking all the action pages. Say I have a request to do some kind of action – shape
an XSM, edit or comment on a posted page of a book, write some software. Shouldn’t I be tracking such requests? And is
tracking them all that it takes to put such pages under the umbrella of “Operation?”
07-03-09m4
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Do I dare proceed with an “Operations” section without thinking it through a bit more? Wouldn’t it take a substantial bit of
redevelopment of the site if my thinking about that section turns out to be wrong? Or can I just be careful not to refer to it very
extensively in other writings until I am sure it is a go?
07-03-09d1
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abHR-S_GR_run_by_write_
abJH-U_GR_utility_buttons
abKT-S_GR_Agora
One aspect of this I should look at is that the serious development of the Utilities Buttons is a critical, and perhaps very creative
endeavor. This is not something I should go over lightly, this could actually be the engine of the action side of GlobeRelate.
This might be the key to making EPP and “run by write” actually happen.
07-03-09d2
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abEN-S_GR_biz_model
What I am saying is that the focus on getting the Utility Button Link functions so they are clearly defined, and set up to perform
specific tasks will be critical and worth considerable time and attention. This could be the structuring of an organization, the
DNA of a business model. The business could build itself out of the functions in the Utility Panel.
07-03-07h1
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abJH-S_GR_utility_buttons_
abKT-S_GR_Agora
abFZ-S_GR_contracts_posted
Right from the start I can have a “Biz” button on a page that takes you to the terms for different tasks that I am offering people
who want to take on various responsibilities. I can have a % of ad revenues, and a not-to-exceed amount for various tasks. For
example I could have the following:
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Not to Exceed / % / Task description:
$50 / 5% / Test all hyperlinks on this page, make sure they go to proper pages etc. Also, all have correct ScreenTips.
$15 / 5% / Correct grammer and spelling for this page, price is per correction (i.e. 2 corrections yields $30).
$150 - $300 / 20% / Major editing. Suggest better ways of expressing, point out what is not clear, etc.
$100-$300 / 20% / Selecting among the above, incorporating changes, directing income streams to people whose suggestions are
accepted (this person will be selected entirely at the discretion of the author, and is usually someone he has worked with).
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I could open this up to anyone to help me out (anyone who has an aSN). They have only to attach a comment to the page, like
anyone can submit a link or a passage page. These would simply be collected using a Linkdex, with the person making the
suggestion indicating by code which kind of input he/she is providing.
Also see: http://www.globerelate.com/Works/FMS/11111/091215bac
