Just a bit of a progress report… more substantial stuff to come soon!

Along with re-designing the website (yet again) and working on identity & positioning there are a few other things currently happening.

The first is that I’ll be speaking about “digital democracy” as part of Media Awareness Week at London’s Central Public Library. That’s November 5. There’s a promotional poster here, the library’s listing is here, and there’s more info on the content of the talk here.

Then you’ll find me trying to pull-off a somewhat more exuberantly original presentation at the SMarts (Social Media for the Arts) Conference at Museum London. That’s Saturday November 14 and there’s more info here — but I’m keeping everything to do with the talk itself very quiet for now.

There’s also a new reading group coming together in London to brainstorm & critique the practical implications of some high profile ideas pertaining to social media. I’m personally looking forward to those discussions and hope to learn not just from the books but from the collaborative experience.

Meanwhile I’m trying to put together a document — a book, hopefully — outlining the philosophical background behind all of this… Challenging but fun.

And with that you’ll see very soon some clearer descriptions of the Open Conceptual enterprise model, as well as its related practices and methodologies. Once everything is a little more formalized we can get on with really putting it into action and seeing exactly what works and what opportunities there are for improvement.

As of now there’s a lot to be done but the site should be ship-shape by the end of this weekend. Once that’s settled there will be more content coming through here — and more genuine action emanating from that.

Big thanks for your patience and support.

-Brian

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First off, if you’re reading this via the Open Conceptual Essays RSS feed then you’ll want to add http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrianFrank to your subscriptions. For the past 9 months, after I merged 2 blogs together in September, I’ve been syndicating content from the same blog (brianfrank.ca) into the two different FeedBurner URLs.

Now I’m diverging again. The feed for this blog will still be http://feeds.feedburner.com/OpenConceptual

Posts at BrianFrank.ca will be more of what you’re used to, while posts here at Open/Conceptual Studio will be like what I’ve been doing at LDNbeta.ca: shorter, more blog-like posts — more curation than writing. 

I’ll explain more of what this is about over the coming days, weeks, months. I can’t really compose all of my thoughts about it at once yet. Generating discussion helps. For now, there are a lot of bits and pieces spread through my various archives:

• Learning is Personal, Knowledge is Social, Truth is an Adventure
• LDNbeta’s Evolving Vision
• The New Pragmatist 
• Keeping the Love of Learning Alive
• Preface to Résumé/Manifesto
• The Practice of Theory
• Draft Enterprise Model
• The Silicon Valley Model
• Philosophy of Enterprise
• Creative Philosophy
• Why I Have Principles
• Education and Creation for ‘Web 3.0′
• Creative Culture and Web 3.0 via Google Wave
• Creative Learning 

Here are some more key words and concepts I want to incorporate:

• social entrepreneurship
• post industrialism
• creative capitalism
• design thinking
• transformative innovation
• experience design
• open innovation
• digital intellectual resources
• social media
• open government
• creative cities
• cultural evolution
• positive psychology
• behavioural economics
• libertarian paternalism
• experimental philosophy
• pragmatism
• process philosophy
• emergent epistemology
• customer service (no joke)

• and wherever it all crosses paths…

I’m kind of excited for this move because Open Conceptual is where I started. It was the first domain I registered a little over 2 years ago. I’ve been conceptualizing it for over 5 years (not the site, but the whole enterprise). It’s sort of a homecoming.

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