« Joel Greenberg in Tech Monday | Main | Taking Twitter a little too seriously? » Catching upThis week I've been focused on business, Bootstrap, and sustainability. On the business side, I've been thinking about the reorganization of Polycot into two divisions – my division will be focused primarily on consulting and will work with strategic partners (including the other division) on development projects. The other division will be devoted to fairly large web development projects with Ruby on Rails as the platform. Both divisions will be working in the social media/online community space. On the consulting side, David Swedlow and I were discussing this week how we'll be focusing as much or more on the social aspect of the web as on technology. The Austin-based Bootstrap Network is growing and evolving, and part of my role there is coordinating the online social network, working with Small World Labs, and evolving the online network's relationship to the physical social network(s). There's quite a bit to do to here. Bijoy, David Swedlow and I met with Michael Wilson of Small World Labs this week to clarify our relationship and process for coevolving the site with the organization. Sustainability is popping up in various corners of my professional life as well as in avocational pursuits, like the work I'm doing editing Worldchanging Austin. I can't really talk about everything that's going on because it's not all fully baked, and some of it involves projects that other people are brewing that are still confidential. What I can say is that a sustainability economy is emerging and Austin is probably destined to be a significant hub of that economy and the community that forms within it. There are several organizations I want to work more with, including the Clean Energy Incubator (where I had more of a relationship earlier in the decade, when I was part of the Austin Clean Energy Initiative, and Flow, which I've been looking at for several months – check out the pdf with the Flow Ethos of Interaction and, if you know me, you'll understand why I'm interested. Nothing really new there, but there's never much new under the sun, where ideas are concerned – however execution is another matter. Photo: One of the wildflower photos I shot near Inks Lake last weekend. I'm a sucker for Indian Blanket (though I confuse 'em with Indian Paintbrush, as when I named this jpg). jon posted this at 10:54 PM |
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