I met Jon Ramer recently at the Planetwork Conference. I introduced myself because I was impressed with his paper on Weaving Our Strategies Together (PDF), which develops a systems perspective on the issue of how organizations partner with each other. I have enormous concerns about the costs of collaboration and how they serve to isolate organizations from valuable connections and coordination. Ramer and his co-author Greg Steltenpohl move that conversation forward by looking at the social protocols of partnership formation
Excellent paper. Note Jon's connection with Michael Herman and the Open Space Giving Conference group.
I really need to catch up on Interra. Eugene of Blue Oxen tells me that Identity Commons and Interra and the two big success stories to emerge from PlaNetwork in 2001, and now starting to bear fruit.
Very synchronistic. It must be a sign.
Posted by: Gerry | August 19, 2004 at 01:08 AM
Looks like Interra is now getting launched with the first bit of funding place. The plans are quite ambitious, and they have well known people working on it.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | August 19, 2004 at 03:32 PM