{"id":77,"date":"2011-11-19T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T01:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2023-12-10T02:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T08:59:06","slug":"ventures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/ventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture Conception"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9661 \" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/vicblogwordcloud.png\" alt=\"vicblogwordcloud\" width=\"559\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/vicblogwordcloud.png 650w, http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/vicblogwordcloud-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: PERSONAL &amp; TEAM CONSULTING<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><em>Solutions for Organizational Design and Sustainable Innovation<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Discovery Colabs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* What is <a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/category\/collaborative-design1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaborative design<\/a>?<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/category\/sustainable-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainable business<\/a> created with a collaborative design facilitation process<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/category\/organizational-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Organizational learning concepts<\/a> applied to company development<br \/>\n*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2012\/03\/01\/sustainable-business-planning-workshop-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Business Planning Workshops<\/a>\u00a0(green company development support)<br \/>\n*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/DiscoveryColabs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collaborative Design Facilitation<\/a>\u00a0(with an online, distant network focus)<\/p>\n<p><strong>See My Concept Articles Below<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/DesotelleStartups.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Blog For Social Entrepreneur Startups<\/a> (new!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2012\/03\/01\/authentic-leadership-coaching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authentic Leadership Ecology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2012\/01\/05\/principles-of-regenerative-commerce\/\">Sustainable Innovation Through Regenerative Commerce<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>(also see <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110512150953\/http:\/\/discoveryfuel.com\/what-is-sustainable-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sustainability defined<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2012\/06\/26\/a-six-point-architecture-for-mapping-next-generation-innovation\/\">Next Generation Innovation Mapping<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2011\/12\/01\/concentrix-management-how-to-cross-pollinate-innovation-teams\/\">Concentrix Management<\/a> &#8211; Building Knowledge Capacity<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/category\/collaborative-design1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Models for Organizational Learning &amp; Change<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2012\/06\/22\/building-a-sustainable-enterprise-considerations-for-effective-application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building Sustainable Enterprise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/values\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal Values To Company Value Proposition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ChangingNormal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Changing Normal Culture Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Entrepreneurs For A Better World<\/strong>\u00a0(being redeveloped)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Recent Projects &amp; Activities<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">SOLUTIONS FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIC&#8217;S RECENT SOCIAL INNOVATION PROJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Want to work with someone who steps beyond the ordinary? &#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I often dive deep into the abyss seeking connection with something greater than my self. I love to swim in the seas of cultural mythology and global transformation. I go there because that is where new answers can be found. I am a quiet leader in my community, and a coach to social entrepreneurs who are asking to create world change. I reveal passion when another is intensely present with me, am a visionary of sorts, a social mythic, technical designer, creative innovator, and bit of a cultural misfit who can foresee new worlds to come. See my blog articles for more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STARTUPS FOCUSING ON <strong>SOCIAL CHANGE<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/DesotelleStartups.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9798\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-02-at-12.14.29-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-02 at 12.14.29 PM\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-02-at-12.14.29-PM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-02-at-12.14.29-PM-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/DesotelleStartups.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Desotelle Startups Design<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Designing the look of your website is only the beginning. You\u2019ll be surprised at what it takes to get your business going online. After all, it\u2019s not just a website, it\u2019s your business, which means there are many things to consider to get it right. Review below the things you need to address in the making of a good business website. Take a look at my ebusiness web design guideline and you\u2019ll see how much is involved with these 16 items in order to do it right.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9797\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/14842312-science-inventor-boy-cartoon-student-with-lab-coat-and-scientific-experiment-equipment-illustration-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"14842312-science-inventor-boy-cartoon-student-with-lab-coat-and-scientific-experiment-equipment-illustration\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/14842312-science-inventor-boy-cartoon-student-with-lab-coat-and-scientific-experiment-equipment-illustration-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/14842312-science-inventor-boy-cartoon-student-with-lab-coat-and-scientific-experiment-equipment-illustration-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2013\/12\/21\/how-to-facilitate-powerful-generative-team-meetings\/\">Discovery Colabs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collaborative Design Solutions Facilitated Online.\u00a0Unique Online Team Collaborations. Empowering Virtual Group Conferencing.\u00a0WE&#8217;RE IN THE LAB RIGHT NOW, CONJURING UP SOME MAGIC POTIONS !!\u00a0What are the keys to effective collaborative design? Shared conscious exploration, identifying collective patterns, participatory soul seeking, raising personal insight and potential, using technology to transform possibility into reality, humanizing our behavior, relational over informational context.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/cosmic_gc3_new.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9322\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/cosmic_gc3_new.gif\" alt=\"cosmic_gc3_new\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140517183401\/http:\/\/ofu2013.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Online Facilitation Unconferences<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Launched this year, it focuses on &#8220;<em>Facilitation Across Time and Space: How to Create Change Through Virtual Environments<\/em>&#8220;. As an expert in facilitation and online collaboration environments, I am helping the &#8216;un&#8217;conference developments. This approach is catching hold as a new way to empower participants beyond just receiving information to authoring it themselves and sharing it more powerfully. I believe it is will become one of the better frameworks to formulate new kinds of social innovation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/slide-1-425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9019 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/slide-1-425-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"slide-1-425\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Intellitics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Intellitics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Founded upon the premise that apart of humanity&#8217;s trials are from a lack of deeper connection with each other before decisions and action. We provide online technology and services that help groups move together with the goal of informing better decision making through group mind.\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/Zilino.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Zilino.com<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0is our product; an online technology platform for advancing dialogue and connection before decisions and production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/VisionAndGuidingPrinciples.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9020\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/VisionAndGuidingPrinciples-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"VisionAndGuidingPrinciples\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ingenuity.pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">inGENuity Innovation Centers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">An evolution from business\/tech incubators, inGENuity is a community-based world-wide network of innovation centers committed to\u00a0creating a conscious wisdom culture based in sustainable design and social innovation. The proto-type is being developed in St. Helens Oregon USA.\u00a0This year we have applied for the <a href=\"http:\/\/challenge.bfi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Bucky Fuller Design Challenge Award<\/a>\u00a0using my <a href=\"http:\/\/ingenuity.pro\/bucky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">whole-systems community design framework<\/a> for enhanced communications &#8211; a design ecology system that improves innovation decision-making.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/EliminateHomelessness.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-06-19 at 5.44.02 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-06-19-at-5.44.02-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ProjectHomeful.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">ProjectHomeful.com<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/startsomegood.com\/projecthomeful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Crowdsource Fund<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eliminating Homelessness:\u00a0Its mission is to reframe the focus on creating home solutions through open sourced collaboration, rather than gated groups with limited resources, to eliminate the concept of a person not having a home, as it becomes a social\u00a0imperative\u00a0(rather than a community problem) to heal humanity&#8217;s wounds by making sure that everyone has a home; everyone has a place in this world. Please sign up at site for updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/shoptobegreen2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9220\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/shoptobegreen2-125x150.jpeg\" alt=\"shoptobegreen2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ShopEverythingGreen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ShopEverythingGreen.com is an eco store provider of products and services relating to the green marketplace through the selling of sustainable green product lines. It\u2019s primary objective is to provide green consumers a one stop shop to learn about green consumerism and to offer products that meet their green shopping and purchasing needs. We only offer green products from companies going green and eco friendly companies whose focus is on manufacturing products using eco friendly materials and eco friendly technology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-77\" data-postid=\"77\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-77 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: PERSONAL &amp; TEAM CONSULTING Solutions for Organizational Design and Sustainable Innovation Discovery Colabs * What is collaborative design? * Sustainable business created with a collaborative design facilitation process * Organizational learning concepts applied to company development *\u00a0Green Business Planning Workshops\u00a0(green company development support) *\u00a0Collaborative Design Facilitation\u00a0(with an online, distant network focus) See My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7WmHn-1f","builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":193,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10863,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/10863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}