Season's Greetings from your Cluster Action/Research Networks!

Breaking News! Your next Cluster is 15 Jan 2010. The theme is Open Enterprise Mashups http://www.emusummit.com/. (See Invitation below.)

The start of 2010 marks the second decade of continuous leadership and innovation for your global Cluster Action/Research Networks.

The original, circa 1990s focus and direction of your clusters was knowledge management (KM). This focus was important to transform smoothly from the 20th Century's mechanical, process engineering mindset to the complex knowledge ecosystems of the 21st Century.

Today, because of the enormous importance and explosive growth of networks, markets, media, integration, connection and complexity, a number of  new, major, 'vertical' knowledge clusters have emerged, in addition to KM. There has been factor growth in your cluster population. The future is obviously very important to people! It is also critical for knowledge, business, the enterprise, investors, economics, government, the environment and civil society. For example, join your cluster vertical on collective intelligence and prediction markets cluster with this link:

http://www.pmcluster.com/Prediction%20Markets/email.htm

As a member of your global clusters and action/research networks, you will be invited to activate and participate in your low-cost, high-value vertical clusters. (See invitation below.) Meanwhile, clusters always take this time of year to strengthen your community vision, renew its commitment to you and reinforce its mission, goals and objectives.

Clusters were founded in the 1990s on one principle only: deliberate, periodic transorganizational collaboration and diverse, authentic conversation is good for people and great for business.

A decade of clusters has proven open conversations in group settings, in attractive surroundings, at low-cost and with high standards drives innovation and prosperity in the knowledge economy. For participants, sponsors and speakers, clusters achieve fundamental advancements in knowledge through authentic conversation. Higher-order connections nourish collective intelligence and propels breakaway innovation. Cluster participation sustains lasting transformation through diverse interactions and new relationships.

Clusters themes are future-focused and practical. They are set by leaders, innovators and sponsors only. They are not set by the establishment, vendors or bureaucrats. Specifically, your Cluster themes precede the typical content found at expensive, hype-fueled PowerPoint conferences. In short, Clusters provision you with the essential content, context, connections, conversations and collaboration to achieve sustained innovation and prosperity.

Sponsors' first and only priority are on Next Practices -fast moving, critical methods and technologies poised to have an enormous business and enterprise impact. Enterprise Next Practices include collective intelligence, social media, network analysis, business visualization, open mashups, prediction markets, complexity science and organizational narrative.

By in large you will not find cluster themes in any depth at your dull, commercial conferences. Cluster's specifically focus on early-stage innovations. This allows participants to pursue, accelerate and achieve a competitive advantage through confident, timely adoption of innovative Next Practices.

In 1998, Cluster sponsors published their built-to-last foundational charter. It has not changed in a decade. It is as follows -

"Clusters are fluid, organic, rhythmic collaboration and open action/research networks. They are ad hoc, spontaneous and proximate conversation. Clusters are 100% led by participants. Colonizing themes in a day-long conversation is your only modality. Regional sponsors vary from quarter to quarter. Governance originates from the network only. Above all, Clusters have the highest standards for venues, speakers, meals, participants and thought leadership. The modest participant sponsorship nourishes the network and provides sustainability, independence, rhythm and continuity."

Unlike big conferences in huge hotel ballrooms and exotic locations, Clusters are federated, distributed and network-based. Unlike mega-watt industry forums with comedians and movie actors, Clusters are conversational, not presentational. Unlike crowded, expensive symposia, Clusters are low-cost, intimate, popular and very effective.

Cluster sponsors and participants know what social scientists, entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders know and have proven over and over: intelligence and innovation inhabits complex social networks. They are accessed, realized by continuously developing your connected mesh of diverse relationships through authentic conversation.

Cluster feedback is always uniformly positive and enthusiastic. It goes like this, from a participant-sponsor, "Clusters are excellent. They allow me the essential 'time-out' to think, reflect and develop new models for growth." See other testimonials from participants and sponsors.

Testimonials: http://bit.ly/5bFIcq

Finally, besides being very busy with your Cluster leadership retreats, I am pleased to report ValueNetworks.com is going strong. You are encouraged to visit us, subscribe and begin exploring value networks for all your business activities.

Happy holidays and warm regards,

John

John Maloney, co-founder
Value Networks, LLC
Mail:http://1id.com/=jheuristic
Web: http://www.valuenetworks.com
Blog: http://networksingularity.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jheuristic
Tel: 714-784-0754
Fax: 415.276.6074
IM/Skype: jheuristic

Cluster Update From Jennifer Hulett

I want you to know about your next Cluster Action/Research event, the Enterprise Mashups Summit - http://www.emusummit.com/. Your event is on Friday, January 15th, 2010, in San Francisco, California USA.

Enterprise mashups are essential to knowledge management, integration, agility, innovation and customer delight. Investments in mashup technology and enterprise deployments are growing extremely fast. Enterprise mashups are fast becoming the most common form of access to enterprise knowledge and back-end services. They propel the essential social computing strategies of the future and achieve seamless and secure business interoperability.

The Enterprise Mashups Summit is the first meeting of the popular Open Mashup Alliance - http://openmashup.org/. Join BofA, HP, Adobe, and many other enterprise leaders in defining and shaping the future of enterprise integration, knowledge management, information technology and operational excellence.

Click Here to Register for the Summit

Press, academic and student discounts are also available.

The Enterprise Mashups Summit leadership retreat expands practice excellence for enterprise integration methods, techniques, applications and technologies. This is achieved by providing awareness, diffusion, adoption and Next Practices. The Enterprise Mashups Summit community defines and leads the open integration practices, tools and theories of the 21st Century Enterprise.
Please contact me, Jennifer Hulett, directly with questions or further details.

Most cordially,
Jennifer

Jennifer Hulett, Administration and Events

http://www.emusummit.com/

jennifer.hulett@emusummit.com

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