What is the best standard format for Next Edge challenge/opportunity profiles?
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Link | Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 | Option 3 | Option 5 | Option 6 | Option 7 | Option 8 | Option 9 | Option 10 | Story Format | BEEx.org |
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| Title | Emergent Cities Format | Openworld Format | Shrupti Shah's Format | Social Impacts Format | CoCreatr Format | Oya Demirli's Format | Next Edge Gazetteer Format | Good Capital Format | ABCDayton Format | Public Sphere Format | Story Format | BEEx.org Format |
| Format | 1. Who else has bought into this project? 2. Why are you doing this project? How does it connect to your personal story? 3. Who are you? 4. What have you achieved yet? 5. What's the key obstacle right now - what do you need? 6. How are you working? (Open/closed, hierarchical/flat, etc.) 7. What are some projects similar to this one? | 1. What's your attractor? (one-liner) 2. What challenge or tension is prompting your initiative? 3. What opportunity exists to transcend the tension? 4. What is your strategy or path to realize this opportunity? 5. What tests can confirm the path? 6. What decision do you want us to take next? [fuller version] What is the track record of the initiators? Who are confirmed and potential allies? What are likely sources of resistance? What are related examples? - Past - Current - Future (link to related prediction wagers) | 1. What do you seek to do? 2. Who do you seek to do it with and where? 3. What are the key differentiators of your model and what are the results/ early indicators? 4. What is the context within which your model works? 5. What does it rely on and what is it vulnerable to? | 1. What are the Benefits? (subjective value created for
individuals) 2. What are the Outcomes? (measurable changes in the status of the target group - "social impacts") 3. What are the Outputs? (products that influence outcomes) 4. What are the Processes? (the workflow and rules that organize people, equipment and resources in creating outputs) 5. What are the Inputs? (raw materials, funding, people, tools etc) 6. What are the Intentions? (the reasons people feel moved to take action - again this level is not measurable except by each individual affected ) | 1. What are the topics of interest? 2. What is the abstract or overview? 3. What are the values and vision? 4. What is the relative relevance? 5. What to do next? | 1. What are the Goals? 2. What are the Objectives? 3. What are the Outputs? 4. What are the Outcomes? 5. What are the Multipliers? | 1. What is the organization doing it? 2. Who runs it? How do we contact you? 3. What do you do? 4. What are your near term goals? 5. What help are you willing to offer allied Next Edge projects? 6. What do you need from other Next Edge projects? 7. Are you a profit making enterprise or a non-profit charity / amateur network? 8. Is government part of the solution? Or part of the problem? 9. Is capitalism part of the solution? Or part of the problem? 10. Are the super-wealthy (billionaires, oligarchs) part of the solution? Or part of the problem? 11. Are you expecting global climate change? How are you planning for it? 12. Are you expecting a near-term energy crunch (peak oil etc.)? How are you planning for it? 13. Are you expecting a near-term economic crash (collapse of the dollar etc.)? How are you planning for it? [additional] Evaluations from editors: - Does this organisation seem to be active in the last year? - Has this organisation impressed you by its achievements in the last year? | 1. Why is this important/ valuable? 2. Why is your approach the one to go with? 3. Why are you the person to do it? | 1. What is the mission? 2. What will success look like? 3. What are funding & in-kind resource needs to get there? (startup and operations) 4. What are uses of proceeds? 5. What is the value proposition? 6. What is the marketspace? 7. What challenges are addressed? 8. What is the product/service offering? 9. What is the organization? 10. What are the next steps? | 1. What is the problem? 2. What is the context? 3. What is the discussion? 4. What is the solution? 5. What is the summary? ["verbiage for the pattern card"] 6. What is the pattern status? | 1. What is the story you want to change? 2. What is the story you want to create? 3. What is your personal story? 4. What kind of help do you need? | 1. Catchy Title 2. Teammates 3. Benefiting Organization 4. Goal (Money) 5. We you 'will' do 6. Description 7. End Date 8. Location If it's a Cluster add: 1. Cluster Name 2. Cluster Goal 3. Cluster Description 4. Select which fields are optional |
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| Suggestions to improve | Suresh Fernando: what about questions etc that relate to the actual substance of the project?... what it tries to accomplish and why | |||||||||||
| Creator's comments | Seb Paquet (@sebpaquet) Those interest me less. The 'why' (Q.2) is actually enough for me. And in a chaotic environment, the 'what' is usually subject to multiple pivots anyhow. | Mark Frazier (@openworld) | Shrupti Shah (@shrupti) | Vernon Weckwerth | Bern Nurnberger (@cocreatr): To be swift and simple, this requires
an information presentation network with high re-usability of
content. And a mix of self- organizational factors, some of which
can be found in a professional setting. Ask me about tools after
this article. is.gd/... | Oya Demirli | Phil Jones | Kevin Jones (@kevindoylejones) | Mark Frazier (@abcdayton) | Douglas Schuler | Curtis Faith (@inflector) | |
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