43 Tools | About Sustainopreneurship - 'How?'

Is silence a tool?

I wonder how you do when you do nothing.

I wonder how you hear when you hear nothing.

I wonder how you can use silence as a means to reach higher ends of activity.

After all, in the world where there seems to be no limit to what creativity can stretch, and e. g. new web apps are generated once-in-a-minute alpha-beta-gamma versions, and Facebook owns you (or at least your attention ;), will time offline be the sparks of space where the truly big and generative insight breakthroughs appear?

Fixed like glue at the screen, I have experienced that you mostly are a trap of old pattern and thoughts just doing what you do the same manner as yesterday, while actually just go and wash the dishes can make you think the unthinkable, and taking a shower gets you to a new idea you never had visited in your over-noised head before.

Just some thought - silence maybe is the best way to separate very silent, almost humming, little signals from the noise you get drowned in.

So - off this blog, out and think the unthinkable, before you do the undoable!

Peace,
Anders

PS. My list of "these tools I do use" will be published as a big update, now when I found my everydayness web experience merge, and listing "Web 2.007" as this year's list. Actually, that name came to me while writing this blog post. Maybe it was latent while I was sleeping, who knows? Now, I brought it to surface :). DS.

STICKY BLOG: Intro to the 43 Tools Blogging

NOTE: This blog is not updated anymore. The topic it covered has moved to the Main Blog Notes from a Sustainopreneur, e. g. categorized "Tools - Approaches - Enablers", or "Social Media".

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Hi, Dear Visitor and Reader,

Where do you come from? Why did you end up here?

You could always step forward and add yourself a comment to this Top Post - yes, Always On Top, featured - if you find yourself and your stream of life worth traceable for me :).

Six questions, answered.

? What it is...

This blog, http://blog.43tools.com, is a complimentary blog, living side by side, on equal terms in importance and dignity, to my main one (Sustainopreneurship Dot Biz), where tools here covers the actual and practical means on how to reach a sustainable world mainly through business activity and creative results-oriented organizing - Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Sustainability. Business with a Cause. Sustainability Entrepreneurship. Sustainopreneurship.

In other words, if my main blog Notes from a Sustainopreneur focuses 'what' with current development of entrepreneurship and innovation for sustainability, 43tools blog covers 'how'.

Many of the tools and approaches for sustainopreneurship shares entrepreneurial tools at large, so the degree of generalization for principles and practices goes beyond sustainopreneurship. Entrepreneurship in general is strongly interpreted as "creative organizing", and given the developments especially with the world wide web circulating the internet infrastructure - a machine now beyond its 5000th day, and still no downtime, talk about technical sustainability! - the creative opportunities on how to do stuff with web applications and services is quite focused on this blog.

In fact, entrepreneurship in general is challenging, but entrepreneurship for sustainability is even more challenging, and thus gets even more dependent on creativity in the organizing process. Branding, networking, collaborating, promoting - all has to be extremely quick and cost-effective since sustainopreneurial ventures have both harder time to get the people with the right mindset and also must find beyond mainstream methods for promotion, due to the scarceties of good people and good, patient money for financing. And the message of 'business with a cause' is somewhat a reconstruction using business means to solve world problems, the 'not-for-profit mindset' commitment for the cause coupled with a 'for-profit business professionalism' in the doing - hybrid defined as 'for-prosperity' businesses.

So, talking about tools. This is the 'tool colophon' for this blogging and webbing: It is a blog that uses a blog tool from Typepad, www.typepad.com, a blog that got inspired by its name from 43things, 43places, 43folders etc, originally from David Allen's practical and hands on approach to get things done.  A static Web Page is created by using Google Pages, www.googlepages.com: http://www.43tools.com, a domain name registered through www.godaddy.com and redirected to the page using Google Pages. And yes, in that page comes a summary revoiced in the sidebar here.

As you see, along the way here - I refer to tools used in the process, so it is basically and literally taking to practice the ideas developed and covered since maybe the "difference engine" (the proto-computer made by Charles Babbage in the 19th C) was invented, as the greatest step since Gutenberg in info dissemination.

The semantic web is here, and the tools are there to take us further, maybe to reinvent ourselves in the end.

! Yes.

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? Why is it...

Maybe a YouTube (www.youtube.com)  illustration works better from the guys behind Digital Ethnography - an Action Research community. Where YouTube is one of the 43tools in this respect, that helps us share moving pictures that would be making the Lumiere brothers stunned in awe and amazement! This creates a back-bone in the rationale to use virtual tools in the focus of virtual organizing, and thus the focus on virtualities here on this blog!

? Where is it...

It is here, through http://blog.43tools.com, and maybe also a Wiki is commencing over time. But there is alot of related stuff going on in this arena, to say the least. This blog is not about technology, is a blog about people, working - living - loving - sharing - creating - together.

And stuff to help us do so. Sometimes technological. In that order. People first.

? When it is...

I post in the manner when stuff actually enters my everyday life, a direct experience, and when I create distance and reflection around the tools as well, after some period of use. Also, too look beyond the obvious, and also collating stories where the interaction in between different tools are creating good work-flow stories and illustrative anecdotes. There are alot of buzz and review sites for all the literally thousands of tools that shows up, and I have no priority to go there in that hive in that manner with several blogs a day.

I would rather post in the manner e. g. one of the most influentual blogger in this arena, the creator behind TechCrunch, does annually - "Web apps I could not live without". Tried, tested, filtered, and entry to everydayness. He ends up in the two annual lists so far with maybe 20+ apps. Of thousands.

In general: Who would question a phone today? Yeah, we cannot live without it.

But for the recent snap-shot and shared discoveries, I refer to my blinklist with tag 43tools for the significant late timestamped discoveries, that blows my mind in the first impression!

http://www.blinklist.com/andersabrahamsson/43tools

But! The blogging takes a wider approach when blogs and articles are posted in the main stream post! Sometimes even philosophical in the midst of the practical and applied. Also, offline approaches to things, such as meeting facilitation methods and self-organizing practice is explored - on how to create, collaborate and organize.

? How is it...

It is scanning stuff that enters "Anders' World" start page I have in my Flock browser (www.flock.com - "the browser for me and my friends" - a Firefox on Steroids! - where the My World Page of Flock is customized to be exactly that - my workd!). Two streams are there - my friend's updates from Facebook and Twitter imported and the RSS Feeds subscribed to. There, I have my discoveries.

? Who is...

Whois? Isn't that a service that helps us to see who is behind a Domain Name Registration? Is there a Whois for People Identities? How can we upload our identity? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? How can we transfer ourselves without missing the vitals of our beings through the net?

As you see - I love questions more than answers, and that is certainly a part of "me" - but just for the sake of "me"-ing, I have a collection of ID tools online-wise at different spots - Typepad about page, Wink, ClaimID etc.

And the sum of my deeds and the rest of me is greater than me since I am not alone in this world, in the same manner as the sum of ourselves in the community is greater than "we".

So I would rather go beyond "me" as often as I can, since "me" is a trap where collective intelligence never can evolve if "me" is only voiced. Thus, I hope the Wiki to evolve over time. Begin by comment here or trackback there, if you find this stream attracting you.

Abrahamsson, tooled. But, anyways - I would let you go to the About link, just to have a summary, and maybe also www.slice.nu for the brand I use as the entity / identity I keep as the formal "sender" for this - SLICE Service and Publishing™ - one of the five ventures I am part of running (link is going to a graphical illustration to relate the ventures in a simple format using CMAP - conceptual mapping - I call it my Action Map).

For the real-time format, I am streamed online in Twitter format as well, where this blog is fed as well through twitterfeed upon new posting - http://www.twitter.com/sliceonline :). My twitter feed is  quite focused only on my professional adventures, whereas I have some private/personal streams (blog, microblog and mobile mediablog) named Etwas Anders. To include ALL professional and personal/private streams into one aggregated feed, I have a lifestream over at Friendfeed - http://friendfeed.com/andersabrahamsson.

At Slice Dot Nu I have a website in an extended business card format, which actually uses the four pages of my physical business card on each of the four pages as picture headers :).

So, that's it.

Enjoy!

Peace,
Anders

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NOTE: This post was orignally posted 27MARCH2007, and re-edited and updated 22AUGUST2008.

Capitalizing on Creative Commons - relaying a warning from Seth Godin

I mailed Seth Godin today, on prompt from Amazon on his "new" book Everyone is an Expert, that in fact launched as an ebook under Creative Commons licensing: I was wondering what was "new" about it.

It was not new. Don't buy it.

He explained why today in his blog. So - don't buy the book - download it for free and do not waste money on the book. Make money on the website it points to as a background book motivating for the launch - Squidoo. To double on the use and leverage on the content - use HubPages too - they are complimentary. Squidoo seems to be great for SEO your keywords, like Sustainability Entrepreneurship, but HubPages right now is better it seems, getting it to the first page (Squidoo to the second). Collectively, they've made those keywords 1.1m hits together, pointing to the ideas I want leverage to in relation to these - you know it: Sustainopreneurship :).

And Amazon: If you don't take away that book from your assortment - or point to the book where you get it for free - I will take away my Amazon contextual ads from this blog!

Peace,
Anders

Addendum [Feb 11]: I have responded re: the moral/legal issue (down below). The licence chosen does not prevent someone to make commercial work of it legally, but I think it is morally dubious to capitalize on it anyways, and also to claim the book to be "new" when in fact it was published 2005 in the first place. Moreover, Amazon has let the comment stay in their own page you can get it for free by download - now it is up to the Amazon customer to make her choice. Still, of Business Ethics reasons, I stick to the encouragement to get it off the shelves as I pointed to Amazon, especially since the author himself informs us what is at hand.

Transparency > Trust > Transaction applied: My Netvibes!

A business rule for this 21st century: Transparency creates trust that leads to transaction.

So, walking the talk; I share with you the start page that meets me, my personal dashboard: Netvibes.com! Great tool! Add your files (sign up for www.box.net for a 1GB virtual hard drive first!), some time around the world, some tabbed feeds to what you keep track of, some search, your Writely documents (online Word app). Etc. And maybe your life still is imagined to be in order. Anyways, this makes it feel so :).

Tipper's List Created - using Web Apps

When the acquisitions (big money) and start-up's (small, many) in the web application arena (Web 2.0 concept is almost so dissolved I feel like stop using it, all blur - I will talk in specifics from now on within this Bubble 2.0 time), is competing to have most frequent every-dayness, I will end up to use a few. In practice. And to try to separate the gold from the ore.

I will collect the app's I end up using and like, and also some other worth noting, by tracing my RSS Feeds from www.newsgator.com e. g. from TechCrunch.

And, by the way, Newsgator, my online feed-reader, has not yet changed its name to www.123new.s.gatr.us to keep in tune with how NAMING companies by remixing all main trends ha ha - I will post separately with this naming frenzy, and the how's of naming to stick out when everyone is competing to stick out, pinging some interesting sources for further digest.

It's not in the name, it is in the usability and value. For the user. Stupid.

For the last, you might even be prepared to pay. Good thing, right? Revenue from other sources than Goooooooooooooooooogle AdRave, or what was the name of that service ;)?

So.

If y0u appreciate what I do (e. g. my blogging), and also to see this collection of the frequently-used web apps (and my tippers - transparent and the Anon #XX to come) - take a peek at the tipper's page, and consider to add yourself ;).

Workflow:

1. Listings in Irows
2. Embedded in Writley (no need to go to writely for updates)
3. Tipping is driven by PayPal (PayPal button made with Blogflux)

All found through a re-direct from http://tips4tunes2.djanders.info.

Thanks :) !

Yikes! I frapprd me!

And I just did the "add friends already on frappr" thingie by the Yahoo Address Book import. Inviting the others soon, when my LinkedIn update/broadcasted has been completed.

*gaaah*

I need a break. And rest.

Just wanted to shout out that to the whole world. Or at least the blog-o-sphere part of the world, or the part of the blog-o-sphere finding your way here.

Why are you reading this? Get outside!

Or are you outside? Lucky you. WiFi connected, huh? Or 3G? Or what?

Reading my mind?

Don't think so. I have a Lead Cap On. Pb. Plumbum.

Really heavy.

No thoughts to be catched by me for the coming month or so. Just to let you know :).

Peace på Dig,
Anders

My new Internet start page...

Click to enlarge :).

If you are curious of the content of the full post written from this publisher's view of my weblog service Typepad, see below :).

Rikard

Rikard
Originally uploaded by andersabrahamsson.

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One of my closest friends. Photo taken with the device Motorola A925, a third generation mobile communication smartphone integrated with a PDA. Remember when a phone was a phone, only, and you only used it for talking?

It was transferred to a computer, uploaded to my new account as of today with www.flickr.com, and posted directly to one of my weblogs after configuring it.

Online worlds and social networking using this mode and media just got a little more exciting :). Where will it end?

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You can view my profile at flickr and my public photos at http://www.flickr.com/people/65889456@N00/

There are some privacy levels too, family and friends levels besides the public. See you there!

Google for 3G and Blackberry

If you surf with mobility, there is a rather little known minimalistic Google found here (ad free as well);

http://www.google.com/ie

Works great with my Motorola A925! And does not consume so much bandwidth on the rather expensive per MB network www.tre.se.