Interaction and Sharing Information
citizen-ecosystem's web presence operates on the basis that sharing information fosters an environment that promotes cooperation, which in turn leads to an open exchange of different points of views, that result in the creation of new and improved set of ideas for all to benefit from.
citizen-ecosystem's web presence includes:
Following a blog structure, the Garden "of ideas" serves as an online repository for sustainable solutions that members of the company come across through their daily systemic research and can act as a valuable source of information. It provides a simple and effective method to capture and process solutions in a raw state before a proper assessment is conducted. It serves as a first filter to prioritize the most promising solutions and through the "comments feature" it offers the possibility to gain direct insight on how a particular solution is perceived and how it can be modified and improved.
The objective of the website is to build a network of qualified like minded professionals that come from a wide array of disciplines. It is mainly formed by individuals that have directly worked or collaborated with members of the company and whose qualifications have been carefully reviewed and assessed. However citizen-ecosystem is constantly searching for talented and committed professionals, that provide the company with a broader global perspective and enables it to work in other regions. Benefiting from today's flexible working arrangements, project teams are specially assembled to meet each client's unique circumstances and network members are brought in to fill specific needs required by each project. Most of the network assets coexist within the company's core group, which consists of experts from different fields, including economics, public policy, environment, business and social affairs.
As part of the company's daily systemic research, the netvibes information observatory provides personalized pages with constantly updated information relevant to the firm's areas of interest. By putting together different data feeds grouped according to topic, project or function, the company is able to build thematic quality sources of information than can be easily monitor and tracked. Each page (tab) is publicly shared and published in the netvibes ecosystem for anyone interested in having access to this filtered information. Internally, it also allows through the use of rss feeds to track changes within the team, such as latest files uploaded, scheduled meetings and recently saved bookmarks.
Just like the netvibes information observatory, del.icio.us is another tool used in the daily systemic research process. Team members use it to collect and organize bookmarks that are relevant and useful to the entire company. Each project is assigned a unique tag in order to provide the online references on which we are basing our work. Additionally, like many other web sites (digg, TechMeme, BlinkList, etc.) it provides a good insight on the latest trends in any particular subject. To get a pulse on what the company is generally interested in or currently working on, visit us at del.icio.us.
Web searching has become the main source for gathering information, however the only lasting evidence of this effort is generally in the form of bookmarks or clippings. With all the time that is being spent in searching and together with the fact that the web is overloaded with information, it has become crucial to foster organizational learning at a web searching level. citizen-ecosystem's personalized search engines offer the ability to search for content from a list of previously specified web sites selected by company members and allow to narrow the search to sites with proven value and trust. They allow users to search pre-defined topical search engines that are the result of previous web searching efforts.
- citizen-ecosystem @ Second Life (coming soon)
- Plazes citizen-ecosystem radar (coming soon)
