#002 – ‘Updates happens all the time’ – Second and last whazzUP!date Newsletter blog
I have come to a conclusion related to this idea with a “newsletter blog” I played around with in thought last year in August. It was intended as a way to simplify for my “followers” to get snapshot updates in one space on the various and prioritized projects I play around with, with a strong attitude of “bloody serious creative fun” 
.
I feel that the idea got automatically abandoned beyond the lifestream reflow that came in conjunction in the lifeshift of moving to the new apartment shortly beyond #001 whazzUP!date, with the now fully furnished “ki-studio” – my playspace and dashboard for all the stuff I do. Things have developed differently.
Yes, Ki-Studio. Energy, in flow.
This is an old pic from the time we moved in. We still shuffle around to make it beyond chaotic and “presentable” to the world. Follow my partner’s home furnishing blog when the first pic of the “ki-studio” now done and furnished!
“Work” as a do-tag does not capture what I do. “Business” maybe, but not fully. “Research”, yes, coming close, but through (inter)action, learning from the participative deep immersion of all things I do through reflective practice – the “pracademic”. Hands on and analytical. Conversational think-doer. Whatever.
But all those do-tags, when it comes to its “update” possibility, on a project level, are just replaced with “lifestream”.
Periodic newsletters (or “newsblogs”) hereby filed as “experiments not taken forward”.
And that brings me to the conclusion that I better focus on project level and reduce the number of “brands” that I place “upfront” for you dear follower to digest. It’s better to replace it with the “tag-map” I published in its first version in the end of March. This is published on my lifestream page here on my personal web/hub.
![My #hashtag bias on things I tweet Why, What and How - with [energy sources/driving forces] - forming my "lifestream identity"](http://andersabrahamsson.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/sliceonline-tagbias-090327.jpg?w=376&h=255 "sliceonline-tagbias-090327")
- My #hashtag bias on things I tweet Why, What and How – with energy sources/driving forces
![My #hashtag bias on things I tweet Why, What and How - with [energy sources/driving forces] - forming my "lifestream identity"](http://andersabrahamsson.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/sliceonline-tagbias-090327.jpg "sliceonline-tagbias-090327")
This in order to be able to follow the tags related to the core content of the streams emerging mostly from the two “individual business brands” – the “me”-brands: SLICE Services and Publishing for all things related to ’sustainopreneurship’ and DJ Anders for all things related to ‘joy of life EDM’. And with proximity in between ’sustainopreneurship’/'musical expressions’ to the “we”-brand associated: AEREAS.
The “future” projects, yes – let them still be alive in idea and thought, but for the here-and-now I will take them down from the update/action map to reduce confusion.
That means, that the dynamic space, the “blog” part of this personal web on AndersAbrahamsson Dot Info directed from http://andersabrahamsson.info, will only be added with very short notes on when the pages of this web changes and gets edited – thus a natural update gets there when relevant! If this web changes somewhere, “anders abrahamsson” changes. With these main flows to follow elsewhere;
- Pro’ish “SLICE” + “DJ Anders” flow:- My main microblog (and as have been turned out and evolved to be, the steady everydayness core stream) – @sliceonline. Where I also include the DJ Anders-related stuff with microblog posts tagged #djanders. And when something #djanders-tagged shows up on @sliceonline, it gets auto-alerted through an auto-RT on @DJAndersAlerts. Mainly alerted when new gigs, tracklists and promo mixes are out! My promo mix archive is found at Soundcloud. The microblogging is bilingual – both English and Swedish.- My main “macroblog”, “Notes from a Sustainopreneur” is found on http://blog.slice.nu, redirected to my Typepad blog – where the focused project is to get a book together this year in its first full rough draft!
- Tumblelogging. In between the micro and macro streams the tumblelog with all stuff beyond 140 chars (and text) and less than 70 words (if not video, picture, graphic or animation), not so much focus on text in fact – “Snapshots from a Sustainopreneur”, with instantly shared discoveries in multimedia format, “portfolio style” on Tumblr. No “twitpics”, though. Mobpics instantly shared flows on “Mobile Media from a Sustainopreneur“ on Posterous.
- For the AEREAS part, there is a separate @aereas stream to follow, dominated by aggregated Twitterfeeds from the member’s blogs notified in real time when posted and crucial stuff from the community, Sustainopreneur’s Café. An emergence of collective and collaborative wisdom related to the research, education and practice of Sustainopreneurship. Soon coming to a Wikibook near you
.- The Swedish Streams. During this year, a decision evolved and execution was just done to get my Swedish blogging alive – very much of an implementation of my conceptual and action-driven evolving of “sustainopreneurship” into the Swedish context and culture. A translation, and dynamic adaption, in my native Tounge. I only share postings in Swedish on a macroblog; “En hållbarhetsentreprenör i dialog /sustainopreneurship på svenska/” (reasoning and reporting related to my five main tags sustainability, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and the social web in Swedish) and a tumblelog; “Kort och gott från en hållbarhetsentreprenör” (with live short comments multimedia oriented, and related to the same tags).
- Personal “Anders Abrahamsson”: There is only one “stream”, regardless of format, length, content and structure, that gets totally personal – and that is on “Etwas Anders” on Vox. Here I also archive my Daily Tweets, so I easily can revisit and dig among the tidbits I create, and look for patterns in my conversational, collaborative interaction and get ideas for aggregated distillations with output and outlets differing depending on content and context. Rough, in-between the Raw and Well Done, in-the-making.
And for the full stream of everything syndicated – my FriendFeed serves that purpose! It is found at http://friendfeed.com/andersabrahamsson. The raw feed from my Friendfeed is also syndicated to a tumblelog – http://andersabrahamsson.tumblr.com. More about that aspect on my Lifestream page here on the web.
That wraps up #002. And the end of something that never got to be systematic. And now I will Walk my Talk and update the rest of this web on its static pages, so the content and mentions of all in this update blog post is also reflected on the static web pages here on this web!
Thus, the format of the updates will be published when these updates have been done on this web!
In short – stay tuned! But all gets notified in real-time through feeding – both auto and manual – on @sliceonline!
Hi, and welcome to the first “andersabrahamsson’s WhazzUP!date” newsletter-blogpost!
The reason for me to publish this newsletter-formatted blog is to have one single spot to keep track on the most significant changes, events – and especially needs and wants! – for the five ventures I am initiator of and involved with.
The reason why I start to do this here and now is that all is set for executing, after 8+ years of action-based research on how to put sustainopreneurship into play in the most vibrant and efficient mode for proliferation from my side.
The target is to turn complexity into simplicity - and that you can go here (or, subscribe/get notified) to get a snapshot summary of all ventures related to my work associated to sustainopreneurship.
The blog postings will follow the same template format, so it will be simple and fast to trace it over time. Feedback always welcome on communication, as well as your questions! You get a quick guide to the format with a screenshot explaining the what’s and how’s of this newsletter blog on the dedicated page – ‘Posting Format Guide’!
Shortly – here is the format: One headline with logo, three bullets capturing keys of ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how/when’ as a quick guide, followed by a paragraph telling a little story on what has passed, current status, and near-future intentions. All is connected and all is complimentary in between the close-knit ventures emerging from one core concept – ’sustainopreneurship’!
Every venture entry and update ends with a note on
WANTS: – maybe the most important part for the newsletter! What is needed to make progress in the venture? Here you come into the scene! What resource do you sit on that is currently missing?
Introduction: All Things Sustainopreneurship -
Exploring, Empowering, Enacting, Entrusting, Enjoying!
♫ my intention is to ‘re:love the world’ through ’sustainopreneurship’
♫ 8+ years of ideas, research, action and reflection – now ready for next level!
♫ all needed to leverage my intention with ultimate power now identified
As mentioned, this is the primary motive to introduce this blog in a newsletter format. Five complimentary ventures have been identified to maximize results all levels and dimensions. To get the whole system pictured and to turn complexity to simplicity, I have used conceptual mapping software to get a one-page overview – the Action Map. And all of the events occurring in real time is covered in one so-called ‘lifestream’, 24/7 online – through FriendFeed. All is covered in the general About Page, here on this blog.
Now – let’s kick off the snapshot descriptions!
Explore ! – iÆREAS
♫ the master thesis of 2007 (my MSc BA) nailed the concept
♫ how to advance it introduced in a research conference paper
♫ paper to be published in mid-sept as a book chapter – iÆREAS is the research venture!
All research publications that has been published is now collated at the Scribd document archive. The book including a deeply and heavily edited version of the conference article above as a book chapter has now passed its final editing and will be published in the book released in conjunction with the “Entrepreneurship Week” arranged by FSF 15-19 September 2008 in Sweden on tour, with kick-off and biggest event in beautiful Tylösand, Halmstad – “The 4th International Entrepreneurship Research Award Winner Conference”. Theme of this year’s conference is “Globalization, Innovation and Entrepreneurship” and hosts seven winners of the “FSF-NUTEK Award – the International Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Award” from the line-up through the years, including the winner of the 2008 award (and my academic mentor) Bengt Johannisson, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Development, one of the two co-editors of the book my chapter appears in.
Organizing Sustainopreneurship Research. The book chapter, outlining a prospective future research agenda for sustainopreneurship, ends with introducing main resources for Sustainopreneurship Research: a virtual community, as well as a research association to be created. The community referred to is here, “Sustainopreneur’s Café”, as well as the research venture iÆREAS [web • blog]. You can also join the Facebook Group used for general Updates from the whole field – “Sustainopreneur’s Square”. An update on all research in more detail with background is introduced in my main blog on Sustainopreneurship – “Notes from a Sustainopreneur”:
[» read the july 2008 update blog post]
WANTS: Top priority for this venture:
• FOUNDING MEMBERS: There is a need to engage 150 founding interim members over the next 12 months. Details about this interim membership recruitment before constituting the association at an intended Sustainopreneurial Summit third quarter 2009 is found both at the website and as a special ki-project at the ki-work virtual work platform. The funding need for the first 12 months is dominated by the working capital needed for running and moderating the virtual community for core stakeholders of sustainopreneurial advancement in idea and application, and other related virtual resources up until the constitution 2009, where the future funding will be covered mainly by cherry-picked sponsors and offline events as fund raising activities.
[» iÆREAS membership] • [» ki-project - creating ÆREAS]
Empower ! – SLICE Services and Publishing
♫ freelancing all categories in the name of sustainopreneurship
♫ publishing, lecturing, startup support, consultancy since 2004
♫ main project now – establishing a freelancer’s market place for social enterprise category on ki-work!
The main popularization and proliferation engine of all the above mentioned sustainopreneurship-related research is done through SLICE Services and Publishing – where SLICE stands for Sustainopreneurial Lecturing Inspiration Consultancy and Events. The main focus is to create powerful leverage for the full sustainopreneurial movement in all (inter)action formats available. Spreading the idea in text/media and live, creating events, facilitating workshops, lecturing and speeches, coaching and consultancy – in short empowerment. SLICE homepage is at www.slice.nu, and current assignments for SLICE can be overviewed through the http://projects.slice.nu mindmap. For the publishing part, besides academically, I have been blogging regularly since 2004 on the subject, from the point I first presented my developed tentative definition of the concept after finding the term by serendipity 2003. The two popular blog streams focus the ‘What’ and ‘How’ aspects of Sustainopreneurship, respectively: “Notes from a Sustainopreneur” and “43 Tools”, whereas the more deep aspects in research/academic sense is found through iÆREAS blog.
The freelancing projects and assignments are intended to move more towards virtual web-work, where the main window and market presence for SLICE now has been established at the virtual collaboration and outsourcing freelance platform Ki-Work, with a new revolutionary business model [slides • video pitch with business overview in key elements]. Ki-work provides a solution with search/matchmaking in between buyers-sellers, operational technology, quality assurance for trust and a new revenue generation model without transaction fees for the sellers/buyers – yes, it’s free to post your offerings and get qualified deals! You can join at different levels – ultimately as a lease-holder of one of the 500 Categories (market places) at highest level, ‘Category Leader’, or accredited by the Category Leader as a ‘Category Expert’ with the task of certifying ‘Category Professionals’ and ‘Buyers’.
Main tasks agreed upon with Ki Work Management are three -
1. General Business Development of the Ki-work platform in itself, ranging from the most esoteric deep strategy issues to the smallest improvement detail, but mainly crafting modes and best practices to get Category Marketplace Success;
2. Category Leader for Category ‘Social Enterprise’ to get this category to prosper by recruiting Category Experts and Professionals;
3. Attract highly skilled and networked experts in other marketplace categories to apply for Category Leadership and Expertise.
[» my ki-work profile - the new SLICE virtual window]
WANTS: Here my needs are simple and clear, matching my Ki-work tasks.
• SOCIAL ENTERPRISE CATEGORY EXPERTS: Firstly, I need to recruit a versatile and pluralistic team of 75 world- and business changing experts, with distributed, complimentary and colorful palette of skills, experiences, market and business focus for the businesses you support with your virtual freelancing (geo-economically, business areas/sustainability industry, size/maturity of businesses supported in focus and level of involvement ranging from short term consultancy to periods of interim management – more detail through the left link below).
• CANDIDATES FOR CATEGORY LEADERS AND EXPERTS IN OTHER AREAS: Secondly, I need to find great spirits prepared to apply for Category Leadership and Expertise in other Category Marketplaces (there are 499 others, some positions as Category Leaders have already been filled – and there can only be one per category!). Contact/Sign up through the right link below for this option to get information on how to apply.
[» on social enterprise experts] • [» contact for other cat's]
Enact ! – Ignition
♫ brand purpose to provide sustainable traded merchandise (printed clothes) supporting companies and organizations communicating their sustainability
♫ critical resources in abundance except for one – financial capital, thus still financing need
♫ financing through a fund raising event series in the name of a new concept – YouFlow
This is the longest term sustainopreneurial venture I have been committing my self to through the years. Ignition has undergone a long-term research and development. The last phase was researching the foundation of its direction and core elements of its business model: To give leverage to the sustainopreneurial movement at large, manifested by the book chapter mentioned in iÆREAS section above, where the implementation of Ignition next level is introduced – a true turning point. The venturing preceding this stage has already formed the core empirical material for the Master Thesis on conceptualizing entrepreneurship for sustainability/sustainopreneurship.
For the next level, a financial capital need of around 40 000USD is needed, and the funding issue has been the major obstacle to get the business established and executed next level, and continues to be. We reached the final destination in these efforts, where every other attempt had failed – always failing to meet one specific criteria or the other relative the institutions we applied for – that lead us to create a fund raising event series where the concept of YouFlow has been introduced. This event is intended to take place later this year, beyond the activities of launching the book mentioned in iÆREAS section and getting the ki-work ’social enterprise’ project conducted by SLICE afloat with a stable cash flow. When Ignition has formed its own independent company fully funded and active and the first fiscal year beyond break-even has been reached getting the first positive results, financial resources from parts of the results will be channeled to the SEEDS Innovation Fund, in order to entrust and empower future sustainopreneurs. See below.
[» Ignition Beta Homepage] • [» YouFlow Event Blog]
WANTS: The premier need here is to get financial resources, a team of investors supporting our launch. In the mean time, prioritized need now for the sustainopreneur behind Ignition (yes, that’s me
Entrust! – SEEDS Innovation Fund
♫ future investment fund for sustainability innovations
♫ financial means from the Ignition trading
♫ portfolio strategy from iÆREAS research – the SEEDS model
Given our tough experience to get funding of our own venturing in the name of the brand Ignition – as said, still status quo, still needs to be solved – we certainly want to ease up for the funding of future sustainopreneurs to get their sustainability business projects up and running. This is the main purpose of SEEDS Innovation Fund, and in a sense it is the oldest of the ventures, where the ‘original spark’ of ignition and insight came in a break-through in January 2000 (a story told in full in chapter 4 of the Master Thesis). This was also the departure of identifying needs of new forms of investment flows to get sustainability innovations to proliferate and flourish. SEEDS, after research and development of the SEEDS model mainly done 2000-04, including a round-trip to Uganda 2001-02, stands for
- Strengthening of Health,
- Education,
- Entrepreneurship,
- Digital Unification and
- Sustainable Distributed Energy and Mobility.
It represents the most prioritized areas for deployed sustainability innovations and sustainopreneurship. Illustrative case studies of sustainability innovations and sustainopreneurial ventures can be seen at the SEEDS Innovation Fund Beta Website. The two critical needs of this future investment fund are fulfilled by Ignition (financial resources) and iÆREAS (knowledge and insight for investment and portfolio strategy). It is anticipated that the SEEDS Innovation Fund is one of the strongest vehicles and means to get the strongest, deepest, long-term, most profound and lasting impact for the sustainopreneurial movement at large, solving the most common problem for sustainopreneurs – the financial resourcing.
[» SEEDS Innovation Fund Website]
WANTS: There is a sequential need to be fulfilled in order to get SEEDS Innovation Fund in place. The SLICE ki-projects and iÆREAS needs to get afloat in the first place as focused parallel events (message repeated from the Ignition Wants note above). In the second place the YouFlow event series needs to get running, through which Ignition can be operational and established. Then, in the third place this provides the SEEDS Innovation Fund with financial means, whereas iÆREAS supports with research and knowledge. Thus, concluding;
SEEDS Innovation Fund main indirect need to get realized, formulated for the here and now situation, is engaging 150 founding interim members of iÆREAS and recruiting a team of 75 freelancing world changing Social Enterprise Category Experts – see iÆREAS and SLICE Services and Publishing Wants above on how you can contribute.
Enjoy ! – DJ Anders
♫ …music is life – life is love – love is music…♫ providing Joy of Life EDM – making you move all levels!
♫ gigs, promo mixes, community, facebook group – full access!
Reaching to this spot with mainly text, I conclude that the writing, as always, has been soundtracked by energetic and inspirational ‘Joy of Life EDM’ – electronic dance music transferring and increasing the spirit of joy to be alive. In the beginning there was music. As seen in the Action Map, music is the main energy source to keep things afloat! 2008 has seen an increase in gigs, as well as a new club concept developed – club2club. Three longer promo mixes has been recorded as two-hour sets, from April, July and August, able to enjoy through the music player at the virtual clubbing experience DJ Anders Community. Blog update on gigs, club concept and promo mixes are found both at the main blog and the community. For updates on DJ Anders activities separately, join DJ Anders Update Group on Facebook! All is linked from the DJ Anders Hub!
[» DJ Anders July Blog Update] • [DJ Anders Hub]
WANTS: Of course, I want to get out and play for you live, so more gigs always welcomed and wanted
[» DJ Anders - the Virtual Clubbing Experience]
[the private/personal side - the Etwas Anders streams]
On a final little note, my private/personal flows are followed through three streams,
the main personal blogging through
“Etwas Anders – a Virtual Moleskine”,
some instant mobile media sharing
“Etwas Anders – Sofort”
and the everydayness stream of personal
and private microblogging notes through
“Etwas Anders – Hier und Jetzt”.
All of these streams are covered in detail on the About Page
- also explaining the name “Etwas Anders”.
- outro -
…but it took until Jan, 18, 2008, before I found the purpose of http://andersabrahamsson.wordpress.com. This is actually the first post, where I edited the WordPress dot com default start post some one and a half year later, today. Actual timestamp at the moment of writing: 00:40 CET, Jan 18, 2008. And the blog is also syndicated with my Facebook Notes, it’s the only blog I will export t/here (here/there, depending where you read it…)!
Look out for WhazzUP!date 001 soon!
Peace,
Anders
