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What is a thank?
A thank is a gratification. To thank a person you have to send him one or more moos with a reason and one or more attitudes that you recognize him.
How can I protect my privacy?
You can customize your privacy settings from your settings panel. From here you have total control over who can view all your content.
What is a nudge?
A nudge is a function to ask someone a thank for a specific reason.
What is the value of a moo?
The moo hasn’t gotten a monetary value.
Is it possible to convert moos in real money (€, $, £)?
No. It’s not possible. You can only use moos to thank other people and to donate to Non Profit Association.
How can I see my reputation?
You can see your most recognized attitudes directly on your personal profile, and your complete reputation and personal curriculum following the like that you find under the attitudes.
We want here to introduce an important disctinction between territory and space. Both terms are often confused.
A space refers to a specific universe with a specific set of properties, dynamics, flows, elements, parts, etc. The professional space, the dream space, the family space, the private space, the meditation space, the intimate space… each of these spaces are familiar to us and are distinct from one another. We are used to declare to others in which space we are now, or which space we leave or enter. For instance in a meeting space you might declare to others that you just were in your thoughts, meaning you we in this very specific space with its own dynamics.
A territory is defined by boundaries, occupancy and ownership (eventhough it may not be ‘owned’ by anyone, it still refers to ownership). Land, intellectual property, expertise, even people and networks, companies, thoughts are very commonly considered as territories. Inside their boundaries they have their own sets of rules, regulation, governance.
Context in collective intelligence
These ontological distinctions are important in the collective intelligence practice.
Boundaries and occupancy pretty much seem to belong to Original Collective Intelligence (OCI). Ownership is definitely a creation of Pyramidal Collective Intelligence (PCI).
The territorial ontology is part of the PCI paradigm. It is another side property of the scarce monetary system in which scarcity triggers the sense of property, ownership and control.
Hence, organizations are perceived as territories in PCI while they are experienced as spaces in Global Collective Intelligence (GCI). This ontological distinction is not yet clear for people who transition from PCI to GCI. It is definitely hard to understand for people who are still emotionnaly, socially and culturally entrapped in the PCI paradigm (although they may intellectually understand GCI). Territory triggers old protective instincts and vital responses.
Therefore when a GCI organization is named — because organizations will always need tags and names — we can witness where people are as their own evolution by observing their emotional response: territorial or space.
As mentioned in the post “when send a thanks?”, each person has its own meaning of the concept of gratitude. However moolidoo has devised an instrument to bring these meanings to a more uniform vision, leveling the differences.
The nudge has this goal.
Indeed allows you to forward a request for thanksgiving when you consider to be in a position to receive a ingratiate, including the reason of the request.
Nudge also encouraged to thank those people who most take it for granted that value. Typical example of nudge is when someone help his superior in the company. This is considered almost obliged by the hierarchical structure and no one give him appreciation.
The modern society, particularly the West, has lost quickly many of its values and now is basing everything on the money.
Among the values those we have lost, there is the concept of thanksgiving or gratification: nobody makes anything for nothing.
moolidoo, instead, tries to bring attention to human values, in
particularly stimulating the thanksgiving between the people.
Every day, inside every company, develops collaborations among colleagues and these relationships are sometimes slipping away without anyone notice it, and indeed, it should be pointed out that very often this kind of relations is taken for granted.
In this context intervenes moolidoo system.
Through moos everyone will have the opportunity to thank its colleague, informally, by sending him a gratification.
Sure, we said that this value was “lost”, but this concept is innate in us; it simply be rediscovered. So, when the
thanksgiving should be done?
A colleague helps you on a project?
You have received an explanation that solves your problems?
Do you receive a ride to the office?
Do you have a nice conversation while traveling by train to go to a conference?
Do you receive a link to an interesting article?
Do you have a nice day of skiing with a colleague?
Do you like very much the business lunch?
A tip simplifies your work?
Obviously, there isn’t a practice to do it, just because everyone has his sense of gratitude, but we can detect some situations where gratification, although isn’t an obliged, should be a key requirement of the relation.
You don’t have to participate in a local currency or service exchange to be part of the cooperative gift economy. Any time you do a favor for a family member, neighbor, colleague, or stranger you’re part of it. Here are some ways you can spend time in the gift economy, where you’ll find fun, freedom, and connection.
1. Start a dinner co-op. Rotate among the homes of friends and neighbors for weekly or monthly potlucks.
2. Help a local farmer with the harvest in exchange for some of the crop.
3. Put up a traveler.
4. Hold twice-yearly sport supply exchanges so kids can acquire new skis and baseball mitts and everyone can try out a new sport.
5. Harvest wild or unwanted fruits and vegetables.
6. Grow your own, and give some of it away.
7. Share seeds and clippings from your garden – especially native and “heritage” species. Hold an annual plant exchange.
8. Organize a “non-consumption booth” at a farmers’ market or street fair. At the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market, the Environmental Chat Corner hosts discussions of environmental issues, sustainable building and landscaping, ecotourism, and community development.
9. Buy food or supplies in bulk and share with friends.
10. Form a home-repair team to fix your own place and others’.
11. Request help of someone usually regarded as needy.
12. Create your own rainy-day fund with your friends. One group pooled $1,000 each, which they lent to any in the group who needed it. The fund helped members survive a lost job, a stolen bicycle, and a broken arm.
13. Make space available to other people to grow food on your land.
14. Borrow garden space from someone who has extra land; give them,or a food bank, some of the produce.
15. Give co-workers neck and shoulder massages.
16. Offer to mentor a young person.
17. Ask a 12-year-old to show you how to get onto the Worldwide Web.
18. Throw a block party.
19. Show up at a soup kitchen and ask for volunteer help.
20. Rent out extra space to people needing a place to sleep, work, or just to get away, or exchange the space for yard work or baby-sitting.
21. Convert a duplex, apartment building, old nursing home, or seminary into a cohousing community.
22. Convert a barn or warehouse into a space for artists and start-up businesses.
23. Create a space for neighbors to keep and share infrequently used tools and extra garden supplies.
24. Start a baby-sitting or child care co-op.
25. Hold a monthly clean-up of a beach, park, roadway, river bank; get coffee houses to donate goodies.
26. Plant trees. Get the city to select and donate them.
27. Find a person on each block who will help neighbors get assistance when needed – from other neighbors when possible.
28. Share a car.
29. Or start a car co-op with various vehicles for different uses. Share expenses based on mileage.
30. Paint donated bicycles and place them in downtown areas with signs indicating they’re for anyone to use.
31. Become a foster parent, a ‘big brother’ or ‘big sister.’ Notice the ways everyone benefits!
32. Exchange lessons, for example, cooking for carpentry.
33. Teach a skill, like carpentry, and ask your students to donate time to others.
34. Adopt a stream or a highway to restore, maintain, and beautify.
35. Work with your neighbors to develop a vision for your neighborhood’s future.
36. Hold talent shows. Give kids lots of recognition, and everyone opportunity to discover their hidden talents.
37. Create your own money. Use ideas from YES! to start a community currency or skills exchange.
Most of us take for granted that those rectangular green slips of paper we keep in our wallets are inviolable: the physical embodiment of value. But alternative forms of money have a long history, and appear to be growing in popularity. It’s not merely barter, or primitive means of exchange like, say, seashells or beads. Beneath the financial radar, in hip U.S. towns or South African townships, in shops, markets, and even banks, throughout the world people are exchanging goods and services via thousands of currency types that look nothing like official tender.
Alternative means of trade often surface during tough economic times. “When money gets dried up and there are still needs to be met in society, people come up with creative ways to meet those needs,” says Peter North, a senior lecturer in geography at the University of Liverpool, author of two books on the subject. He refers to the “scrips” issued in the U.S. and Europe during the Great Depression that kept money flowing, and the massive barter exchanges involving millions of people that emerged amidst runaway inflation in Argentina in 2000. “People were kept from starving [this way],” he says. (Find out 10 things to do with your money now)
Closer to home, “Ithaca Hours,” with a livable hourly wage as the standard, were launched during the 1991 recession to sustain Ithaca, New York’s local economy and stem the loss of jobs. “Hours,” which are legal and taxable, circulate within the community, moving from local shop to local artisan and back, rather than “leaking” out into the larger monetary system. The logo on the Hour reads: “In Ithaca We Trust”.
Alternative (or “complementary”) currencies range from quaint to robust, simple to high-tech. There are “greens” from the Lettuce Patch Bank at the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in rural Northeastern Missouri. In Western Massachusetts one finds fine-artist-designed BerkShares, which are convertible to U.S. dollars. According to Susan Witt, Executive Director of the E.F. Schumacher Society (the nonprofit behind the currency) more than $2 million in BerkShares “have been issued through the 12 branches of five [local] banks.” And in South Africa, proprietary software keeps track of Community Exchange System (CES) “Talents”; one ambitious plan is to make Khayelitsha, a vast, desolate township of perhaps a million inhabitants near Cape Town, a self-sustaining community.
The currencies are generally used in conjunction with conventional money, as in using local currency at the farmer’s market and regular greenbacks at the supermarket. “It doesn’t try in any way to replace cash,” says Christoph Hensch, a Swiss national and former banker now living in Christchurch, New Zealand. Rather, it offers a way “for people to share and redeem value they have in the community.” He says the currencies are most useful in geographical areas or social sectors where money doesn’t flow sufficiently, citing for example New Zealand’s Golden Bay, which is so remote that it sometimes nearly functions as its own economy.
Advocates of alternative currencies say that they are a means of empowerment for those languishing on the margins of fiscal life, granting economic agency to people like the elderly, disabled, or under-employed who have little opportunity to earn money. For example, in some systems one can “bank” Time Dollars for tasks like childcare and changing motor oil. It’s not whether you’re employed or what financial assets you have that matter, says Les Squires, a consultant on social networking software who has been working with groups developing alternative currencies. Each person has “value” which is “exchangeable” based on time spent or a given task.
Alternative currency comes in many forms. In addition to time banking, there are Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), systems of mutual credit that vary by location. This model was developed by Michael Linton in Canada, though it seems mostly to have taken off in the British Isles; an estimated 40,000 people in the U.K. use these for at least some transactions. (See TIME’s Top 10 Everything of 2008)
Similarly, the Community Exchange System (CES) is an online money and banking system and trading marketplace that tracks credits and debits. While LETS’s function as clubs that set their own guidelines, CES is administered through an online program that connects local groups to create a global network. The CES website points to more than 100 exchanges in fifteen countries. According to Squires, the Internet has made alternative forms of exchange more viable, as databases can keep account of credits. In the rarified world of monetary theory, think-tanks are abuzz with ideas about future forms of money. One visionary, Jean-Francois Noubel, the co-founder of AOL-France, foresees “millions of free currencies circulating on the Net and through our cell phones” as money follows the distribution path that media has over the last decade. Bernard Lietaer, a Belgian economist and author who helped develop the Euro, has proposed the “Terra,” a transnational currency backed by established commodities that would co-exist with conventional notes, the monetary equivalent of Esperanto.
In recent years, the impetus for alternative currencies in established economies has stemmed in part from localization movements. Periodically ditching the dollar (or the pound, or the yen) in favor of homegrown currency doesn’t merely fortify the local economy, it also builds community: people have a stake in their neighbor’s well-being because that neighbor represents both market and supply chain. Some argue that such transactions are more secure than others because knowing the person you’re dealing with (and his family and friends) serves as a kind of social collateral.
The use of Berkshares has helped to solidify local ties, says Susan Witt. “It’s cash, so you have to pay your bills by walking into the store or dentist’s office,” she says. Local pride does have its challenges. In September, the town of Lewes in Sussex, England, issued the Lewes Pound — complete with a special edition beer from Harvey’s, a local brewery, to celebrate the introduction. There was an immediate run on the currency, limiting its circulation; Lewes Pounds were going for 35 pounds sterling on eBay. The organizers quickly went back to press and dealt with the situation. As Susan Witt is the first to say, “local currencies are not easy.”
Some are moved to create currencies for environmental reasons — minimizing the use of energy. With diminishing oil supplies “we will not be able to move goods around the world as cheaply,” says Peter North. One strategy, he says, is to produce more locally, and one way to facilitate that is through local currency. This was one inspiration for the Lewes Pound, and for the Totnes Pound in Devon, England. Both towns are part of the Transition Town movement, which seeks creative, upbeat community-based approaches to dealing with climate change and diminished oil reserves.
Paper-money currencies, like Berkshares or the Lewes or Totnes Pound, slip fairly seamlessly into the national economy; their use is taxed like ordinary money. More abstract exchanges are a bit more complicated to deal with. But the tax concern is not insurmountable. “If you use local currency for your main income-generating activity, you must pay income tax,” says Hensch, who consults in complementary currencies. Likewise, if you have a business, you’ll pay sales tax on any local currency — in New Zealand, that would be Green Dollars, a LETS system — you bring in. But if you trade in “neighborhood help”, like lawn-mowing, that would not be taxed.
The rules vary country to country. In the U.S. any business transaction must be recorded and reported to the IRS; tax levies apply as if the trade were made in cash. As Les Squires puts it, professional services are subject to income tax but for noncommercial transactions barter rules hold. “If I bake a cake for you, that’s not a taxable event,” he says.
Andrew K. Rose, Bernard T. Rocca Professor of International Trade at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, sees local currencies as limited by their unwieldiness. “Money is primarily just a convenience for enabling exchanges between two parties. The more widely accepted, the more convenient it is,” he says. If you need to use different currencies in different locations, the money then becomes less convenient.
Do large financial institutions have anything to fear from the use of alternative currencies? Not at all, says Rose. “It’s got to be so tiny. It has no effect at all,” he says. Besides, he notes, the Fed doesn’t care about currency, or even the number of bills circulating in the economy. “The Fed cares about monetary policy and [it] deal[s] with that in different ways.”
discussion forums
Discussion forum is an instrument that allows employees to initiate discussions for others review and contributes to.
blogs
Blog is the online equivalent of journal. Blog are used by employees to communicate information and keep the whole network. Blogs can be commented and linked by others bloggers, so all the intellectual capital still remains after the original authors have moved on.
instant messaging
Instant messaging allows employees to communicate with another or with groups in real time using a software installed on computer. Normally is text-based but the new softwares allow real-time audio and real-time video conversations with no cost.
social presence
Social presence applications allow employees to send updates to all those who wish to know what they are doing. There are three kinds of social presence: informational, temporal, geolocational.
virtual worlds
Virtual worlds allow employees to meet and interact with others in a computer-based environment. They allow to hold meeting, conduct training, or socialize with colleagues in a different way.
COOPERATION
media sharing
Media sharing occurs in online social networks and digital communities with a comprehensive platform and diversified interfaces to upload, aggregate, host and share images, text, applications, videos, and audios. But, effective media sharing requires more. Everyone need to be able to share, to tag, to comment and also voting other media. These should be allowing people to filter media for themselves and for others.
social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is an instrument that allows collective intelligence strategies and knowledge management. In a social bookmarking service, employees can save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, but can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups or only inside certain networks. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
social cataloguing
Social cataloguing help its contributors to build up databases of information about specific topics.
COLLABORATION
wikis
Wiki is a website whose pages can be edited collaboratively by anyone, also people without any technical knowledge. Wikis are mostly used for information that constantly changes.
human-based computation
Human-based computation is a new way to solve problems. This method relies on technology that allows humans to contribute solutions to specific problems as part of an evolutionary process. Those solutions in turn inform the software, enabling it to provide better information to the next person. It’s not the computer that solves a problem. It only collect, interprets and integrates people solutions into its own knowledge base.
CONNECTION
social networking
Social network services enable people to connect online based on shared interest, hobbies, or causes. These services allow employees to create a personal profile and become friends with other users. Inside the corporates social network is valuable when organization rewards individual efforts but needs to encourage knowledge sharing and connection with others.
tagging
tagging is an instrument that makes information easy to search, discover, and navigate over time. Employees can create tag and see the other tag that a colleague created. These tags need to reflect three features: content, context, structure.
social search
Social search takes a different approach to the problem of searching information.
Through the process of tagging, this kind of search relies on human beings to select the content that are important and index it using keywords that mean something to them.
syndication
RSS (really simple syndication) may publish frequently updated works in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a “feed”) includes full or summarized text, plus metadata. This allows employees to subscribe and receive update from their favorite sites. RSS can be used for internal communications, information aggregation and enterprise 2.0 collaboration.
mashups
Mashup is a website or an application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.
moolidoo is an ethical project.
grow up and get colour with enterprise 2.0.
moolidoo is a community based on gratification where people increases their reputation day by day by exchanging moos.
A moo is a gratification token; it is created by the company. The user is working with and is exchanged inside the moolidoo network to thanks colleagues, friends, and other that improve our life. moolidoo offers a goods catalogue too; it permits a user to exchange moos with something really tangible (iphone, a trip, a beneficent association, etc.).
Individuals increase their reputation day by day, by receiving and giving moos. While thanking someone, a user is required to enrich the gift with some qualities of the person she really likes and a motivation.
Those qualities improve the quality of the receiver and improve her resume day by day.
get colour, join moolidoo!
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