Re: [projectvrm] VRM iinfrastructure

[Katherine Warman Kern < >]

+1 

Don't businesses want to know how to achieve these results?  

For example, in a market with VRM empowered individuals, how will business 
find the individuals who are receptive,  engage them to choose to 
participate, and maintain that  "realationship" (what an ironic typo)

K-

Katherine Warman Kern
203.918.2617

On Oct 16, 2011, at 12:23 PM, elliot noss 
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> I will share something that helps me when I am thinking about these issues 
> as a business decision.
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> connected, engaged and empowered users have higher renewal rates and 
> generate higher word-of-mouth new sales.
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> better retention of existing customers and new customers that do not have 
> to be acquired through marketing are HUGE leading indicators of 
> profitability. with the move from traditional marketing to social 
> recommendations the ability to create connected, engaged and empowered 
> users is greater then it has ever been.
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> all this adds up to VRM being good, smart business.
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> hope this helps!
> 
> Regards
> Elliot
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> On 16-Oct-11, at 11:38 AM, Venessa Miemis wrote:
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>> i'm giving a short 5 minute provocation during the opening of the 
>> Connected Enterprise conference in a week, (Doc will be there too.) so i'm 
>> curious for the response.
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>> i'm still trying to find the language to describe why this is the future 
>> of business and how they can participate.
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>> - v
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>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Katherine Warman Kern 
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>> On Oct 16, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Venessa Miemis 
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>>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Devon Loffreto 
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>>> This matters for VRM as a philosophy because in our current system, 
>>> ownership leverages non-ownership and manages scarcity of opportunity to 
>>> enforce power. VRM proposes a new paradigm. To create participatory 
>>> equality as the baseline default, ownership must be a ubiquitous state. 
>>> This world will NEVER go backwards to non-ownership without blowing 
>>> itself up in a mass-armageddon event...so the only practical path is to 
>>> universally distribute private ownership of the marketplace itself... of 
>>> participation itself... and in so doing, eliminate the idea that OWNERS 
>>> can create false scarcity of opportunity to enforce their power over 
>>> NON-OWNERS.
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>>> <snip>
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>>> what does this mean? a cooperatively owned marketplace?
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>>> - v
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>> Or does it mean that VRM is about giving individuals the resources to 
>> replace the current status of corporate taking of an individual's personal 
>> data through "adverse possession".  The opportunity is to an intention 
>> based market where well intended parties can openly communicate and 
>> negotiate to achieve the highest and best use and value of personal data.
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>> P.S.  I am borrowing from real estate property law and market economy by 
>> using terms like adverse possession and highest and best use.
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>>> Devon Loffreto
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