Constructive Capitalism Talk By Umair Haque

We're big fans of Umair Haque here at OneEyeDeer. His work on edge competencies, networks, communities and markets helped drive the creation of OneEyeDeer.

His insights into what's wrong with business today and how it can be fixed has further inspired us to continue our work.

Umair recently presented at the Daytona Sessions. You can check out the video HERE.

It's a long talk - just over an hour - but it goes through several key points meaning that you can watch it in sections.

I have a feeling that sometime in the future someone will be looking at this post (is that you?) and will check out the video and think - that's so obvious! Well let me tell you, at the time I'm writing this, the ideas, despite their obviousness, are perceived as radical.

Then again, if you're reading this post from the future and saying Umair's thoughts are obvious, then the world will be a much better place than it is now - so happy days :)

Minister for Innovation Kim Carr Mentions User-Led Innovation

In case you don't know, I'm also the founder/editor of an Australian-focused tech startup news/reviews blog called TechNation Australia.

Last week I posted a story on that blog about a speech that Kim Carr, Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, gave at the National Press Club. That post focused on a small portion of Mr. Carr's talk, but there were some other very interesting things he had to say.

For instance, during that speech it was great to hear Mr Carr speak of trying to borrow some of Europe's strategic innovation initiatives here in Australia including a special reference to user-led innovation policy in Denmark.

As we all know, words are one thing, actions another, particularly when it comes to politics. But it's still good to know that the head of innovation in Australia is at least aware of the potential of user-led innovation.

Kim

OneEyeDeer Release v0.3.2 Is Out

Hey Everyone,

As usual, a massive thanks for all your hard work helping us beta-test OneEyeDeer. The amount of activity continues to flatter and surprise us.

As such, whether you’re an active poster, an occasional participant or an interested reader we can’t thank you enough for spending some of your valuable time at OneEyeDeer.

At the bottom of this post are the latest notes/changes for this release. Most are the direct result of feedback from the community so keep letting us know how you want the site improved. If your suggestions weren’t included in this release they’ll probably appear in the next one.

Also, if there’s something you don’t understand, for instance how the Red Buttons work, what Communities are about, how the ratings work etc. feel free to post your question as an issue in the suggestions community and we’ll answer you there.

Finally, we’re going to be putting more and more announcements/news here. So make sure you keep visiting us or add this blog to your RSS reader.


It’s Time To Recognise! + Surprise Rewards

Once again, while we can’t thank each and every one of you enough for your effort, it’s only right that we recognise the best contributors to the site. Below is the community’s top 10.

This time around, instead of just giving away medals to the top 3 (you’ll get those too, don’t worry) we’re going to be sending Sly, The Professor and oridental, special, limited-edition OneEyeDeer T-Shirts.

Make sure you check your emails guys, as we’ll be sending you the details.


ONEEYEDEER - V0.3.1 TOP 10 CONTRIBUTORS

1. Sly
2. The Professor
3. Oridental
4. rach3
5. Mr Happy
6. bigdave
7. frodosghost
8. Tim Bull
9. clint
10. ct8im



Release Notes v0.3.2

· Anonymous Posting of comments/issues from within main site disabled
· Added number of views to specs under Issue
· Pagination Fixes on Home Page and MyPad
· "Improve solution" and "Discuss Solution" Buttons added to solutions
· Improved ranking algorithm
· Changed position of comments box to bottom of comments rather than top
· Changed Community join process - must view community detail
· Improved Avatar compression code
· Added list of contributors to solutions represented as avatars (inside solutions)
· Added list of members of communities represented as avatars (inside communities)

Beta Testing Update + Release v0.3.1

Well our second round of beta-testing has been going for a week now and we've been blown away by the response! (You can still sign up if you haven't yet by visiting www.oneeyedeer.com)

Over the past 7 days we've had over 230 contributions, or more than 30 a day! That's massive from a limited, hand-selected, beta-testing list of only 85 people.

Part of those contributions included the identification of bugs and suggestions, many of which have formed the basis of our latest release. That release (0.3.1) has now gone live, so why not pop into the site and check out the changes (there's a full list of release notes in the previous post)




It’s Time To Recognise!

While we thank each and every one of you who has contributed to the site, we'd like to especially recognise those who have been working the hardest to make OneEyeDeer better. Below is a list of the hardest working people on the block!


Top Beta-Testers

1. The Professor
2. sly
3. RJHunter
4. Kim
5. oridental
6. gevason
7. clint
8. Tim Bull
9. lacreme
10. Paul Annesley

Top Bug Finders

1. RJHunter
2. Paul Annesley tied with gevason


Top Suggestors

1. gevason and Tim Bull tied
3. frodosghost tied with Paul Annesley


If you're one of the top 3 in any category, you might want to check out your name next time you log in. We've added a little something to make sure everyone knows how big a help you've been.

If you're not on the list, don't worry, there's still a chance to get in on the goodies.

• We'll be rewarding our best contributors for the next release
• We're going to be rewarding the first 1000 active members of OneEyeDeer with a permanent symbol of your status on the site. Active means you’ve done something (other than sign up or visit) so get cracking!
• At the end of beta-testing, we've got some one-off, never to be repeated goodies that we'll be sending out to our best helpers




Special Request For This Release

This release we're asking that in addition to the stuff you've already been doing (which has been fantastic) you pay a little more attention to 2 particular features:

• The big red buttons that appear in the right hand sidebar when you click on an issue or a solution
• Communities

We would also like to know your thoughts on whether these features are useful and, if so, how to make them more usable (seeing as nobody really used them in the last release!)



That's it for now. Thanks again for all your help and hopefully we'll see you on the site soon.

Release Notes v0.3.1

Release v0.3.1 is about to go live.

Below are the release notes. Thanks to all those who contributed feedback.


Release Notes v 0.3.1

• Solutions can now be commented on rather than creating a discussion for a brief comment
• Notify users when they are posting as to prevent Anonymous comments
• Larger comment boxes to allow for better comments
• Better Display Name colours to differentiate from different user ranks
• Correct avatars now displaying for users creating discussions
• JavaScript removed for character countdown in Issue Titles
• Functionality to allow for posting issues straight into a community
• Location field added to Issue posting to provide for a geography of an issue
• Pagination now properly display for more than 10 pages of Issues
• Display of Company Names for Company Representatives

Beta Testing Open Again!

Beta testing has opened again and the content is flowing in at a cracking pace.

Thanks to everyone involved.

If you signed up for more info and haven't received the beta site details, please check your junk mail / spam folder. If it's not there, drop me an email at info [at] oneeyedeer [dot] com and I'll sort it out.

If you haven't registered yet, please go to www.oneeyedeer.com and put in your details. Once you've done that we'll email you all the info you need.

K

Is 3 Percent Of People The Same As 3 Percent Of Ideas?

Been reading some of innovation expert John Wolpert's work over at his site - The Three Percent.

According to the About Page, the site is "based on the notion that only about three percent of any population is actually innovating - as opposed to inventing, improving…or watching the clock to get home in time for The Simpsons rerun hour".

Sounds like a fair call.

Later on, John goes on to say "Management gurus might tell you that anyone can be an innovator, and we wouldn’t argue with that…but if innovating involves changing the rules of the game, then perhaps it’s a good thing that only a few souls happen to be doing it at any given time."

It's here that we think OneEyeDeer might just be able to change things. You see, while OneEyeDeer is about the full gamut of change (as defined by John); improving, inventing and innovating, our goal is to have the biggest effect on innovation.

So, what if 3% of ideas, as opposed to people, were actually innovative. And what if each of those ideas had multiple people working on them. Would that be different to how things are now?

Our theory is that in the past 1 person = 1 idea = 1 innovation. At OneEyeDeer we're hoping to create a future where 100 people = 1 idea = 1 innovation.

Similar amount of disruption, for now, only more diverse inputs and better outcomes.

Later on the plan is to increase the disruption, but we'll do that gradually - nothing to fear here, John :)

Is 3 percent of people the same as 3 percent of ideas?

When it comes to innovation, we don't think so.


PS: Don't forget our next round of beta-testing kicks off this week. Make sure you sign up to get the link emailed to you