VRooMing along

June 29, 2011 — Doc Searls

A quick progress report on a number of VRM fronts. First, lots of action around TrustFabric.org, a VRM company in South Africa. To get some background on context, start with KYC: Know Your Customer. This good-sense imperative takes on official qualities when banking is involved, or holes are left for criminals to slip through. In [Read More →]

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Are you in charge of what you buy, or is it vice versa?

June 22, 2011 — Doc Searls

That’s the question of the day, at least for me. Toward being in charge of what you buy, we have Buyosphere, which is a VRM company. I know that, because Tara Hunt runs it and has been working from the start to imbue it with VRM ideals. Toward what you buy being in charge of [Read More →]

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Personal RFP

June 19, 2011 — Doc Searls

Terry Heaton just pointed me to this post by Seth Godin. A couple paragraphs: Any wasting asset–a restaurant table, a seat at a conference, a wasting box of fish–can be efficiently used instead of wasted if we use technology to identify and coordinate buyers. Synchronizing buyers to improve efficiency and connection is a high-value endeavor, [Read More →]

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What makes a VRM tool VRM?

June 15, 2011 — Doc Searls

Andrew Bogusky‘s New Conscious Consumer Bill of Rights post just came to my attention, thanks to this tweet by @jamiedsmith, who adds “Needs more symmetry of power for consumers though”.  All due respect to Andrew’s efforts (and he deserves much), I think the only way to get symmetry of power for consumers is by turning them [Read More →]

Posted in freedom, Horizontal ideas, VRM. 9 Comments »
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