artefatica

Tiny steps of progress as I give this a my last bit of energy after a long day at work. Progress marker 1: artefatica.ca and artefatica.com forward to this address. Ohhhhh, so easy and yet so satisfying.

I should tell you what I mean by working open. And why.

What it means is that I’ll be blogging about how I’m creating an open publishing company. What needs to be done, achievements, frustrations, ramblings. I’ve started a GoPlan space for my project and it has a blogging feature so I can feed right into this space. (I like the idea of doing the same for each artefatica project as well. To help teams stay on track and to document the evolution of our creation and collaboration.  I’m interested in shedding light on what it means to work together. Bumps and all.)

There are a few reasons why.

• To walk my talk. As a communicator and advocate for knowledge sharing I’ve spent years convincing my colleagues to blog and to leave traces so that others can learn from them. I’ve told them it’s better to give away what they know. That it will improve their competitiveness, not weaken them.
• Great way to build an audience. I’m gonna make books, organize events, sell stuff, build communities around ideas. I want you to participate, come create with me, buy, and tell your friends all about us. Best way to do this? Be authentic. Share.
• I like helping others. You want to start an open publishing company too? Great. Follow us and learn from our successes and failures.
• I like receiving help. The more I talk about what I’m working on or struggling with the better the chance some nice person will send me a great idea or solution.
• Free culture and openness matters deeply. It will change our world. So I want to embrace it at every level of what I do.
• I’m terrible at keeping secrets. Although I do succeed some of the time ;)

So there you have it. Next I want to share some of the great examples I’ve come accross after stumbling on this idea. I am not alone.