Critt Jarvis

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Doctors Without Borders

Haiti: HOWTO set up a plug-and-play hospital – Doctors Without Border

Aid Groups Focus on Haiti’s Homeless
New York Times

JACMEL, Haiti — Haiti has approved plans for more than a dozen sprawling tent cities in and around Port-au-Prince, the first step in an epic relocation effort that could reshape the country as up to one million people displaced by the earthquake find new places to live.

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Strong ties

Highest level of Trust attention, though not necessarily vis-à-vis.

How that works in my day to day life

Though we’ve never met in person, I have a high level of Trust for friend, Rob Paterson; and I read Rob’s Twitter stream daily, then. It’s reasonable to say that, within my social network, I have a strong tie to Rob.

This morning, one of @robpatrob’s tweets led me to Jacob Morgan’s post on Social Media Today, Why Dunbar’s Number is Irrelevant, a title which betrays Jacob’s conclusion.

Let Rob tell you why

Jacob reports, “I recently finished reading Morten Hansen’s fantastic book on Collaboration in which he states that the real value of collaboration and of networks doesn’t come from strong relationships and networks but from weak one’s. In fact one of Morten’s network rules is actually “build weak ties, not strong ones.” According to Morten: “[ ] research shows that weak ties can prove much more helpful in networking, because they form bridges to worlds we do not walk within.”

Thus Jacob concludes, “We shouldn’t be trying to figure out how we can maximize the number of strong relationships we can build or how we can beat Dunbar’s number; that task is as fruitless as it is irrelevant. Build weak ties where you can because they are extremely valuable, more so than strong ties.”

However, as Rob comments, illustrating the leverage inside the parameters of Dunbar, “[although] you are correct about the value of weak ties – they are as you say very useful.”

“But if you wish to have influence, the Trust is the key.”

Disclosure: I knew Chris Brogan *before* he was famous

That is, before the first Boston PodCamp, anyway.

Once upon a time, we’re in Austin, on the way to San Marcos and Blogtoberfest. After lunch, with @conniereece and @Pistachio, Chris and I are walking across the parking lot to my rental, and I tell him, “I think you–what you do–is more important than Scoble, what Scoble does.” Why did I think that, then? Because Chris was busy walking in worlds Scoble did not walk within, leveraging his strong ties to include networks of weak ones.

And that’s how, now, in a world of worlds–influencers influencing influencers–Trust is built. And, evidently, it’s working out well for all of us :)

Logic and emotion

It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, the energy to run the country, the resettling of people.

Last week I felt that “What the world community does now, defines the dominant logic and emotion of “globalization.” At the very least “the world community response will be illustrative of the nature of the huge complex process of globalization.”

The affirmative burden of responsibility

In Haiti, I believe we are witnessing a full spectrum response, working across domains and layers of responsibility. We are prepared; but we come on the fly, as well, strategically self-organizing. Yet, as good as we do now, the questions are coming: Who should do what? And when? And how?

Going forward, What will be the dominant logic and emotion of mutually assured dependence? Where and with whom will we locate the affirmative burden of responsibility?

The following excerpts illustrate my observations of the last week. Each is linked to a full text post.

Thursday, January 14, 2010, at 5:40

Haiti: After the aid rushes in…

… What’s next?

To what will you commit?

For how long?

Just saying.

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Friday, January 15, 2010, at 9:30 pm

Haiti: If not (long) now, then when)

Perturbating the order of civilization

Doctors are on the way

After the aid rushes in

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Saturday, January 16, 2010, at 6:25 pm

Inaction in Haiti: The power of regret

Why why we make mistakes and the power of regret:

“If we are going to err at something, we would rather err by failing to act.”

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Sunday, January 17, 2010, at 3:06 pm

Bringing Forth Sense and Structure in Haiti

The Crisis in Haiti

Initial Response

Sense and Structure

Global is Local, Strategically Speaking

Resilience, Revitalization

Social Networking: Enabling Resilience

Participate, React, Create, Connect

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at 4:04 am

Haiti: On what basis do we say no?

Earthquakes make bad laws

Immigrants and refugees: Who gets chosen?

A difficult question

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at 4:02 pm

Why I think it’s a great country now

Let history show

When lessons are learned

The value of retrospect

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at 6:57 pm

World-Wide Earthquake Locator: Mapping Interface

Who knew?

Earthquakes TW3: That was the week that was

Who you gonna call?

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010, at 10:40 pm

The Disaster Accountablity Project

Observers “R” Us

How to participate

Connect via Twitter and Facebook

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Thursday, January 21, 2010, at 9:53 am

An app for that: The Enterra

Regeneration

The poetic hymn

Underneath the hood

Code name: The Enterra