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In this fourth episode, we’re continuing in our development of the Notes From the Future® “blook” – this radio blog converted into a published book. As we have in our other programs, we’re positioning ourselves in November 2011, and looking back towards October 2010, when the prototype Networlding Innovation & Collaboration Center® first opened on Michigan Ave Chicago on 10-10-2010. Peter and I will be reminiscing about our early days in the Center … To our live audience, we welcome your inputs and questions as Peter and I discuss a range of questions including: What did we set out to accomplish? What were our motivations? What resistance did we encounter? Who encouraged us? What people were instrumental to our early success? What role did Networlding play? What was it about the Innovation Center concept that truly caught people’s interest and passion? How did we leverage outside ideas and our blogosphere community to help enhance our vision and accelerate our progress?

Join me and my guest this week, Lisa Nirell, author of the new hit book "Energize Growth Now: The Marketing Guide to a Wealthy Company" to learn about how you can take your company to its "next level" of success. I have known Lisa for over five years and have watched as she has helped dozens of companies accelerate their growth through her proven methodology that is based, as Networlding is, on values and value-based relationships. This thirty-minute show will offer you insights into what you can be doing to energize the growth of your company.

In our third episode of “Notes from the Future”, we outline the founding principles behind the Networlding Innovation & Collaboration Center, and why this center became such an integral asset to Chicago innovation activities by late 2011. Join Peter Balbus and I – and special guest David Ormesher, president and CEO of closerlook, inc., a strategic marketing agency founded in 1987 that serves the healthcare industry -- as we discuss the key factors driving change across the healthcare sector and the role an innovation & collaboration solution center could play in accelerating innovation.

Do you notice that have moved from a 6 Degrees world to a Two Degrees world? Would you like to know how this simple fact can help your career or business success? Join Melissa Giovagnoli, best-selling author, social media expert and host as she interviews one great guest after another connecting in real time with another great connection they know to LIVE the concept of Two Degrees. In this first episode you will meet Laura Hansen. Laura Hansen is a successful entrepreneur and marketing expert who decided to embrace her passion a few years ago by painting after 30 years. Her acrylic abstracts have been displayed in galleries and she continues to grow that business. In addition, she's been publishing the Best of the Best Dining in Chicago - a local culinary blog that's reached much success. FROM THE THEATER TO BUILDING LIFE AS THEATER, KATHERINE HART IS GIVING PEOPLE THE TOOL TO COMMUNICATE WITH INTEREST, CLARITY, AUTHORITY, LANGUAGE AND LISTENING. . Katherine Hart is Founder and President of Hartfelt Communication– a company dedicated to providing communication skills training that create the HUMAN CONNECTION What we Say and Then HOW WE Say equals Sound Success. Katherine has been the inspiration and driving force in developing a custom designed training program for dozens of Fortune 100 companies – training over 43,000 professionals in the ICALL Communications Process.

In this second episode, Peter Balbus and I discuss the overview of "Notes From the Future." Join Peter Balbus, the future executive director of the "The Networlding Innovation & Collaboration Center", and I as we talk about the chapters of the book. Again this WebRadio program will also be interactive, so I invite you to listen in each week and either text in or call in your questions and comments.

In this premier episode, Peter Balbus and I discuss the genesis of our collaboration and our shared interest in creating an innovation center that brought us together. This was something I’d been thinking about for over ten years – and we felt that re-inventing retail would be the perfect initial focus for this living laboratory concept. Join Peter Balbus, the future executive director of the "The Networlding Innovation & Collaboration Center", and I as we talk about how this whole thing was planned and launched, what the center has inside, how it creates value, and how it forever changed the notion of retail. We will be taking excerpts from our conversations for our “Notes From the Future” blog to create a “blook” -- an interactive blog that will turn into my next book that I am co-authoring with Peter. This WebRadio program will also be interactive, so I invite you to listen in each week and either text in or call in your questions and comments. I promise you a thought-provoking, entertaining and memorable experience!