Beginning now and rolling back to the '60s
2007-License methodology to global financial services enterprise; contribute Afterword to The Handbook of Virtual Teams (Jossey-Bass, 2008); initiate research study on organizations as networks; decision to license virtual team methodology at no fee to non-profits around the world; keynote Enterprise 2.0 conference; JL serves on Conference Advisory Board. 2006-Develop and apply OrgScope as organizational diagnostic; license methodology to Scandinavian company; co-author Virtual Teams Handbook (Volvo IT); begin engagement with global financial services enterprise; JL completes first novel, The Persuasion; keynote Collaborative Technologies Conference. 2005-Participate in design and delivery of first "jam" outside IBM's pioneering efforts; file patent application for OrgScope; begin Scandinavian engagement. 2004-"Can Absence Make a Team Grow Stronger?" co-authored with Ann Majchrzak and Arvind Malhotra, Harvard Business Review, May; file provisional patent for OrgScope; keynote Shell Leading Learning event, the Netherlands. Begin OrgScope pilot. 2003-Observe Unified Quest 2003, first joint wargame of U.S. military services; attend seminar wargames of U.S. Army; publish "Hubs and Shortcuts: Prologue to the New Science of Organization Networks," white paper. 2002-Introduce Livelink virtualteams, LiveLinkUp, Paris; European collaboration engagement begins; participate in U.S. Navy's Leadership Summit. 2001-Partner with Open Text to develop, market, sell, and support Livelink virtualteams; Jessica receives Muriel Snowden Leadership Award for service to Freedom House; September 11. 2000- Virtual Teams, second edition, published by Wiley; dot-com bubble bursts; Jessica at Springboard 2000's New England Venture Forum. 1999-Keynote Intelligence Community's Fourth Annual Conference on Collaboration; raise NetAge investment; keynote Collaborate '99; develop black-belt virtual team training for leading company. 1998-Incorporate NetAge Inc; serve as guest authors, Collaborate '98, online conference. 1997-Keynote NCR's top performer conference in Barcelona; Virtual Teams published by Wiley; foreign rights sold in Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, and China; engagement begins with Shell Oil Company; study-tour of UNDP's Sub-Regional Resource Facility; featured speaker, Ministry Renewal Network. 1996-Receive 21st Century Leadership Award from First Community Bank, BankBoston ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library. 1995-Launch www.netage.com; co-found MassNet: Collaboration for the Commonwealth, cross-sectoral effort to encourage collaboration among Massachusetts business, government, nonprofits, and educational; Peter Drucker is keynote speaker at inaugural event, sponsored by Boston's Computer Museum; Oliver Wight Publishing sold to John Wiley & Sons; Apple Computer engagement begins; keynote Interaction Associates conferences in Boston and San Francisco; join Freedom House Board of Directors. 1994-The Age of the Network published under Oliver Wight Publication's new imprint, Omneo; Howard Rheingold cites J&J as pioneers in electronic communication in Virtual Community. 1993-Oliver Wight publishes The TeamNet Factor as lead book on Spring list; business guru Tom Peters endorses book in his column; translations into Japanese, Portuguese. Help design, facilitate and launch NetResults, first electronic cross-agency network for U.S. government employees on reinventing government, now FinanceNet; first engagement with UNDP; "Networking: Not Just for Big Business," op-ed, New York Times business section. 1992-Engagement with Qantas Airways, Sydney, Australia; literary agent Michael Snell agrees to represent Small Giants; sells to Jim Childs at Oliver Wight Publications, and becomes The TeamNet Factor; translation into Portuguese of The Networking Book in Brazil in honor of Rio Conference on the environment; op-ed, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 1991-Consultants to Digital Equipment Corporation's MD-12 project involving 150 people; "New Meaning for Worldwide Company," op-ed, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1990-Organization-Technology series for Digital Equipment Corporation. 1989-Speaking tour: Tokyo, Yokohama, Nara, and Osaka Japan; aiding Chinese students in Boston following Tiananmen Square; co-author, Bear Island Reflections, published by Bear Island Conservation Association, New Hampshire. 1988-First prototype of virtual team room using HyperCard. 1987-First engagement with Apple Computer; consult to Digital's European organizations. 1986-Routledge & Kegan/Paul publishes The Networking Book in UK; begin consulting with Digital Equipment Corporation on computer-mediated communication; first draft manuscript, Group Intelligence. 1985-Incorporate Internetwork Communications and New England Commons, in partnership with DEC; help found PresbyNet, which still exists today as EcuNet. 1984-Japan's Economic Planning Agency translates and publishes Networking, introducing term to the Japanese language; serve as faculty for first online global executive education program, Western Behavioral Science Institute, La Jolla, California; purchase first Mac; op-ed, Dayton Daily News; participate in Connections '84. 1983-Launch Networking Newsletter and Networking Journal for Networking Institute members; buy first IBM PC; begin engagement with Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). 1982- Doubleday publishes Networking in cloth and paperback; first speech at UN's Pacem in Terris Society; found Networking Institute; buy first Vector computer; give first speech at World Future Society; join Calvert Social Investment Fund Advisory Council; receive introduction for Networking from Buckminster Fuller, which we ultimately publish as preface to 1986 book, The Networking Book. 1981-Methuen cancels US publishing of all books, including ours; literary agent Ron Bernstein resells Networking to Doubleday; buy first Kaypro; attend week-long event with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Harvard University. 1980-Intersystems Press publishes Jeff's doctoral disseration, Holonomy: A Human Systems Theory, with foreword by Kenneth Boulding; second child, Eliza, born. 1979-Go online for first time with EIES; submit One Birth, Many Births manuscript to Ron Bernstein, who agrees to represent Jessica; 14 publishers turn book down; Ron suggests a book on women's networks--we suggest a book on grass-roots networks generally; J&J sign contract with Methuen to write Another America; cover story on Ellen Burstyn's film, "Resurrection," in New Age Journal. 1978-Jeff earns Ph.D. in human systems theory from Saybrook Institute; Jessica organizes Choices in Childbirth conference, 350 people attend in Blizzard of '78; contribute to new edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves and to National Women's Health Network nine-pamphlet series. 1977-Jessica's "Bucky Fuller: The Prophet Returns," first Boston Globe section cover story; "Birth," first magazine cover story, New Age Journal; "The Elusive Margaret Fuller," June, New Age Journal; first child, Miranda, born. 1975-1978-Public Fire Education Prevention Project with Boston's Children's Museum, Shriner's Burns Institute, and U.S. Department of Commerce; bought Wang 2200. 1973- Incorporate Whitewood Stamps, social science research company, with Frank White. Publish "Cable in Boston." 1972-Marry; moved to West Newton. 1971-Publish "A Cable Is a Very Big Wire," Yale Law Review; Jessica's five-part series on cable television in Boston After Dark (now Boston Phoenix); buy first computer, Wang 600. 1970- Jessica, B.A., Antioch College; meet Buckminster Fuller; incorporate Foundation 70, non-profit focused around community access to cable television. 1969-Jeff, M.Litt., Oxon. 1968-Meet at Oxford University , Oxford, England; Jeff, Fulbright Scholar, Pembroke College; Jessica, undergraduate, Manchester College.
|
|
