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== About VRM ==

VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal the customer side of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls] when he became a fellow at the Center in 2006. (He has been an alumnus fellow since September 2010). The purpose of the project is to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began, Doc saw this as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party.

What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable) ? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet and came along and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones'' to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy [http://digg.com/news/story/Dancing_desktop_girls desktop girls] independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces). This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://www.azigo.com/ Azigo.com]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personal.com Personal.com]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]
*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com software pos]
*[http://www.getabl.com/ Getabl]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.thumbtack.com/ Thumbtack]
*[http://www.trustfabric.com/ TrustFabric]
*[http://tucows.com Tucows] and [http://hover.com Hover.com]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]
* Mature Supplier/Vendor Rating: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMMI#Appraisal Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI Appraisal Ratings] (Software Engineering Institute, US Dept. of Defense)
* Im-Mature Supplier/Vendor Rating: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Immaturity_Model Capability Im-Maturity Model] (US Air Force)
* Cross-Border eConsumer.gov [http://www.econsumer.gov/english/resources/trends.shtm Complaint Trends]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== vCard Converter ===

PCVITA [http://www.pcvita.com/vcard-converter-software.html vCard converter] tool is to convert your Outlook contacts to vCard contacts & vCard contacts to Outlook as well.

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12][http://www.chenkrahman.com/ ,] May 3-5, Mountain View, CA
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. You can also edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.
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2011-09-26T08:45:41Z

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== About VRM ==

VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal the customer side of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls] when he became a fellow at the Center in 2006. (He has been an alumnus fellow since September 2010). The purpose of the project is to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began, Doc saw this as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party.

What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable) ? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet and came along and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones'' to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy [http://digg.com/news/story/Dancing_desktop_girls desktop girls] independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces). This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://www.azigo.com/ Azigo.com]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personal.com Personal.com]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]
*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com software pos]
*[http://www.getabl.com/ Getabl]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.thumbtack.com/ Thumbtack]
*[http://www.trustfabric.com/ TrustFabric]
*[http://tucows.com Tucows] and [http://hover.com Hover.com]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]
* Mature Supplier/Vendor Rating: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMMI#Appraisal Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI Appraisal Ratings] (Software Engineering Institute, US Dept. of Defense)
* Im-Mature Supplier/Vendor Rating: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Immaturity_Model Capability Im-Maturity Model] (US Air Force)
* Cross-Border eConsumer.gov [http://www.econsumer.gov/english/resources/trends.shtm Complaint Trends]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== vCard Converter ===

PCVITA [http://www.pcvita.com/vcard-converter-software.html vCard converter] tool is to convert your Outlook contacts to vCard contacts & vCard contacts to Outlook as well.

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12][http://www.chenkrahman.com/ ,] May 3-5, Mountain View, CA
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. You can also edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.
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Venkat: /* ProjectVRM Participation */

== About VRM ==

VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal the customer side of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls] when he became a fellow at the Center in 2006. (He has been an alumnus fellow since September 2010). The purpose of the project is to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began, Doc saw this as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party.

What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable) ? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet and came along and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones'' to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy [http://digg.com/news/story/Dancing_desktop_girls desktop girls] independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces). This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://www.azigo.com/ Azigo.com]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personal.com Personal.com]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]
*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.getabl.com/ Getabl]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com/ software retail]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.thumbtack.com/ Thumbtack]
*[http://www.trustfabric.com/ TrustFabric]
*[http://tucows.com Tucows] and [http://hover.com Hover.com]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]
* Mature Supplier/Vendor Rating: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMMI#Appraisal Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI Appraisal Ratings] (Software Engineering Institute, US Dept. of Defense)
* Im-Mature Supplier/Vendor Rating: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Immaturity_Model Capability Im-Maturity Model] (US Air Force)
* Cross-Border eConsumer.gov [http://www.econsumer.gov/english/resources/trends.shtm Complaint Trends]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== vCard Converter ===

PCVITA [http://www.pcvita.com/vcard-converter-software.html vCard converter] tool is to convert your Outlook contacts to vCard contacts & vCard contacts to Outlook as well.

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12][http://www.chenkrahman.com/ ,] May 3-5, Mountain View, CA
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. You can also edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.
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== About VRM ==

VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal the customer side of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls] when he became a fellow at the Center in 2006. (He has been an alumnus fellow since September 2010). The purpose of the project is to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began, Doc saw this as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party.

What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable) ? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet and came along and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones'' to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy [http://digg.com/news/story/Dancing_desktop_girls desktop girls] independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces). This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://www.azigo.com/ Azigo.com]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personal.com Personal.com]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]
*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.getabl.com/ Getabl]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com/ software retail]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.thumbtack.com/ Thumbtack]
*[http://www.trustfabric.com/ TrustFabric]
*[http://tucows.com Tucows] and [http://hover.com Hover.com]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]
* Mature Supplier/Vendor Rating: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMMI#Appraisal Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI Appraisal Ratings] (Software Engineering Institute, US Dept. of Defense)
* Im-Mature Supplier/Vendor Rating: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Immaturity_Model Capability Im-Maturity Model] (US Air Force)
* Cross-Border eConsumer.gov [http://www.econsumer.gov/english/resources/trends.shtm Complaint Trends]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== vCard Converter ===

PCVITA [http://www.pcvita.com/vcard-converter-software.html vCard converter] tool is to convert your Outlook contacts to vCard contacts & vCard contacts to Outlook as well.

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12][http://www.chenkrahman.com/ ,] May 3-5, Mountain View, CA
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. You can also edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.
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Venkat: /* VRM Development Work */

== About VRM ==

VRM stands for '''Vendor Relationship Management'''. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal  the customer side  of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.[http://www.essaymojo.co.uk/essay-service.php Essay Writing]

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls] when he became a fellow at the Center in 2006. (He has been an alumnus fellow since September 2010). The purpose of the project is to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began, Doc saw it as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://www.smslaan.org Sms lån][http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable) ? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet and came along  and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones''  to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces). This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://www.chenkrahman.com/ TV Online]
*[http://sakeena.net/ TV Online Indonesia]
*[http://www.anehuniklucu.com/ Berita Unik]
*[http://www.musikdahsyat.info/ Free Download Mp3]
*[http://www.gadgetsnew.us/ Gadgets New]
*[http://trendsandroid.com/ Trends Android]
*[http://63newstrends.com/ News Trends]
*[http://seo.zianka.com/ Media Online News]
*[http://www.zianka.com/ Bordir Tasikmalaya]
*[http://www.anggabatik.com/ Batik Tasikmalaya]
*[http://blog-rahman.blogspot.com/ Mivo TV]
*[http://63cell.blogspot.com/ Handphone Terbaru]
*[http://sakee-na.blogspot.com/ Berita Terkini]
*[http://www.azigo.com/ Azigo.com]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://mydex.org/ MyDex]
*[http://www.vrm.cl/ myinfo.cl]
*[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
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*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personal.com Personal.com]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://seoph2.cafe24.com/wordpress SEO Blog]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com software retail]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.thumbtack.com/ Thumbtack]
*[http://www.trustfabric.com/ TrustFabric]
*[http://www.omnibet.ro/ Pariuri Sportive]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]
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== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12][http://www.chenkrahman.com/ ,] May 3-5, Mountain View, CA
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3[http://sakeena.net/ ,] San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011][http://www.anehuniklucu.com/ ,] March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011[http://www.musikdahsyat.info/ ,] Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University[http://www.gadgetsnew.us/ ,] Cambridge, MA

2009
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* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009[http://63newstrends.com/ ,] Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16[http://seo.zianka.com/ ,] 2009 in Palo Alto, CA

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

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== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. You can also edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.

Main Page

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== About VRM ==

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Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. [http://www.writers-write.co.uk/dissertation-writing-help.php Dissertation writing service] What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable)[http://www.essayinn.co.uk Essay Writing] ? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet and [http://www.ascomsa.net/ hosting] came along and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.[http://www.writers-write.co.uk/dissertation-writing-help.php Dissertation writing service]

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== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones'' to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
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== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

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== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://www.essayhelppros.co.uk/uk-essay-writing.php Essay writing]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[http://www.weprintdiscs.com/ cd printing]
*[http://www.bannerprintingshop.com/ banner printing]
*[http://www.freescenicpictures.com/ free scenic pictures]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[http://www.vrm.cl/ myinfo.cl]
*[http://mydex.org/ MyDex]
*[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
* [http://www.dissertationinn.co.uk/dissertation-topics/ dissertation topics]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personal.com Personal.com]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com Project Managing]
*[http://www.essayhelppros.co.uk/essay-writing-help.php essay writing help]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.trustfabric.com/ TrustFabric]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.customessayhelp.com/ essay help]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://www.thumbtack.com/ Thumbtack]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]
* [http://www.headlicetreatmentworld.com/ head lice treatment]
== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== Past Events ===
2011
* [http://www.customessayhelp.com/write-my-essay.html write my essay]
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
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* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA
* [http://www.iyap.se Iyap]
* [[[http://www.sungatetours.com/inca-trail.html Inca Trail Tours] took place June 15-17 in Peru, South America.

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University
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== About VRM ==

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[http://www.inlondonlocal.co.uk/ *] VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls] when he became a fellow at the Center in 2006. (He has been an alumnus fellow since September 2010)[http://www.freehealthinformation.net/ .]

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[http://www.viviennebalonwu.com/ *] Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways?

What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable). VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet and [http://www.gadgetsdotcom.net/ hosting] came along and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

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#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control[http://www.allartsdir.com/ .]

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors - and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers[http://www.all-health-dir.com/ .]

It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use[http://www.gadgetsdotcom.net/ .]

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the 10th Anniversary edition of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers[http://www.gadgetsdotcom/ .]
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces), and open blackberry unlock codes. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats, a hybrid cab plus other social goods.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://www.essaywritinghelp4u.com/ Essay Help]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com Project Help]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.
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== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== Past Events ===
2011
* May 3-5, Mountain View, CA
* February 2-3, San Francisco
* March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]
* May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA
* Inca Trail Tours took place June 15-17 in Peru, South America.

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

VRM Hub is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during Internet Identity Workshops in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at Kynetx Impact conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. You can also edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.

Main Page

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== Project VRM ==

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Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals,[http://www.writers-write.co.uk/university-essays.php University essays] in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. [http://www.writers-write.co.uk/dissertation-writing-help.php Dissertation writing service] What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable)[http://www.essayinn.co.uk Essay Writing] ? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet came along and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.[http://www.writers-write.co.uk/dissertation-writing-help.php Dissertation writing service]

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== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones'' to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.
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VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. [http://www.dissertationinn.co.uk/dissertation-service/ dissertation writing service] It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social,[http://www.dissertationinn.co.uk/dissertation-proposal/ dissertation proposal] in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, [http://longtermcareinsuranceinfo.com/ long term care insurance], membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.[http://www.dissertationinn.co.uk/dissertation-writers/ dissertation writers] [http://www.coppervalleycustomhomes.com custom home builders]
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers of [http://katyperryfirework.net katy perry firework]
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces), and open [http://www.easyunlocks.com/ blackberry unlock codes]. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats, a [http://www.hybridcab.com/ hybrid cab] plus other social goods.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://www.essayhelppros.co.uk/uk-essay-writing.php Essay writing]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[http://www.weprintdiscs.com/ cd printing]
*[http://www.dissertationwritinghelp.co.uk/ Dissertation Help]
*[http://www.bannerprintingshop.com/ banner printing]
*[http://www.freescenicpictures.com/ free scenic pictures]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[http://www.vrm.cl/ myinfo.cl]
*[http://mydex.org/ MyDex]
*[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
* [http://www.dissertationinn.co.uk/dissertation-topics/ dissertation topics]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personal.com Personal.com]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ Project Danube]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com Project Management]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[http://www.essayhelppros.co.uk/essay-writing-help.php essay writing help]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.trustfabric.com/ TrustFabric]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.customessayhelp.com/ essay help]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://www.thumbtack.com/ Thumbtack]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]
* [http://www.headlicetreatmentworld.com/ head lice treatment]
== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== Past Events ===
2011
* [http://www.customessayhelp.com/write-my-essay.html write my essay]
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [http://www.logodesignmaestro.co.uk custom logo design]
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA
* [http://www.iyap.se Iyap]
* [[[http://www.sungatetours.com/inca-trail.html Inca Trail Tours] took place June 15-17 in Peru, South America.

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University
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* [http://www.essaymojo.co.uk/UK-Essay-Help.php Buy Essay]

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. You can also edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.[http://www.mightydesigners.com/ Logo Design Contest]|[http://www.customessayhelp.com/essay-help.html buy essay]

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== About VRM ==

VRM stands for '''Vendor Relationship Management'''. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal  the customer side  of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls] when he became a fellow at the Center in 2006. (He has been an alumnus fellow since September 2010). The purpose of the project is to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began, Doc saw it as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://www.smslaan.org Sms lån][http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue": [http://www.diamondlinks.net link building services]

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Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable)? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet came along  and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones''  to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers.
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces), and open code. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats, plus other social goods.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://azigo.com Azigo]
*[http://connect.me Connect.me]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[http://www.vrm.cl/ myinfo.cl]
*[http://mydex.org/ MyDex]
*[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personal.com Personal.com]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com Project tracking]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.trustfabric.com/ TrustFabric]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Or edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.

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2011-07-20T05:23:06Z

Venkat: /* VRM Development Work */

== About VRM ==

VRM stands for '''Vendor Relationship Management'''. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal from the customer side of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://www.choithraminternational.com schools indore] [http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a research and development project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls], a fellow at the Center, to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began in 2006, Doc saw it as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools. You can also try a [http://phonyphonecalls.blogspot.com/ cell phone lookup ]

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events and site.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable)? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet came along and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones'' to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers.
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces), and open code. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats, plus other social goods.

== VRM Terminology ==
Like any new market, VRM requires the introduction of a handful of new terms. The community is currently (October 2010) using this wiki to develop Wikipedia entries for the following terms. Feel free to help us by reviewing and editing the following pages (or our [[Wikipedia Article Discussion]] page):
* [[Personal data service]]
* [[Personal data server]]
* [[Personal data store]]
* [[Personal data ecosystem]]
* [[Personal Cloud]]
* [[Personal Data management]]

We encourage discussion of these definitions on the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Please add other terms you feel are important to [http://seoph2.cafe24.com/wordpress/ seo blog] harmonize within VRM and with related [http://www.allseoexperts.com/ web design] communities.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations of whom some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:

*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[http://genomera.com Genomera (Health VRM)]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com/pos/point-of-sale.html Project Management]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] November, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]] (date TBD)
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Or edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.

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Venkat: /* VRM Development Work */

== About VRM ==

VRM stands for '''Vendor Relationship Management'''. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal  the customer side  of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a research and development project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls], a fellow at the Center, to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began in 2006, Doc saw it as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://www.smslaan.org Sms lån][http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, [http://alertforce.com.au/ohs-training-courses/forklift-safety/ forklift training] , companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events and site.[http://www.gallbladderdetox.com/gall-bladder-symptoms/ gall bladder symptoms]
[http://www.customessayhelp.com essay writing]

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].
[http://www.logodesignmaestro.com Custom Logo Design]

== VRM and the Economy ==
[http://www.headlicetreatmentworld.com head lice treatment]

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable)? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet came along  and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones''  to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers.
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces), and open code. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats, plus other social goods.

== VRM Terminology ==
Like any new market concept, VRM requires the introduction of a handful of new terms. The community is currently (October 2010) using this wiki to develop Wikipedia entries for the following terms. Feel free to help us by reviewing and editing the following pages (or our [[Wikipedia Article Discussion]] page):
* [[Personal data service]]
* [[Personal data server]]
* [[Personal data store]]
* [[Personal data ecosystem]]
* [[Personal Cloud]]
* [[Personal Data management]]

We encourage discussion of these definitions on the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Please add other terms you feel are important to harmonize within VRM and with related communities.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://signalsforex.org/ forex signals]
*[http://azigo.com Azigo]
*[http://connect.me Connect.me]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://www.url.vn/ Thiet ke web]
[http://www.omnibet.ro/ Pariuri sportive]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
necalls.blogspot.com/ Cell Phone Lookup]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com/pos/point-of-sale.html Project tracking]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] *[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]
*[http://www.vasundharafertility.com/infertility.php infetility]
*[http://anchoragerolfing.com/ Anchorage Rolfer]
*[http://www.hugglebuddies.org/ huggle buddies]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] November, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]] (date TBD)
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Or edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.

Main Page

2011-07-05T07:22:04Z

Venkat: /* VRM Development Work */

== About VRM ==

VRM stands for '''Vendor Relationship Management'''. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal  the customer side  of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a research and development project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls], a fellow at the Center, to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began in 2006, Doc saw it as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://www.smslaan.org Sms lån][http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, [http://alertforce.com.au/ohs-training-courses/forklift-safety/ forklift training] , companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events and site.[http://www.gallbladderdetox.com/gall-bladder-symptoms/ gall bladder symptoms]
[http://www.customessayhelp.com essay writing]

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].
[http://www.logodesignmaestro.com Custom Logo Design]

== VRM and the Economy ==
[http://www.headlicetreatmentworld.com head lice treatment]

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable)? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet came along  and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones''  to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers.
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces), and open code. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats, plus other social goods.

== VRM Terminology ==
Like any new market concept, VRM requires the introduction of a handful of new terms. The community is currently (October 2010) using this wiki to develop Wikipedia entries for the following terms. Feel free to help us by reviewing and editing the following pages (or our [[Wikipedia Article Discussion]] page):
* [[Personal data service]]
* [[Personal data server]]
* [[Personal data store]]
* [[Personal data ecosystem]]
* [[Personal Cloud]]
* [[Personal Data management]]

We encourage discussion of these definitions on the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Please add other terms you feel are important to harmonize within VRM and with related communities.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://signalsforex.org/ forex signals]
*[http://azigo.com Azigo]
*[http://connect.me Connect.me]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://www.url.vn/ Thiet ke web]
[http://www.omnibet.ro/ Pariuri sportive]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
necalls.blogspot.com/ Cell Phone Lookup]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com/pos/point-of-sale.html project tracking]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] *[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]
*[http://www.vasundharafertility.com/infertility.php infetility]
*[http://anchoragerolfing.com/ Anchorage Rolfer]
*[http://www.hugglebuddies.org/ huggle buddies]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] November, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]] (date TBD)
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Or edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.

Main Page

2011-06-21T05:28:56Z

Venkat: /* VRM Development Work */

== About VRM ==

VRM stands for '''Vendor Relationship Management'''. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal  the customer side  of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a research and development project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls], a fellow at the Center, to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began in 2006, Doc saw it as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://www.smslaan.org Sms lån][http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue": [http://www.diamondlinks.net link building services]
[http://www.monarch-garments.com/blazer.asp blazer]

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, [http://alertforce.com.au/ohs-training-courses/forklift-safety/ forklift training] , companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable)? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet came along  and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones''  to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers.
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces), and open code. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats, plus other social goods.

== VRM Terminology ==
Like any new market concept, VRM requires the introduction of a handful of new terms. The community is currently (October 2010) using this wiki to develop Wikipedia entries for the following terms. Feel free to help us by reviewing and editing the following pages (or our [[Wikipedia Article Discussion]] page):
* [[Personal data service]]
* [[Personal data server]]
* [[Personal data store]]
* [[Personal data ecosystem]]
* [[Personal Cloud]]
* [[Personal Data management]]

We encourage discussion of these definitions on the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Please add other terms you feel are important to harmonize within VRM and with related communities.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://signalsforex.org/ forex signals]
*[http://azigo.com Azigo]
*[http://connect.me Connect.me]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://higgins-project.org higgins-project.org]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[http://www.vrm.cl/ myinfo.cl]
*[http://mydex.org/ MyDex]
*[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
*[http://www.p90x-workout-schedule.net/ P90x Workout Schedule]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personal.com Personal.com]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com/pos/point-of-sale.html Project Data Tracking]
*[http://phonyphonecalls.blogspot.com/ Cell Phone Lookup]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://naukajazdybielskobiala.pl/ Prawo Jazdy]
*[http://www.shindiristudio.com/SEO-optimizacija-sajta/ SEO]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.trustfabric.com/ TrustFabric]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.naukajazdybielskobiala.pl nauka jazdy bielsko]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page.
ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] November, 2011, Mountain View, CA]

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]] (date TBD)
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Or edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.

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2011-03-09T05:19:19Z

Venkat: vrm development

== About VRM ==

VRM stands for '''Vendor Relationship Management'''. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal  the customer side  of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a research and development project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls], a fellow at the Center, to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began in 2006, Doc saw it as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable)? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet came along  and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones''  to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers.
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces), and open code. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats, plus other social goods.

== VRM Terminology ==
Like any new market concept, VRM requires the introduction of a handful of new terms. The community is currently (October 2010) using this wiki to develop Wikipedia entries for the following terms. Feel free to help us by reviewing and editing the following pages (or our [[Wikipedia Article Discussion]] page):
* [[Personal data service]]
* [[Personal data server]]
* [[Personal data store]]
* [[Personal data ecosystem]]
* [[Personal Cloud]]

We encourage discussion of these definitions on the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Please add other terms you feel are important to harmonize within VRM and with related communities.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://azigo.com Azigo]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[http://www.vrm.cl/ myinfo.cl]
*[http://mydex.org/ MyDex]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com/pos/point-of-sale.html Project Management]
*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.trustfabric.org/ TrustFabric.org]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]] (date TBD)
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

=== Past Events ===
2011
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco

2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Or edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.

Main Page

2011-03-02T11:31:39Z

Venkat: /* VRM Development Work */

== About VRM ==

VRM stands for '''Vendor Relationship Management'''. VRM tools provide customers with both ''independence'' from vendors and ''better ways of engaging'' with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.

In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal  the customer side  of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.

VRM development projects are listed below.

== Project VRM ==

[http://projectvrm.org ProjectVRM] is a research and development project of [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu the Berkman Center for Internet & Society] at Harvard University. It was created by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Searls Doc Searls], a fellow at the Center, to encourage VRM development and to conduct research on its premises and its progress.

When the project began in 2006, Doc saw it as "a way to fulfill the promise of [http://cluetrain.com ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'']'s Prime Clue":

[[Image:Not-1.gif]]

Doc believed that customer reach would only exceed vendor grasp if customers had the tools for the job. So Doc created ProjectVRM to support the creation and building of those tools.

Since then the VRM community has grown to include many development projects, companies, allied associations and individuals, in addition to ProjectVRM itself. The community's work is outlined in this wiki, and discussed on its [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Mailing_list mailing list], its [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog] and in workshops and other events.

Read more about ProjectVRM on the [[About | About Page]].

== VRM and the Economy ==

The economic goal of VRM is to improve relationships between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to engage with and drive the latter.

This is not possible when all the tools of engagement are provided by suppliers, and all those tools are different. For example, most customers today carry around up to dozens of "loyalty" cards and key-ring tags, each with its own vendor-provided means for controlling interactions and providing benefits. These inconvenience both buyers and sellers, and limit the intelligence that can be gathered and put to use by either party. What if buyers had the ability to advertise their shopping lists to the sellers with which they have relationships? What if buyers were able to establish and maintain loyalty on their own terms and in their own ways? What if customers' ability to express preferences and advertise demand were improved to the point where sellers could reduce money wasted on advertising and other forms of guesswork? What if it were quick and easy for customers to say what they'll pay for what they want, on their own terms (and to pay on the spot, if the terms are mutually agreeable)? VRM tools and services will answer these and many other questions that could not be asked before the Internet came along  and cannot be asked, as long as sellers continue to hold all the relationship cards.

== VRM Principles ==

VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers are more valuable than captive ones''  to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free 

#Relationships must be voluntary.
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as independent actors.
#Customers must be the points of integration for their own data.
#Customers must have control of data they generate and gather. They must be able to share data selectively, voluntarily, and control the terms of its use.
#Customers must be able to assert their own terms of engagement and service.
#Customers must be free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control.

VRM research work probes the willingness and ability of customers to assert and enjoy independence from vendors -- and of vendors' willingness and ability to value and engage with independent customers. It also follows changes in the marketplace as VRM tools come into use.

== VRM Goals ==

In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the purposes of VRM efforts:

#Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.
#Make individuals the collection centers for their own data, so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.
#Give individuals the ability to share data selectively, without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.
#Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others, and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.
#Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service, reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.
#Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market, outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.
#Make individuals platforms for business by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers.
#Base relationship-managing tools on open standards, open APIs (application program interfaces), and open code. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats, plus other social goods.

== VRM Terminology ==
Like any new market concept, VRM requires the introduction of a handful of new terms. The community is currently (October 2010) using this wiki to develop Wikipedia entries for the following terms. Feel free to help us by reviewing and editing the following pages (or our [[Wikipedia Article Discussion]] page):
* [[Personal data service]]
* [[Personal data server]]
* [[Personal data store]]
* [[Personal data ecosystem]]
* [[Personal Cloud]]

We encourage discussion of these definitions on the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Please add other terms you feel are important to harmonize within VRM and with related communities.

== VRM Development Work ==

Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts:
*[http://azigo.com Azigo]
*[http://www.merchantos.com/ Pos Software]
*[[EmanciPay]]
*[[FCRA: Access to credit data]]
*[[GRM: Government Relationship Management]]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara]
*[http://kynetx.com Kynetx], which also does [http://hvr.me HoverMe]
*[[ListenLog]]
*[http://www.vrm.cl/ myinfo.cl]
*[http://mydex.org/ MyDex]
*[http://www.paoga.com/ Paoga]
*[http://pegasuspublic.wikispaces.com/ Pegasus]
*[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem]
*[[Personal RFP]]
*[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube]
*[http://www.projectnori.org/ Project Nori]
*[http://www.qiycorporate.com/ QIY]
*[[r-button]]
*[http://sing.ly/ Singly]
*[http://www.socialnori.org/ Social Nori]
*[http://www.switchbook.com/ SwitchBook]
*[http://telehash.org Telehash]
*[http://www.trustfabric.org/ TrustFabric.org]
*[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA]
*[http://www.vrmhub.net VRM Hub]
*[http://www.vrmlabs.net VRM Labs]
*[http://www.gofrugal.com Business Management Software]
*[http://www.banyanproject.com/ The Banyan Project]
*[https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker#readme The Locker Project]
*[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project]
*[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger]

== ProjectVRM Committees ==

*[[Vision Committee]]
*[[Marketing Committee]]
*[[Standards Committee]]
*[[Organization Committee]]
*[[Usage Committee]]
*[[Compliance Committee]]
*[[Steering Committee]]

== ProjectVRM Resources ==

* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]
* [[VRM FAQ]]
* VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]

Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.

== VRM Events ==

ProjectVRM events take place once or twice per year:
=== Upcoming Events ===
2011
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]] (date TBD)
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA

=== Past Events ===
2010
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2009
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA

2008
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University

[http://www.vrmhub.net/ VRM Hub] is a series of monthly meetings in London.

Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. VRM is also a topic at [http://kynetximpactspring2010.eventbrite.com/ Kynetx Impact] conferences.

== ProjectVRM Participation ==

Sign up for the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list]. Or edit this wiki by signing up at the top of this page.