I’ve just finished my class “Social Web for Social Change,” an elective at my progressive MBA program here at Bainbridge Graduate Institute. First and foremost, I am a social being (we all kinda are) and my generation’s upbringing leaves me destined to being online. This influence doesn’t not leave me. So while the class is [...]
Christopher Allen over at Life With Alacrity, who also happens to be my instructor, wrote a great series called “Community by the Numbers” which I’ve summarized here. I thought the information was a perfect fit. If a community is too small you’ll often have insufficient critical mass to sustain it. Conversely, if it’s too large [...]
A while back I mentioned that I would share a map or something describing how I’ve organized myself online. Part of the reason why I never got to completing the post was that I never got around to completing the process. There is a lot of information to manage out there. One thing is for [...]
This past summer started (and nearly finished) an anthology called “Tribal and Peasant Economies: Reading in Economic Anthropology” (Edited by George Dalton). It’s from the late 60′s, the examples all seemed very male-centric, and there is a clear anthropological misstep in perspective. “Primitive” seems to be the term used most to describe these other economies [...]
Here is what my lived experience is of the social norms around networking and connections online: Share often Reference and give credit to others Participate in conversation Use consistent themes I started to realize that this was a way of thinking that was very isolating and individually centric. Strategies, if you will, that seem less [...]
