Community & Crowd
Emerging practices & modern approaches to online community architecture, social ecosystem development and engagement
Collection by Bill Johnston
newpublic.org
Digital Spaces Directory
· Welcome to the Digital Spaces Directory, a collection of 200+ products designing for a prosocial internet. · Shared by 6, including Bill Johnston
wholeearth.info
Whole Earth Index
2 min · · Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between… · Shared by 10, including Bill Johnston
billjohnston.io
Reasons to be Optimistic About the Future of Community Practice
3 min · · The community “industry” is a mess. Good thing we are pretty good at community. · Shared by 5, including Bill Johnston
coherepod.com
The Rich History and the Exciting Future of the Maker Movement with Dale Dougherty
3 min · · In this episode of the Cohere podcast, co-hosts Bill Johnston and Dr. Lauren Vargas welcome Dale Dougherty, the founder of Make: Magazine and Maker Faire, and a person who played a key and critical… · Shared by 5, including Bill Johnston
ide.mit.edu
Just Published! 'Rewiring Social Media'
1 min · · It’s been more than a decade since social media platforms have transformed our lives in unimagined ways. During that time, social media has become intertwined and synonymous with all media—a dominant… · Shared by 5, including Bill Johnston
WIRED
Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
6 min · · Meta promised to make Threads compatible with the decentralized protocol underlying Mastodon. Proponents of interoperable social media can’t agree whether to welcome or fear it. · Shared by 7, including Bill Johnston
coherepod.com
Evolution of Learning: Moving Beyond Communities of Practice with the Wenger-Trayners
3 min · · Episode Summary: In the latest episode of the Cohere podcast, social learning theorists Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner delve into an engaging discussion with co-hosts Dr. Lauren Vargas and Bill… · Shared by 5, including Bill Johnston
descript.com
Can you copyright the content you make with generative AI?
4 min · · The U.S. Copyright Office says you can’t claim output of tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E. Here’s why, and what the ruling means for creators. · Shared by 7, including Bill Johnston
billjohnston.io
Will Generative AI Make Popular Culture’s Self-Referential Tendencies Exponentially Worse?
4 min · · “All of pop culture — be it movies, music or TV — is now engaged in a delicious orgy of self-consumption.” Peter McKnight — “Is pop culture eating itself to death?”The Globe and Mail, July 31, 2000… · Shared by 7, including Bill Johnston
coherepod.com
Exploring AI as a Force Multiplier / Reflections as we Transition to Spring
1 min · · Episode Summary: In this episode, Bill and Lauren delve into their interest in AI and reflect on some of the key insights presented in the recent The Future Today Institute's 2023 Tech Trends Report.… · Shared by 6, including Bill Johnston
ssir.org
Thinking and Acting Like a Platform Will Help Social Entrepreneurs Create Impact at Scale (SSIR)
10 min · · Platform thinking pushes social entrepreneurs to leave the role of the problem solver in favor of being an enabler of changemakers who can solve problems locally. · Shared by 6, including Bill Johnston
structure3c.com
[Podcast] The Role of Friendship in Enhancing Virtual Experiences with Joi Podgorny
4 min · · Joi Podgorny returns to the Cohere podcast to discuss her unique perspective on the state of the Metaverse with hosts Bill Johnston and Dr. Lauren Vargas. In season 1, in the early stages of the… · Shared by 5, including Bill Johnston
MIT Press
Design for a Better World
1 min · · Human behavior brought our world to the brink, human behavior can save us.The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the... · Shared by 11, including Santiago Ortiz, Bill Johnston
dell.com
Ideastorm 2.0 Launched Today!
2 min · · Today the IdeaStorm 2.0 project comes to fruition with the launch of the re-designed website. With the new Ideastorm website, you will have access to many · Shared by 5, including Bill Johnston
Forbes
Dell Modernizes Ideastorm
5 min · · Dell last week very quietly released a significantly updated version of its groundbreaking IdeaStorm. I'm glad to see it. The old version had become a bit long of tooth. Considering that IdeaStorm… · Shared by 5, including Bill Johnston
ReadWrite
Dell Launches v2 of IdeaStorm
2 min · · It is hard to believe that Dell's IdeaStorm site is five years old. (It's Feb 2007 launch was covered by us here.) But harder still to realize was that until last week, the venerated ideation site was… · Shared by 5, including Bill Johnston