Community & Crowd
Emerging practices & modern approaches to online community architecture, social ecosystem development and engagement
Collection by Bill Johnston
futureforth.com
NICE21 - Dunbar's Number, friendships, and collaboration with Prof. Robin Dunbar.
1 min read · May 13th · Professor Robin Dunbar is the creator of "Dunbar's Number". He is an evolutionary psychologist and former director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology in the Department of…
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Ars Technica
Elon Musk, Twitter’s next owner, provides his definition of “free speech”
5 min read · Apr 27th · Amid Twitter buyout, Musk says free speech is simply "that which matches the law."
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Bill Johnston
porsche-consulting.com
B2B_Platform_Play_C_Porsche_Consulting_2022-v2.pdf
Apr 27th
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The Verge
Habitat for humanity: how a classic MMO got a second life
8 min read · Apr 21st · Before EverQuest or Ultima Online, there was Habitat.
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anildash
Community Safety and Ignoring the World
Apr 6th · Security reports from other sites are welcome. Why aren’t safety reports? One of the most fundamental triumphs of the last few decades of open source culture is the open sharing of bugs and how to fix them. There are mature, effective systems for responsibly reporting things like security issues,
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Internet Archive
WHOLE EARTH
Apr 6th · Join us for a book talk with John Markoff in conversation with journalist Steven Levy (Facebook: The Inside Story), on the occasion of Markoff’s new...
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The Washington Post
Internet communities are battling over pixels
Apr 4th · Reddit's r/Place shows that to have a voice online, you must be part of a movement.
Shared by 60, including Dan Whateley, Tactical Tech, Dr. Alec Couros, David Weigel, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Mathew Ingram, Kevin Kelly, Taylor Lorenz, Bill Johnston, Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org ☮️
TechCrunch
Womens leadership network Chief surges to unicorn status
1 min read · Mar 31st · As Ariana Grande would say, god is a woman. So it should come as no surprise that Chief, the network designed to develop the leadership skills of women, has hit a $1.1 billion valuation in a matter of…
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billjohnston.io
Metaverse: Season 3 of the Cohere Podcast
4 min read · Mar 30th · During Season 2 of the Cohere podcast, Dr. Lauren Vargas and I examined the role networks play in our lives – from the obvious to the subtle. In Season 3, Lauren and I are exploring the topic…
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mirror.xyz
Overview of DAOs Ecosystem
~11 min read · Mar 21st · Human beings are social animals that rely on and require cooperation to survive and thrive, from the time of the law of the jungle to the laws of Man. As a result, we have always organized ourselves…
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structure3c.com
[Podcast] Do DAOs Hold the Secret of Orchestrating Collaboration?
2 min read · Mar 28th · Subscribe to the Cohere Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Podcasts
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a16z
Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters
~17 min read · 2021-11-03 · As DeFi and NFT communities grow enormously in size, how to govern decentralized protocols takes on added importance. Now and over the next few years, one of the most immediate challenges facing these…
Reader View · Shared by 44, including Paolo Sinelli, Bill Johnston
structure3c.com
[Podcast] What Role Might NFTs Play In Future Communities?
1 min read · Mar 10th · Subscribe to the Cohere Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Podcasts
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billjohnston.io
Promoting & Sustaining the Value of Community Across the Organization (Community Value Part 4)
10 min read · Mar 9th · Note: this is the fourth and final post in a series about community value. If you missed “A Perspective on Community Value“, “Understanding the Community Opportunity“, or “Developing Com…
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billjohnston.io
Developing Community Strategy, Goals & Measurements (Community Value Part 3)
~15 min read · Feb 11th · Note: this is the third in a series of posts about community value. If you missed “A Perspective on Community Value“ or “Understanding the Community Opportunity”, I’d recommend sta…
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newpublic.substack.com
☮️ Lessons from a radical, anti-establishment bulletin board
6 min read · 2021-12-20 · From the Berkeley Free Speech Movement to context collapse
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