Community & Crowd
Emerging practices & modern approaches to online community architecture, social ecosystem development and engagement
Collection by Bill Johnston
structure3c.com
[Podcast] The Golden Age of Online Communities & the WELL with Gail Ann Williams
6 min read · Jun 2nd · In the second episode of Season 2 of the Cohere podcast, Bill and Lauren talk to Gail Ann Williams about her pioneering work at The WELL
wordyard.com
Salon’s TableTalk shutdown: What we can learn from the story of a pioneering online community
4 min read · May 27th · Salon.com Wednesday announced plans to close Table Talk, the online discussion space and community that has operated continuously since Salon’s launch on Nov. 20, 1995. I was involved in Table Talk’s…
Salon
Au revoir, Table Talk
5 min read · May 27th · After nearly 16 years, we say goodbye to Salon's very special community
POLITICO
The fall of Salon.com- POLITICO Media
20+ min read · From 2016 · How a digital trailblazer and progressive powerhouse lost its way.
structure3c.com
[Podcast] Why Community Leaders Need to Understand Networks: With Bill Johnston and Dr. Lauren Vargas
1 min read · May 13th · In the first episode of Season 2 of the Cohere podcast, Bill Johnston and Dr. Lauren Vargas explore the concept of "network" as it relates to online and real-life communities. Social networks,…
newpublic.substack.com
🌾 Making a New Path Through Social Media
4 min read · May 10th · Intentionally stepping out of the flow to become digital flâneurs.
The New York Times
‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation
6 min read · May 7th · Social and psychological forces are combining to make the sharing and believing of misinformation an endemic problem with no easy solution.
supermind.design
superminds@MIT — augmented collective intelligence
May 4th · Inspired by over a decade of research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Collective Intelligence, its Design Lab, and Prof. Malone’s latest book Superminds.
computerweekly.com
Facebook leaks: Zuckerberg turned data into dollars in ruthless battle with competitors
20+ min read · From 2019 · Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg led discussions with his senior executives about selling its customers’ data to software developers as the social media company pursued plans to gain leverage against its…
lillianli.substack.com
An introduction to Bilibili
10 min read · 2020-09-12 · A deep-dive into the Chinese Gen Z "Youtube"
The Washington Post
How women invented book clubs, revolutionizing reading and their own lives
Mar 27th · More than 150 years before Oprah and Reese Witherspoon, women began reading together in groups, seeking wisdom from the books and from one another.
opensourceindex.io
Open Source Contributor Index
1 min read · Apr 6th · To learn more about OSCI, take a look at this article in our blog section about OSCI and why we created it. How does OSCI work? To create this index, we use publicly available GitHub commit event data…
MIT Sloan Management Review
Building Stronger Brands through Online Communities
2 min read · Mar 18th · 1. See: www.forumone.com. 2. N. Watson, “Why We Argue About Virtual Community: A Case Study of the Phish.Net Fan Community,” in Virtual Culture S. Jones, ed. (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage…
siliconangle.com
PatSnap lands $300M late-stage round for AI-based innovation intelligence platform
3 min read · Mar 17th · PatSnap lands $300M late-stage round for AI-based innovation intelligence platform - SiliconANGLE
platformos.com
Resources
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