Community & Crowd
Emerging practices & modern approaches to online community architecture, social ecosystem development and engagement
Collection by 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
TechCrunch
Dell Pays Tribute to Digg with New IdeaStorm Site
1 min · · In what could be an interesting sign of things to come industry wide, Dell today launched a customer relations site called IdeaStorm. Users can submit product and feature requests, policy changes or… · Shared by 5, including Bill Johnston
stories.starbucks.com
Starbucks Brewing Revolutionary Web3 Experience for its Starbucks Rewards Members
6 min · · New Starbucks Odyssey experience will offer members the ability to earn and buy digital collectible stamps (NFTs) that will unlock access to new, immersive coffee experiences. · Shared by 24, including Derek Brown, Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss, Bill Johnston, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth
TechCrunch
Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey
5 min · · Starbucks is today officially introducing Starbucks Odyssey, launching later this year — the coffee chain’s first foray into building with web3 technology. The new experience combines the company’s… · Shared by 51, including Ouriel @ZenGo, Jeremiah Owyang, Zoe Scaman, Florian Graillot, Bill Johnston, Packy McCormick, Neal Schaffer | ニール・シェーファー, Jen ❄, John Koetsier
waxy.org
Opening the Pandora’s Box of AI Art
6 min · · This week's release of Stable Diffusion, a powerful open-source text-to-image AI model, raises hard questions about the ethics of AI art and its potential for abuse. · Shared by 55, including Tactical Tech, Ethan Marcotte, Bill Johnston
The New Yorker
How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op
5 min · · In Spain, an industrial-sized conglomerate owned by its workers suggests an alternative future for capitalism. · Shared by 103, including Charles Duhigg, Bill Johnston, erik spiekermann, Larry Ferlazzo, Gergely Orosz, Jordi Serrano, Ross Dawson
tom-kehler.medium.com
Breaking the barriers to productive and creative collaborative work
19+ min · · A new AI-enabled calculus of collaboration · Shared by 6, including Bill Johnston
medium.com
FFDW Supports Spritely Networked Communities Institute to Develop Decentralized Social Media
4 min · · Award will further efforts to give people control over identity and relationships online · Shared by 7, including Bill Johnston
Pew Research Internet
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
14+ min · · The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. A new survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds that TikTok has… · Shared by 1117, including Brian Solis, Amanda Webb - Digital Marketer 👩💻, George Conway, Sarah Frier, Rob Biederman, David V. Johnson, Amjad Masad ⠕, Monica Burns #EdTech 🔜 #ISTELive, Casey Newton, OM, Renee DiResta, Frank Luntz, David Frankel, Timothy Caulfield, Chris Messina, Colin Wright, Bruce Lawson, Jonathan Haidt, Alan See, Gisele Navarro