Community & Crowd
Emerging practices & modern approaches to online community architecture, social ecosystem development and engagement
Collection by 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
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 1123, including Brian Solis, Amanda Webb - Digital Marketer 👩💻, Xeorge Xonway, Sarah Frier, Rob Biederman, David V. Johnson, Amjad Masad, Monica Burns #EdTech #Education, Casey Newton, OM, Renee DiResta, Frank Luntz, David Frankel, Timothy Caulfield, Chris Messina, Colin Wright, Bruce Lawson, Jonathan Haidt, Alan See, Gisele Navarro
The New York Times
Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
11+ min · · How we look matters as much as what we see. · Shared by 226, including Bethany Brookshire, David Wallace-Wells, Bill Johnston, Kai Kupferschmidt, John Schwartz, Lauren Goode, Mark Little, Renee DiResta, Steven Pinker, Dave Kellogg, Tiffany Shlain, Fabio Chiusi, davidabrock, Mathew Ingram, Casey Newton, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Alex Rainert 🤦🏻♂️, Lessig 🇺🇦, Sherry Turkle, Eli Pariser | @elipariser@mastodon.social
music.amazon.com
https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/49c61a5f-f726-4a…
· For the best experience accessing Amazon Music we recommend using the latest version of Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Edge. · Shared by 6, including Bill Johnston
rossdawson.com
9 companies harnessing the power of collective intelligence
9 min · · Futurist > Companies creating the future > 9 companies harnessing the power of collective intelligence 9 companies harnessing the power of · Shared by 11, including Ross Dawson, Bill Johnston
Harvard Business Review
What You’re Getting Wrong About Customer Journeys
12+ min · · Companies often believe they should make their customers’ experiences as effortless and predictable as possible. But the authors’ research shows that this approach is overly simplistic—and can even… · Shared by 15, including Matt Heinz, Bill Johnston
facebook.com
The Great Relationships Reset: Prioritizing Deeper Connections
1 min · · A three part series exploring how the demand for deeper connections has sparked a reset of our relationships that could shape the future. · Shared by 7, including Bill Johnston
First Round
A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Community and Getting Your First 1,000 Members
20+ min · · Pivots, MVPs and Community: How Joseph Quan, Founder & CEO of Knoetic, got his startup back on track by making community his wedge. He shares his hard-won wisdom and his six-step guide for building a… · Shared by 983, including Katja Evertz, Ces Michelin, Bill Johnston, ErmanTaylan.eth, Nir Eyal, Kyle Bunch, Pierpaolo Alessio
cisr.mit.edu
Build Relational Ecosystems to Coordinate Amidst Uncertainty
· Increasingly, companies partner across industries and sectors in new ways to solve complex challenges with innovative digital solutions. But the leaders of such ecosystem collaborations face two… · Shared by 6, including Bill Johnston
structure3c.com
[Podcast] Making Sense of Crypto with Kent Langley
2 min · · Subscribe to the Cohere Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Podcasts · Shared by 6, including Bill Johnston