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This is a long post, born out of years of frustration with ineffective institutional collaborations. If you only want the highlights, here they are: grow your network by sharing, not planning to share or deciding who to share with; the tech doesn’t determine the sharing - if you want to share, you will; weave your network by sharing what you can, and they will share what they can - people won’t share (without a lot of added incentives) stuff that’s not easy or compelling for them to share. Create virtuous cycles that amplify network effects. Given the right ’set,’ simple tech is all they need to get started.

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  • . .•∞º˙

    15 months ago

    
    
    

    "people won’t share [without a lot of added incentives] stuff that’s not easy or compelling for them to share."
    
    Big +1 to that.

    "people won’t share [without a lot of added incentives] stuff that’s not easy or compelling for them to share."<br /><br />Big +1 to that.

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  • Giorgio Bertini

    15 months ago

    
    
    

    More on sharing and social learning at
    
    Social Learning and Networks.
    
    Web for Change

    More on sharing and social learning at<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.twine.com/twine/11ld675xl-1dc/social-learning-and-networks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Social Learning and Networks</a></b>.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.twine.com/twine/11lbd7nqb-13m/web-for-change" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Web for Change</a></b>

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  • Kurt Laitner

    15 months ago

    
    
    

    Another thought provoking article Giorgio, thank you.
    
    A couple of points I take out of this one.
    
    First by being open about what we are interested in, passionate about, and need to find out about, we allow people to help us and in fact make it easy for them to do so. People in fact innately want to help, I have seen this again and again and again. It is a wonderful quality of human beings. The cynical might call it a need to be needed. Poets might call it man's search for meaning (frankl). A colleague of mine asked me why I and other live our lives publicly on the net, what do we get out of it other than ego gratification. It is this knee jerk reflex to fill a need that we get out of it. Both the meaning and need to be needed, as well as the filling of needs, in a dynamic fluid interrelation. I am a stimulus response machine.
    
    Again in this article the structure in advance vs structure emerging tension comes up again and this article adds to that conversation in its own quirky way.
    
    I have been among other things an entrepreneur, and growing up an idea person in the age of greed I felt and was advised often that when one had a good idea one should keep it to oneself, as otherwise someone will steal it from you and you will be left with nothing. The most important thing was to protect your idea. This is absolute bullocks.
    
    I have seen several articles recently on twine that have hammered away at this important point, share freely and generously and you will be repaid with unimaginable fortunes.
    
    It's also a hell of a lot easier to get things done.
    
    Another colleague is an action oriented guy who keeps repeating to me that an idea is worthless, it is the execution that matters. So what does one do if one is an idea person? Give them away, again and again, there will ALWAYS be more because you are a generator, a problem solver, a creative. You cannot but create because it is who you are. So create, and the do'ers will come and find you when they hear your name sung from every mountain top.
    
    So yes, Rick, the average person needs an enema. They need to unplug, and share every single little idea they have with those around them. It is infectious. It will change the world, and whether you feel the need for it or not, you will be richer for it, in whatever way is really important to you. My dad used to tell me that in North America, anyone can be rich, if that's what you really want. This was wonderful advice lost on a greedy teenager who had the world by the tail. Why wouldn't I want to be rich?, I thought, but now I know better the fabric and dimensionality of wealth. This realization is liberating.
    
    The article also reinforces ideas about the object mediated relationship, we grow our network by sharing. Apprivoiser, créer des liens (st exupery).
    
    Finally the article says something subtle about the design of social mediating platforms. The affordances they provide should be simple, leading to complex behavior. Oddly by starting with complex structures you create simple, brittle, and uninteresting behavior. There is no way to force existence to bend to our wills, we can, however, redirect it by following then leading, by removing obstacles and providing gentle but continuous guidance. The desire to control leads to a lack of control. The desire to understand leads to right action and influence.

    Another thought provoking article Giorgio, thank you.<br /><br />A couple of points I take out of this one. <br /><br />First by being open about what we are interested in, passionate about, and need to find out about, we allow people to help us and in fact make it easy for them to do so. People in fact innately want to help, I have seen this again and again and again. It is a wonderful quality of human beings. The cynical might call it a need to be needed. Poets might call it man's search for meaning (frankl). A colleague of mine asked me why I and other live our lives publicly on the net, what do we get out of it other than ego gratification. It is this knee jerk reflex to fill a need that we get out of it. Both the meaning and need to be needed, as well as the filling of needs, in a dynamic fluid interrelation. I am a stimulus response machine.<br /><br />Again in this article the structure in advance vs structure emerging tension comes up again and this article adds to that conversation in its own quirky way.<br /><br />I have been among other things an entrepreneur, and growing up an idea person in the age of greed I felt and was advised often that when one had a good idea one should keep it to oneself, as otherwise someone will steal it from you and you will be left with nothing. The most important thing was to protect your idea. This is absolute bullocks.<br /><br />I have seen several articles recently on twine that have hammered away at this important point, share freely and generously and you will be repaid with unimaginable fortunes. <br /><br />It's also a hell of a lot easier to get things done.<br /><br />Another colleague is an action oriented guy who keeps repeating to me that an idea is worthless, it is the execution that matters. So what does one do if one is an idea person? Give them away, again and again, there will ALWAYS be more because you are a generator, a problem solver, a creative. You cannot but create because it is who you are. So create, and the do'ers will come and find you when they hear your name sung from every mountain top.<br /><br />So yes, Rick, the average person needs an enema. They need to unplug, and share every single little idea they have with those around them. It is infectious. It will change the world, and whether you feel the need for it or not, you will be richer for it, in whatever way is really important to you. My dad used to tell me that in North America, anyone can be rich, if that's what you really want. This was wonderful advice lost on a greedy teenager who had the world by the tail. Why wouldn't I want to be rich?, I thought, but now I know better the fabric and dimensionality of wealth. This realization is liberating.<br /><br />The article also reinforces ideas about the object mediated relationship, we grow our network by sharing. Apprivoiser, créer des liens (st exupery).<br /><br />Finally the article says something subtle about the design of social mediating platforms. The affordances they provide should be simple, leading to complex behavior. Oddly by starting with complex structures you create simple, brittle, and uninteresting behavior. There is no way to force existence to bend to our wills, we can, however, redirect it by following then leading, by removing obstacles and providing gentle but continuous guidance. The desire to control leads to a lack of control. The desire to understand leads to right action and influence.

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  • Giorgio Bertini

    15 months ago

    
    
    

    Thanks Kurt,
    
    Me too, as you, enjoyed reading this thought provoking paper, that help me-Us think about me-Us relationship, multichannel conversations and understanding Understanding, and much more. Once I lived that process, I thought that may be Others would like to go through it, and perhaps We may understand how is that that a net of relational conversations comes along, from our individual-social storytelling We may understand some part of this complexity, that by myself alone is just impossible. So, you now tell Us
    
    "Why wouldn't I want to be rich?, I thought, but now I know better the fabric and dimensionality of wealth. This realization is liberating."
    
    that is illuminating, liberating for me-Us. From my simple desire-act of sharing a whole world of new "fabric and dimensionality" conversational understanding comes forward to me-Us. From my simple desire-act of a relational conversation and sharing, I am, We are, being transformed, in a web, a complex web, of relational conversational transformations.
    
    "It is through others that we become ourselves" Vygotsky

    Thanks Kurt,<br /><br />Me too, as you, enjoyed reading this thought provoking paper, that help me-Us think about me-Us relationship, multichannel conversations and understanding Understanding, and much more. Once I lived that process, I thought that may be Others would like to go through it, and perhaps We may understand how is that that a net of relational conversations comes along, from our individual-social storytelling We may understand some part of this complexity, that by myself alone is just impossible. So, you now tell Us<br /><br />"<i>Why wouldn't I want to be rich?, I thought, but now I know better the fabric and dimensionality of wealth. This realization is liberating</i>."<br /><br />that is illuminating, liberating for me-Us. From my simple desire-act of sharing a whole world of new "fabric and dimensionality" conversational understanding comes forward to me-Us. From my simple desire-act of a relational conversation and sharing, I am, We are, being transformed, in a web, a complex web, of relational conversational transformations.<br /><br />"It is through others that we become ourselves" Vygotsky

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