1/12/12 5:42 AM
reading about phyles deugarte.com/phyles/ #community #futureofwork #p2p #trust via@KevinCarson1
such a great article
so many good points.. pulling out some direct here:
- The Internet is the great steroid jar of this century.
- the greatest conversational community boom since the Babel Tower.
- Himanen’s hacker ethic: the network logic of abundance and the work ethic of free software are the glue that binds the blogosphere. The result: conversational communities, identitarian, transnational non-hierarchical tribes, based on the powerful incentive that is recognition.
- they possess a transnational identity, and they subordinate their companies to personal and community needs.
DIY in 12 steps
- Do you have a real community?
- Build a private conversational space.
- The important thing is not the ideas or proposals themselves but the exercise of consensus reaching.
- Take your time. Time is on your side. Time is necessary for maturing, will make it easier for the less interested to leave, will develop connections between closer members, and will allow clusters to form inside the community. Time will let you learn the two key lessons of deliberative communities:
