This one strikes home for me because I've been in most parts of that Venn diagram, both as a consumer and a creator, for the past 15 years, and I'm currently in the process of sorting out how to approach it.
I feel like there's a "3C", Collection > Curation > Creation, process going on and if — like me — you've been dabbling with those, or similar, tools and processes for more than a decade you definitely start seeing patterns and opportunities.
"Of course Figma is winning", I told someone who described me how Figma works and why it has been so successful — but yet again it wasn't that obvious to all the Figma competitors out there, apparently.
It sound so clichè-y but if communities, shared knowledge and creation are that obvious then why then tools and platform we use are still so not built for a shared, collective experience? So good luck for you "new thing", I'll be keeping an eye on it.
Great to read this. 12 years ago I came to this from the angle of electronic portfolios. You can read the relevant chapter of my book here: http://www.simongrant.org/pubs/2009_e-p/index.html#ch25 and now I'm into Commons and being the focus of development of what are often called "knowledge commons", but there has been too much emphasis on the tech and not enough on the social culture. If you (or anyone) want to do something in the commons space, please get in touch and we can collaborate. The tech needs fixing, too. At the normal gmail.com (and elsewhere) I go by the name asimong
linkydink was so in that mood few years ago. It was a little tool for building collaborative curation group. Product Hunt MVP was on Linkydink. Don't know why they drop the project all of a sudden 2 years ago. Huge opportunities to re-launch a similar tool/plateform as a substack for curators ?
This is great. With information overload, it has become increasingly difficult to keep getting/finding the relevant content that caters to your current taste. The light that you have thrown on an intersecting system which would likely allow you to jump from community to community, to get more relevant content seems really promising. I would be really looking forward to what you come up with. Personally, I had dabbled in the curation space via creating https://thelist.space, but community angle had not crossed my mind. Would be really interesting to see what happens when all of this is brought together.
I love this kind of stuff and these days refer to it as a community digital garden.
I wrote about it here - https://rosieland.substack.com/p/building-a-community-digital-garden
Just added this to my community building knowledgebase for long term reference 😇
This one strikes home for me because I've been in most parts of that Venn diagram, both as a consumer and a creator, for the past 15 years, and I'm currently in the process of sorting out how to approach it.
I feel like there's a "3C", Collection > Curation > Creation, process going on and if — like me — you've been dabbling with those, or similar, tools and processes for more than a decade you definitely start seeing patterns and opportunities.
"Of course Figma is winning", I told someone who described me how Figma works and why it has been so successful — but yet again it wasn't that obvious to all the Figma competitors out there, apparently.
It sound so clichè-y but if communities, shared knowledge and creation are that obvious then why then tools and platform we use are still so not built for a shared, collective experience? So good luck for you "new thing", I'll be keeping an eye on it.
Very interesting, thanks.
Our research team has worked on several of the issues you raise here - particularly
resonant knowledge (http://resonancesofknowledge.pbworks.com/w/page/127915287/Draft%20Resonances%20Article%202)
and nested narratives (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242185722_Nested_Narratives_Enabling_students_to_make_sense_of_their_learning),
as well as several pieces of research on knowledge management, emergent learning, and complex adaptive systems.
Might be of interest ...
Great to read this. 12 years ago I came to this from the angle of electronic portfolios. You can read the relevant chapter of my book here: http://www.simongrant.org/pubs/2009_e-p/index.html#ch25 and now I'm into Commons and being the focus of development of what are often called "knowledge commons", but there has been too much emphasis on the tech and not enough on the social culture. If you (or anyone) want to do something in the commons space, please get in touch and we can collaborate. The tech needs fixing, too. At the normal gmail.com (and elsewhere) I go by the name asimong
really great stuff. thank you!
linkydink was so in that mood few years ago. It was a little tool for building collaborative curation group. Product Hunt MVP was on Linkydink. Don't know why they drop the project all of a sudden 2 years ago. Huge opportunities to re-launch a similar tool/plateform as a substack for curators ?
Great insights Sari, really enjoyed this. Interested to hear more about what you're working on
This is great. With information overload, it has become increasingly difficult to keep getting/finding the relevant content that caters to your current taste. The light that you have thrown on an intersecting system which would likely allow you to jump from community to community, to get more relevant content seems really promising. I would be really looking forward to what you come up with. Personally, I had dabbled in the curation space via creating https://thelist.space, but community angle had not crossed my mind. Would be really interesting to see what happens when all of this is brought together.