Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
in every meeting, conversation, or encounter, you have the opportunity to make someone feel BIG or small. choose BIG. the best way to make people like you is to make people like themselves.
Balanced, neither extracting too much from its component organisms nor pretending that a pantomime of a return to a pristine and ungoverned state will solve any problems at all. (Predation is inevitable in any system, but a working ecosystem starves out the ones who overfeed and provides cover for growth and for the long, continuous experiment of... See more
Erin Kissane • Against the Dark Forest
A good brief increases the quality and reduces the quantity of conversation
The concept of a "healthy media diet" - analogy to food pyramid
However, most of these experiments have been failures. The trouble is that most of these platforms cannot keep the attention of the people who are supposed to use them. Too few of the platforms are designed to make online engagement compelling. So, figuring out how to make online engagement in government fun is actually a serious question for... See more
In Online Democracy, Fun Is Imperative
However, some types of engagement, such as votes and likes, come from controls designed to solicit feedback, while other types of engagement, such as clicks and watch time, are more implicit. In general both implicit and explicit engagement signals provide distinct and useful information to recommenders.
Understanding, managing, leveraging, and distributing power.
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