Sam Liebeskind

@samliebeskind

product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva

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One way to create a shared context is through shared struggle. This is why many organizations implement ritualized hazing3 to initiate new members, but the important thing is not the hazing, it’s the sense that you are working together with your fellow humans to achieve a super-human goal. Whether that’s to develop vaccines, to drywall a shelter, t... See more

billmei.net • Friendships Form via Shared Context, Not Shared Activities

Local Community

What I have learned in my years studying the role of journalism in civic discussion is that democracies are best served when media coverage focuses on issues that affect society and people’s everyday lives and minimizes “horse race” reporting that obsesses over who is ahead in opinion surveys or fundraising.

Jeff South • Are journalists serving Virginia's voters well? Election could offer insights on media on national level

Journalism for Democracy and Local News & Information

Conversations

Focusing on the needs of real people isn't something that you can push up to UI design and ignore at the protocolar level. Decentralisation isn't a property of your software or protocol, it's a measure of how much the people who use and are affected by a system can have agency over it — and that agency has to be reflected at lower layers too.

All about social networks

The kind of rules established before opening day helps determine the kind of crowd that will be found there a year later. The early crowd has a strong impact on later arrivals.

rheingold's brainstorms: rheingoldian writing

Community Design

If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.

Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo

Management & Leadership and

Facilitation, Meeting, & Gathering

The digital sphere is artificially built and those who operate it get to set its rules in ways that are enforced in code, which is to say that are enforced as the laws of the system itself. That is how structural power is established. Many parts of the digital landscape are presented on the surface as consumer goods (social, search) or as markets (... See more

Robin Berjon • Digital Sovereignty

All about social networks and Local Digital Social Networks

Humility