Web, Community, Net - 321
Imagine a venn diagram of practices of web community and net; what's common to human practices of all three; pairs, each individually

I do mean practice not theory, and human usability not just what vendors sell as machine platforms

If we need to make practice clearer, our diagram could have add an 8th area of discussion: how do human beings behave and relate that is none of web, com, net ?

I invite anyone to get in touch and volunteer to be an occasional co-editor of this weblog if you are passionate about exploring how each of us knows parts of these practices but unless we have a space to connect them, we'll always be practising across purposes because probably none of us knows the wholes these practices could link up to be

Oh KM!
I am aware that practice of community -or community of practice - may be the most codified of the three. Indeed do the other two even have PON (Practice of Networking) and POW (practice of web). Even if they do, note such observations as the following which suggest many people have not got to 12th grade learnings of how these three emerging facilities impact our lives (not surprising really since most of us have been online for less than 12 years, and anyhow each year has seen revolutionary new tools that change what the practice can do)

It is said that one of the tragedies of our times is that badwilled networks are currently more organised to their ends that networks of people with goodwill objectives

The fact that web2.1 is being reformed this year as we speak out of California and other leading-edge practice places of the web suggest that the peoples web is still much more tacit than commonly understood for what revolutionary collaborations we can now connect that were unimaginable let alone practical 10 years ago. We might ask what a beginners guide we all commonly assume by a word such as web. I'll start us with Weinberger's Loosely Connected Scripts of Being what a web is (but welcome your other nominations)

I'll assume that email remains the simplest universal tool defining what potentials we have to connect what in the rest of human existence has only been separated. Note this applies at every level of place we conceptualise and for which rules of governance exist : such as family, street, village/community, city, state, nation, world as well as how your lifetime interests connect in non-geographical ways, and interface with the main organisational typologies designed around us including corporations, governments, media, professions, schools, charities etc

I invite your comments on my write up of how 12th grade email is about finding your so-mentors through life and helping others do likewise

Entrepreneur roundtables and cafes have been rehearsing how innovation, economics, management will need to chnage because of webcomnet for nearly 30 years now. It's surprising that one of network economics' 22 year old constructs Death of Distance has only impacted the way some top people question their mapping of the world as late as 2005. For example, this was the first time that Queen Elizabeth 2 questioned The Commonwealth on whether all these new systems were turning humanity on itself, and she is one of the world's first leaders to have dared to voice this question so publically. Meanwhile, it was only January 2006 that President Bush announced new space races were needed - the first 2 he commited USA to are: ending addiction to petroleum economy and getting as many kids as possible to love science (and have educational access to it) as much as they do sports. More at Club of Bethesda on how the cluster of 21 people advising him on the priritisation of these space races explained that DeathofDistance was the first revolutionary construct to explore wholly to see why the future is diverging on exponentially different trajectories than every organisational idea we peoples and leaders are sure we knew in century 20.

As each person's network rises in importance to their family's economics and livelihood, every space in which we interface networks needs to questioned anew: how do we link real networking spaces (eg our city) with virtual ones. Over a hundred cities and villages have been questioning what it takes for a city to empoer peoples networks and emerhing results are surprising. They indicates that ven the greatest cities have weak dimensions as well as strong ones in enabling people to communalise projects they care for most and openly exchnage these with citizens facing matching challenges in other places. None of us can connect what all of us could innovate if we had more cross-cultural trust and love and other relationship qualities that are humanly essential if we are to make web * community * net zing.

Comments welcome on how to edit this introduction either to me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk or at this thread's posting space below

Chartering experience in communing round global brands has led to a great belief in living walls (sometimes we joke that they can be more informative about the future history of a global corporation's communities and webs than the boardroom. But this case looks as if it should be a top ranking benchmark


Memories from eBay and Community's Incredible Journey
One of the most visited places on the Solutions Center floor has been the "eBay's Incredible Journey" booth. When eBay Live! 2005 began, this booth started out as three blank wall panels showing key milestones for each year since 1995. Today, they are covered with thousands of hand-written comments from members sharing their memories about eBay and wishing it a Happy 10th Anniversary.

The comments, ranging from emotional to funny, tell moving personal stories of what eBay means to people and how their lives have changed after discovering the site.

It's an incredible record of the collective journey of eBay and the Community over the last ten years - a testament to the Power of All of Us.

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