Tag: community
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Unlocking Community Intelligence in Events: Embracing Participant-Driven Methodologies
As we transition from virtual to in-person meetings, conferences, and workshops, there is a noticeable hunger for novel and engaging experiences beyond the typical “expert in front of the room” sessions. What if every event participant had the chance to be the smartest person in the room? Rethinking Event Models Imagine events, meetings, and working…
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A Perspective on Community Value (Part 1 of a Series)
This is the first of a four-part series on the topic of community value. The series is based in large part, on the output of a series of small-group working sessions and primary research that began in 2018, as well as learnings and observations from my career. A Personal Perspective I’ve worked with some form…
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Developing a Transformational Community to Lift Families Out of Poverty with Jorge Blandón
Leaders often use the word “transformation” to describe a small or incremental change, but the definition is “a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance”. When using the phrase “Transformational Communities”, my intention is to define these communities as having a profound and thorough change effect on participating stakeholders. One of the most interesting…
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A Human-Centered Approach to Digital Leadership with Lauren Vargas, PhD
Too often the deployment of digital strategies and tools begins humans conforming to technology limitations instead of technology being deployed intentionally in the service of human needs and opportunities – a human-centered approach. Dr. Lauren Vargas joins me on the Cohere podcast to discuss bringing humans back into the center of the “digital transformation” conversation…
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The Cohere Podcast: Episode 3 – The Role of AI in Online Communities and Networks with Venessa Paech
It’s human nature to seek connection, meaning, and knowledge through community. Thanks to the smartphones in our pockets (and the near-global access to broadband – see our previous episode), “community” now is very much a digital construct, and the way we find and participate in such gathering places is radically changing. As online communities and…
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The Cohere Podcast: Episode 1 – Exponential Technologies and Online Communities with Kent Langley, CSO of OpenExO
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Cohere Podcast! I’m very excited to bring you this discussion about the effects of exponential technologies with my good friend Kent Langley, CSO of OpenExO. Broadband and wireless Internet connectivity are now commonplace in the developed world, but this wasn’t always the case. At the beginning of the…
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2020 AI & Communities Research Project – Survey Now Open
I’m excited to announce the second round of Structure3C’s AI & Communities research. This research builds on our foundational project in 2018 (more on this below) and comes at a critical time when global internet connectivity races towards 100% coverage, and algorithms and non-human actors play an increasingly central role in this global human network.…
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Influencer Apocalypse? No, But There Is a Community Opportunity
To say current conversations about influencer marketing are heated would be an understatement. With estimates of influencer marketing industry size ranging well into the billions of dollars, “influencers” certainly seem to be on the minds (and in the budgets) of marketers. Let’s be honest – influencer marketing currently seems to be a bit of a…
Bill Johnston 