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Jack Ricchiuto is a nationally acclaimed designer and author of 9 books. His website is DesigningLife.com
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Transformational change in social networks
Social network gurus/friends June Holley, Valdis Krebs and I talked today about new models we're developing for creating change and transformation in social networks beyond the very weak local and weak global attempts at especially cultural, personal, and social change.
One conclusion so far is that the possibility space for change opens up when we connect different people who can begin resonating together around shared stories, opportunities, and dreams. It's a process of liberating people from the confines of clusters of sameness and ideological colonialism so they can move toward more diverse connections and pragmatic alignments.
As it turns out, the fusion of difference and resonance is a powerful approach because in that space, people move away from trying to change each other, which opens the space for the possibilities of creating innovative and scalable changes together. Resonant listening to one another's differences allows us to join in both-and innovations that could never be possible in an either-or constrained world. More later...
Comments (14)
All the sudden something that was exciting is not. Possibilities become lowest common denominators.
If you're not giving new energy to your community, you're taking energy away from it
Consistent, I think, w/ the view that social networks can act as complex adaptive systems?
Weak local or global external attempts may fail, but connecting people and letting them meet in the "interesting in between" (not too structured, not too random) gives them the chance to learn (swap stories), adapt, and produce emergent results.
I'm seeing online communities starting to cluster (self-organize?) around these "sweet spots".
If so, maybe good things will start to happen?
Great post, Jack. Looking forward to more.
Social networking tools provide a nice mechanism for discussion, but the key to success will be the passion and resolve of the people who decide to organize around a cause. Do we have the same fire in our bellies as our predecessors of the 1960s? Your social experiment may show.
Jack, perhaps ECOSYS is an example of what you, June and Valdis were discussing?
Duncan
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