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   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 05:01:51 JST Nathan Schneider

   I just posted a super-simple how-to guide for online community governance—basically just inviting communities to start with some important, often-neglected basics. If you know anyone who might appreciate this, please share! https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/12/18/how-build-governable-spaces-online-communities

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 00:21:23 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • jon ⚝

     @yala @IDN I think this guide should be useful for many offline communities as well. But they may not need it; hopefully they already have organizational infrastructure and they just apply it to their online tools.

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     jon ⚝ (yala@degrowth.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 00:21:25 JST jon ⚝

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     Nathan, how would you describe online community building to a group of people who consider themselves a community, but not primarily an online one, but using platforms and social media "as is" in a "ubiquituous/ambient computing" situation? For whom ICT are just a tool to communicate internally and externally, which leave technicial decisions to "the techies"?

     Thinking about how to untangle the knot at the @IDN.

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 00:21:36 JST Nathan Schneider

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     @yala What's the knot? :)

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 14:01:47 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • jon ⚝

     @yala Phew, I'm not sure what the best approach is—other than meeting the community where it's at. These questions of on-boarding depend so much on context.

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     jon ⚝ (yala@degrowth.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 14:01:52 JST jon ⚝

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     @ntnsndr
     It's interesting. Because we are a globally distributed group, the organisational infrastructure is a chat and Google Docs, therefore inherently online. But we have 50 % join rate from registration to the org to joining the chat, which is not a lot.
     I was rather asking about how to raise awareness about this inherent online-ness, when everybody is already fed up and tired out from getting lost in platforms and logins.
     An emphasis on synchronous collab is making things even harder.