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Friends are always welcome in this cottage in the woods. Pull up a chair by the fire.

 

The cottage is a third place, neither office nor home, where kindred spirits meet for open dialog and new insights, discoveres, stories and guidance.

 

The cottage is reserved for things that can make this a better world or interest me or both. The backroom contains an archive of keepers and research findings.

 

I happen to be reading Heidegger's Hut at the moment. The hut was his third place.

 

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This was the front page in mid-February '07.

 

We have arrived at a special moment in history. Learning, business, and networks are rapidly converging. You and I have a shot at making the earth a markedly better place to live.

 

In my remaining time on the planet, maybe a decade, I feel compelled to do what I can to help people learn better. I am passionate about this because I feel that just about all of us can become more effective and fuilfilled in our work and happier in in our lives.

 

All aboard! Professionals are missing the learning Cluetrain. I hope to accelerate their appreciation of informal learning, the power of positive networks, and the simplicity of the web. As of yesterday, everything on this site is covered under a Creative Commons licenses. Every lesson, link, video, case, white paper, job aid and essay are free for you to use. Like the Whole Earth Catalog, I seek to provide access to tools, mainly mind tools.

 

This site is for us. You and me and anyone who cares to join us. It's a place to watch or join a debate. Grab some advice -- or give some. This is a gift economy site, free because it is a network, and that in itself creates value. Networks of ideas are perpetual-motion machines. The benefits of participation grow exponentially.

 

This site is and will always be in beta. No apologies for that. The world is stil in beta.

 

 

 


 

 

 
This is proving to be a headier challenge than I had expected.

 

Value is created by bringing people together to converse, find answers, and share with one another. Yet my first notion was content-focused. Even the word Commons conjures up thoughts of a place rather than interaction.

 

People benefit from editorial judgment because it highlights the things worth dealing with. It informs; it saves time. Diversity is better than any single voice. But my first Commons set me in authority to call the shots when decisions were needed.  Like the Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog, authors editorialize as they wish, and the site links to their opinions.

 

Furthermore, a site must be dynamic, changing with the times but not by coding.

 

Ponder, ponder, ponder. Help me think this through. Drop me a note

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Help us build the blueprint for the Commons.

 

What community or reference sites do you really enjoy participating in? Why? What should we take from that? Discuss

 

What communities have really turned you off and why? What should the Commons avoid doing? Discuss

 

What else should we be considering? What would most help you out? Discuss

 

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