Coronavirus seems like it could be a great test of the Internet Citizen movement that is becoming more and more popular lately from folks like and . With many folks unable to meet in person, this could be a great year to establish strong digital connections
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I also wouldn’t be surprised to discover that there are folks even more heavily considering ways to host digital and/or distributed conferences.
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I concur on the remote conference prediction. We just started one up at this week - howtoegghead.com/instructor/tal
Unrelated to Coronavirus but prescient timing.
Also keen to see the rise of digital salons, reading groups, and book clubs around niche topics.
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Nice to have a conference that won’t need to be cancelled!
And yeah I think there are lots of other less formal real-time internet socializing that could be interesting. (Casual synchronous internet gatherings?) Discord is good for those things, but still room for improvement.
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The tools are definitely a friction point right now. I haven’t been in many active discord communities, but keep trying to brainstorm ways to casually collect people into chats over communal interests. Always turns into a scheduling, coordination, and logistics issue.
Requires doodles, zoom, google docs, WhatsApp/slack groups, emails 😅
Was recently researching running effective reading salons - how to facilitate and manage conversation, make space for everyone, structure the format. Sadly couldn’t find anything digital-specific.
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Discord is definitely the closest I have found so far, and it’s actually one of the best things I have found for having discussions about logistics/scheduling for things like DnD groups. But there are a couple of issues that do start to grate over time.
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Ooh interesting... definitely going to take a look.
Can’t wait till we all figure out the quirks of meaningful social interaction and tribal bonding on the internets.
I reckon it’s still a decade away, but eagerly awaiting the solutions.
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