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We’re in week #3 of Facilitating Online Communities and I’ve been pondering the similarities between online communities and ‘real communities.’
Communities are like sour dough bread–they need ’starter’
When my partner and I moved to our neighbourhood 15 years ago, our ’sour dough starter’ was a 9-week-old Boxer puppy and our garden. People need a way to [...]

“As our ancestors evolved to live in groups, the hypothesis goes, they had to make sense of increasingly complex social relationships. Living in a community requires keeping tabs on who the group members are and what they are doing. What better way to spread such information than through storytelling?”
[From "The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We [...]

In my description of this blog as a place where “story and information intersect,” I mentioned that one common definition of information is “knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.” Well, I’m about to add a large dollop of information to my story with an online course entitled Facilitating Online Communities (FOC).
As [...]