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"Annotations. Related to the above - how do we build in-line comments and discussion to the web? see this thread. I embed hypothesis on my site but it’s clunky and not really designed as a commenting tool…"
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"How to encourage / support and nurture more people writing online (outside / in addition to platforms like Twitter)"
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"How do you create learning environments, experiences and platforms that make learning actually stick?"
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"Streams - For me this is twitter and is more than enough stream for now."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"Campfires - For me this is the blog here (and more broadly the blogosphere that I read and engage with)."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"Gardens - This is where there’s a gap for me personally. No place to store and evolve deeper longer-term thinking. Many of my friends have gravitated to Are.na but I just can’t get it to work for me."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. It’s what people discover via search. It’s what spreads slowly but surely, building fans over time."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"And the real magic trick is to put them both together. To keep the ball bouncing with your flow—to maintain that open channel of communication—while you work on some kick-ass stock in the background. Sacrifice neither. The hybrid strategy."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"This one might be the most important. Creative research is all about collecting the dots."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"And we can only hold a tiny number of things in our brains at once."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"So a space for collecting (and organizing) the dots is a crucial foundation for thinking, creativity and more:"
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"But ideas aren’t summoned from nowhere: they come from raw material, other ideas or observations about the world."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"Hence a two-step creative process: collect raw material, then think about it."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"Firstly - apparently, folders and files is the “best in class” tool (better than tags and search) for personal information management"
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"Because of this, information scientists suggest other methods: search, more flexible than navigating folders; tags, which allow multiple categorizations; and group information management."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"Yet Bergman and Whittaker have found in their pioneering personal information management research that these other methods that work best for public information management don’t work as well for personal information management."
— Tom Critchlow
Building a digital garden"Collaborative blogging. Blogging still feels very single player. Despite the fact that almost all of my longer writing goes through Google Docs and a heavy process of notes, comments and discussion - when I publish a blog post it’s “flat” in a way that a Google Doc is “alive”."
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"How do we get more people blogging? Networked writing relies on… the network!"
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"Digital gardens / wikis / community publishing. My own personal digital garden / wiki has languished and I’m thinking about new ideas, new solutions etc here."
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"How might we create easier ways for small groups to publish / maintain knowledge in public?"
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"Power & Status. I’m fascinated by how power flows inside organizations. How do you see the shadow org chart?"
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"Narrative strategy. I’ve riffed on this a bit but there’s so much more to unpack here. This might even end up being my second book"
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"Learning that sticks. How do you create learning environments, experiences and platforms that make learning actually stick?"
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"Since so much of the SEO MBA curriculum will be around “soft” skills and tacit knowledge how can I design experiences that embrace this tension between online courses and in person 1:1 tacit knowledge."
— Tom Critchlow
January 2022 - Map of Inquiry"Bookmarklets. I’ve been writing little bookmarklets for a long time, these days they’re mostly used for things like scripting my static site."
— Tom Critchlow
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