Comments on: What Is A Shared Value Community?

By: BIG ELK - “Growing Season” [Internet Package] - [tmbchr]â„¢

BIG ELK - “Growing Season” [Internet Package] - [tmbchr]â„¢ — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:02:12 +0000

[...] In addition to that, I’d like to find ways to creatively explore the songs I’ve written with creative people (musicians, artists, videographers, etc) living in other locations. The internet, obviously, is the perfect means to work collaboratively, and to cross-pollinate and cross-promote cultural projects of all kinds. [...]

By: Shared Value Communities: Next Level Thoughts - Pop Occulture

Shared Value Communities: Next Level Thoughts - Pop Occulture — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:13:11 +0000

[...] Continuing to brainstorm about how all this talk of shared value communities fits together into new creative possibilities. This is just me running off at the speculative mouth about the potential shapes these things could take… Other people, I am sure, will be able to develop and apply these ideas far more successfully than I. In fact, that is what I am banking on, and why I am sharing these things publicly. [...]

By: Supernatural Theater » I Often Dream of Websites.

Supernatural Theater » I Often Dream of Websites. — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:51:55 +0000

[...] Last night, all I seemed to dream about was websites! It wasn’t even involving my own website, directly (despite all my obsessing over that the past few days). It was a shared value community-related thing and it felt oddly exciting (for a dream about websites). It was about self-image and becoming bigger-than-life — first in image, then in reality. I was seeing all these different people’s character profiles, skills inventories and each included an amazing self-portrait that beautifully captured that person at his/her best. All the profiles were somehow connected, too. I was flipping through them like a book (but with no hands, and they were websites). [...]

By: Supernatural Things » Help Me Feng Shui My S(h)ite!

Supernatural Things » Help Me Feng Shui My S(h)ite! — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:41:28 +0000

[...] Parallel to this, I’m getting big into some new concepts, like ‘shared value community‘ and ‘mutually inspired abundance‘ (and a bunch of other, related ideas) that my esteemed friend and collegue Tim has been developing and fostering over at his site. So with that in mind, I would like to open up my current website Feng Shui process to the shared value community that is you, my valued readers/listeners/friends. Here’s the deal: you’ll inspire my abundance, and I’ll inspire yours (if you want, of course). [...]

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:30:56 +0000

I’m not as fatalistic as even that. But I just think it’s an issue of probabilities. If you’re taking actions to meet the most important needs in the situation, then you are just more likely to be in a position to attract the necessary resources. It won’t happen all the time. But it’s just more likely.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:10:43 +0000

We make our own choices, so make sure they are the best ones. That’s all. When you’re making the right choices, everything lines up for you.

By: Howard

Howard — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:39:43 +0000

Haha, funny how that synchronicity works isn’t it? Funny too, since I posted that entry just two days ago, a couple potential schemers have emerged, but not through the post at all. Ah good old synchronicity. Right on the edge of the fate/determinism border about which I’m so agnostic, but love to let myself be drawn to one side or the other now and then, if only for a kick.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:31:30 +0000

Oh, that’s radical! For some reason, now that I have shifted my focus on all of this stuff, all these people with almost exactly parallel ideas are crawling out of the woodwork - I love it!

By: Howard

Howard — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:23:21 +0000

Tim, Nice to meet you. I followed this link back from Jason’s Anthropik post and it’s quite a coincidence. It ties into the post I just published today. Mine is a very long post, so I can understand if you don’t have time to read it, but if you are interested hopefully you’ll see that it relates. Obviously community is what it’s all about, but my post is about a type of community that I think is sorely lacking and much-needed. Feel free to get in touch if you have thoughts:

It’s at My Scheme Team Dream: Partners Wanted for Shaping and Changing The World

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:09:26 +0000

It is the object-centric social network.

I have drawings of this in my notebook from a few days ago that I haven’t yet turned into a post. Kind of prepped some of the material, but not really. But I used the term “perceptual nodes” to refer to what you’re referring to.

The thing - I think - that makes up a community is it is a group of people who understand something about each other. The values we share are not necessarily going to have the same expressions in terms of belief, action plans, etc. But that’s okay first of all. There is room for everybody on the playground. And second of all: the true values we have are ONE ANOTHER.

Semi-related: I think it’s really important for us to begin building universal translators between all of our reality interfaces. We need to find “common values” and then look at how to build language bridges between communities centered around different expressions of that value. “Oh you call it this, here’s what I call the same thing (sort of)!” Finding those moments of commonality and learning the “keyword clusters” to speak to someone in their own language about something you care deeply about is an absolutely astonishing and heart-warming experience.

By: 2012 Is People! - Pop Occulture

2012 Is People! - Pop Occulture — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:02:33 +0000

[...] Wanted to promote this lovely comment of the Esteemed Mr. Puma up to prime-time: Weâ€™re all the time anticipating some kind of big â€˜event,â€™ some kind of apolcalyptic â€˜thingâ€™ we have to do, when all that weâ€™ve really had to do is be nice to each other and talk about stuff we find interesting. The community-creation *is* the big â€˜thing,â€™ and itâ€™s been going on for a couple of years now. [...]

By: Lion Kimbro

Lion Kimbro — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:51:56 +0000

I’m somewhat conflicted, talking about “shared values communities.” I see a lot of times communities that do NOT share values. (Consider, for example, this post on Hackers & Activists.) I’m also remembering Skye Burns, citing UNESCO research that she was active in, that showed that (paraphrasing) “sharing values was NOT an effective way of promoting inter-religious dialog.” Here’s another page: “Differences in Values.” My intuition is: If you share a value that someone else does NOT share, … well, it’s like someone showing you their pet rock collection, and saying, “my precious, my precious.”

Truly shared values, though, I think are powerful things. Human life, anyone?

Contra: David Korten likes to talk about these various polls showing 70% support for notions that we should do more to protect the environment, and so on. “We are the cutting edge of a national supermajority.” But I heard someone say, “…but those are polls and sentiments, and distinct from values.” So, … I teeter on the edge, on this one.

Nonetheless, I can recognize shared values communities, based on the threads I share with the people I communicate with. It is the object-centric social network. Every social network is centered on some object: a way of life, a vision, living in proximity, thinking about related stuff, etc.,.

To me, “shared values communities” means the communities (10-200 people) that I strongly care about. My family (and extended family) in California. The Saturday House. The Evolutionary Salon & Storyfield crowds. The CommunityWiki.

Work? No, not work. We ARE a community, but we do not share values; We’re a “shared labor community,” instead.

Other things to consider: Nodal Politics. Maneki Neko.

By: jp

jp — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:35:55 +0000

I think I see what you’re getting at. Sort of how a lot of us with fairly different reality interfaces all react to/with one another, and have for a long time. We’re all the time anticipating some kind of big ‘event,’ some kind of apolcalyptic ‘thing’ we have to do, when all that we’ve really had to do is be nice to each other and talk about stuff we find interesting. The community-creation *is* the big ‘thing,’ and it’s been going on for a couple of years now.

Right?

By: Creating A Skills Bank - Pop Occulture

Creating A Skills Bank - Pop Occulture — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:56:45 +0000

[...] So what I would end up doing most of the time was feigning ignorance on things which were not directly correlated to (what I considered to be) my job description. Somebody walks into your office with a PowerPoint question (I hate PowerPoint): “Sorry, I don’t know the first thing about that program.” This isn’t an effective way to operate within a shared value community though, which is what a company is. At least ideally: you are working towards one another’s mutual benefit, right? And not towards a paycheck? [...]