Conveners

We need a field for annotation where people who upload a reference can, and are encouraged to, explain why they recommend it. That would complement, not replace the tags, and add more value to the bibliography. Think of being on the receiving end of the library collection, as user: which listing is more useful to you the one without or with annotation?

Tom wrote:

"Library" takes you to an evolving bibliography of books, articles, and other material that participants feel relate to CI.

Tom wrote:

I now think we can have our Commons in the blog space (using the blog function) in a way that actually serves the larger theme and
intention of the whole first month -- getting to know the field through each other.

I withhold opinion until I can see how individual blog entries can be associated with tags and categories, given that there were some misunderstandings with Brandon about that issue. Currently, when you go to http://cic.evolutionarynexus.org/node/add/blog , you will see no sign for the capacity to associate the new entry with a tag or category.

Community exists at every level of the spiral, serving different needs and values.

In his Theory U, Scharmer differentiates 5 main movements on the U journey and 24 principles associated with them:

"The following 24 principles of presencing summarize this social technology around five major movements: beginning (co-initiating), connecting to the larger field (co-sensing), connecting to the future that wants to emerge (co-presencing), bringing it into reality (co-creating), and embodying the new in everyday practices and infrastructures (co-evolving)."

How to make site more usable and look and feel more inviting and engaging even if the latter is already a significant improvement over the previous version of Drupal?

Summarizing a thread of their f-t-f conversation, Susan Cannon and Sheri Herndon wrote in an email: