I've been absent from the world of blogging for a while now. Seems a good time to start again given my recent efforts in promoting Communitivity, XRI, and XDI. More on those efforts in future posts, but for now I'll just explain the concept of communitivity.
No not the math term. I am using communitivity is a social networking context based on some word-play.
First think of the word 'community'. That is central to social networks, and in many ways central to us as human beings. Look it up in a dictionary..'community' is a noun.
Nope, don't think so. Have you ever read Spider Robinson's Stardance? If not I highly recommend it. The main characters in Stardance treat the word 'gravity' as a verb, not a noun, because for them it is a choice and a choice that transforms their lives.
What would it mean if we as human beings start treating 'Community' as a verb? For one we'd be more aware that our actions impact our connections with others, and that improving or degrading those connections is a conscious choice. I like to think the world would be a better place.
The English language allows adding -ive to the end of a verb to describe tending to or performing the action that verb describes. Applying this we get 'communitive' to describe doing community.
We get then use the rules for the -ity suffix to get communitivity, which we're using to describe how much you're doing community.
The goal of Communitivity.com will be to enable non-profits, socially-conscious businesses, and government organizations to increase and monitor their communitivity. We'll do this through teaching how that has a significant ROI, teaching communitivity best practices, communitivity consulting, and Open Source software written primarily in Erlang.
Stay tuned for more...
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