Tag: organizations
Letta
AI research lab and software company developing stateful agents that preserve memory, learn from experience, and remain useful across time.
Behind the Shell: The Luster of Variegated Gems
A meeting such as this seems like a beautiful cluster of precious jewels—pearls, rubies, diamonds, sapphires. It is a source of joy and delight. Whatever is conducive to the unity of the world of mankind is most acceptable and praiseworthy; whatever is the cause of discord and disunion is saddening and deplorable.
Consultative Relational Research
Consultative Relational Research speaks to a model of service and a pivotal research focus. Our version of consultative research builds from the assumption that each of our clients have a unique story and contextual experience. We keenly listen for what is unique about each client, and build a collaborative approach that addresses their foremost research need in the most suitable manner and within the necessary scope.
The Best of Both Research Worlds
So far, we have noted requirements tied to deploying effective surveys and how useful qualitative methods are in generating the sentiments and experiences that lay the foundation for mutual understanding. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are fine to use by themselves, given the research question at hand, but using both methods together has proven to be especially powerful in helping organizations gain a more three-dimensional understanding of the social things they deem to be worthy of study.
Enriching Mutual Understanding with Rich Data
Mutual understanding is a powerful force for constructive social change. At the same time, it takes effort to get there, especially among people from diverse social backgrounds who have experienced life differently. Mutual understanding is built through unfettered dialogue, so facilitating mutual understanding from a research standpoint involves cultivating the right atmosphere, an active listening posture, and intense amount of re-listening to the dialogue to properly capture the meaning and implications of what was shared. Technology is cool, but there are no shortcuts here if the goal is gaining rich insights on the dialogical elements that can build mutual understanding and eventually translate it into constructive action.
The Five Cs of Survey Design
Surveys are a powerful means for gaining a better understanding of stakeholder sentiments and how they are feeling about their experiences. At the same time, the effectiveness of surveys are directly tied to the level of effort and expertise behind their design. Some of the most important characteristics of effective surveys can be broken down into the ‘five Cs.’
'New Worlds' for a Better World
Whether consciously or unconsciously, organizations either activate a world-building or world-receiving mode of operating. World-building organizations generate reciprocal flows of energy through constructive relationships that magnetize participation and fertilize growth. They exert a force on the world that galvanizes change, seeding inspiration along the way. World-receiving organizations take their cues from society as it exists, ever-primed to model their operations and relationships based on the reigning sociopolitical environment.
Mastodon Announces New EU Non-Profit
The Mastodon project is continuing to grow and evolve. As the organization continues to take shape and raise funds, key members of the project have decided to transition several parts of the project to a new Non-Profit organization, to better reflect their ideals. This new organization will retain ownership of the Mastodon brand and copyright, along with platform components and other assets. One aspect worth noting here is that CEO Eugen Rochko will likely be transitioning away from CEO into a new role that allows him to better focus on software development. Much of the project’s current scope and goals …
Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation
A new organization emerges to help tackle some of the challenges the Fediverse faces, from advocacy and policy to training and tooling.