About Networked Improvement Communities (NICs)

Welcome

Visit the Doug Engelbart Institute to explore his remarkable legacy and all it inspires (official site)

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Part I: The Next Great Online Community

There’s a lack of innovation in community software. Let's dive into internet history, and get inspired!

Community books rating | Notion

There are many questions from people in the CMX community, Community Club, and on Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, etc., about what great books exist about communities. And there are tones of different book lists, but the question remains: how to choose where to start?

Networked Orgs and Tooling

Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.

Home Page

We are an international community of communities bound by a common interest in persistent infrastructure. So far, we have welcomed agencies that manage communities spanning entertainment, standards, the built environment, natural history collections, scholarly communications, and research data.

The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier

Howard Rheingold tours the 'virtual community' of online networking.Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tou

Institute of Network Cultures | Ben Grosser: Planning the Exodus from Platform Realism

Thinking about the current state of platforms, I’m reminded of Mark Fisher’s articulation of capitalist realism, the idea that we don’t imagine or build alternatives to capitalism because we can no longer envision a world without it. Big tech, in a few short years, has managed to instill within the public a similar state of platform realism. So many are unable to imagine how global communication, media, search, etc. could ever function without the platforms. Despite a growing malaise, it’s become difficult for many to consider a world without big tech platforms as a viable conception of the future.

Our Networks

Conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures.

Our Networks

Conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures.

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