Social Insight Tools

Welcome to Social Insight Tools, an interactive blog by markothell.

I’m seeking to understand and visualize human alignment through interactive social spaces that allow groups to see their own collective mind at work.

Each activity takes a social pattern or idea and turns it into an interactive environment that maps the collective’s relationships, makes it easy to share insights and can be forked and iterated on by other members of the community. Somewhere in here:

Like twitter polls in that they are user generated, social/interactive and generate data about the group. They are like social experiments in that they generate novel environments, and are structured around a question, hypothesis or intention. They model open source development in that they are designed for reciprocal inquiry, have open data and evolve by writing knowledge into code.

I see the natural conclusion of this work being the creation of an open source social platform for the evolution of culture and communication. Read more about that: Meme + Data = Social Learning.

For now I have a single activity that I hope will demonstrate what I mean and yield some novel conversations. It allows groups of 2-50(??) to map their collective frames of reference relating to an idea.

More:

Tool: Frame of Reference Map
Social Algorithm Manifesto
Active Social Maps