I’ve been trying to gather feedback for a card on the ALF Community Mastery Board: I feel like it isn’t being taken serious largely due to the amazing community we have who operate from a place of trust, respect, and understanding. It doesn’t feel like a big deal to define agreements because if something comes up we …
Month: September 2015
ALC Network Membrane First Look
update: see version 1.0 I’m working with @tomis on some visualization about our network and how it works. Here is an alpha version of my interpretation of the ALC Network. See the full size image here.
My Schooling, My Education
What follows is my history of learning, schooling, and education. See Spot Run In my early years, I was sent to a Montessori school. Grades were mixed; 1st through 3rd occupied the same classroom. I remember an exercise were we wrote every number from 1 to 1000 in a grid of boxes. My math skills …
Introducing the Slider Drawer Widget Area
Now available on all ALC Network websites is a plugin I recently created called Slide Out Widget Drawer (Click here to download the latest .zip), all you need to do is activate it from your site’s plugins area. It’s a simple widget area that can be displayed by clicking a tab on the left edge of …
How to Make a Good Tutorial
This post will cover how to write a post that covers how to do something (so meta!). One of the Agile Roots is to create sharable value so that you, and others, can visualize your learning. I like to model this root by creating tutorials that cover doing things. The wonderful thing about writing these kinds …
Send Gravity Forms Notifications to Trello
Gravity Forms is a wonderful plugin available to our network that allows site admin to create powerful forms that users can fill out. Part of the beauty of these forms is the powerful notification system. When a form is filled out you can have the input emailed to multiple email addresses. I recently found out …
Drew and Bear do the Communities Conference
I had the lovely honor of stuffing myself in a car with @bear (and some Point A collaborators) and driving down to Central Virginia to attend the Twin Oaks Communities Conference. The conference (or con as the cool kids say) brought together a number of intentional communities from around the world. It takes place each year at …
Rebel Beach Bingo! Opening Group Game
I went out to an event for Flood the System last night in New York City. Flood the System is a decentralized group of activist organizations that are seeking to form action councils to coordinate actions across the world. You can check out this presentation that was shared last night. I want to talk about an awesome …