Full Circle Associates

I feel a cold descending this morning. After doing a recorded phone interview with Bob Day in Kenya, a fantastic scientist working on global public goods (where I tried to stiffle every sniffle and sneeze while we were recording), I fell into one of those reveries of link-following, googling and trying to sniff our some connection patterns. In that I found Debby's blog and this string of posts from A Balanced Life. Debby quoted a 2003 post of mine from the Online Facilitation list that totally echoed some of the group's current dynamics. It was a perfect example of some of the cycles we see in open, persistent groups. (Or, after Patty Anklam's talk yesterday, I'm more likely to say "network!")

In this archived batch of posts from December 2002, I appreciated a couple of things Debby noticed.

1. The issues of sociability and the example of John' Smith's work on virtual "front porches"

2. My December 2003 list post about identity, crossposting, trust, content and facilitators' responsibility. Her posting my words and me finding them over a year later had some echo that I'm just starting to think about.

3. Her noticing that when she subbed to my list she got an email (albeit a bot) that welcomed her and asked her to introduce herself.