The concept of a creative collective is, as you might know, incredibly exciting to me. What if we had some sort of personal site builder that included communication tools and "hubs" that could connect the sites?
I picture this as an alternative to the walled gardens of social media today. Instead of communicating and existing on this one central site, you had a wide array of sites that connect to one another via these hubs that could maybe aggregate the content and facilitate communication and collaboration between them?
This is compelling to me not only for building a creative collective, but just as a general alternative to the social media of yesteryear. As in, I've been thinking about building this for years now, in one form or another.
I was thinking about this more as an alternative structure for companies. But it also has social media implications.
I like the "connected hub" concept. It would allow creators absolute freedom to make what they want while benefitting from a broader network. I don't know if this replaces the need for traditional social media. Existing systems work well for people who want to share images, video, or a few thoughts as text. The system you suggest would work well for more sophisticated creators.
I'm inclined to say the network and the company structure could be two sides of the same coin. The network could facilitate the company / collective structure, and vice versa. This doesn't have to necessarily replace social media -- I'm conflating two ideas here, I think. I agree that sharing images and video among friends is a different use case.
I'm picturing something very particular, essentially a less janky "Geocities v2", with hubs to connect the sites. The hubs could aggregate content, facilitate links between creators, help users to navigate between the properties...I'm not sure of all the potential here!
I'm still thinking it through but I believe creative freedom with some frameworks or structure to build on (the "Geocities v2" part) and something to connect them is a powerful idea. Would love to explore further what the sites and hubs might do for each other, and how it might work in practice.
The concept of a creative collective is, as you might know, incredibly exciting to me. What if we had some sort of personal site builder that included communication tools and "hubs" that could connect the sites?
I picture this as an alternative to the walled gardens of social media today. Instead of communicating and existing on this one central site, you had a wide array of sites that connect to one another via these hubs that could maybe aggregate the content and facilitate communication and collaboration between them?
This is compelling to me not only for building a creative collective, but just as a general alternative to the social media of yesteryear. As in, I've been thinking about building this for years now, in one form or another.
I was thinking about this more as an alternative structure for companies. But it also has social media implications.
I like the "connected hub" concept. It would allow creators absolute freedom to make what they want while benefitting from a broader network. I don't know if this replaces the need for traditional social media. Existing systems work well for people who want to share images, video, or a few thoughts as text. The system you suggest would work well for more sophisticated creators.
I'm inclined to say the network and the company structure could be two sides of the same coin. The network could facilitate the company / collective structure, and vice versa. This doesn't have to necessarily replace social media -- I'm conflating two ideas here, I think. I agree that sharing images and video among friends is a different use case.
I'm picturing something very particular, essentially a less janky "Geocities v2", with hubs to connect the sites. The hubs could aggregate content, facilitate links between creators, help users to navigate between the properties...I'm not sure of all the potential here!
I'm still thinking it through but I believe creative freedom with some frameworks or structure to build on (the "Geocities v2" part) and something to connect them is a powerful idea. Would love to explore further what the sites and hubs might do for each other, and how it might work in practice.