Context Is King https://thefarmers.org/ContextIsKing/ 2026-06-09T04:56:54+00:00 Context Is King https://thefarmers.org/ContextIsKing/ https://thefarmers.org/ContextIsKing/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2009-11-08T18:12:45+00:00 randy (randy@undisclosed.example.com) failures https://thefarmers.org/ContextIsKing/doku.php?id=failures&rev=1257703965&do=diff On November 8th, 2009 I participated in the closing panel at Hackers 25. <info> Spectacular Failures and What We Learned - Brad Templeton Step up to the mic and let us know what You learned. Participants: Randy Farmer, Karl Auerbach Mother hen: Chip Morningstar</info> text/html 2009-11-08T17:37:10+00:00 randy (randy@undisclosed.example.com) sidebar https://thefarmers.org/ContextIsKing/doku.php?id=sidebar&rev=1257701830&do=diff Table of Contents Context Is King: The Wiki * The Proposal * Possible Publishers * The Contexts * Community Types: Me, We, and It * Me Contexts * Person * We Contexts * Group * It Contexts * Thing * Collection (of Things) * Global/Site * The Lessons * Don't Cross the Streams * Public is Public * Failures text/html 2008-10-06T20:50:36+00:00 randy (randy@undisclosed.example.com) person - created https://thefarmers.org/ContextIsKing/doku.php?id=person&rev=1223326236&do=diff Person Tripartite Identity Pattern One of the most misunderstood patterns in social media design is that of user identity management. Product designers often confuse the many different roles required by various user identifiers. This confusion is compounded by using older online services, such as Yahoo!, eBay and America Online, as canonical references. The services established their identity models based on engineering-centric requirements long before we had a more subtle understanding of use… text/html 2008-06-20T20:33:40+00:00 randy (randy@undisclosed.example.com) author https://thefarmers.org/ContextIsKing/doku.php?id=author&rev=1213994020&do=diff F. Randall "Randy" Farmer <box red| TBD>Wow! I shifted voice all over here. Rewrite. This looks more like a biography or wikipedia entry. Maybe use it for that.</box> At the dawn of the personal computer age, I was a teenager. Even since then, when I was using telephone handsets to connect to remote computers to create and play games, I have always been fascinated by using these interconnected machines to facilitate communication between people. text/html 2008-06-16T17:23:00+00:00 randy (randy@undisclosed.example.com) meweit https://thefarmers.org/ContextIsKing/doku.php?id=meweit&rev=1213636980&do=diff Community Types: Me, We, and It <box 45em round green> “I, we, and it. That's simple enough.” </box|– Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything> When enabling online communities, it is easy to become confused evaluating which tools and technologies to use when we should instead be considering social dynamics and structures. For the last five years or so, I’ve been using a taxonomy called text/html 2008-06-15T03:30:05+00:00 randy (randy@undisclosed.example.com) contextisking https://thefarmers.org/ContextIsKing/doku.php?id=contextisking&rev=1213500605&do=diff <html><center><h1>Context is King: 30 Years of Lessons in Online Community Building<br><br> <i>The Wiki</i></h1></center></html> A forthcoming book By: F. Randall Farmer If you've come here, you must have heard that I'm working on a book about Online Community Building. This wiki is where I hope to work on the various sections and gather feedback. At this point I'm not at all sure exactly how the whole thing is going to fit together, but a survey of the