Outed and totally humbled by Ken Camp who heaps praise and points to our about page on the direction our new venture “Mosoci” is taking. Mosoci is definitely a mashup of minds and community and we wouldn’t be where we are today without friends and colleagues like Ken. His post also reminds me of a cartoon…..
Dina and I thought we would develop our site quietly in alpha (although public URL) and began testing how we could integrate our lifestreams from our blogs, bookmarking, and tweets. We put it together ourselves and symbolized this with the “beta” moniker. That’s where we plan to stay — agile, evolutionary and adaptive. A few years ago a site like this was a custom job and cost thousands. Today sites like Tumblr suggest we are just before the “wave” of what may be next. Thank you to Wordpress for making it easily attainable.
Much happens today by chance. Things also emerge and we find ways to jump on them and adapt. Over the years Dina and I have enjoyed telling parts of our story. We first met in an online forum. I set her up blogging “Conversations with Dina” with install instructions over an IM chat session, long before voice and video connections were possible. Skype also helped to revolutionize our collaboration and connectivity. Open channels between India and the US made collaboration around Learning Journeys, research, and just links and interests possible. Working in India for most of the last year, attending some conferences together around the world and we knew we were at the point where where 1+1 makes more than two.
Mosoci is the platform of our collaboratory around the interests we love, are passionate about and to reinforce the direction and learning we need to go in. We won’t be successful without our network and our community and the power of social media. Blogs, wikis, forums, twitter, bookmarking have enabled who we are today.
We welcome your comments, perspective, and just plain old honest help and advice to make this a success. We are open to suggestion and really don’t want to stop at just a few of us. I’m off to India on Sunday, we’d thought to say more next week. You know the formal picture, etc.
It’s apt that there will now be no formal announcement. Ken’s approval is enough for me. We should just say we are in beta. I say let it grow. Thank you Ken! We will always treasure our first real link to Mosoci and how it made us feel.
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