David Mason
Director of Community Dynamics at New Kind

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David Mason liked Better search and tagging
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David Mason liked When considering community engagement strategies, stop thinking like Tom Sawyer
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David Mason liked Forget your people – real leaders act on the system
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David Mason liked "Soft" R&D: You don't have to be a geeky engineer to experience the thrill of inventing
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David Mason commented on Make ranking and reviewing part of contributing content
Reddit's system is very simple on the surface as its just an upvote or a downvote, however they tie that in to a person's "karma". Karma is only a points-based measure of how much that person particip... More
3 years 6 months ago
David Mason posted Highlight and save great ideas
I've noticed some sites and services adding unique methods for highlighting portions of a post to share via social networks. For example, the new service Branch has great highlighting as done a co... More
3 years 6 months ago
David Mason posted Make ranking and reviewing part of contributing content
As is the case with most forum-like services its far too easy for ideas to get lost in the long list of ideas. No one has found the magical formula for making sure people get to see the best ideas in ... More
3 years 11 months ago
David Mason posted Collaborative Goals
I've recently been getting a sense that our human desire for hierarchy and order are partly why we fail so often at business "programs". Performance Management is ultimately tied to hierarchy - manage... More
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David Mason posted Collaborate. Agitate. Converge.
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David Mason posted Free to Fork
6 years 1 month ago
David Mason commented on Forget your people – real leaders act on the system
Its so easy for me to tell that the approach in this story is a successful one as while reading it I found myself jealous of the good people of Portsmouth. I now want to forward this on to quite a few... More
6 years 1 month ago
David Mason commented on "Soft" R&D: You don't have to be a geeky engineer to experience the thrill of inventing
Erika, This is an excellent story and inspiring to me, as someone who has been thoroughly ensconced in the creative engineering culture. What I really admire about this, and perhaps one of the reas... More
6 years 1 month ago
David Mason commented on When considering community engagement strategies, stop thinking like Tom Sawyer
The only thing I would add to this is something you and I have talked about before Chris, that well-run communities are meritocracies. The goal should be for a person or company to contribute smartly ... More
6 years 1 month ago
David Mason posted Don't let your shutter get stuck
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David Mason commented on Enable and trust self-education
Matt - I am willing to bet that once the opportunity presents itself, a good number of people would be motivated to be self-learners. This is especially true if the boundaries of a particular cano... More
6 years 1 month ago
David Mason posted Enable and trust self-education
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Highlight and save great ideas

I've noticed some sites and services adding unique methods for highlighting portions of a post to share via social networks. For example, the new service Branch has great highlighting as done a couple times in this thread: http://branch.com/b/hr-matters-google-is-great-to-work-for?ref=sidebar#Q... It would be great to have a similar highlighting feature in...

By David Mason on February 13, 2022
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Make ranking and reviewing part of contributing content

As is the case with most forum-like services its far too easy for ideas to get lost in the long list of ideas. No one has found the magical formula for making sure people get to see the best ideas in a forum. Reddit and Stackexchange have probably come the...

By David Mason on February 13, 2022
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Collaborative Goals

I've recently been getting a sense that our human desire for hierarchy and order are partly why we fail so often at business "programs". Performance Management is ultimately tied to hierarchy - managers fall into the trap of cube-hunting to see if a warm body is "working" on top of...

By David Mason on September 26, 2021