@communication
Human communication, skill development, listening, dialogue, collaboration and using our voice in constructive, deliberate & compassionate ways
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 2:14
Communication is not talking, the voice compels us to listen
We're looking at things from a fresh perspective. Our memories are being activated, and we have the opportunity to pick up on ideas, activate ideas within us that cause us to grow and expand. And that is exciting. That is a true opportunity to really move beyond the noise of most online platforms to having a dialogue and a discussion where we share our voice, where we can hear the urgency, the intentionality, the intensity
What I was trying to say in my post was about the importance of listening, as you called out, and that's a key part of the way we structured Swell is by making it asynchronous it's not real time audio chat, if you will, asynchronous nature really kind of enforces the discipline of listening. When you have the time you listen and then you can let it sync in and take the time to respond correctly in a timely manner
And I resent that when conversation has taken place, you don't know how you can fit in. A conversation can move away from its original topic. And let's say you want to come back to the original topic, then you're blocked because people will not know what you're responding to. Exactly. So that's it. I have problems. Problems with the lack of overview of a longer conversation as well
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 5:00
Making threaded conversations in the app could be very important to the community to be able to manage and be able to contextualize their responses, because if someone's going to reply because what happens? We get activated with ideas when we're listening to somebody. If someone's going to reply and take a slightly different direction, I don't think it should be part of the main thread
Greg Dickson
@ElasticBD · 2:04
Or I think the nice thing about the five minute chunks is I could modify the description so they could choose to jump to the part that they want to listen to and prioritize that. I think that would be a really powerful enhancement to your app because it would assist people to organize, to be able to set aside the time and prioritize what they want to listen to, because the truth is that the great thing about audio is the voice. The challenging thing about audio is it takes time