Project Muse in 2005: article by Fred Turner, assistant professor at Stanford who credited Howard Rheingold with the term "virtual community" from the title of Rheingold's book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 1993, that explained his 8-year participation in a bulletin board system known as the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, a text only environment.
The #WalkMyWorld project becomes an affinity space wherein participants share both knowledge and life experiences as a way to form interpersonal relationships and create a fuller understanding of the literature discussed.
early look by Susan Herring, Indiana University, (2001) of how women fare online. one interesting paragraph on projected changes of world wide web and impact on women.
What you want to do is debrief failures openly. That’s really critical to resilience, because otherwise when people fail they’re totally unprepared for it.
It's much more helpful to say I understand you’re probably in a lot of pain right now, and I want you to know I’m here with you. Just the acknowledgment and conveying you want to support them is much more helpful.
One of the things that affected me most, actually, was watching Sheryl commit to finding joy.
But the joy you feel has a huge impact on the people around you. I've spent a lot of time thinking since [Sandberg and I] talked about that. Joy is not just a contributor to happiness. It really is a source of strength. When we have more joy in our lives, it’s part of what makes life worth living.
interview with Grant and Sandberg about new book includes the three Ps--personalization, pervasiveness, and permanence--for making negative emotions worse in the workplace. Better to acknowledge reactions to failure or loss as normal