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Stringsta "is a collaborative content hub that lets you string together your videos, audios, images and text with content from others." The ability to weave networks & stories, to mash-up and play, to call and respond with joy might well be central to the #socialartist. Tools such as Stringsta might help us get there!

Sebastien Paquet writes eloquently about and practices powerfully many skills of the social artist though he doesn't call it that. He talks about "networked cocreation."

Bill Strickland embodies what I consider a social artist. His ability to see the beauty in people and his drive to create environments for work and play to highlight, frame and enhance that beauty leaves me with the same thought-provoking and inspiring sense of truth that comes from art.

Some good examples/ideas related to play.

Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist that shakes the way I see the world. He brings a smile and a sense of wonder to how people live, work and play. A fun social artist that transforms my thinking and practice.

I learn so much about story telling and presentations from Nancy Duarte. Her company and team is leading the field in transforming organizations and individuals.

I think working from a complexity framework is necessary in a world of rapid changes and uncertainties. Dave Snowden's Cynefin model can give us a useful lens for understanding and practicing  social artistry.  "The major difference between systems thinking and complexity thinking is that the former focuses on defining an ideal future state and seeks to close the gap, whereas complexity seeks to manage the evolutionary potential of the present.  Systems approaches range from three year plans, through idealised process designs to agreeing common values.  These approaches have dominated management in industry and government for the last three decades and draw heavily on engineering metaphors of the organisation.  Complexity theory offers an evolutionary alternative".

Being present is part of being a social artist. Great post from Marion Chapsal who is participating in the Virtual Knowledge Cafe

I was totally enraptured with the video from Patsy Rodenburg on the second (of three) circles of energy. Being present is a game changer Michele. Great example of social artistry skill.

What Sarah Kay does strikes me as serious social artistry

Wonder if these Burning Man Principles are tied to social artistry. . . 

Social artists are starting movements. . . 

These 8 Fearless Questions from Meg Wheatley seem like good ones for social artists to ask themselves and the people they work with.