Junto

http://emergentbydesign.com/2010/06/29/junto-overview-of-concept-philoso...

Here is an interesting design to help bring people together in community. As we evolve toward a global brain we need more ways to interact. Now if we can just figure out how to include the Heart...

"Junto is an environment for open discussion, combined with a public backchannel. it’s not about being a platform – it’s more of a meme and a mindset of collaboration and cooperation. Junto was a club started by Benjamin Franklin for mutual exchange of knowledge and information and personal and business development. When I proposed the concept of Junto, it was in that spirit that the community of people who believe “we can’t do it alone” would model the behavior online of what generative dialogue and open innovation looks like."
http://www.gavinkeech.com/junto-portal/