The Logic and Emotion blog has an interesting slide deck in a recent post on design thinking in business. What caught my attention was slide 37, which provides a framework for the requirements of a social network. The framework is shown below.
What I thought was interesting is that the framework may also apply to other activities, such as education and religion. In the chart below I show examples for the five C's and how they apply to education and religion.
When you consider the recent decline in the active practice of religion one could conclude that the weakness in the framework is in connectivity, the high reliance on physical spaces for connectivity. This may also explain the increase in religious TV programming.
In education the same problem exists. Physical space as a means to achieve connectivity is no longer sufficient. The challenge in changing the "connectivity" to digital may explain the difficulties in adopting computers in education successfully. Perhaps we need to approach the problem as a stand alone issue--connectivity--and not get confused by issues in context or collaboration.
I like this 5 Cs framework and plan to come back to it in future posts. I do not think it applies to all major social activities, but it does provide a simple way to think about certain social issues.
