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Should We Have a Vision for the Forum in Line with the Website?

#1 · September 22, 2021, 9:08 am

I'm thinking that a vision for the forum may help forum users establish a social identity in line with a larger mission.
For example,

To provide empowered/enlightened individuals a platform to discuss and codify power dynamic strategies for life success and win-win relationships.

It's like a mental shortcut of how to behave on the forums.
And there's a bigger mission so people don't feel like the forum is merely a place for asking questions.

Something in line with the slogan

Fly with the eagles

Or do you plan to keep the community culture open-ended and attract people based on content?

#2 · September 22, 2021, 11:02 am

Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on September 22, 2021, 11:02 am
Hmmm I haven't truly deeply thought about it.
But that's a great idea/question/topic, Matthew.
And I think your initial vision is great already.
I'm thinking that:
To provide empowered/enlightened individuals a platform to discuss and codify power dynamic strategies for life success and win-win relationships.
The black part makes sense for most people.
The "and codify" might be more the mission from TPM and of a smaller circle of users (I'm including myself both in TPM, the smaller circle of users, and the general user who only wants to learn).
A vision with overlapping goals / motives / drives?
So I'm thinking whether it makes sense to have an overview of the forum with 2 separate visions (or more) and overlapping WIIFMs.
If two, one from TPM's side, and one from most users' side.
TPM's goal is to advance and codify power dynamics as a new discipline.
PU then provides the overview of that discipline in a digestible and self-development oriented format to help people grow and empower themselves -which also leads to more win-win as you say, and "joining the eagles"-.
The discussing power dynamics and social/life strategies would then be the overlap in the middle because, at times, that discussion leads to codifying new general principles, best-practices guidelines, new ways to better explain concepts, or off-shoots in the form of forum links for "those who wants to learn more" that later find their way into articles and/or PU.
Vision Tagline
Vision 1.0
To provide empowered/enlightened individuals a platform to discuss and codify power dynamic strategies for life success and win-win relationships.
Vision 1.1, minimalist:
To share a space to discuss and learn power dynamics and social/life strategies for life success.
Share instead of provide: share is more equalitarian. It shares the responsibility of the space with every single member. "Providing" frames the forum as a top-down service, with a service provider solely responsible for it
Cutting out win-win in favor of a more generalizable approach: I cut it out not because it's not true, but because it might lead to the wrong assumption that win-win is always possible. At times, the best policy is to cut someone off. At other times, it's fair to take from someone who has taken -or who tried to take- from you
Adding other elements to the vision / tagline?
I'm also thinking whether it makes sense to also reference the:
"Pleasure" of interacting with like-minded individuals: not a goal in itself but an important part of forum participation, I believe. I for sure don't just log here with the goal in mind only, but also because I enjoy discussing, learning, and interacting with the people
General high-value of participants: most people who read TPM, join PU, or read the forum want to move forward and go places, and they generally seek to be high-value, value-adding individuals who appreciate win-win and want other high-quality people in their life. However, putting that into a tagline might come across as self-referential and sleazy if it's not well done
Minimum level necessary to partake: TPM's forum is not the most beginner-friendly forum. One because the people currently in here tend to be more advanced. And two, because TPM's goal of codifying principles and best practices requires a minimum level of competency. But like the entry above, it should be worded carefully to sound descriptive, and not elitist
I'll think about it more, and any new idea or proposal is most welcome :).

Hmmm I haven't truly deeply thought about it.

But that's a great idea/question/topic, Matthew.

And I think your initial vision is great already.

I'm thinking that:

To provide empowered/enlightened individuals a platform to discuss and codify power dynamic strategies for life success and win-win relationships.

The black part makes sense for most people.
The "and codify" might be more the mission from TPM and of a smaller circle of users (I'm including myself both in TPM, the smaller circle of users, and the general user who only wants to learn).

A vision with overlapping goals / motives / drives?

So I'm thinking whether it makes sense to have an overview of the forum with 2 separate visions (or more) and overlapping WIIFMs.
If two, one from TPM's side, and one from most users' side.

TPM's goal is to advance and codify power dynamics as a new discipline.
PU then provides the overview of that discipline in a digestible and self-development oriented format to help people grow and empower themselves -which also leads to more win-win as you say, and "joining the eagles"-.

The discussing power dynamics and social/life strategies would then be the overlap in the middle because, at times, that discussion leads to codifying new general principles, best-practices guidelines, new ways to better explain concepts, or off-shoots in the form of forum links for "those who wants to learn more" that later find their way into articles and/or PU.

Vision Tagline

Vision 1.0

To provide empowered/enlightened individuals a platform to discuss and codify power dynamic strategies for life success and win-win relationships.

Vision 1.1, minimalist:

To share a space to discuss and learn power dynamics and social/life strategies for life success.

Share instead of provide: share is more equalitarian. It shares the responsibility of the space with every single member. "Providing" frames the forum as a top-down service, with a service provider solely responsible for it
Cutting out win-win in favor of a more generalizable approach: I cut it out not because it's not true, but because it might lead to the wrong assumption that win-win is always possible. At times, the best policy is to cut someone off. At other times, it's fair to take from someone who has taken -or who tried to take- from you

Adding other elements to the vision / tagline?

I'm also thinking whether it makes sense to also reference the:

"Pleasure" of interacting with like-minded individuals: not a goal in itself but an important part of forum participation, I believe. I for sure don't just log here with the goal in mind only, but also because I enjoy discussing, learning, and interacting with the people
General high-value of participants: most people who read TPM, join PU, or read the forum want to move forward and go places, and they generally seek to be high-value, value-adding individuals who appreciate win-win and want other high-quality people in their life. However, putting that into a tagline might come across as self-referential and sleazy if it's not well done
Minimum level necessary to partake: TPM's forum is not the most beginner-friendly forum. One because the people currently in here tend to be more advanced. And two, because TPM's goal of codifying principles and best practices requires a minimum level of competency. But like the entry above, it should be worded carefully to sound descriptive, and not elitist

I'll think about it more, and any new idea or proposal is most welcome :).

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