Social Network Design: The Network Is A Living System, Design It As Such - Robin Good's Latest News. What are the key requirements for social software to create social environments and communities that can become self-sustainable? Ken Thompson, high performance teams expert and author of the Bioteaming Manifesto, Bioteams and The Networked Enterprise, suggests that social software designers should look in the principles that make living systems succeed.
He contends that it is possible to successfully "apply living systems design to social systems" but only if, living systems theory is applied to each one of the three nested systems making up a living unit: the individual, the group, the system itself. This is why it may be critical for your social community designer and social community architect to analyze their plans also in this light, checking their features and schema against the key requirements and needs of a living system. The four key aspects of a living system represented graphically Design Better Social Software Using Living Systems Theory Autopoiesis Is The Word! 1. System Dynamics Methods: A Quick Introduction. Carl-Auer Verlag. G. Bellinger: Mental Model Musings.