## Needs

* Allow for individual expression but also brings many together in a common space and common way to offer that connectedness.
* Easy to find the channel for communication and easy to participate.
Professionals are very engaging - easy to see role models in transparent system.
* Need to be able to see what someone does OR choose to interact with that.
* Spotlighting and sharing - but that has to overcome the tradition of keeping it to myself.
* Need organizational tools with which to interact with the tools we use and the content in them.
* Need to preserve context better of the research as it is happening -> discoverability happens more naturally and with machines helping facilitate that more naturally.
* Something that helps micro-communities work together
* Need a shared genuine challenge, where people have ways to connect to overcome that challenge. 
* Need to be able to connect to the extent that an individual is able to, not some arbitrary required level of engagement - give what you have to give, receive what you need to receive.

## Inspiration for solution

What are some more social channels that currently exist for people looking at these questions? Or how can we get something like that going? 
* Reddit community with 83,000 people involved but still having useful discussions and fairly easy to stay up to date on what others are doing. (AMA - Ask Me Anything - - - so what are steps forward to connecting to other groups NOW)
* In the gaming community you are all trying to beat the same boss in a game and none of you can do it alone so you simply have to come together to work towards accomplishing that together -> a video posted where millions choose to come together to all learn together. It requires that genuine interest as a meeting ground.