The Network is Female

Leon Benjamin, left a note on a post I made European Commission to create open source collaboration portal

Curious I went and had a look at his blog.

He has made a great post about the fact that the web and communities in all its manifestations is built upon a female perspective of the world. One of nurture.

In general, my experience of participating in online communities in the past few years is that despite their male dominance the posture, attitude and expression of these communities are predominantly female.  By this I mean people are genuinely welcoming, offer unsolicited benevolence, guidance and assistance and freely give the most valuable thing that anyone can give; their time.  This isn’t normal for other types of male dominated organisations.

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To this day, I have no idea what particular combination of software, ethos and policies these networks have implemented, that attracts people to exhibit these female qualities online, but it’s basically changing people’s behaviour, and that behaviour is female in nature.

Nice one Leon, I shall be coming back for more.