Response to Cole's Question About Identity

My response to Cole's community question to define identity. I think identity is provides the context and glue for our activities and information in the modern web. And, identity extends beyond just individuals, but also to groups, places, and other entities.

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Education

Tags:

• identity
• education
• community

[king582]

I've been advocating people, groups, and places as the three main entities needed to describe most of the activities that occur on campus. Give them representation independent of applications like Blackboard, connect them to each other to make networks, and let stories form (see smcdon's response) from all the activities that happen and information that's generated around the identities.

[jeff4re]

Rolling up identity from individuals into groups is good. Then you get into norms, culture and community.

[psutlt]

Thanks for the response! I really enjoyed it ... identity *is* the context. Very cool.