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co-matter digest #47: What makes a movement?
For our third Community Leadership Summit, we’re making movements our point of departure. From Fridays for Future and Black Lives Matter to the protests in Hong Kong, movements are making headlines across the globe. Now more than ever, movements are on our minds – and dominating our social media feeds.

With the recent news of the Amazon wildfires, you, too, might have shared photos to raise awareness or donated to various organizations to help protect the rainforest. But does that mean we’re already part of a movement? Does hitting a button to share something online make a big enough impact on the cause in the long run?

There’s no doubt that social media has been an important tool to mobilize people, unite us around a cause and spread information quickly. But ultimately, using these platforms remains a means to an end. For a movement to stick, it needs to be accompanied with face-to-face engagement in public spaces. On the streets, in parks, in airports – that’s where we see movements coming to life in 2019.

The speaker lineup for the Community Leadership Summit #3 is out!
To help us explore movements of all shapes and sizes, we’ve asked some smart people to share their perspectives with us at the summit. Alongside 80 other community leaders, we’ll take a look at social movements as well as what it means to have a movement within various industries such as music, culture, journalism and tech. Get ready for insights from Spotify, Zebras Unite, the team behind the success of the European Green Party in the latest EU elections, Hearken, We Are Museums and more. Applications are still open if you're interested in joining us on September 6th in Copenhagen.

🥾Check out the agenda and speaker lineup here

News from the co-matter network
  • Kristina Dimitrova from INTERLACED is hosting a conversation on why gaming is the next big thing for fashion. Get your tickets to the event on September 11 in London here.
     
  • Speaking of games, our friends from Klang raised $22.3 million for their latest MMO (massively multiplayer online game). ICYMI: Back in January, Jonathan Baker shared with us how Klang builds a real-world around a virtual one in order to create a community around their game.
     
  • People & Company released their first book called Get Together: How to build a community with your people. We love the book trailer and the 3 principles they’ve built the book around: Spark the flame, Toke the fire, Pass the torch
     
  • How do you measure the impact of a community? A new approach to the eternal question was recently unveiled by the good people at transdisciplinary innovation platform ATÖLYE. They call it ‘The Interaction Quotient’. Thanks to Maddie for sharing.
     
  • In the past 2 years, early-stage investor Sarah Nöckel has turned Femstreet from a newsletter into a full-fledged community, brand and series of events. In a recent Medium article, Sarah reflects on four key learnings and how she grew her newsletter from 0 to 5000 subscribers. We highly recommended reading it. Thanks to Jessica for sharing.
     
  • Last but not least, we’re at The Conference in Malmö this week and we’re in good company, aka Charles Broskoski (co-founder of Are.na), Lisa Ding (Senior Product Designer at Twitter), Darius Kazemi (internet artist) and Claire, who gave a keynote today. Say hi, if you’re around!
     
From the Archives >> Claire L. Evans: The women who built the internet
Earlier this year, we spoke to writer, musician and author Claire L. Evans about the often overlooked stories of women who built the internet and what we can learn from them about building the digital worlds of tomorrow.

Listen to the podcast and get inspired

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